Theodore assault

correction: i rang win news, not i range them.

You know why Win News was there… because I range them. Talked to a woman in the news room who quizzed me about what was going on. When I said handcuffs, she said in a loud and excited tone… “you mean there are people handcuffed!” I said “no, but the cops have them out”. She sounded so disappointed. Wind News arrived five minutes later.

DJ, yes I don’t live in that street. But I walk passed there twice a day. So when I see guys in Hazchem suits walking into the house 20 metres from me, and a hose running into the house (on the tv show The Force the showed a drug bust, the fire briage were called to water down possibly explosive chemicals) I would want to know. Win News turned up, no good picture just fire bridge in pink/red hazchem suits so they spoke for five minutes to the cops and left. Never made the news, but neither did the high speed chase through Banks five weeks ago, or the brawl at the Lanyon Market Place in March where around a dozen police anda dozen schools kids were having a big argument over who punched who.

Oh and about the siren. I mean the flashing blue and red strobes were on the dashboard. My mistake, I stupidly call the whole package (lights and all) sirens.

‘its someone she knew but they just don’t have enough evidence to convict. And that they were waiting for the said person to make a mistake’

Maybe the AFP should sit down with our very progressive Attorney-General Ruddock, and work out an interview plan which may consist of sleep deprivation to assist this individual to cooperate

Note that they caught the Casino taxi rapist very quickly this week, following the publicity in the media that compelled a witness to come forward.

its not david eastman is it

Nah, they’re too busy trying to fit him up for Fagan’s death.

its not david eastman is it ?

“the public know almost nothing about who killed Kathryn Grosvenor way back in 02.”

I heard a while ago that there is a suspect and its someone she knew but they just don’t have enough evidence to convict. And that they were waiting for the said person to make a mistake or something like that anyway.

Ignorance shall make ye rich?

I don’t want to know about how many drug busts are going on in my suburb, it might lower house prices >.

I mean the whole ‘fire trucks and ambulance’ thing, not the assault (the morbid curiosity bit).

I think I would like to know about any assaults that are still unsolved in my local area. So if the offender is still out there, then I think we have the right to know (and the police do issue warnings, like for the serial rapist in aranda&cook).

If some one is charged over an assault, then is there a need for the public to be told the sordid details?

Slightly off topic, it still bugs me that we, the public know almost nothing about who killed Kathryn Grosvenor way back in 02. I did not followed the inquest etc (and I’m not saying the police are holding anything back they can’t by law release), but I wish we could get closure on that one.

For once I have to agree with DJ, the media will only print things that will sell (I’m a cynic).

Still the AFP’s media release web page is always an option.

But why do people want to know every detail of every bad thing that happens in their suburb/city?

Is it some kind of morbid curiosity? Like driving really slow past a big high way smash to see if you can see a body bag?

TB, usual rant perhaps but tell me something, who decides what is news worthy? If the CT and WIN etc get information that don’t think will gain ratings will they air it?

Terry_wrist – what business was it of yours? You don’t know the residents do you? Live in the street and couldn’t drive through? I hear lots of speculation and no real reason to justify providing details. If the incident was an accident or a suicide or something else why do you need to know? Go on, give me the “I have a right to know where my tax payers dollars get spent” argument – I’ll probably need to put on BA myself to deal with the stench from it.

Your “We can’t really rely on the police to get news out reliably” effort is pathetic. What would you know. I saw above that Teddy Bear was wondering how I might know about things… how would cranky, yourself, terry and the others know differently?

Speculate all you like – I’m doing it too and trying to sew the seed of doubt just like you are. I’ve yet to see proof of any of the rubbish some people come up with. Just because I don’t go for the conspiracy theory’s and the anti-authority line doesn’t mean I am wrong.

It’s easier to sell papers/news with speculation than the truth. Ask Jack.

I heard that Narabundah was one of those things the media don’t report one, i.e. suicide. Why the need to have fire trucks with BA gear, might have been there a while and no smell or look to good.

