Idiots ruin it for us all
I saw on the news that the Australia Day fireworks have been declared alcohol-free, which sounds fantastic if we lived in a perfect world (but then again if we lived in a perfect world, we wouldn't be needing an alcohol ban, would we?).
I am a non-drinker and see the idiocies of people who have been drinking, especially after a whole day in the heat, and once again these idiots have ruined it for the families who make a day of it having a barbecue and a glass of wine.
This is something families have been doing for more years than half of these people have been alive.
Declaring the event a totally alcohol-free event will only see people take alcohol disguised- and spirits such as bourbon and coke already mixed in bottles of coke, lemonade or orange juice are the easiest disguised, but also from what I've seen, more intoxicating than beer, especially over a whole day in the heat.
It will be interesting to see whether this total alcohol ban makes people go elsewhere, or will it bring just as much trouble as in previous years?
Rachael Harlock, Clarkson.
Guardian Express, Perth, January 19, 2010.
Why oh why don't we live in a perfect world? Because then we'd have nothing to write letters to the editor about. We particularly enjoyed the instructions on how to smuggle in alcohol, carefully included with the condemnation for doing so. Also the handy hint that spirits may be more intoxicating than beer. Heavens.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Nevermind the Fence, My Son Has Autism!
Just Who is Disabled?
Two days before Christmas I again awoke to ugly, black graffiti scrawled on my Balcatta property.
I was hoping to make it unscathed to Christmas Day, but didn't quite get there.
In the big scheme of things, it's not a catastrophe. I will send a report to the council, and they will come and fix it.
I have a son with high-functioning autism, and I can't put it in a report to anyone to come and fix that up, and sometimes I wonder if I would, even if I had the chance.
My son would not dream of doing such mindless damage to people's property.
I am a single mother, and he knows how hard I work to take care of him and make a nice home for us both.
My son has been to Tafe, has a part-time job and does voluntary work every week with animals. He does not smoke, drink or do drugs. He does not roam the neighbourhood at night vandalising people's properties.
It makes you wonder just who has the disability, doesn't it?
Name and Address supplied, Perth Voice, 2009.
Holy freaking tangent, Batman! While we applaud the writer's parenting abilities and think that her son sounds like a wonderful young man, is this really the best forum to ponder on autism repair services?
-Not the Editor
Two days before Christmas I again awoke to ugly, black graffiti scrawled on my Balcatta property.
I was hoping to make it unscathed to Christmas Day, but didn't quite get there.
In the big scheme of things, it's not a catastrophe. I will send a report to the council, and they will come and fix it.
I have a son with high-functioning autism, and I can't put it in a report to anyone to come and fix that up, and sometimes I wonder if I would, even if I had the chance.
My son would not dream of doing such mindless damage to people's property.
I am a single mother, and he knows how hard I work to take care of him and make a nice home for us both.
My son has been to Tafe, has a part-time job and does voluntary work every week with animals. He does not smoke, drink or do drugs. He does not roam the neighbourhood at night vandalising people's properties.
It makes you wonder just who has the disability, doesn't it?
Name and Address supplied, Perth Voice, 2009.
Holy freaking tangent, Batman! While we applaud the writer's parenting abilities and think that her son sounds like a wonderful young man, is this really the best forum to ponder on autism repair services?
-Not the Editor
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