Dangerous Behaviour

Kid arrested and jailed, knuckle dusters and a knife.

Dear reader, by now you are all aware of the recent dangerous terrorist plot unmasked in Melbourne’s north. Allegedly a teenager was reported to have been loitering near the shrine prior to Anzac Day. He was in contact with a villainous fourteen year old in London. He was involved as a pawn in INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. For the past four months, in the interests of public safety he has been locked behind bars. Though a magistrate threw this case of INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM out, and criticized the security forces, police, ASIO, FBI, Dr Who, the boy was denied freedom for four months. And we can all rest assured that he has learnt his lesson. Clearly these actions prove that the security forces are up to the game, and any other young Turk, (although they are esteemed allies) should know that we have no tolerance for extremism of any kind. Furthermore, we must recognise that this kind of extremism, carrying a knife and being in the possession of a pair of knuckledusters is just the thin end of the wedge. Good thing then the that we’re safe for now from extremists. Corralling this ne’r do will discourage others of mischievous intent.

But, I’m seriously worried, I have been told by none other than Cecil Poole, that he, (during metalwork classes at school) and his cohorts manufactured knuckledusters, to the horror of their teacher. Their motive, ‘For the fun of it”!! Gladly I can say that no child is encouraged to do metalwork these days, nor anything that requires hands. That’s all done by 417 visa holders. Kids don’t do metalwork anymore. Training is now intent upon turning us into functionaries, and we’re much safer for it.

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Dangerous behaviour. In the 50’s and 60’s it was common, normal and acceptable for kids to shoot rabbits with a .22 or even, (as shown) a Blunderbuss.

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Billy Carts! Another example of Dangerous behaviour . Banned!!

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Dangerous use of Hills Hoist in the 60’s. Dangerous Behaviour!!

I am still deeply disturbed about this young hooligan who was jailed for four months with a pair of knuckledusters and knife exhibiting villainous and terrorist intent. I’m deeply confused. When I was fifteen, way back in the mid seventies, I possessed an air rifle. I would delight in shooting starlings, blackbirds and sparrows. It was a reign of terror imposed upon introduced bird species. When I bought my first air rifle I took it home on the tram. The cadets did the same with their rifles. Old knockabout .303‘s. I also enjoyed the use of a twenty two rifle, we shot lots of rabbits, and then would gut them with a knife. Odd weekends at the tip, scrounging for stuff, burning tyres throwing bricks at old telly’s, good harmless fun. Manufacturing billy carts. Dangerous billy carts, and bikes with no brakes. On the train it was obvious that some of the tech kids1, (now superseded) possessed ‘nun chuckers’. I wasn’t sure what a nun chucker was, though I did know it wasn’t a person who threw nuns about. But I felt imperiled. It was a fear of the unknown. The sharpies may get me with their nun chuckers, in my summer uniform, navy shorts and white walk socks, they sneered at me. They were cultural terrorists. We also enjoyed an awful lot of fireworks. For twenty dollars you could buy enough crackers to go all weekend, blowing up letterboxes, cracker guns, and rockets, to be aimed horizontally at passing cars. But the highest order weapon was the Shanghai. Everyone had a Shanghai, (local idiom, also described as a ging or more mundanely, a catapult.) You wouldn’t be seen dead on a weekend not having a shanghai hanging out your back pocket. Our favourite source material was a windmill down at the old dam, It had a really tough wire that was still pliable, perfect for lacker bands, (rubber bands), or as Cecil tells me, they used tyre rubber, clearly demonstrating that fabled capacity for improvisation common amongst our agricultural fellows. So on the face of this poor bugger in the northern suburbs, we were all potential terrorists.

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An example of the pasty faced inside-doors boy. Most likely to be fiddled by a Catholic Priest.

But you see we weren’t. This kind of behaviour was NORMAL and ACCEPTABLE then. Now, all of it is regarded as anti- social. I don’t think there were any shootings back then, no food allergies, no ADHD, and not much in the way of obesity. We were too busy being outdoors having fun. That’s all banned now!! The only buggers left indoors were clearly being fiddled with by Catholic priests. What an unhappy society we are now! Even the Catholic priests have lost something. And our Kiddies are ALL INDOORS! Stuck on COMPUTERS!! But as they keep telling us, we’re safe.

Look at it in more worldly terms. Capital has won over Labour.

And the Wowsers, and safety do-gooders have closed down fun for kids.

To the kid in the northern suburbs, look what WE can do to you!! Is the lesson well learnt?