Yeah, kids from Narrabundah College are a known reliable source of information. WIN news was there, but it didn’t make the news. Gee, maybe it wasn’t newsworthy!
Teddy bear, why not call WIN news to get the REAL story instead of one you’ve invented.
I can see what you’d like – the police tell the public everything, and then they decide if they should’ve been told!

DJ making his usual rant against the Canberra Times and Jack Waterford. I must try and find out whether his claim that the AFP provides information but the Canberra Times refuses to print it.

What kind of information is DJ talking about and how does he know all this?

I thought the siren assembly itself would be located under-bonnet behind the grille.

Methamphetamine lab could be one possibility.

I dont think I would want to be in an unmarked cop car with a siren on the dashboard – damn that would be loud.

What is going on.

That now makes 3 sexual assaults on girls aged 10-16 in Canberra in the last month. Well, three that have been in the media that is. We can’t really rely on the police to get news out reliably.

After all, unless I missed something, there was no mention of why fire brigade, police and ambulance crews were in Strezleki Cr in Griffith yesterday. I don’t think it is too normal around Canberra for a road to be blocked by police in unmarked cars (with sirens on their dash boards), three fire trucks (1 Scania tanker, 1 Breathing Apparatus Support Unit and the Hazchem Responce Truck) and an ambulance.

Seriously, not one word about why firemen in hazcem suits were entering a house and why detectives were walking around looking in bushes and questioning people. I asked my son who goes to Narrabundah College if he knew about it. He said a lot of them saw the trucks driving up there and when they went to look, a few people knew who lived in the house. The house belonged to a known drug dealer who in one kids’s words was “totally screwed”. I think you guys would want to know if a drug lab next to your house was raided while you were at work? These things have a tendency to blow up afterall!

Oh god. I’m a 16 year old female, who lives in the next suburb from there.. (and i read the article. Errgh, im staying away from theodore now..and i thought it was a nice and quiet suburb?!?)

JB,

As noted, I can’t refer to individual cases, but suffice that there were three AFP stories of minor interest that were reported in the CT over the weekend that I considered would not previously have made it into print.

DJ, I have to illustrate the lack of logic in your arguement. Here we have Waterford bellyaching about the lack of information provided by the local AFP regarding Canberra centric crime, and you are opining that the CT has received this information, but has chosen not to publish it. Not logical! Far more logical that the AFP has been remiss in the past to providing this information.

I have no interest in promoting the CT, but I am happy enough with the content and priorities. I am astounded by the politics of other mainstream newspapers, and can only be amazed that there are enough readers with complimentary views within their extended readership to support their circulation.

can’t say I’ve noticed any increase in useful media releases on the AFP website.

Cranky, I guess nobody has thought of this already, and it wasn’t going to come from the CT (or RA) but perhaps there hasn’t been an increase, or a healthy wad as you describe. Perhaps they are actually benefiting from a change of ownership and are actually doing their jobs and printing the stories they were provided by the AFP.

Why does everybody have the blinkers on and go with the notion that the CT could do no wrong and that the AFP are the bully’s here?

Waterford vindicated? You’re joking aren’t you? With any luck he’ll leave soon with a very heavy and empty heart – he should have trouble sleeping at night for a very very long time. Canberra would be better off without him spreading his brand of poison.

Todays CT reports that the AFP media unit coordinator, a Daryl Webb, has been “moved to a different post”. This statement was wrapped up in so much spin I am still giddy. He is apparently currently on leave.

This may explain the impression I got over the weekend that the CT was receiving a very healthy wad of stories from the AFP, to the point where I wondered if the media unit were’nt trying to overload the system. Sorry, the papers have gone out, so I can’t back this up with chapter and verse.

Perhaps it does indicate a changing of the guard? Perhaps Waterford is vindicated?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the crime rate in Theodore going up, since the release of a couple of juvenile deviants in the suburb lately?

Another possibility is that the AFP might have finally have decided to share some information about what’s always been happening with the rest of us.

Unlikely, but just a thought.