WHAT'S MAKING NEWS TODAY? 2012 edition

[bushbandit]

Very sad also loved the movie and Koko,he has inspired us to get to Red Dogs monument at Dampier.

[D4D]

This would be a scary experience.
http://www.news.com.au/national/ken-olsen-victim-of-road-rage-attack-where-car-is-rammed-seven-times-run-off-road-and-man-punches-windscreen/story-fndo4ckr-1226540320984

[Black Diamond]

As soon as he got out of his car I would have planted my right foot 

[D4D]

As soon as he got out of his car I would have planted my right foot 

x2

[Bird]

x2

x eleventy, while blowing the horn... and rubbing one off

[Nomad]

Noosa Northshore Burns.........................upto 4000 hectares today.

Being in Noosa is currently like living inside a bong.

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/videos/teewah-bushfire/16609/

[Russell]

We live at Cooroibah nearly just west of where most of the fire activity has been. Yesterday afternoon was the first time since Friday morning we have been able to open any window in the house. Yes it is pretty bad and seems a bit odd that fires seems to be staring up where one would think they should not. Perhaps they have had some help from someone. Russell

[achjimmy]

This would be a scary experience.
http://www.news.com.au/national/ken-olsen-victim-of-road-rage-attack-where-car-is-rammed-seven-times-run-off-road-and-man-punches-windscreen/story-fndo4ckr-1226540320984

No excuse for what has been done but I have to laugh how it's always "a unprovoked attack" rarely it's unprovoked, usually the victim does something to set these idiots off!

I remember a few years ago pulling into traffic and over running a lane a little by a margin that I thought was well in front . cockhead commodore driver didn't think so and gave it to me, to which I gave him the bird. This set him off on a rampage to get me and get me out of the car for a blue. After trying to cut me off etc  I found a servo parked in full view of the office, customers and no doubt cameras and casually got out and leaned against the bonnet. To which he changed his tune, threatened my life from the driver seat and drove off. It was a good reminder to just be as cool as with the idiots we share the road with and remember that not everything we do is seen by others the same way.

For the idiot in this video, he should 10 years suspension and 2-3 years inside IMO.

[achjimmy]

A nice surprise?


A Townsville mother received a nasty shock when she opened her three-year-old son's bedroom wardrobe and found a clutch of highly venomous snakes.

Donna Sim discovered a takeaway container filled with squirming baby eastern brown snakes, the Courier-Mail reports.
Her son Kyle had found a nest of eggs in his yard several weeks ago and asked his mum for a container to keep them in.
Ms Sim did not think any more of it until she discovered the hatchlings in his bedroom.
"I was pretty shocked, particularly because I don't like snakes," she was quoted as saying.
The snakes had not grown large enough to escape the container, however, and Ms Sim was able to safely pick it up and drive the hatchlings to wildlife sanctuary.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2012/12/20/07/07/mum-finds-snakes-in-toddlers-wardrobe

[bushbandit]

Seen that this morning on the Today Show hes one lucky boy

[Bird]

Words truly fail me
What chance does this kid have in life? Minus billionty.

Blown out of proportion ... the stoner of three-year-old Jihad, left, leaves court with her lawyer. Photo: AFP

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/relatives-in-court-over-threeyearolds-bomb-shirt-20121220-2bo1h.html#ixzz2FXhsdZf7

The mother and uncle of a three-year-old boy named Jihad have appeared in a French court for sending him to school in a top bearing the words "I am a bomb".
 
The long-sleeved T-shirt had the words "Jihad, born on September 11" emblazoned on the back when he turned up at his nursery school in the southern town of Sorgues near Avignon on September 25.
 
His mother and uncle are charged with condoning a crime over the alleged reference to the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. The uncle bought the top and the mother dressed her son in it when she sent him to school that day.
 
The judge at the court in Avignon agreed to a request by their lawyer for the trial to be postponed until next year for technical reasons and set March 6 as the date for the next hearing.
 
The accused made no comment to reporters as they left the courthouse.

Jihad's teacher alerted the authorities after he turned up in the top and a few days later the town mayor, Thierry Lagneau of the conservative UMP party, asked prosecutors to investigate.
 
