Kangaroos Hop Into Trouble

[am Bays]

These guys never learn do they? Imagine if this was Ben Cousins.

Not the 'Roo boys' fault that Lionel Ritchie incited his fans to riot!

Personally in the Matt Campbell case I blame North Adealide's lack of mentoring provided to a small kid from Alice Spring in the big smoke.....

[smac]

this one has gone off topic, no ones cares if I delete this?

You want to delete because of the concert, not the actions - right?

[Felch]

These guys never learn do they? Imagine if this was Ben Cousins.

Not the 'Roo boys' fault that Lionel Ritchie incited his fans to riot!

Personally in the Matt Campbell case I blame North Adealide's lack of mentoring provided to a small kid from Alice Spring in the big smoke.....

Yeah, they should have warned him about attending such events.
At least when Boney M and The Pointer Sisters come to town, he will be all the wiser !!!

[Dutchy]

Good to see the Matty Campbell isnt so shy around alcohol

just read the story for the first time, what a joke!....slow news day? no arrest or anything, just a player who had too much to drink....shouldnt have even made the papers...

[sydney-dog]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

[mighty_tiger_79]

the Roos players have bought the game into disrepute, not only for getting intoxicated but for attending a lionel ritchie gig!!!!

wonder what the AFL will do?

ban them for a year like benny cousins!!!!

[Dutchy]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

Whats the crime SD?

[mighty_tiger_79]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

Whats the crime SD?

passing out at 9pm is a crime in itself!!!!!!!

shame shame shame

[smac]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

Whats the crime SD?

Do you mean other than going to a Lionel Ritchie concert?

[sydney-dog]

Agree no charge, to the Police credit they have handed the situation well, however I was not focusing on whether a charge had been laid, more so the fact that the same players seem to continuously find themselves in trouble dealing with club code of conduct issues....

I can't ever remember Bomber Harvey finding trouble

I am sure Laidley is thinking, "Not the best way to prepare for a season"

[Dutchy]

lets not get too excited about some boys having a few too many drinks in late Nov/early Dec, if it was Feb I would be concerned....

[sydney-dog]

Mate, I am just as excited about this as I was with Scott Thompson having an accident.... "he should never captain the AFC"

[Andy #24]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

I went to a day on the green a couple of years ago at Annie's Lane. 41 degrees, 5 bottles of rose, all over my parents bathroom by 10pm

[Psyber]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

I went to a day on the green a couple of years ago at Annie's Lane. 41 degrees, 5 bottles of rose, all over my parents bathroom by 10pm

30 standard drinks in 24 hours - brain damage starts to set in after 4.!!

[Andy #24]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

I went to a day on the green a couple of years ago at Annie's Lane. 41 degrees, 5 bottles of rose, all over my parents bathroom by 10pm

30 standard drinks in 24 hours - brain damage starts to set in after 4.!!

Lot less than 24 hours. Geez, I'd have to have brain damage to put up with life if everyone was a wowser like you. No booze, no drugs, no sex I presume...

[Psyber]

Isn't amazing that it's the same old serial offenders, apparently this all took place pretty early in the evening (9pm).... Obviously on a bender

I went to a day on the green a couple of years ago at Annie's Lane. 41 degrees, 5 bottles of rose, all over my parents bathroom by 10pm

30 standard drinks in 24 hours - brain damage starts to set in after 4.!!

Lot less than 24 hours. Geez, I'd have to have brain damage to put up with life if everyone was a wowser like you. No booze, no drugs, no sex I presume...

I drink alcoholic drinks, but quality not quantity, and I have even drunk Arak - a form of Palm leaf Vodka -with the traditional headhunters in Borneo at a tribal gathering. I have tried Marijuana three times and didn't like it, and I have sampled cocaine straight off the tree - also in Borneo - once only, even though I did like it. Sex - lots over the years - I was a young professional with a Porsche before I remarried and in that situation the girls come to you.

So, you really have jumped to a lot of wrong conclusions. You don't need to be an alcoholic to have fun.

I intend to go on having fun well into my 90s! I have met professionally people in their 40s who cannot remember anything that happened after they were 25 - would you like to join that club??

Background facts are:

1. The Neurology literature suggests that everytime you drink more than 4 standard drinks in 24 hours you kill at least a few thousand brain cells. [2 or 3 drinks in 24 hours for women.] They don't grow back and you can't safely have 8 drinks today because you had none yesterday, it doesn't work like that. We have all done it and fortunately we can all spare a few million, but quantity and repitition eventually catch up with you.

2. A test for developing alcoholism - can you go 14 days without a drink or do you start making yourself excuses after about 10 days? It clears out of the blood in a few days, but it is at 10 -14 days the brain starts to react to alcohol withdrawal, and that is when the DTs are most common.

I could post a medical reference if you like but I don't want bore everyone.

Look at this link if you dare!

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/p ... CF000C8865

[smac]

I could post a medical reference if you like but I don't want bore everyone.

Thank god for that!

[Andy #24]

I don't care. You crapping on, (regardless of how well you reference it) everytime someone has a good time makes you a wowser.

Maybe you need to get back on it to make yourself more interesting now rather than crapping on about what you drove.

[Andy #24]

Last time I checked Arak was Sri Lankan and you can't eat coke straight of the tree, the leafs do bugger all. Not sure if there are even those plants growing in the wild in Borneo. Maybe the headhunters lobotomised you...

[Psyber]

Last time I checked Arak was Sri Lankan and you can't eat coke straight of the tree, the leafs do bugger all. Not sure if there are even those plants growing in the wild in Borneo. Maybe the headhunters lobotomised you...

1. Arak is also widely produced and used in much of the east - I was about 2 hours by canoe up the River Skrang from Serian in Sarawak with a group from the Royal Zoological Society of SA, of which I am a Life Member.

2. The cocaine concentration in the leaves is low - the South American peoples put the leaves in their cheeks and suck them gently providing an energy boost a bit like the caffiene in Coca-Cola.

3. The cocaine concentration in the stone of the Coca Fruit is high enough to give a mild high.

4. There is no cocaine, or very little, in the flesh of the fruit.

5. The stuff on the streets in the west is highly concentrated and dangerous.

6. It is a native South American tree - as is the Peppercorn Tree common in Australia now - but, having been transorted to other tropical places, it is commonly planted as a wind break around the Pepper Vines used for commercial cropping in Sarawak where 90% of the world's pepper is, or was at the time, grown. I don't know whether any have gone "wild" but it seems reasonably likely.

7. In part of my my work I have to try to help people who have permanently damaged themselves with drugs and alcohol, so it is part of my job to try to encourage people to not do it to themselves - and I usually get highly paid to do it. I do it free sometimes because I care about people damaging themselves in this way through ignorance and short-term thinking, and, having seen the results, I find it hard not to try to warn those who are taking great risks with their future health.

8. I respect your right to ignore my advice. You should respect my right to express my concern. Just don't be juvenile and abusive because what I say disturbs you and you would rather not think about it.