4 May 2013

Death by reversing car in Campbell

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ACT Policing is investigating the death of a 20-year-old Belconnen man in Campbell early this morning.

Around 12.30am police were called to a disturbance at a Campbell residence.

Upon arrival police saw a man lying on the ground. It appeared he had been struck by a vehicle as it reversed.

ACT Ambulance Service attended the scene and conveyed the man to The Canberra Hospital where he died a short time later.

AFP Forensics Services and ACT Policing’s Collision Investigation and Reconstruction Team are in attendance and are processing the scene.

The driver of the vehicle is assisting police with inquiries.

Investigations are ongoing.

[Courtesy ACT Policing]

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incredulousandridiculous10:00 pm 07 May 13

chewy14 said :

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Each and every rape, assault, theft, burglary, child abuse and drink driving offence can be explained by the history of someone’s race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status or high-functioning mental illness.

Because if you were black, poor, and grew up depressed because you were surrounded by child abuse, drunkedness, violence, poverty and discrimination, you’d be a Nobel prize-winning physicist.

No, seriously, why aren’t you amazingly wealthy and internationally famous? Are you an idiot?* Lazy? Both? Or is it OK for you to say ‘well, my family started out here, and I had these chances and opportunities, and these genes, and this environment, and I’m a product of all of the above”, but not for people you just happen to find distasteful?

“Fair go for me, mate, I’ve done the best I can with the hand I was dealt (which happened to be guaranteed to have at least two pair, because I’m white, male and heterosexual) but f*ck all of you.”

*I’m going to say ‘yes’, because you’re one of these muppets who’s two pots away from bleating about ‘farkin Abos’ getting off light one second, then proudly observes they’re a quarter of the prison population the next. Pretty strange definition of ‘getting off light’.

I know, its f&#king awesome being a white hetero male.

I couldn’t believe it on my 18th birthday, when the Grand Poobah of my local chapter of the Patriarchy came to my parents s***ty ex govvie welfare house and handed my the keys to a new BMW and a contract for a new job on $200k pa.

If it wasnt for that i’d probably be a career criminal. Lucky huh?

Didn’t we get 72 Victoria Secret virgins, too, Chewy? I can’t remember. All that free cocaine, caviar, methamphetamine and expensive booze Male Privilege Corporation gave us makes my memory fuzzy. Not to worry, I’ll ask one of my seven bikini-clad personal assistants to find out for us.

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Each and every rape, assault, theft, burglary, child abuse and drink driving offence can be explained by the history of someone’s race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status or high-functioning mental illness.

Because if you were black, poor, and grew up depressed because you were surrounded by child abuse, drunkedness, violence, poverty and discrimination, you’d be a Nobel prize-winning physicist.

No, seriously, why aren’t you amazingly wealthy and internationally famous? Are you an idiot?* Lazy? Both? Or is it OK for you to say ‘well, my family started out here, and I had these chances and opportunities, and these genes, and this environment, and I’m a product of all of the above”, but not for people you just happen to find distasteful?

“Fair go for me, mate, I’ve done the best I can with the hand I was dealt (which happened to be guaranteed to have at least two pair, because I’m white, male and heterosexual) but f*ck all of you.”

*I’m going to say ‘yes’, because you’re one of these muppets who’s two pots away from bleating about ‘farkin Abos’ getting off light one second, then proudly observes they’re a quarter of the prison population the next. Pretty strange definition of ‘getting off light’.

I know, its f&#king awesome being a white hetero male.

I couldn’t believe it on my 18th birthday, when the Grand Poobah of my local chapter of the Patriarchy came to my parents s***ty ex govvie welfare house and handed my the keys to a new BMW and a contract for a new job on $200k pa.

If it wasnt for that i’d probably be a career criminal. Lucky huh?

incredulousandridiculous said :

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

intelligent argument

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incredulousandridiculous3:00 pm 07 May 13

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Each and every rape, assault, theft, burglary, child abuse and drink driving offence can be explained by the history of someone’s race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status or high-functioning mental illness.

Because if you were black, poor, and grew up depressed because you were surrounded by child abuse, drunkedness, violence, poverty and discrimination, you’d be a Nobel prize-winning physicist.

No, seriously, why aren’t you amazingly wealthy and internationally famous? Are you an idiot?* Lazy? Both? Or is it OK for you to say ‘well, my family started out here, and I had these chances and opportunities, and these genes, and this environment, and I’m a product of all of the above”, but not for people you just happen to find distasteful?

“Fair go for me, mate, I’ve done the best I can with the hand I was dealt (which happened to be guaranteed to have at least two pair, because I’m white, male and heterosexual) but f*ck all of you.”

