What The F***

[mighty_tiger_79]

Only just catching up with the news from the attempted arson attempt down south and then the owner found himself pinned by a car.. hope he makes a speedy recovery. On Friday arvo heading into markets that black car came flying out of a driveway, luckily I'd just gone past but watched him in rear vision mirror drive on the wrong side of the road 30seconds later.... who knows

[DOC]

The accused have now been named.

Oxygen thief and low life ****?

[dedja]

What happens when a man has ‘needs’ …

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/que ... 32d443aa81

Caboolture pensioner Tracey Skeates scammed $40k in romance scam

A Queensland pensioner says he is just weeks from homelessness after being caught up in an international romance scam that’s cost him nearly everything he owns.

More than 27,000 people nationally have been conned in romance scams losing close to $20 million this year alone, according to figures from ScamWatch.

In Queensland, 656 people have been caught up in romance scams this year, losing $3 million, with ScamWatch warning that the holiday season can be prime time for fraudsters targeting the vulnerable and lonely.

Tracey Skeates, 63, from Caboolture, has pawned his guitars and car to keep up with the financial demands of “Charlotte”, a woman who he met through Instagram.

“Just on Charlotte alone I would say I’ve lost $40,000. That money was my inheritance,” he said.

Mr Skeates’ nightmare began in October 2023.

“A woman called Charlotte contacted me via Instagram. She said she lived in America and asked if I lived alone. She had recently broken up with her boyfriend, she was looking for someone to talk to,” he said.

Their conversation quickly became romantic and within a week Mr Skeates sent her his first payment of $500 to fix her broken phone.

Within a month of talking Charlotte told Mr Skeates that she wanted to move to Brisbane, to live with him and be his wife.

“She wanted to get there so we could have Christmas together, I vividly remember it but she didn’t have any money to move to Australia,” Mr Skeates said.

“That’s when I started transferring $3000 or $4000 dollars at a time,” he said.

Since December Charlotte has tried to fly into Australia “five separate times” to be with Mr Skeates, but something always mysteriously prevents her from arriving at Brisbane airport.

“The first time she tried to fly over she said she got assaulted on the way to the airport and was in a coma,” he said.

“Another time she called me saying someone planted two grams of heroin in her suitcase.”

Throughout their entire relationship Charlotte claimed her phone camera was broken, so all of their communication was through Instagram messages and WhatsApp calls.

With every disaster Charlotte experienced Mr Skeates was forced to send more money to get his future wife to Brisbane.

“I was sending her 80 per cent of my disability pension every two weeks. I was hardly eating, all in the name of love.”



“To get her over here I did a quick sale on my car so I could get the money fast.

“My dream was to travel Australia with (Charlotte).

“But because of my stupidity I’ve gone from having a dream and enjoying the last few years to having no f**king hope.

Charlotte would insist on payments being transferred through Apple gift cards or cryptocurrency Bitcoin, making the transfers near impossible to trace.

Mr Skeates says he is “embarrassed” at falling victim to the scam, but Australian Competition and Consumer Commission deputy chair and ScamWach spokesperson Catriona Lowe says every Australian could find themselves in the same situation.

“People are using apps to find romance, so everyone really is at risk,” she said.

“Scammers are skilled and professional criminals and one of the things that they are very skilled at is using human psychology against us. They are exploiting very natural, very normal human desires.

“If you’ve been scammed in this way, that is definitely not something to be ashamed about. You are a victim of a crime.”

After months of payments Mr Skeates reversed-searched the images that Charlotte had been sending.

The search revealed that the profile had been ripping images of Yisela Avendano - a Colombian bikini model with close to a million followers on Instagram.

“I knew then that I had been scammed,” Mr Skeates said.

“But even then I still kept sending the money, I don’t know why. They get so in your head that you’re at boiling point all the time and you lose the ability to think straight.

The scam has strained every part of Mr Skeates’ life including his relationship with his daughter, Tamika.

“Initially I was trying to help, I told him straight away that this person didn’t seem real,” Ms Skeates said.

“But once we found out he was selling the car, I became less tolerant. I didn’t feel like he was listening to me. It’s definitely damaged our relationship.”

Tamika Skeates’ two sons Orlando and Tiago set up a GoFundMe for their grandfather in the hopes of surprising him with a new car.

“We were annoyed and frustrated, because we told him that it seemed fishy,” said Tiago Skeates.

“But we still love him, he’s still our Poppy,” Orlando Skeates said.

“That’s why we set up the GoFundMe, we want to surprise him with a car so he can go fishing with us again.

Ms Lowe urged anyone caught up in a romance scam to reach out for help.

“Because scammers will often try and keep their victim isolated from their friends and family,” she said.

Tracey Skeates said that while he is embarrassed at falling victim to the scam, he hopes sharing his story will encourage other victims to reach out.

“In a few weeks I’m going to be living in a tent, I’ve lost everything to this.

“Now I just want to raise awareness. Fake profiles and scammers target vulnerable people everyday,” he said.

“I hope by talking about it I can encourage just one person to reach out for help, even if they’re ashamed.”

[mighty_tiger_79]

Southern express way heading south is a carpark

[Footy Chick]

Southern express way heading south is a carpark

wasn't there a truck rollover on it this morning?

