1. Worthless Rugby thugs continue their sickening blight: Sydney Roosters player Stanley Waqa will face court today, accused of domestic violence. Police say the 21-year-old took a swing at a woman with a knife and cut her finger at a unit in Randwick, in Sydney's east. The front rower has been charged with wreckless wounding.
He has been stood down by the Roosters.
Yay to the club for standing him down. "Swift action" is promised once the legal niceties are dealt with, but hopefully that means immediate sacking and banning from the code for life without discussion or deliberation. Of course that's not to say some grubby foreign club won't take him, the way it took another misogynistic filthbag (the one who shoved a glass in his girlfriend's face).
If follow-up news concerning "negotiations about whether he still has a future with his club" or "the woman involved declining to press charges" airs, I will be enraged and disappointed but entirely unsurprised. Perhaps less of this would happen if the penalties imposed on these knuckle-dragging cretins actually meant something. Like...
2. A Saudi man who boasted about his sex life on television has been sentenced to five years in jail. Mazen Abdul Jawad was convicted by a criminal court on Sharia law-based charges relating to immoral behaviour. Three friends who appeared on the show with him were given two-year terms. While it's nice to see that Saudi law does actually make males suffer for their indiscretions, one wonders why they didn't throw in a couple of hundred lashes, like they do for women who are raped in the company of unrelated men. Shows that Sharia law has a long way to go, especially with regard to its double standards, its disconnection from reality and its total lack of any trace of compassion. Keep it where it started, please; we don't want it here.
3. On the other hand, here's someone who I'd quite happily offer up for a whipping: A Jetstar flight attendant is being investigated over allegations he contacted an underage female passenger on Facebook. According to the ABC, the flight attendant sent several messages to the 15 year old on the social networking site, after a flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne. She denies passing him her name, which means he looked her up on the passenger manifest and tracked her down online. Scummy bastard; he's got no excuse. Watch someone blame Facebook for this.
4. Wedding photographer blues: A wedding photographer has been ordered to reimburse a couple after a judge described photos of their big day as 'woefully inadequate'. Marc and Sylvia Day paid Gareth Bowers, from Fresh Images, some 1,450 pounds ($2,589) to take pictures of their marriage. But they were so unimpressed with the 400 snaps he took, only 22 of them were approved. The article's worth reading, if only to experience the full horror of the man's incompetence. Methinks the couple probably wanted to flog him (preferably with a camera strap), and I have to admit that if they did, I would sympathise with them! I am so glad my wedding did not turn out like this.
He has been stood down by the Roosters.
Yay to the club for standing him down. "Swift action" is promised once the legal niceties are dealt with, but hopefully that means immediate sacking and banning from the code for life without discussion or deliberation. Of course that's not to say some grubby foreign club won't take him, the way it took another misogynistic filthbag (the one who shoved a glass in his girlfriend's face).
If follow-up news concerning "negotiations about whether he still has a future with his club" or "the woman involved declining to press charges" airs, I will be enraged and disappointed but entirely unsurprised. Perhaps less of this would happen if the penalties imposed on these knuckle-dragging cretins actually meant something. Like...
2. A Saudi man who boasted about his sex life on television has been sentenced to five years in jail. Mazen Abdul Jawad was convicted by a criminal court on Sharia law-based charges relating to immoral behaviour. Three friends who appeared on the show with him were given two-year terms. While it's nice to see that Saudi law does actually make males suffer for their indiscretions, one wonders why they didn't throw in a couple of hundred lashes, like they do for women who are raped in the company of unrelated men. Shows that Sharia law has a long way to go, especially with regard to its double standards, its disconnection from reality and its total lack of any trace of compassion. Keep it where it started, please; we don't want it here.
3. On the other hand, here's someone who I'd quite happily offer up for a whipping: A Jetstar flight attendant is being investigated over allegations he contacted an underage female passenger on Facebook. According to the ABC, the flight attendant sent several messages to the 15 year old on the social networking site, after a flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne. She denies passing him her name, which means he looked her up on the passenger manifest and tracked her down online. Scummy bastard; he's got no excuse. Watch someone blame Facebook for this.
4. Wedding photographer blues: A wedding photographer has been ordered to reimburse a couple after a judge described photos of their big day as 'woefully inadequate'. Marc and Sylvia Day paid Gareth Bowers, from Fresh Images, some 1,450 pounds ($2,589) to take pictures of their marriage. But they were so unimpressed with the 400 snaps he took, only 22 of them were approved. The article's worth reading, if only to experience the full horror of the man's incompetence. Methinks the couple probably wanted to flog him (preferably with a camera strap), and I have to admit that if they did, I would sympathise with them! I am so glad my wedding did not turn out like this.
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