ABC Local radio Victoria ran with this this afternoon too.

The man is crazy and will not take medication - he thinks he's the king of both Norway and Australia - he needs medical treatment not locking up for twenty years.

There was a time when people like this fellow would have "accidently" fallen down the stairs in the cop shop after a very close 15 minute encounter with the telephone directory.

No opinion, just a statement.

Magnarc wrote:

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There was a time when people like this fellow would have "accidently" fallen down the stairs in the cop shop after a very close 15 minute encounter with the telephone directory.

No opinion, just a statement.

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 The good thing about days gone by is that there was no *telephone book cam* back then.

If that happened 40 years ago first off it would never have got onto the news and I know who would have got the hiding with the baseball bat.

Any violence against police and any service people is not to be tolerated. The problem we have today is that if the police had beaten the **** out of the perpetrator (to maintain control) the media would be flooded with do gooders all crying that the police did the wrong thing.

Unfortunately it appears that policing in Australia today is based around all citizens being good boys and girls and that they will always film the police, quite often out of context, on the good old mobile phone to support that the police are always in the wrong.

I have also noticed that most govts have *closed* all the *nut houses* we used to have and now we collectively expect these patients to be * treated* within our hospital system where most employees arent full trained to deal with all the situations. This quite often results in a premature discharge back into society so that they no longer have to deal with them and this is the sad part. This procedure unfortunately includes drug abuse as well.

While I do feel sorry for these poor wretches, in many cases the * rubber room* and the *straight jacket* were a safer way to deal with them.

At the least, in this situation, medications could be administered when and if needed and staff were trained to deal with the situation and the public were not at risk.

 Ivan 01 wrote:

 The good thing about days gone by is that there was no *telephone book cam* back then.

If that happened 40 years ago first off it would never have got onto the news and I know who would have got the hiding with the baseball bat.

Any violence against police and any service people is not to be tolerated. The problem we have today is that if the police had beaten the **** out of the perpetrator (to maintain control) the media would be flooded with do gooders all crying  that the police did the wrong thing.

Unfortunately it appears that policing in Australia today is based around all citizens being good boys and girls and that they will always film the police, quite often out of context, on the good old mobile phone to support that the police are always in the wrong.

 Having had more than a few "interactions" with police it would be easy for me to treat them with disdain, but then I wonder where would  society be without them? Overall they perform a vital but thankless task where rarely is any credit given, with  lightweight "sentences" handed down by magistrates surely causing disillusionment in their ranks. "Why do I bother"? Slaps on the wrist do nothing but encourage recidivist behaviour. Years back a policeman was regarded as a pillar of society, respected by all, both young and old. A strong lecture and a kick in the pants generally put us back on the right track if we'd overstepped the line. In Western Australia there are huge numbers leaving the police force, which is understandable when they're under constant scrutiny by do-gooders and other social misfits who seem to know a lot more about their "rights" than they know about their "responsibilities". When I worked in a small outback town we used to frequent the only pub in town and drink copious amounts of beer before driving 70km on dirt roads back to our place of employment. The solitary local policeman was well aware that we were driving around well pizzed but each day he would visit the pub and advise where he proposed to do random breath testing that evening. He used to say that he preferred to give us prior warning because "I have to live here too.  My kids have to go to the same school as yours, and my wife has to socialise with yours" but if you then got stopped, no mercy was shown. Worked well for everybody.  At another small town in the bush the local cop used to drink for hours with us and then drive himself home. How things have changed. There are many more "incidents" that I could report, but perhaps not on a public forum? Cops now talk and act like robots because of voice recorders and, more recently, body cams. With this intense scrutiny, along with the actions of money-hungry but brain-dead lawyers with no apparent social conscience, is it any wonder that the no-hopers of Australia continue to do as they wish? Rant over! Cheers

86GTS wrote:

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 You seem to have a particularly negative attitude towards me at the moment for some unknown reason.

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It's not unknown; it's because I consider you to generally be callous, acerbic and often rude in your responses to others.