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  • sparkyS Offline
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    @mn5 But I suspect thousands of New Zealanders do or have done a Google news search or a Twitter search and have found out.

    Let the press report everything, including crimes and alleged crimes freely. Then trust juries to judge cases on the evidence presented to them in court and come to the right decisions.

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    @sparky said in Grace Millane:

    @mn5 But I suspect thousands of New Zealanders do or have done a Google news search or a Twitter search and have found out.

    Let the press report everything, including crimes and alleged crimes freely. Then trust juries to judge cases on the evidence presented to them in court and come to the right decisions.

    So spread a name that is suppressed by a court?

    Righto. Can't see any issues there....

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    @dogmeat said in Grace Millane:

    and he had a Vauxhall

    There was nothing wrong with a Chevette if it was modified a bit. Well a lot. Quite a successful rally car.

    Like @jegga I am amazed at how her Dad has taken it. He seems to realise that it only takes one bad night out, or one sicko and this happens. Not the place that it happens - looking at you Cindy.

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    @mn5 I haven't searched, I dont know his name. I doubt I knew him so will happily sit here thinking he is just a murdering cnut without a name.

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    @taniwharugby said in Grace Millane:

    @mn5 I haven't searched, I dont know his name. I doubt I knew him so will happily sit here thinking he is just a murdering cnut without a name.

    I was a bit busy actually getting on with my life and didn't attend any services for her so I guess I'm a bad person.

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    @dogmeat said in Grace Millane:

    @chris-b don't you geddit. He was a weird fucker - and he had a Vauxhall

    Room for benefit of the doubt. Not like he had a Rover...

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    @snowy said in Grace Millane:

    @dogmeat said in Grace Millane:

    and he had a Vauxhall

    There was nothing wrong with a Chevette if it was modified a bit. Well a lot. Quite a successful rally car.

    Like @jegga I am amazed at how her Dad has taken it. He seems to realise that it only takes one bad night out, or one sicko and this happens. Not the place that it happens - looking at you Cindy.

    You had to do a lot to get a Chevette to be a decent car, my mate had one and we spent hours working on the fucking thing until he set fire to the interior while he was fixing a rust patch under the floor. We had two vivas too which were equally shit and underpowered the best we had was a cresta which are legendary

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    @sparky said in Grace Millane:

    @mn5 But I suspect thousands of New Zealanders do or have done a Google news search or a Twitter search and have found out.

    Let the press report everything, including crimes and alleged crimes freely. Then trust juries to judge cases on the evidence presented to them in court and come to the right decisions.

    Absolutely disagree. Mud sticks.

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    Alison Mau really is a self aggrandising attention whore

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109298474/grace-millane-why-a-vigil-feels-right-right-now

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    @jegga We are going to ruin this thread and that might be a bit disrespectful.

    BUT, whilst I agree that Viva's are shit, I briefly drove a Chevette (that I inherited) and it had done 280,000kms without a cent spent on it. For the late "80's that is pretty good. When they were properly fixed they were good to get around on gravel /dirt roads pretty well.

    I do feel that I would have been suspicious of anyone driving a Viva, like my father did, until I told him he was dead to me.

    Well back to the vigil and grieving for me the heartless bastard.

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    @snowy we all grieve differently for people we never heard of till they died.

    Viva came out as a Firenza with a hotted up motor out of a Cf Bedford fan , they were cool . Chevettes were lumbered with a 1256 cc three main bearing dinosaur of a motor , reliable but meh .

    Also there was this South African market only beast

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    Diego Rosenberg  /  Jan 30, 2012

    Chevrolet Firenza Can Am: South Africa's Muscle Car - Street Muscle

    Chevrolet Firenza Can Am: South Africa's Muscle Car - Street Muscle

    One time not too long ago, General Motors ruled the world, and Chevrolet was its ambassador. Chevrolet was as American as Mom, baseball, and apple pie, but in South Africa there was the Chevrolet Firenza. Stuffed with the Camaro Z/28's 302 under the hood, it became the Firenza Can-Am.

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    @jegga said in Grace Millane:

    Alison Mau really is a self aggrandising attention whore

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109298474/grace-millane-why-a-vigil-feels-right-right-now

    Thanks heaps Alison. Was wondering how you felt about everything.

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    @sparky said in Grace Millane:

    @mn5 But I suspect thousands of New Zealanders do or have done a Google news search or a Twitter search and have found out.

    Let the press report everything, including crimes and alleged crimes freely. Then trust juries to judge cases on the evidence presented to them in court and come to the right decisions.

    Are you being purposely naive or moronic? I can't figure out which.

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @bones said in Grace Millane:

    @sparky said in Grace Millane:

    @mn5 But I suspect thousands of New Zealanders do or have done a Google news search or a Twitter search and have found out.

    Let the press report everything, including crimes and alleged crimes freely. Then trust juries to judge cases on the evidence presented to them in court and come to the right decisions.

    Are you being purposely naive or moronic? I can't figure out which.

    Yes, this post is definitely on the spectrum.....

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    @jegga Perhaps Alison will provide a checklist so we can all ensure we care/express our emotions in a way she approves of.

    I am so bloody sick of people mentioning the word shame. Or the peddling of the 'she should have been safe' narrative. Nowhere is 100% safe. Bad things happen because there are other humans involved, and humans can be unpredictable, emotional, lacking in self-control, and just downright sick.

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @mokey said in Grace Millane:

    @jegga Perhaps Alison will provide a checklist so we can all ensure we care/express our emotions in a way she approves of.

    I am so bloody sick of people mentioning the word shame. Or the peddling of the 'she should have been safe' narrative. Nowhere is 100% safe. Bad things happen because there are other humans involved, and humans can be unpredictable, emotional, lacking in self-control, and just downright sick.

    This

    The way she jumped on board and appointed herself the leader of #metoonewzealand was pretty shameless.

    She should have been safe ? Travelling around the world on her own always surrounded by strangers? Yeah ok .

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  • dogmeatD Offline
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    I agree she should have been safe. Just as I should have been safe walking anywhere in Buenos Aires or parts of Cambodia or any of the other places I have been warned never to venture.

    I guess I should have been able to get a drink in the Old Rising Sun pub right here in Auckland rather than be told I was the wrong fucking colour and that if I stayed another minute both my legs would get broken.

    People should feel safe on the streets, with strangers - in their own homes - day or night - anywhere, anytime.

    Unfortunately that ain't the world we live in. Never has been and sadly probably never will be and no amount of posturing hysteria is going to alter that.

    Grace Millane's father obviously realises this and has responded with a personal dignity in devastating circumstances that is a true salute to his daughters too short life. The social and mainstream media moirologists and our PM should follow his example instead of trying to outdo each other with displays of faux grief and outrage.

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    "moirologists"

    @dogmeat Good word

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @dogmeat have added moirologist to my lexicon, salutations.

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    hate needing to google word meanings...

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