Friday, 25 May 2007

Who's up for a drink?

Amid all the furor surrounding the "ice epidemic" (sorry, I hate using mass media cliches) it's good to be reminded every now and then that a significant amount of damage to the social fabric is committed by those on legal drugs - namely alcohol.
So this story piqued my attention this morning, albeit for all the wrong reasons.
Guy gets drunk (read drinks more than seven litres of beer); guy goes home; guy accuses partner of infidelity; guy takes budgie out of cage, rips its head off and throws body on front lawn (WTF???); guy asks partner where dog is; partner runs from house; guy pours petrol all over house; guy sets house on fire; guy stands out front of his house with pitchfork threatening neighbours and cops before the police take him down with capsicum spray.
Whew.
But the clincher, the bit that I personally think is the most fucked up (second only to ripping the budgie's head off) is this:
"Johnson and his partner are still together."

Sometimes, words seem so inadequate.

2 comments:

my name is kate said...

Yeah and if he was on ice when he did it he would be on the front page of the slimes.

Lindsay said...

I think this guy is one of my neighbours in da ghetto