WHAT'S MAKING NEWS TODAY? 2012 edition

[D4D]

In that area, likely to be proceeds of crime...

[Bird]

In that area, likely to be proceeds of crime...

Someone has come forward to claim it...

good luck!

[D4D]

Someone has some explaining to do...
http://theage.drive.com.au/roads-and-traffic/outrage-after-drivers-forced-to-form-roadblock-20120515-1ynza.html

[Fridge Magnet]

Someone has some explaining to do...
http://theage.drive.com.au/roads-and-traffic/outrage-after-drivers-forced-to-form-roadblock-20120515-1ynza.html

I find it hard to believe that anyone would be stupid enough to deliberately block traffic in front of a pursuit. Sounds like the participants thought that was what happened. Maybe Roscoe P Coltrane was on secondment from Hazzard County?? Will be interesting to see the police statement.   

[singo-26]

I find it hard to believe that anyone would be stupid enough to deliberately block traffic in front of a pursuit. Sounds like the participants thought that was what happened. Maybe Roscoe P Coltrane was on secondment from Hazzard County?? Will be interesting to see the police statement.

It's been done by truck drivers quite a few times that I've heard, I wouldn't be keen on doing it in a car though.

[Bird]

Someone has some explaining to do...
http://theage.drive.com.au/roads-and-traffic/outrage-after-drivers-forced-to-form-roadblock-20120515-1ynza.html

Someone will get 'retrained' or counselled..

be interesting to see what happened if those people refused to block the trafffic.

[Bird]

They think of everything... and knowing how often it happens, they are prepared

Land Rover has developed a survival kit you can eat.

Land Rover has taken a leaf out of the Bear Grylls text book and released a survival manual you can actually eat.

The guide provides basic survival techniques such as building a shelter and even hunting birds for dinner, should you find yourself stranded in the Arabian Desert with a broken-down Land Rover.

The book is printed on potato-starch paper with a glycerine-based ink for a slightly sweet flavour. It is said to offer a nutritional value equivalent to a cheeseburger, providing enough calories to endure the desert's scorching temperatures, deadly animals and sinkholes a little longer.

It also covers topics such as whether to abandon your vehicle, as well as how to navigate the 2.3-million-square kilometre desert, signal for help and light a fire, to name a few.

Similar to army rations, the novel survival guide is wrapped in reflective packaging, which could be used to signal for help, and bound with a metal spiral used for cooking.

It was devised by the British off-road brand's Middle Eastern ad agency, Y&R Dubai.

"We researched every indigenous animal and plant people could encounter in the Arabian Desert and how they could be used to survive," the company says.

The book was sent to 5000 existing customers, added as a supplement to the vehicle's owner's manual and made freely available in sports stores across the Middle East.

The agency says Land Rover was so happy with the response it has requested the guide be inserted in a popular car magazine with a circulation of 70,000 readers.

Land Rover Australia marketing and public affairs manager Tim Krieger says the novel approach fits well with the brand's "go anywhere" ethos and is investigating it for Australia.

It also fits well with the marque's reputation for less-than-stellar reliability. Land Rover is a regular cellar-dweller in US automotive quality surveys.
http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/in-case-of-emergency-eat-this-book-20120516-1yqes.html

[cruisindub]

They think of everything... and knowing how often it happens, they are prepared

What if you eat the wrong section.?
What if you eat the next section you were supposed to read?

[fuji]

If any of our blokes from our unit were involved, I hope they get their backsides kicked!

[Hairs]

Casey Stoner to retire.
MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner will retire at the end of the season
Well there ya go.

[Mace]

VF Holdens to be sold as Chevrolet SS.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/chevrolet-to-debut-rear-1439591.html

[Mallory Black]

We might start watching the Wiggles again.
the new Greg doesn't look half bad
http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/music/wiggles-left-blue-over-sams-axing/story-e6freqgx-1226359379462

[singo-26]

It probably wont make the news, but Kevin Rudd out and about in Woolworths Singleton, pressing the flesh and kissing babies................. Hmmmmmmmmm I wonder?

