Interesting statistics this one, scary!!

**stevo68** · 19th September 2006, 08:28 AM

GUESS!

Does the following apply to the

ARL OR AFL?

This is good !!!!

36
have been accused of spousal abuse

7
have been arrested for fraud

19
have been accused of writing bad checks
117
have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3
have done time for assault
71,
repeat
71 cannot
get a credit card due to bad credit

14
have been arrested on drug-related charges

8
have been arrested for shoplifting
21
currently
are defendants in lawsuits, and
84
have been arrested for drunk driving
in
the last year

Can
you guess which organization this is?

Give
up yet? . . . Scroll down,

Neither,
it's the 535 members of the AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT IN CANBERRA

The
same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Lucas · 19th September 2006, 08:30 AM

Tax $ hard at work

**p38arover** · 19th September 2006, 08:40 AM

Amazing! Almost the same number as the US Congress!

It's an urban myth. It's been doing the rounds for years.

See Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

Ron

**barney** · 19th September 2006, 09:46 AM

yeah, had tha one emailed to me about 4 times so far.
have you seen this though;-
Safety

Road accident statistics on a model-by-model basis from the UK Department of Transport show that the Land Rover Defender and Land Rover Discovery are the safest cars on the UK roads (measured in terms of chance of death in an accident) - between three times safer than the safest Volvo models, twice as safe (half the death-rate per accident) compared with the Jeep Cherokee and Toyota Land Cruiser and only matched by the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and Jaguar XJ.

**stevo68** · 19th September 2006, 09:59 AM

It's an urban myth. It's been doing the rounds for years.

See Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

Guess Ive been "urban mythed" then

, have to blame the missus for that one, she emailed it too me

.

Regards

Stevo

**p38arover** · 19th September 2006, 10:06 AM

Yeah, I had another one last night which was copied to lots of us in the LROC.

I asked why the bloke hadn't checked it out before sending it on - it was one of these bleeding heart sentimentalist pieces of crap supposedly from a child dying of cancer - the sort of stuff that I hate receiving.

This one: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/slowdance.asp

Ron

**VladTepes** · 19th September 2006, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

Amazing! Almost the same number as the US Congress!

It's an urban myth. It's been doing the rounds for years.

See Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

Ron

Beat me to it !

**Quiggers** · 19th September 2006, 10:36 AM

Sorry stevo68 you've been myhtbusted. The clue was 84 busted for dui in the past year? They don't drive, that's what comcars are for. Don't do much else either.

But keep up the good work. Cheers, GQ

**p38arover** · 19th September 2006, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Sorry stevo68 you've been myhtbusted. The clue was 84 busted for dui in the past year? They don't drive, that's what comcars are for. Don't do much else either.

I also noticed the US spelling but didn't want to mention that!

Ron

**Quiggers** · 19th September 2006, 01:17 PM

Well spotted Ron, I didn't 'check' that......and I may be wrong but I don't think there are 535 members in the Australian parliament. 200 or so in the lower and 36 in the upper? Do the territories have senators? I digress....

GQ

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