LOL! If this was a Carlton or Collingwood player involved in this incidet, you'd be lapping it up straight away.
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LOL! If this was a Carlton or Collingwood player involved in this incidet, you'd be lapping it up straight away.
Find me a case, in this country, of someone getting jail time for what Hurley apparently did (as a first offence).
What he seems to have done is certainly wrong, and he will be punished.
No, he won't go to jail.
No, he won't be delisted.
Yes, he will be punished.
Whilst your post certainly has relevance, this is not the case to be trying to justify it with.
Ignore fishguts, he started a thread somewhere else saying how proud he is of Hurley for this incident.
If it comes out that this attack was unprovoked & he just acted like a drunken yobbo, I will be very upset & hope the club & the law punishes him. If he stays on at the Bombers, I will love watching him play, but my respect for him will have been diminished.
Let's hope the club gets him into a program to address his drinking & behaviour, so it doesn't happen again.
Hurley should go to jail as far as I'm concerned. Dog act to punch someone like that, especially a cab driver who has to put up with more shit than the police.
Seeing that you've already reviewed the evidence provided by the police (and not the media), and in accordance with the law, have convicted him under your powers of the state, how could anyone disagree? I salute your hard line stance.
If the reports are correct, then we're witnessing the demise (hopefully, because kicking and punching a guy for being annoying or worse Indian deserves the full force of the law) of someone who could have made a good life for himself. I suck at sports, and others don't. Some of us go to Uni and get degrees and just do whatever. Some of us are tradesman and do whatever. Footballers do what they do. Perhaps Hurley has more arrows in his quiver and can learn a trade, go to uni or prostitute himself so this isn't more than a dance with the law and possibly some time away. I'm not sure that we should rejoice at the demise of someone who could have prospered because he was good at a certain ball sport and made a mistake. Maybe we should be a tad more reticent that he ****ed up someone's life and in that process ****ed up his own.
Or we could gloat because he doesn't play for Carlton and isn't called Fev (who has been patronised enough in the past that whatever he does won't cause him too many difficulties.)
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Before the full details were released today, several people i spoke to about it said, "Hope the cabbie's not Indian".
Our premier is in India discussing violence against Indians in Melbourne. The fact the cabbie was Indian was very relevant and the papers weren't being racist, they were just answering a question many were asking. Which is what they're supposed to do.
That the cabbie was Indian isn't necessarily proof. There are, after all, a lot of cabbies from the Sub-continent, so it's quite easy to jump in a taxi with a person from the subcontinent. At least that's been my experience. Whatever the premier is up to doesn't convict Hurley. But, if he attacked the taxi driver because of race reasons, then yeah, he deserves a grilling above the grilling he deserves for kicking and punching another human when his self-defense wasn't in question.
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Peerless Pete
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Hurley won't go to jail, nor should he, the cabbies injuries appear to be minor. Seems strange he would wack him for simply asking for the fare. That's possible. It's also possible the cabbie's interpersonal skills are not real good or he didn't "read" Hurley's condition as well as he could've and was a bit too aggresive in making sure he got his fare.
None of that is to excuse Hurley, I just think it's less likely he turned around and belted the cabbie without there being any "reason", no matter how flimsy it might be,
However if he did, then he really needs to reconsider his drinking habits, because that sort of mindless violence under the influence of alcohol can't be educated out of someone. You are either a good drunk or a bad drunk. And initial indications for Hurley certainly point to the latter.
This might be a one-off where he gets heavily fined, bagged by all and sundry, but changes his ways and is much the better for it.
Or he could ignore the warning signs, and given his issue is violence and not just being a twit like fev, it will probably cost him his career at some point in the future.
None of that is to excuse Hurley, I just think it's less likely he turned around and belted the cabbie without there being any "reason", no matter how flimsy it might be,
However if he did, then he really needs to reconsider his drinking habits, because that sort of mindless violence under the influence of alcohol can't be educated out of someone. You are either a good drunk or a bad drunk. And initial indications for Hurley certainly point to the latter.
This might be a one-off where he gets heavily fined, bagged by all and sundry, but changes his ways and is much the better for it.
Or he could ignore the warning signs, and given his issue is violence and not just being a twit like fev, it will probably cost him his career at some point in the future.
Of course I would. You've got to stand up for your own though don't we. I'm just saying there must be a reason he did this, whether he felt threatened (unlikely there was a threat, but tell that to a drunk teenager on the streets of Melbourne at night) or something else.
As for Mantis, get over yourself, it's called taking the piss. The thread I made was about how crap taxi drivers are in Melbourne.
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There's so much in this post I agree with. The only disagreement is what I perceive as the false dichotomy of "either a good drunk or a bad drunk". I've been both and I've been neither while drunk. I've witnessed the same from close mates. I've seen really good guys get on the turps and deck guys who didn't deserve it, and seen the same guys get pissed and be incredibly caring gentlemen. What drives it isn't the grog, that just accentuates it. What drives it is the place you are at (metaphorically speaking). When you're in a shit of a mood, don't drink, you'll be a shithead. When you're sad, don't get pissed, you'll be a mournful pain. The grog won't cure you, it'll only draw out the worst of what you're going though if you have too much....
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I'd much rather have rude people in my workplace than racists.
Racists do my head in
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This. If I did what Hurley's alleged to have done I wouldn't go to jail, I'd keep my job and the law would punish me. End of.
Wayne Carey pleaded guilty to assaulting both Australian & American Police Officers on separate occasions, while drunk & on a cocaine binge, but he didn't go to jail. He punched through a window & had pepper spray used by police to subdue him. What are your thoughts about that? Why isn't he in jail?
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You'd guess wrong. You don't have to be on the wrong end of racism to be offended by it. Judging by your poor English, I'm guessing you are not from Australia?
Shocked and appalled.
Yawn.
Yawn.
Dr Pangloss
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neil balme won tool of the year but i think, had the nomination period not finished 3 weeks ago, you would have won with this baffling post!
how could you not think that everyone, including your fellow supporters, are going to be convinced that you're a complete twat? grow a brain, open your eyes and catch a plane to the 21st century mate.
sorry, crap post. No excuses for that kind of violence. Provocation doesn't really cut it, especially implications of some kind of bizarre reverse-racism towards Hurley
Yeh - a nice tall young Aussie boy with Blonde hair wouldn't do that.
Funny - always thought there was a bit of the 'Aryan Supremacy' vibe around Windy Hill.
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