*I’m going to say ‘yes’, because you’re one of these muppets who’s two pots away from bleating about ‘farkin Abos’ getting off light one second, then proudly observes they’re a quarter of the prison population the next. Pretty strange definition of ‘getting off light’.

Yes, because anyone who disagrees substantially with you on a point of criminal justice is clearly an Australian version of a rabid 1930s anti-Semite, hellbent on racial genocide because they dare to contradict mighty you. And probably a neo-Stalinist Maoist capitalist sweatshop owner who beats child workers with eviscerated dead rats whilst listening to Justin Bieber and One Direction, too.

thebrownstreak691:50 pm 07 May 13

incredulousandridiculous said :

chewy14 said :

TheBusDriver said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

Wow this is almost the most tenuous link I’ve ever seen, white males are priests who commit sex crimes so white people commit more crime than Aboriginals and other groups?

How about you take your advice and back your claims up with hard evidence? Particularly crime rates per head of population for different groups?

Excellent point, Chewy. The problem is, though, if you present some people with hard evidence or they find it themselves, they then go into a new game of “history explains it”. Each and every rape, assault, theft, burglary, child abuse and drink driving offence can be explained by the history of someone’s race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status or high-functioning mental illness.

TheBusDriver read my disdain for lower SENTENCES given out to specific groups but deliberately and completely twisted it as if I was saying transgender people were somehow the most prolific criminals in society. Then came his rant against priests, youth and adult males.

The point is not just which group commits the most crime overall or proportionally, but what sentences are being handed out to members of different groups.

I wonder if the proportion of people convicted of crimes varies by demographic, though. For example, does the proportion of white males under age 40 who have been convicted of a crime exceed that for Aboriginal males under 40?

Woody Mann-Caruso1:37 pm 07 May 13

Each and every rape, assault, theft, burglary, child abuse and drink driving offence can be explained by the history of someone’s race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status or high-functioning mental illness.

Because if you were black, poor, and grew up depressed because you were surrounded by child abuse, drunkedness, violence, poverty and discrimination, you’d be a Nobel prize-winning physicist.

No, seriously, why aren’t you amazingly wealthy and internationally famous? Are you an idiot?* Lazy? Both? Or is it OK for you to say ‘well, my family started out here, and I had these chances and opportunities, and these genes, and this environment, and I’m a product of all of the above”, but not for people you just happen to find distasteful?

“Fair go for me, mate, I’ve done the best I can with the hand I was dealt (which happened to be guaranteed to have at least two pair, because I’m white, male and heterosexual) but f*ck all of you.”

*I’m going to say ‘yes’, because you’re one of these muppets who’s two pots away from bleating about ‘farkin Abos’ getting off light one second, then proudly observes they’re a quarter of the prison population the next. Pretty strange definition of ‘getting off light’.

YeahBuddy said :

waiting for a comment on all those hyphenated surnames … or is that just me?

I thought about it, but the novelty of the double barrelled surname has worn off. I await the triple and quadruple surnames, when Mr Feral-Bogan has kids with Ms Skanky-Bitch, do they get called things like Jay-dun Izak Feral-Skanky-Bogan-Bitch?

incredulousandridiculous12:24 pm 07 May 13

chewy14 said :

TheBusDriver said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

Wow this is almost the most tenuous link I’ve ever seen, white males are priests who commit sex crimes so white people commit more crime than Aboriginals and other groups?

How about you take your advice and back your claims up with hard evidence? Particularly crime rates per head of population for different groups?

Excellent point, Chewy. The problem is, though, if you present some people with hard evidence or they find it themselves, they then go into a new game of “history explains it”. Each and every rape, assault, theft, burglary, child abuse and drink driving offence can be explained by the history of someone’s race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic status or high-functioning mental illness.

TheBusDriver read my disdain for lower SENTENCES given out to specific groups but deliberately and completely twisted it as if I was saying transgender people were somehow the most prolific criminals in society. Then came his rant against priests, youth and adult males.

The point is not just which group commits the most crime overall or proportionally, but what sentences are being handed out to members of different groups.

incredulousandridiculous said :

You’re right, I do have an agenda. I’d like to see a society where crime is seen as crime, not a synonym of victimhood as many in the ACT political and judicial system would try and have us believe. The only segue here is trying to act as if criminal sentences and certain demographic leniencies are separate.

Bravo, well said sir!!

TheBusDriver said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

Wow this is almost the most tenuous link I’ve ever seen, white males are priests who commit sex crimes so white people commit more crime than Aboriginals and other groups?

