26 July 2005

Home Invasions in O'Connor

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This was just emailed to me. I know it’s always dubious when something happens to a friend of a friend, but it’s worth reading becasue I have seen or heard nothing in the Media about this. I have changed bits and pieces of the email to protect the privacy of those involved.

Person X got home to her house in O’Connor on Saturday night to find her front door was unlocked. Without giving it any more thought she went to bed. She then woke up some hours later because her covers were off her. She thought someone was in her room, then noticed she had a gash on the back of her neck. Understandably she was hysterical when she called the police. The Police attended quickly and later advised her that there have been similar weird activities going on in that area.

As I said, don’t know how true this is, but perhaps someone out there can shed some light on this.

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Stephen: You must have an interesting approach to making new friends. As dumb and kitch as that sounds that is effectivley what goes on at blogs, you find people with common interests and explore some of the differences.

Joining in for the first time with thinly veiled insults and try-hard witty sarcasm is not a way to endear yourself to a new group of people.

If indeed you have lurked for a while you may realise that posters on the RiotACT are not flamed for having a valid or different opinion.

People get flamed because they are f*cktards.
Ciao.

Goodbye Stephen, I am now lost in the world of centralised schooling leaderless and without a rudder.

I think I’ll switch back to the common sense side that you obviously don’t come from.

Seriously though, I’ve enjoyed stringing you along nearly as much as I do areaman.

In defence for RiotAct, they post hot topics, to which anybody is free to respond. Furfies and idiosyncracies of life are all on the agenda, as well as the persistent ‘Hoff’ topics.

The fact you can’t handle that tells me a lot about you however.

My one question – Just where were you when the whole internet thing came about ?

Your head is stuck so far under a rock I’m scared you’ll get it jammed in there.

It wasn’t me who made the comment about the Turner club Stephen.

I’m pretty sure the club being referred to is the Wests Club in Turner, which you can read JB’s story about here.

Which only happened a month ago, so you may well have noted it then but declined to comment if you’ve been lurking for that long.

K

You sound deranged, Stephen.

What a fascinating little website this is!

Most I take part in welcome debate, even encourage it, in the hope it will attract more readers. They particularly like a bit of a stoush as it means you get more posts (such as this one, which beats by about 20 the replies most posts get).

I assumed (wrongly) that everyone would queue up to take the piss out of the poster for posting such a blatant urban myth. Instead the owner thinks he’s got his second scoop! (Which is unlikely, given he shopped the source of his first one to the cops. No one in their right mind would ever send this site anything sensitive as Johnboy will NOT protect his sources).

I’ve been a lurker here for a while and thought I’d join in. Obviously not welcome so will now depart and leave the 6 of you who post about half the replies to your own private website.

Turner club kerces? Never been there, if there is indeed such a place.

Stephen, the story was (and it was presented as such) that the rumour was going around.

Commenters then added more information (I can only assume your bizarre position is based on those people being liars or delusional?)

Enough police read this site that their silence is, of itself, informative.

So is your problem with information beyond your control? Or is there another agenda you would like to be honest enough to reveal?

Anyway if you don’t like it I suggest you stop reading. But feel free to keep making a tit of yourself, it amuses us no end.

stephen … do you like the Turner Club?

And you can fill it with sarcastic criticism in the hope you find someone as miserable and socially retarded as yourself. Knock yourself out buddy.

So set up your own site Stephen.

What, like posting urban myths here you mean? Hmm, yes, very fulfilling.

Well done Stephen. Did I say covered up? Do I sound like a conspiracist?

I pointed out that whilst I am no expert (I have studied psychology a numner of years ago) I know that the police sometimes like to keep certain types of assaults and attacks quiet in the hope that there is no gratification to the criminals who are often sociopaths.

If you’ve got a “constant problem with this and other websites” get off your arse and find a hobby.

“what’s your damage? ”
The constant problem of this, and similar websites. They are a forum for people to grind political axes and spread urban myths.

The reason you’ve got a story the rest of the media doesn’t Johnboy is because it never happened.

And Bulldog, there has been a s series of assuaklts in O’Connor ion recent months and an arrest. If you think that was covered up you obiviously don’t listen to the ABC, read the Canberra times or pay attention to this website which linked to the media reports of the arrest.

redneck_ninja8:31 am 27 Jul 05

The AFP says there’s been a spate of home invasions lately in the area in the past month or two. The media’s actually looking into it (well I am anyway) keep an eye out for it.

JB: was that directed at me of Stephen? I’ve already acknowledged that it would seem dubious that we’ve not heard anything about this; however I was pointing out that I did not receive the email as spam.

Have also heard another local of the inner north area tell me they are aware of assaults in the area over the last month or so. Maybe the AFP has asked the media to keep quiet about this in the hope that the attacks won’t increase? I don’t know and I don’t claim to be an expert on such matters.

I got it in an email so it must be true”

Yes, clearly stated and we’re all as clever as you so take it for what its worth.

Comments allow for a degree of more credible corroboration, suddenly we’ve got a story the rest of the media doesn’t.

what’s your damage?

Absent Diane4:54 pm 26 Jul 05

Normally quite skeptical of these things but…. recently a relative of mine was drugged at a bar (nothing bad happened)but it certainly made me eat my skepticism and made me want take to this unamed ‘cowboy’ bar near the phoenix with a wrecking ball!! and now I am a smidgen more believing when here such things

Must be a trainee Nosferatu – he’s only supposed to leave two small puncture marks.

If you need me to explain ‘this happened to a friend of a friend’ I’m stumped.

I’m tipping that this is a tad more reliable than spam, but I’m sure you’re happy with your witty comment so more power.

In any case, I have my own doubts which is why I posted this in the first place.

I got it in an email so it must be true” Has that Nigerian General given you the $20 million yet?

All I got was a gash; no nothing else at this stage.

Pretty frickin’ bad though.

Any details on what kind of gash was on the back of her neck? Like a scratch or a bad cut?

Dunno about that story, but I live in O’Connor and got home from work about 11.45pm last Tuesday night to find several cop cars parked up and down my street.

They bailed me up in my driveway and demanded ID.

The policewoman said there had been several break-ins, “sexual assaults” and backyard prowlers in the area recently.

She said the reason they were staking out several streets on Tuesday night was a report of a backyard prowler in Miller St.

I’m glad my 6-mnth-old dog’s now big enough to provide some sort of deterrent for these sorts of characters.

Someone was telling me about this on Monday. Apparently there thave been two other cases of some oddjob doing this…

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