New trial for fat man who crushed wife

"The prosecution alleged she died of strangulation, while a defence expert testified she was likely crushed to death."

There is not enough information here to tell whether the Canadian man intentionally killed his wife or not. Surely there is a post mortem report which can tell the difference between crushing and strangulation. The couple had been allegedly fighting. It is a very strange case and of course, a weight discrepancy will make a difference if the fight was physical. I think the article is right...intention is the crux of the issue....and yet another solid reminder that weight differential can have serious implications if there are no reasonable ways of solving disputes.

New trial for fat man who crushed wife | World News | News.com.au

Virtual Legal Swamp

"This is because the only way to be a thief in a virtual world is to get people's names and passwords and log in as them and take their stuff."

Internationally there is a lot going on legally with regard to virtual worlds. It is going to be a gigantically big messy bog and will test our capacity to think clearly to its limit. Most of the cases are not as complicated as they seem because they actually involve real life crime...like stealing passwords and hacking into computers. A real person committing a real crime. It because confusing though as with the cases cited form German experience. That really does make you think. So we are going to have to put our international  thinking caps on and work it out because a lot of these online games are played internationally. The legal profession are going to have fun and game players are going to have to be careful. I guess we need some psychologists on the job too because some weird thought department ideas played out virtually might actually banish them from becoming real life actions. Role playing might actually put the crooked thoughts to rest. We all need to confront this because virtual communities and games are becoming more and more popular and may well be how most people use a lot of their waking time in the not too distant future.

Virtual crime is on the rise - BizTech - Technology - theage.com.au

Teenager breaks into police station

"A TEENAGE boy made the mistake of breaking into a police station this morning, only to be arrested by the police officers on duty at the time."

I wonder what he was thinking?

AdelaideNow... Teenager arrested after police station break-in

Teens turn to stun guns - smh.com.au

"POLICE have warned of a dangerous trend of teenagers acquiring electric stun guns that paralyse victims."

They've got me! I am totally stunned by this news. They are getting them from rellies overseas. They've got me again!

Teens turn to stun guns -  smh.com.au

Italian Court Renames Child

It doesn't actually say in the article how the the highest court in Italy came to pronounce judgement on the name and rename the child from Venerdi (Friday) to Georgio (his saint's day name). There must be an awful lot of children out there with ridiculous names who have been the brunt of far too much mirth and mockery who would be grateful of a process whereby other adults could apply to have them renamed. Once you are grown up and you know the issues , you can call yourself what you want and Friday isn't that bad really, but the ruling makes an interesting point.

Too many drunks in custody

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''We have to make judgement call on a person's behaviour and the likelihood that they will commit an offence.

''Our officers have to consider not only that person's safety but the safety of the whole community.''

If people do not want to be locked up for being drunk and hard to get along with...then don't blame the police and don't put the burden on the police. I am glad the Acting Chief Police Officer had the courage to respond reasonably to the criticisms. Interesting when we have had news of drunken teenagers vandalising and terrorising their neighbourhoods and then we have had other groups go out of control , so many who are picked up for drunk driving and speeding with excessive blood alcohol levels and who put others at risk and spoil a venue or venue for others. It has nothing to do with being a wowser.It has to do with boundaries and the fact we are reluctant to put them in. People often don't have a sense of reasonable behaviour .Some drunks can be quite reasonable and not very difficult but we are increasingly getting aggressive drunken behaviour. Yes, we could use other people and we could spend hours with the drunk...better to put them away and let them get over it and then work with them. We do know we have increasing alcohol consumption and we do know that we have been trying to deal with this. I think we have had enough of unruliness and the police are the ones who get called out. If someone else wants to deal with a group of drunks they would be welcome help. We have to resolve the drinking behaviour but in the meantime we have to deal with it quickly because it is taking us over and the police have a lot of other things to do.

Students behaving badly

Well, this story has had a good airing and it was the talk of the town here because we are coming up to that time of the year too. The behaviour comes from all sorts of students. Radio stations have come into their own because they open up the topics for debate and allow everyone to have their say so all points of view are heard. In this way there is an escape valve for different crises and some valid discussion comes out of it. Radio announcers are becoming dab hands at looking at all the angles and getting both an airing of opinions and then possible resolutions. Newspapers are getting good at delivering the facts. So anyone stuck in the middle of a crisis, as this school is, has plenty to draw on to help resolve the matter and they know they are not alone. In Adelaide we were talking about how various schools have tried to adopt different approaches to the end of year 12 in order to get a fresh approach and put this well worn behaviour to rest. Looking at the positives and reflecting on the time at school. It's in its early stages but some of the ideas sound good. The truth is what this article says. There are students behaving badly who completely blot out the good work of others and the tone of any event. It ought to be about finishing school and getting ready for exams. It's not about scaring the daylights out of your neighbourhood like a rerun of any daft, anti social behaviour from around the world. Someone started this. Someone got it going and it would be good if they were found and dealt with. It is great to see the school supported and we were more than in favour of anyone who was breaking the law to be charged. Students , like anyone else, need to know we have boundaries and laws and the other students will then be comforted . That is what a community is about. Upholding community values.

