A good job for you Ron

[Utemad]

I think the Brisbane Times www.brisbanetimes.com.au need a new editor.
I have yet to read an article this morning that hasn't had typos but this one is pretty good. It looks like they did the same thing I used to do at uni if I wasn't sure of something. However I used to highlight the section red so I could come back to it when I had the correct info.
If it is actually a crime to possess thing then the Adam's Family are in a lot of trouble!

Drug lab found in parked Toowoomba car
October 11, 2007 - 6:33AM

Two people have been charged after police allegedly found drug lab equipment and chemicals in a car parked in a Toowoomba street yesterday morning.
Police found the vehicle at the corner of North and Ruthven streets around 1am, and a man and woman were charged.
A 43-year-old Brisbane man appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday and was remanded in custody to reappear on October 31.
He faces charges of produce dangerous drug, possess thing, possess relevant substance, possess thing used in the commission of a crime and possess instructions to produce.
A 19-year-old Caboolture woman also appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday and was released on bail.
She faces charges of possess thing, possess relevant substance and possess thing used in the commission of a crime.




http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news...696025171.html

[barryj]

Can we have a poll to see if we want Ron up here in sunny Queensland .

I doubt if we could find a shed as big as his for the 'extras' .

[p38arover]

I left there in 1964. I doubt I'll ever go back.

re proof-reading, I've been listening to the news reports on my local radio stations and I wonder who writes them. They are so badly written as to be ambiguous.

Don't they ever read them aloud to find the obvious problems?


Ron

[p38arover]

If it is actually a crime to possess thing then the Adam's Family are in a lot of trouble!

It seems that "possess thing" is legalese! I assume it is to prevent lawyers claiming a technicality when an object isn't described properly by police. I guess it also obviates the need to continually rewrite the laws when a new "thing" evolves.

Ron

[chosen]

It seems that "possess thing" is legalese! I assume it is to prevent lawyers claiming a technicality when an object isn't described properly by police. I guess it also obviates the need to continually rewrite the laws when a new "thing" evolves.

Ron

That is a funny thing!!!

[Utemad]

It seems that "possess thing" is legalese!

Well bugger me. Maybe it was the lawyers/politicians that did what I said when they made that law but made up an excuse when they realised their mistake

[Ben]

ACP Magazines management sent an email to staff this morning regarding the bogong moth plague:

"There have been several unreported cases of moths flying into people's mouths on the street, especially near Pitt Street Mall. Please refrain from yawning or keeping [your] mouth open for long periods as moths see a 'tunnel'."

I wonder how they know about moths in mouths if nobody reported it!