Murder Capital of the world???
Submitted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 12:49
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Hairy
Gday,
I just heard on the radio that Today Tonight or some show like that in
Adelaide did a story on
Alice Springs saying it was the murder capital of the world.
Did anyone see it?
What was said?
Cheers
Reply By: Member - MrBitchi (QLD) - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 12:53
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 12:53
Murder capital of Australia
ABC
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 16:58
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 16:58
Cheers
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Reply By: V8Diesel - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 13:26
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 13:26
Only place you can get Emu Export outside WA too.
Hmmmmmmmm...................
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Follow Up By: Member - Karl - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:20
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:20
You can Emu in a couple of
places in Townsville :-))
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Follow Up By: V8Diesel - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:28
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:28
You're kidding! Any idea why? I would have thought Townsville would be
well off the track for the desert people.
As a West Aussie I always look for a little bit of
home when on the road. You can't get a decent choc milk anywhere in Australia apart from WA (and I know I'm risking death here but Farmers Union choc milk is rubbish). Mrs Mac's pies are far superior to all the others too.
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:00
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:00
So its your fault.
Ive heard that Emu bleep e does funny things to people. Keep it over there!
Cheers
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Follow Up By: equinox - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:10
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:10
Woollies in Alice only keep two cartons of EB in stock too.
Most of the locals haven't even heard of it.
I used to buy them out every time I went to Alice.
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 18:37
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 18:37
I heard most of the locals drink the cheaper cask wine at the Hotel Todd...?
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:24
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:24
Gerhard1,
Your way behind times mate, cask wine is old hat! The new liquor laws fixed that, nothing than the best these days....Bourbon is the flavour.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: V8Diesel - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:24
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:24
Three types of beer.
EB, VB or GB.
EB = Excellent beer aka
Emu Bitter
VB = Vic Bitter aka Visiotrs Beer
GB = Ghey Beer
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Follow Up By: Member - Karl - Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 19:33
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 19:33
A large number of the Defence Force in Townsville are (were) from the West. They had to do something to keep us from getting homesick.
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Reply By: Footloose - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:02
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:02
Why am I not surprised ? Robbery and rape didn't get a mention, did they ?
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:04
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:04
Footloose,
Nor did plain old assult, property damage, abuse or break and enter!
Could really get a decent title if they combined them all!
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:36
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 17:36
It's a great pity, as without all the problems, it's a nice place to visit :))
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Reply By: Member - Ross A (QLD) - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:27
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:27
Hairy, I'm disappointed, only murder capital of Oz. A few years ago some pommy rag reckoned that Palm Island off
Townsville, which was an indigenous mission, was the murder capital of the WORLD, how they knew I will never know. Nothing much has changed over there so I would have been surprised to be upstaged by Alice. It sounds by the ABC report that there is not much difference between Alice and
Townsville for that matter. The problem, as per normal is the grog. They play up over there - they ban alcohol so they all hop on a plan and come over to here ($50) get on the grog and run amok over here. I would assume that it would be the same in nearly every city in Australia where
young people of all races have 'nothing to do'. The older you get the more you have to stay indoors after dark because you cannot defend yourself as well as you could and they are always in groups. Oh, and by the way, we do have a reputation in
Townsville as being red necks, so would have been very disappointed if we had lost the title. LMAO.
Cheers
Rossco
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Follow Up By: Trevor R (QLD) - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:51
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 14:51
Rossco,
I am up your way for work a few times a year and I feel that
Townsville has changed for the better since they upgraded the strand. It seems to me that many more "families" are spending family time down the strand on a Sunday as opposed to the good ol days of
Townsville's famous Sunday Sessions. The parks over the south side toward Railway Estate seem to have been cleaned up quite a bit also. I know Flinders St E can still be a challenge for a single white male at 3am on a Saturday LOL!!
This is an outsiders view and may not be entirely correct but that is what it seems like. Correct me if I am wrong?
Regards, Trevor.
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Follow Up By: Member - Poppy (QLD) - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:26
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:26
Hi
Ross
I see by your profile that you are a member of
Townsville 4wd club.
Is that the club that meets at Thuringowa sound shell and has EO member David & Justine Olsen as club members?
Been thinking about joining that one as I hear they have some good weekends away
Cheers Ray (Bushland Beach)
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Reply By: ross - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 16:31
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 16:31
I was there a few weeks back and there were 7 stabbings resulting in 2 or 3 deaths.
Still a long way to go to catch up with Baghdad
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 16:47
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 16:47
Come on, give credit were credit is due, this mob are doing it with knives, sticks and bottles.
The yanks are using bombs. LOL
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 18:41
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 18:41
I think you are mistaken - the locals are using bombs, not the Yanks.
The Yanks only use them as friendly fire
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Follow Up By: wdric - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 19:56
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 19:56
Must have been there the same time, about easter, as there were three murders mentioned on the local news in Alice. Although I supose it could have been any other week.
I was also talking to a loacal mechanic who was a former South African cop who used to carry around a rap sheet for about 60 murders per month, that would take some beating
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Reply By: kimprado - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 18:25
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 18:25
Hairy
We don't have a problem with crime down here in the Village, unless:
Your a little old lady
Look sideways at anyone
Talk back to a ticket inspector
Have the audasity to drive on the roads
Venture out after dark
Scrubby town must be a terrible place to live.
Regards
Kim
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:22
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:22
Yeh,
Alice can do better than that,
Old men black, white and kids,
Ticket inspectors have run away,
The cops dont answer the phone let alone turn up!
No one has a licence and are too bleep to even see the road,
and you dont need to venture out to find trouble, they jump your fence and let themselves in!
and Im hardly LOL
Cheers
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Reply By: Kumunara (NT) - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:49
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:49
Hairy
Typical of Today Tonight and that ilk. They can't get anything right.
Darwin is the capital of NT.
Alice Springs is not the capital.
Alice does have a few murders though.
Tjilpi
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:48
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:48
Yeh mate, problem is though, murders arent that big compared to the assults and breakins etc.... Most of us have given up reading papers and listening to the news...it gets too depressing. All you need to to is go to work, see whos missing or ask whos mates or faimilies got bashed or broken in over the weekend.
Weve gradually learnt how to cope, its the poor bloody tourists who are getting raped, hospitalized and leaving with a real bad opinion of the place, thats going to be the end of a lot of buisnesses.
Even worse.... try telling your kids not be racist!
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Pesty (SA) - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:54
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:54
Yes Hairy it was today tonight, they spent 8 days there filming and interviewing day and night.
Its a very unfortunate title to get, for a great
spot.
One example was a bloke who opened a new liquor
shop and in the first week had a breakin every second day, and one while the film crew were there.
It had cost him over 10 grand so far for glass repairs and had 3 grand of booze stolen.
Not bad effort for a week.
Im sure he isnt alone.
Lets hope it helps to shame the powers to get off their collective asses, and i dont mean the local ones, and get the support there, needed to straighten it out.
You dont want to end up like Wilcania.
Cheers Pesty
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:14
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 22:14
Gday,
I think the grog
shop you mentioned is actually a restaurant, and if its the same one someone had there head put through the window while it was full of patrons.
Cheers
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