"I condemn the attitude of the parents who shamefully took advantage of the person and the age of this child to convey a political message," Mr Lagneau said.
 
The mother and uncle of the boy, who official records show was born on September 11, 2009, and was given Jihad as his first name, were not known Islamists, prosecutors said.
 
The mother was astonished at the reaction to her son's top and at the proportions the affair had taken on, they added.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/relatives-in-court-over-threeyearolds-bomb-shirt-20121220-2bo1h.html#ixzz2FXhX9AC5

[Nomad]

What a pack of f>cktards...................................

[Bunyip]

Words truly fail me
What chance does this kid have in life? Minus billionty.

and you need a license to buy a car!!!!

[krisandkev]

A very simple matter to decide.  Order that the parents have to wear shirts with large words saying, ***** , well I will let that up to your imagination.     Kevin

[Bird]

This is 

Adam Bokelian, 12, has cerebral palsy and has been paralysed since he was 10 months old.

The schoolboy, who can only communicate by blinking his eyes, sat with his mother, Zoe Bojelian, recently to write a poem to be included in the family's Christmas cards.

Mrs Bojelian, 52, had written a list of festive words and asked her son to blink when she read out one he would like to include in the poem.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2012/12/21/10/08/paralysed-boy-sells-christmas-song-on-itunes

[Hairs]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2012/12/21/10/08/paralysed-boy-sells-christmas-song-on-itunes

Yep, that's awesome 

[D4D]

Very sad, father and son out bushwalking, they probably shouldn't have gone out in that heat...
http://www.theage.com.au/wa-news/boy-dies-after-hiking-in-heat-20121222-2bsb4.html

[Black Diamond]

That's shocking, I can't imagine how the families are feeling.

[Bird]

he was in shti loads of shows when I was growing up... Not a bad actor.

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy loved by millions as the messy one in TV's The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died Monday. He was 90.
 
Klugman, who lost his voice to throat cancer in the 1980s and trained himself to speak again, died with his wife at his side.
 
"He had a great life and he enjoyed every moment of it and he would encourage others to do the same," son Adam Klugman said.
 
Adam Klugman said he was spending Christmas with his brother, David, and their families. Their father had been convalescing for some time but had apparently died suddenly and they were not sure of the exact cause.
 
"His sons loved him very much," David Klugman said. "We'll carry on in his spirit."
 
Never anyone's idea of a matinee idol, Klugman remained a popular star for decades simply by playing the type of man you could imagine running into at a bar or riding on a subway with - gruff, but down to earth, his tie stained and a little loose, a racing form under his arm, a cigar in hand during the days when smoking was permitted.
 
His was a city actor ideal for The Odd Couple, which ran from 1970 to 1975 and was based on Neil Simon's play about mismatched roommates, divorced New Yorkers who end up living together.
 
The show teamed Klugman, the sloppy sports writer Oscar Madison - and Tony Randall - the fussy photographer Felix Unger, in the roles played by Walter Matthau and Art Carney on Broadway and Matthau and Jack Lemmon in the 1968 film.
 
Klugman had already had a taste of the show when he replaced Matthau on Broadway and he learned to roll with the quick-thinking Randall, with whom he had worked in 1955 on the CBS series Appointment with Adventure.
 
"There's nobody better to improvise with than Tony," Klugman said. "A script might say, 'Oscar teaches Felix football.' There would be four blank pages. He would provoke me into reacting to what he did. Mine was the easy part."
 
They were battlers on screen, and the best of friends in real life. When Randall died in 2004 at age 84, Klugman told CNN: "A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize."
 
In Quincy, M.E., which ran from 1976 to 1983, Klugman played an idealistic, tough-minded medical examiner who tussled with his boss by uncovering evidence of murder in cases where others saw natural causes.
 
"We had some wonderful writers," he said in a 1987 interview. "Quincy was a muckraker, like Upton Sinclair, who wrote about injustices. He was my ideal as a youngster, my author, my hero.
 
"Everybody said, 'Quincy'll never be a hit.' I said, 'You guys are wrong. He's two heroes in one, a cop and a doctor.' A coroner has power. He can tell the police commissioner to investigate a murder. I saw the opportunity to do what I'd gotten into the theatre to do - give a message.
 