Puppy Mistreated

"The callousness of the alleged actions had shocked police, he said."

I would be as horrified and sickened as anyone else because I love dogs. Love them. All my disgust, though, is not going to fix this problem we seem to have with people really damaging and hurting each other and animals. It is disturbing behaviour and we, as a society, have created it. Maybe these people want to sicken us. That is what they want. Our disgust and horror. So why do we create people like this? We have to front up and try and work this out because I do not want to read another story like this. There is talk that this kind of behaviour comes from psychopaths. Again, this will not stop it. The labelling might help us to process it but we will not change it unless we understand what is going on and it will take better experts than I and it is so wrong for the police to have to be confronted with this kind of behaviour on a regular basis. In the end they will saturate and walk off from the job. How will that help? If you look at Maslow's Hierarchy of needs and the other information on this site, you can see quite easily we are failing at the attachment and connectedness stage. These people have no capacity to connect, relate and affiliate. It's the bonding and  developing of attachment which is dreadfully missing. So now we really need to get some experts onto this to stop us from doing whatever we are doing to create people who have no capacity to nurture and care.

Youths Attack Media

"They assaulted seven students and two teachers before smashing windows and doors, causing more than $15,000 in damage as the school went into lockdown."

This is what the ones being tried did. The ones who were outside the court supporting their friends appear to have injured a cameraman and a photographer.  So 5 were tried inside the court and 6 were arrested outside the court and they wonder why we cannot get teachers in Australia. It is just too violent to have peole like that in schools and on the street. Police are asking for witnesses to today's incident to contact Crimestoppers. They are all too aggressive and it makes it very hard to want to help them. There must be a reason why they are so angry. Assaulting people is very anti social and to do that originally in a school makes it a pretty tough environment for lessons to take place in. These students have to be changed so I guess they just have to win the prizes for their behaviour.

Drug Dealer Resentenced

"When detectives searched his mother's house they found a huge quantity of drugs – consisting of 8840g of methylamphetamine, 7113 ecstasy tablets, 8347 LSD tabs, 11kg of cannabis and 422g of cocaine – with a street value of $1.2 million.
They also found $246,550 in cash, a semi-automatic pistol and a revolver."

Our DPP had made an appeal which was subsequently upheld. Sorry, but when you are dealing with people like this who are clearly so prepared to deal so much death and misery to people, then I don't think you deal with them, you deal to them. Drugs make a lot of money so they will do whatever it takes to get back to dealing...and then of course there is the significant problem that once they are in the group , they cannot get out. That is something we haven't managed to resolve at this point. I know, taking one off the street will hardly make a dent, but it's the intention and then maybe we do have to do it one at a time for a long time...and we could make good use of our facilities at Baxter and elsewhere to try and break this whole drug thing down. We have to work as a team and keep very clear in our minds what we want to achieve. I am sick and tired of hearing angry , loud, aggressive people screaming out at the Grote Street end of town scaring the living daylights out of everyone...but they will be screaming agony in a few months time and it is so cruel all round.

British Man kills Wife

It doesn't matter how much he blames Facebook or her, the wife is dead and he killed her. His blaming everything else will not change him. He now is dangerous. He now has no life because no one is safe with him. He did not want her to have anyone else but him. It's a tough run when people break up. It's hard and it's horrible, but people kill others far to readily these days and blame everything but themselves. We need to change. It may be keeping the population of the planet down but we are now a violent , unsafe society with far too many people who see killing as the answer. The answer to what?

Teenager tries to rape older woman twice

You have to wonder at this. Truly. If the facts are as they reported it is unbelievable the boy could go back to the woman’s house and try to rape her again. Was he known to her? Not that that would make it better. He just seems fixated on doing her harm. He really was out to get her and he really was incapable of  stopping himself from being so violent. Is there something wrong with him? He is  16 and she is 51 and she is not able to live safely in her home. It seems random, it seems thoughtless it seems very anti social and it seems to be the sort of thing we have to tolerate. We now have to factor that into our living. It is becoming more and more erratic and people are not safe because we see to have more people behaving in a violent way towards others. No respect. No consideration. Putting him in gaol for 2 years will make him harder. He isn’t safe though. No way. I don’t actually want to increase the number of hardened people we have but we seem to have so many aggressive people now. Comes back to our building blocks of society and what we tolerate and how we bring people up.