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Real grass still grows at my neighborhood childcare centre, in dirt which melts to mud when it rains.
A scrub turkey scratches about in the sandpit each evening. There’s a possum, too, hiding in the native trees which shade the garden-style playground. It often raids the vege patch - where kids use their bare hands to help plant and harvest carrots and cherry tomatoes.
Stray grown-ups need to look out, lest they be mown down by the junior Evil Knievels who hurtle around the playground on trikes - sans helmets.
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Supposedly I’m a menace and a f*%king idiot. Why? I’m not really sure, but I think it’s because I ride a bike around Sydney.
I wear a helmet. I ride on the left side of the road. But, I have a cheap hybrid bike that can’t move all that quickly, and sometimes, when it’s dusk, I don’t put my lights on.
Last week two men in cars started yelling at me while I was on my bike. This isn’t unusual, it happens a lot, and I’m quite used to it.
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John Torkildsen says:
Fair enough I’ll stop hogging the road on my bike & take my Ford F350 truck & trailer instead - its a bit bigger & slower then my bike but at least you wont have to suffer my selfishness. Happy now? Read more »
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LC says:
So what Jason? If the positions were reversed, they’d have found me through my rego and I’d be hauled in front of a judge. I couldn’t do that here. Do crime statistics show that driver-on-driver road rage is a bigger problem than driver-on-cyclist road rage? Yes they do. That does… Read more »
Nevermind the result. All the talk today is about Dave Warner’s remarkable “switch hit” against India last night. Wow. Talk about skill. But was it legal?
Not according to respected ABC commentator Jim Maxwell it wasn’t. “The switch hit is deadset against the spirit of the game,” Maxwell told The Punch today. “Not to take anything away from the amazing skill of Dave Warner, but if I was the bowler and I saw a batsman do it, I’d chuck it at him!”
The laws of cricket have nothing to say about the practise whereby a batsman changes his grip on the bat and effectively changes from left to right hander, or the reverse, while the ball is in flight. But the laws are crystal clear that a bowler could never do the same thing.
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Gerard says:
Sorry Jerra, it’s the other way round: Law 24.1.b “Underarm bowling shall not be permitted except by special agreement before the match” Read more »
This Casey kid, this accidental hero, slamdunked that bully as though he’d been watching his fair share of WWF.
(Warning: Completely unrealistic portrayal of what actually happened)
What Australians - and worldwide audiences, apparently - warmed to, though, was not the violence itself but the good guy vs. bad guy dynamics of the situation. The underdog trumping the leader of the pack.
Casey Heynes, 16, told A Current Affair he just snapped under pressure. He broke the rules, and became a champion of the downtrodden.
UPDATE: The kid who apparently provoked Casey now claims that he was himself the victim of bullying - and that Casey started the fracas. It remains unclear whether public opinion will now swing behind the little guy…
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Rip says:
Oh yes, of course. Shoving women and children out of the way, so you can get out of a collapsing building during an earthquake, is similar to standing up to the british occupation and subjugation of India. Wade is such a hero. Read more »
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Seano says:
It was a couple of light taps which could have been easily brushed off and walked away from followed by a response that had potential for serious injury. Followed by a lot of he said she said. The only kid who did the right thing here was the girl who… Read more »
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