"They were going to do cops and robbers with Quincy. I said, 'You promised me I could do causes.' They said, 'Nobody wants to see that.' I said, 'Look at the success of "60 Minutes." They want to see it if you present it as entertainment.'"
 
For his 1987 role as 81-year-old Nat in the Broadway production of I'm Not Rappaport, Klugman wore leg weights to learn to shuffle like an elderly man. He said he would wear them for an hour before each performance, "to remember to keep that shuffle."
 
"The guy is so vital emotionally, but physically he can't be," Klugman said.
 
"We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80."
 
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he was born in Philadelphia and began his acting career in college drama (Carnegie Institute of Technology). After serving in the Army during World War I, he went on to summer stock and off-Broadway, rooming with fellow actor Charles Bronson as both looked for paying jobs. He made his Broadway debut in 1952 in a revival of Golden Boy. His film credits included Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men and Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses and an early television highlight was appearing with Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda in a production of The Petrified Forest. His performance in the classic 1959 musical Gypsy brought him a Tony nomination for best featured (supporting) actor in a musical.
 
He also appeared in several episodes of The Twilight Zone, including a memorable 1963 one in which he played a negligent father whose son is seriously wounded in Vietnam. His other TV shows included The Defenders and the soap opera The Greatest Gift.
 
In a 1987 interview in the New York Daily News, he said, "once I did three hourlong shows in 2½ weeks. Think we'd do that now? Huh! But then it was great. I did summer stock, played the classics. Me!"
 
Throat cancer took away his raspy voice for several years in the 1980s. When he was back on the stage for a 1993 revival of Three Men on a Horse, The Associated Press review said, "His voice may be a little scratchy but his timing is as impeccable as ever."
 
"The only really stupid thing I ever did in my life was to start smoking," he said in 1996. Seeing people smoking in television and films, he added, "disgusts me, it makes me so angry - kids are watching."
 
In his later years, he guest-starred on TV series including Third Watch and Crossing Jordan and appeared in a 2010 theatrical film, Camera Obscura.
 
Klugman's hobby was horse racing and he eventually took up raising them, too.
 
"I always loved to gamble," he said. "I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/jack-klugman-dies-in-los-angeles-20121225-2buy0.html#ixzz2G1sa1nIc

[D4D]

Radioactive waste being stored in shed in Arkaroola
http://www.news.com.au/national/radioactive-waste-being-stored-in-shed-in-arkaroola/story-fncynjr2-1226543320645

[Bird]

Loved this show as a kid. It was alwasy on at 6am for some reason... but still managed to catch it on tele.

Gerry Anderson, best known as the creator of Thunderbirds, has died at the age of 83. The film and television producer, whose credits also included the puppet shows Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 had suffered for several years with mixed dementia and died in his sleep, his son announced on Wednesday.
 
The news was announced on his son Jamie Anderson's website. He wrote: "I'm very sad to announce the death of my father, Thunderbirds creator, Gerry Anderson. He died peacefully in his sleep at midday today, having suffered with mixed dementia for the past few years. He was 83."
 
He requested that any fans wishing to make donations in honour of his father should contribute to the Alzheimer's Society.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/thunderbirds-creator-gerry-anderson-dies-aged-83-20121227-2bwri.html#ixzz2GEHM6vrm

amazing how they made that little island look so big and real in 1965

[Hairs]

R,I,P Tony Greig.
Tributes have poured in for the former England cricket captain and veteran Channel Nine commentator Tony Greig following his death at the age of 66 on Saturday
Edit, he describes his Lung Cancer as a "Little bit of a set back" in the video, He will be missed I'm sure.
Thanks for the memories, Nutra grain Ad, 'They're just like little cricket bats but with holes in them'

[D4D]

Should have fined him more for being stupid

Victorian man fined for trekking underprepared in Blue Mountains
http://www.news.com.au/national/victorian-man-fined-for-trekking-underprepared-in-blue-mountains/story-fncynjr2-1226545428575

[bushbandit]

Just heard that freak serial child sex offender Dennis Fergurson has been found dead in his Sydney appartment apparently been there for days .Good riddens and rest in hell.

Couldnt find any details this early

[Hairs]

Couldnt find any details this early

Some here, not much tho.
Paedophile Dennis Ferguson found dead in his Sydney home