[locky801]

Southern express way heading south is a carpark

wasn't there a truck rollover on it this morning?

vehicle fire on the expressway

[mighty_tiger_79]

Raygun just won't quietly pi55 off

[another grub]

we hate u ....eff off

raygun too

[dedja]

Farmer wants a wife?

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenge ... 8d8228c462

Lowan Vale farmer, Shaun Taylor, pleads guilty to bestiality charge

A 49-year-old farmer from the state’s South East has pleaded guilty to committing bestiality before the Mount Gambier Magistrate’s Court today.

Shaun Wayne Taylor, 49, pleaded guilty to one count of bestiality which the court heard was committed at his Lowan Vale property, near Bordetown, on September 8, 2023.

Mr Taylor was arrested by detectives from the Special Crimes Investigation section on December 22, 2023 after an examination of his electronic devices by police during an unrelated investigation.

He was granted bail and appeared in court in February earlier this year where he sought to have his bail conditions - that deemed he was not permitted to be near animals - changed so he could “look after his animals”.

His request was denied by Magistrate Koula Kossiavelos who said due to “the heart of the offending”, she was not comfortable granting him permission to return to the farm.

Ms Kossiavelos said if Mr Taylor wished, he could employ “other means to look after his animals” – such as farmhands.

He will next appear in the District Court for arraignment in October.

Bella the horse, his partner of 24 years, refused to comment after his sentencing.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/truecrim ... c7286e6746

Bordertown farmer Shaun Taylor sentenced for sick animal acts

An SA farmer who committed bestiality with animals on his 750-acre property in the state’s South-East, and “kept it secret from everyone”, has managed to avoid jail time.

Shaun Wayne Taylor, 49, from Lowan Vale near Bordertown, appeared in the District Court for sentencing on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of commit bestiality.

Judge Gordon Barrett noted Taylor had photographed himself committing the vile acts – which he had kept hidden from his long-term partner of 24 years.

“Police were investigating another man for similar offending and noticed on his telephone images of communications that involved you,” Judge Barrett said.

“The contents of your phone indicate that you photographed yourself committing the offence on a number of occasions and communicating about it with others.

“You admitted to the psychologist that you’d been involved in that sort of behaviour since you were a teenager.”

Taylor was arrested by detectives from the Special Crimes Investigation section on December 22, 2023 after an examination of his electronic devices by police during an unrelated investigation.

Earlier this week, James Marcus, for Taylor, submitted his client was a “useful, hardworking member of the community” who had developed the sick obsession with animals at a young age.

“What Your Honour has is a man who, for a very long period of time, was engaging in behaviour that had become normalised to him,” Mr Marcus said.

“Ultimately, Your Honour has before you a man who has, for a lifetime, laboured under difficult circumstances. He established behaviour which he hid from others and carried on for a long time without ever having any sort of intervention.”

Judge Barrett sentenced Taylor to 18 months jail with a non-parole period of nine months – suspended upon entering into a two-year good behaviour bond.

[dedja]

News Corp want to offload it, suggesting that someone wants to buy it … I don’t know who would be that stupid to even contemplate buying a dying dinosaur, but at the right price, who knows.

It just means that the value to subscribers will continue to deteriorate, to the point where somewhere down the track it will be become completely unsustainable for both subscribers and Foxtel, if not already.

Foxtel to be sold to DAZN for $3.4B … will see what the fallout will be for Foxtel, Kayo and Binge, but looks like NewsCorp is the big winner, wiping out its’s $1.2B Foxtel related debt and gaining a 6% stake in DAZN and a seat in the Board. Telstra will take a 3% stake.

[Brodlach]

Hour and a quarter wait time in the queue at Foodland Pasadena.

[dedja]

Hour and a quarter wait time in the queue at Foodland Pasadena.

Did you tip the piano man?

[Brodlach]

Hour and a quarter wait time in the queue at Foodland Pasadena.

Did you tip the piano man?

No piano man today, but had he been there I would have heard his entire repertoire

[am Bays]

News Corp want to offload it, suggesting that someone wants to buy it … I don’t know who would be that stupid to even contemplate buying a dying dinosaur, but at the right price, who knows.

It just means that the value to subscribers will continue to deteriorate, to the point where somewhere down the track it will be become completely unsustainable for both subscribers and Foxtel, if not already.

Foxtel to be sold to DAZN for $3.4B … will see what the fallout will be for Foxtel, Kayo and Binge, but looks like NewsCorp is the big winner, wiping out its’s $1.2B Foxtel related debt and gaining a 6% stake in DAZN and a seat in the Board. Telstra will take a 3% stake.

The DAZN Cup just doesn't have the same ring.

[dedja]

Or DAZN iQ

[Spargo]

Or DAZN iQ

Or DAZN box…

[Footy Chick]

Hour and a quarter wait time in the queue at Foodland Pasadena.

Meanwhile, at Drakes Newton, no wait

[locky801]

Hour and a quarter wait time in the queue at Foodland Pasadena.

Meanwhile, at Drakes Newton, no wait

Only wait i had at Fassina Liquor Walkerville was them loading the essentials into the car left the other shops to the daughters

[Brodlach]

I only went to get something for dinner, bought 6 items

[Jimmy_041]

None of the major chains stocking dessert wines anymore?

Thanks for the tip locky - I'll try Fassina Liquor Walkerville