How about you take your advice and back your claims up with hard evidence? Particularly crime rates per head of population for different groups?

incredulousandridiculous7:46 am 07 May 13

TheBusDriver said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

The point I am making refers to sentences being lower. Remember there are more men than priests and people who are transgender. Of course, besides indigenous Australians, I never said one group was more prone to criminal behaviour. Let’s focus on what I actually said: the judicial system makes far too many excuses for many people who aren’t white Anglo(-Saxon)-Celtic males. List to me the things I said about propensity to act criminally, rather than about excuses being made for individual members of certain groups who do commit crimes, leading to reduced sentences.

How about looking at the Sonja Starr research from the University of Michigan? Actually, that’s more directed at the other person who asked for evidence about sentences being lower. Higher courts (such as the Canadian example given below) have also found things like aboriginality, based on history of the people, not the individual, should be taken into account. And what exactly have I said that is so incorrect?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/03/23/north-supreme-court-aboriginal.html

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

TheBusDriver said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

In my personal experience(not stating facts here because I do not have them on this matter), the biggest scum in canberra is bogan white trash.

I was so tempted to say source? 🙂 however that is pretty much a given considering white trash outnumber indigenious,transgenders etc by a huge margin.What is undeniable is that ABS figures showed that Indigenous people accounted for 25 percent of Australia’s prison population in 2009.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd10:02 pm 06 May 13

TheBusDriver said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

In my personal experience(not stating facts here because I do not have them on this matter), the biggest scum in canberra is bogan white trash.

TheBusDriver9:31 pm 06 May 13

incredulousandridiculous said :

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

This is seriously the most amazing peice of shit I have ever read online in my life. Transgender people as criminals? I’m sure it happens, but I see transgender people on my bus now and then and they are the least criminal of the lot. I expect they don’t want to end up in jail. Also, without a doubt, the biggest criminal element are young teenage and adult white males. They are without a doubt responsible for more problems, abuse, assaults and threats on the bus and probably in society as well.
How about you back up your claim with some hard credible evidence? I mean currently there is a royal commission into sex abuse in the church, not one about sex abuse by transgenders or Aboriginals. Most preists in this country are white males.

I guess a roller derby team will be down a team member this week with all that’s going on in the lovely Emma’s life.

waiting for a comment on all those hyphenated surnames … or is that just me?

DrKoresh said :

I don’t see why a lot of people seem to think this “Emma” is somehow more culpable than the guy behind the wheel, especially without having a detailed account of the night’s events. Just because she types like pretty much all obnoxious teenagers do doesn’t make her the villain and unless and until she’s actually charged with something I don’t think it’s fair to accuse her of manslaughter.

Um, newsflash….she was charged with criminal damage.

ATM we dont really know anything else other than she was smashing at the widscreen with something and a car ran a person over when going backwards (at a great rate of knots one would presume).

Do you think that the driver maybe, just maybe feared for his life? My guess is the driver didnt have time to look behind for fear of being hit with whatever smashed the windscreen (go & have a look at the pics).

incredulousandridiculous3:10 pm 06 May 13

NoImRight said :

incredulousandridiculous said :

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

Didn’t you hear? ACT schools now have a gifted and talented class, “Who Can Make the Longest Sentence Without Any Sign of Punctuation or “Conformist Spelling”?

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

I won’t hold my breath for the day when the facts of the case (including any relevant reason for a lower/higher sentence) hold sway, not a person’s mere membership of a specific demographic.

Theres enough wrong with this story of bogan mayhem to carry on about without you leaping ahead to complaining about the sentence already. Subtle segue into what is your own agenda BTW.

You’re right, I do have an agenda. I’d like to see a society where crime is seen as crime, not a synonym of victimhood as many in the ACT political and judicial system would try and have us believe. The only segue here is trying to act as if criminal sentences and certain demographic leniencies are separate.

Spiral said :

54-11 said :

Good God, where do these people come from?

Her girlfriend appears to be another shining example of our education system.

So woman apparently attacks her lesbian lover’s ex boyfriend, who then runs over and kills his ex girlfriend’s brother who was behind the car..

I wonder what the brother was doing when he was hit.

I especially liked the creative spelling of “lawyer” on the gf’s FB – “loya”.

I don’t see why a lot of people seem to think this “Emma” is somehow more culpable than the guy behind the wheel, especially without having a detailed account of the night’s events. Just because she types like pretty much all obnoxious teenagers do doesn’t make her the villain and unless and until she’s actually charged with something I don’t think it’s fair to accuse her of manslaughter.

incredulousandridiculous said :

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

Didn’t you hear? ACT schools now have a gifted and talented class, “Who Can Make the Longest Sentence Without Any Sign of Punctuation or “Conformist Spelling”?

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

I won’t hold my breath for the day when the facts of the case (including any relevant reason for a lower/higher sentence) hold sway, not a person’s mere membership of a specific demographic.