[cruisindub]

Earthquake in Ferraro, Italy. (Near Bologna) 6.0 on Richter scale with after shocks.
churches, towers, and castles reduced to rubble.
beautiful place. Magnificent history. Wonderful memories of that region.
All that is lost.

And not to mention the worst. 300 000 parmesan cheese's lost. That's a form of economy and credit. Livelihood and stability.
Is more than just cheese.

[Bird]

I cannot believe there really are scum like this sharing my oxygen.

... and it was taped.. Why?


Sentence: Never to be released.

THE horrific sound recording of 17-year-old David Auchterlonie reeling from a brutal axe strike came without warning - a terrible guttural moan that brought shrieks of distress from the victim's family and shocked many sitting in the court.

Then came the cold, angry voice of Matthew Milat.

''See this now, this is nothing, you wanna see what I'm f---ing capable of?'' the teenage relative of Ivan Milat said.

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Blow by blow ... the axe that Matthew Milat used to kill David Auchterlonie.

''I'm being dead set Auchto, you wanna f---ing die man? You wanna f---ing get in my business?''

Just before another axe strike ends his life, David Auchterlonie is heard to reply: ''I give you my word, I don't ... ''

The distressing recording was the traumatic climax of a sentencing hearing for Matthew Milat and Cohen Klein, both 19, in the NSW Supreme Court.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-sickening-sound-of-an-axe-on-its-victim-a-plaintive-plea-8230-and-silence-20120521-1z1dl.html

[D4D]

QANTAS splits domestic, international wings
http://www.theage.com.au/business/qantas-splits-domestic-international-wings-20120522-1z25o.html

QANTAS Airways is splitting its international and domestic operations into two separate businesses from July - a day after revealing it would shed more than 500 engineering jobs in Victoria.

[Mace]

Speed still kills, even in singapore.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/the-most-horrifying-car-crash-ever-caught-on-film-dash-camera-captures-moment-ferrari-hits-taxi-at-high-speed-killing-three/story-e6frf7lf-1226363484965

[bobnrob]

How lucky is the car with the camera???

[Mace]

He will never win tatslotto, his numbers came up by just missing that one.

[Bird]

You think you have issues in AU camping...

A 65-year-old man has told how he was dragged off a toilet by a black bear while on a camping trip in Canada.

Gord Shurvell, from Winnipeg, was on a camping and fishing trip with a friend near Ontario on Saturday when he went to visit the outhouse, CBC News reports.

Mr Shurvell said he had left the door open to enjoy the view when the bear barreled in.

"I'm sitting on the throne and my feet are sort of up on the 'poopstool,' we call it," he said.

"So I'm kicking at him to get away, but he grabbed my pants that were down around my ankles. And that was the start of it, and he just kept coming."

The bear grabbed hold of him by the shoulder and began dragging him outside towards the bush.

"I'm screaming for my buddy to come with a gun," he said.

Daniel Alexander, Mr Shurvell's camping partner, came running with a gun and managed to kill the bear by shooting it in the head.

Mr Shurvell is now recovering after being treated in hospital for with scratches to the head, neck and arms as well as a puncture wound to the head.

Article source: CBC News Author: Emily O'Keefe. News editor: Henri Paget.

[bobnrob]

Does a bear sh1t in the forest???

NO...so when they gotta go, get out've their way! 

[Bird]

Does a bear sh1t in the forest???

NO...so when they gotta go, get out've their way! 

[Mrs smith]

No messing around down south.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8473876/arsonists-torch-tassie-speed-camera-car

[carinya]

If only legislation was this easy.  Australia would have a high turnover of pollies for a while, then possibly the most responsible crew ever seen in the business.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/coded-behaviour-may-not-follow-script/story-fn6ck620-1226368538304

[D4D]

Frozen car fires up
http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/frozen-car-fires-up-20120606-1zvw8.html

A station wagon has reportedly survived months at the bottom of an iced-over lake in Finland, returning to service after a little TLC from its owner.