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OMG how terrifying was this escalator incident???

Every kids worst nightmare, my younger brother would scream if you put him anywhere near those 'eat-you-stairs'


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'It was like a scene from the apocalypse': Dozens of people are injured as escalator at Italian underground station SPEEDS out-of-control sending passengers hurtling into each other at the bottom
  • Terrifying social media footage shows people piling on top of each other tonight
  • Incident at Repubblica metro station is near where CSKA Moscow take on Roma
  • Russian fans were seen 'singing and jumping on escalator' before it gave way
  • At least 20 injured, seven seriously and one fan's foot was partially severed
WARNING - SCARY CLIP

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ens-people-injured.html#v-6608687422851467226
 
OMG
The innocent elderly gentleman killed by that dickhead yesterday, is MELBOURNE LEGEND
He was 74 year old Melbourne cafe owner Sisto Malaspina .

PELLIGRINI'S......IS A LEGENDARY PLACE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,best real Italian bistro, the minestrone is to die for

Malaspina was the owner of Pellegrini’s, a mainstay of Melbourne’s cafe culture. Malaspina has owned the cafe since 1974 with his business partner Nino Pangrazio and was one of the first venues in the city to install an espresso machine.
(and my Dad was there lining up for the first espressos)

If you have been to Melbourne, you have to visit and enjoy sitting at the bar

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Ah that’s sad. What an institution he created in that place. Haven’t been there for a long time, but it was one of the places I used to meet a friend for lunch back in the 90s.
 
I used to buy my coffee there when I worked in exhibition street. Sisto used to roll his eyes whenever I ordered because back then I was drinking decaf. He thought it was super dumb but they still kept it in the store. Poor Sisto. The world is a bit mad sometimes. Hopefully he can Rest In Peace.
 
So bizarre this stuff with the lawyer.....

Gangsters, cops and Lawyer X: the police informant scandal that has shocked Australia
Athens police escort Australian gangland figure Tony Mokbel outside court in 2007. Mokbel used Lawyer X until he skipped trial in 2006 and fled to Greece. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
‘Appalling’ breach of duty castigated and 22 criminals may challenge convictions after revelation that defence barrister doublecrossed her clients
In 2005, eight years after the murder of the underworld figure Alphonse Gangitano kicked off a long and bloody gangland war on the streets of Melbourne, a prominent criminal barrister agreed to become a registered police informant in exchange for a promise that her identity would be kept secret.

The woman – known variously as Lawyer X, EF, and informer 3838 – had represented some of the gangland war’s most infamous figures, including Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel.

Thirteen years later, a royal commission has been announced into what has become one of the biggest legal scandals and most appalling cases of police misconduct in Australian history.

Lawyer X is still alive but has refused to go into witness protection, her trust in police so shaken by leaks to the media and the attempt to use her as a witness in the murder trial of a disgraced ex-police officer that she says she no longer believes the force could keep her and her children safe.

At 9am on Monday, suppression orders concealing the extent of her involvement in the prosecutions that ended the gangland war were lifted. Within hours state and commonwealth prosecutors had written to 22 people, including a number of her former clients, informing them that they may have grounds to challenge their convictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...-informant-scandal-that-has-shocked-australia

Her identity seems to be common knowledge around Melbourne
 
Her identity would be known to all the police and criminals involved, but I guess keeping it out of the papers means she can live in some small town somewhere without the locals catching on.

I think I’ve worked out who it is. 🙊
 
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Her identity would be known to all the police and criminals involved, but I guess keeping it out of the papers means she can live in some small town somewhere without the locals catching on.

I think I’ve worked out who it is. 🙊

Julia Gillard ?

regarDS
 
Her identity would be known to all the police and criminals involved, but I guess keeping it out of the papers means she can live in some small town somewhere without the locals catching on.

I think I’ve worked out who it is. 🙊

Everyone seems to know her, seems to be common knowledge.......including crims, she isn't likely to be alive for long
Shocking given her high profile background

Lovely Julia Gillard has not practised Law since 1996, and she was a Industrial Law practitioner not a criminal defence lawyer
She is also far to fair and smart to do anything so stupid
 
Everyone seems to know her, seems to be common knowledge.......including crims, she isn't likely to be alive for long
Shocking given her high profile background

Lovely Julia Gillard has not practised Law since 1996, and she was a Industrial Law practitioner not a criminal defence lawyer
She is also far to fair and smart to do anything so stupid
Like Julia Gillard. She has dignity. And a sense of humour. Both too often lacking.
 
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Why has Informer 3838 refused to enter witness protection? Does that mean she would need to move overseas or something?
 
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Why has Informer 3838 refused to enter witness protection? Does that mean she would need to move overseas or something?
She doesn't trust the police anymore - she alleges that it may have been the police that leaked the report to the media.

Trust is a strange thing in this whole scenario, methinks.
 
QUEEN committed the royal faux pas of the year



https://twitter.com/KristianHarstad
Multi-billionaire tells people to be nice to others at #Christmas. A decade of austerity, massive homelessness and food bank usage, yet no irony in a room dripping in gold as the setting for #Queen's speech. Is that piano made out of gold? How many homes could that have paid for?
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And more, a LOT more. and a lot worse.......having a Marie Antoinette moment, that room is g
https://www.news.com.au/entertainme...o/news-story/4918a80c0f0db77076b838fa200a53d5
 
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