Theres enough wrong with this story of bogan mayhem to carry on about without you leaping ahead to complaining about the sentence already. Subtle segue into what is your own agenda BTW.

PBO said :

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

OMG!! SLAP!!! That was the facepalm heard around the nations capital.

As a former student of Hawker, I must say that I am appalled at her prose. A classic example of Youse, Youse and Youse. Her grammatical skills tell me her children will be named Brayden, Jayden, Heath and Charloine.

It appears, from a quick Google search, that she was involved in athletics some years ago.

The disability catagory in which she competed (TF20) is for those with an intellectual disability.

Spiral said :

54-11 said :

Good God, where do these people come from?

Her girlfriend appears to be another shining example of our education system.

So woman apparently attacks her lesbian lover’s ex boyfriend, who then runs over and kills his ex girlfriend’s brother who was behind the car..

I wonder what the brother was doing when he was hit.

Probably attempting to stop the ‘wild woman of Borneo’ from wreaking more havoc..

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

OMG!! SLAP!!! That was the facepalm heard around the nations capital.

As a former student of Hawker, I must say that I am appalled at her prose. A classic example of Youse, Youse and Youse. Her grammatical skills tell me her children will be named Brayden, Jayden, Heath and Charloine.

54-11 said :

Good God, where do these people come from?

Her girlfriend appears to be another shining example of our education system.

So woman apparently attacks her lesbian lover’s ex boyfriend, who then runs over and kills his ex girlfriend’s brother who was behind the car..

I wonder what the brother was doing when he was hit.

54-11 said :

Good God, where do these people come from?

Belconnen

incredulousandridiculous3:40 am 06 May 13

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

Didn’t you hear? ACT schools now have a gifted and talented class, “Who Can Make the Longest Sentence Without Any Sign of Punctuation or “Conformist Spelling”?

It seems Emma may identify as transgender or, at the the very least, lesbian. One of the comments on the Facebook profile talk about why she was referred to with a female “Ms.”

The only reason I point this out is because as soon as one is described as “Aboriginal”, “transgender”, “poor” or any other litany of adjectives, we start to see “mitigating circumstances” leading to even more pissweak than usual sentences. Some Australian data suggests indigenous Australians are treated lightly in a number of criminal categories (despite their higher representation in jails) and the US is full of statistical studies demonstrating men accused of crimes receive 63% higher sentences than women accused of the same thing (Sonja Starr, University of Michigan).

I won’t hold my breath for the day when the facts of the case (including any relevant reason for a lower/higher sentence) hold sway, not a person’s mere membership of a specific demographic.

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Why there’s such a thing as a right to remain silent. Oh dear.

54-11 said :

Good God, where do these people come from?

Umm, Hawker College?

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

Bogan-ville, or maybe even “Sylvania Waters”.

54-11 said :

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

Oh dear,why am i not surprised,yet another ostensibly unintelligent bogan whose intemperance and stupidity has inadvertently resulted in the death of a young man.

Clearly only violence against women is wrong..

Only took a person’s death to expose her abuse.

Her FB page seems hidden / gone.

Government really needs to mandate that we all have speed bumps at the end of driveways.

In all seriousness she should be charged with manslaughter and domestic violence. Her committing the crime of property damage directly led to the death of someone. If it was a guy beating the shit out of a girls car he’d be lynched royally by the public.
The same as those that throw rocks at cars can be held for manslaughter, so should she. Lets not let gender get in the way of a good lynching.

Emma, “educated” at Hawker College, says “To everyone that read whats been rote in the Canberra times it is not true because I was there and I tried my hardest to keep him alive and his family understands wats going on as im corrently with them all now now leave me be until they would let me right my statement than u will all know the truth from the media”

Good God, where do these people come from?

incredulousandridiculous1:17 pm 05 May 13

CT updated on the situation today: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/man-killed-in-campbell-after-disturbance-20130504-2iz9g.html

Turns out Emma Thost-Hedge allegedly attacked the car being driven and the driver’s attempt to escape led to the death of poor Benjamin. You can find Emma on Facebook quite easily.

Let everyone have their day in court but it’s amazing how we focus on male-initiated domestic/friendship circle assaults without looking at the role of alleged female perpetrators of it. Here we have someone who’s been accused of attacking a car. What’s the guy, if this story is correct, meant to do?

Provided Emma is found guilty of the car damage and the driver was not intoxicated or otherwise at fault, she should be charged with negligent manslaughter.

This is a tragedy, regardless of the back story with will inevitably emerge.

I know it makes Poetix a better person than me that she has not commented on the prophetic nature of her post about drivers, reversing vehicles and the capacity for a serious accident. I am weak and have said it. That is all.

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