One of our own bashed at Sydney train station....

Thoughts_Arrive
Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited March 2010 in The Porch
I don't know if I should disclose his forum username here but he has posted here before and is a hardcore fan.
I sold him my spare Sydney ticket on the last tour and met his girlfriend and was with them in the line and inside at the show.
On the morning news just now they did a story on it and showed footage of his girlfriend speaking to the media.
It is the same woman I met in Sydney as well (his girlfriend).
Very nice people and I am shocked, sickened, and saddened that this has occurred.
Let us all pray (even those non-religious) that he pulls through ok.
:(

News article:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/se ... 5839378711
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • Elzar
    Elzar Posts: 966
    wtf is wrong with people?!?!!?

    why would anyone hit someone in a wheelchair?
  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,037
    Westie scum!
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    OMG that was on the news here because he is Canadian. I had no idea he was a board member. Please pass my best wishes along to him if you are in touch with him. I understand not wanting to disclose his name.

    What a terrible and disgusting act. Vile cowards.
  • baldoallornone
    baldoallornone Posts: 211
    Things like this make me loose hope in our race. The scary thing is it is generally the young unfrotunately committing this kind of unbelievable crimes.

    I tell you if people don't start learning respect for others it doesn't matter what happens on 12/12/12, we'll eventually fuck it up ourselves.

    My prayers are with this man and his friends/family.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I just sent him a PM.
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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    "He fell out of his wheelchair, was allegedly stomped on and bashed on the head with a metal bar wrenched from his wheelchair, causing a depressed skull wound and cuts."

    I seriously don't know why we can't beat people who do this. :evil:

    Regrets to the board member. :cry:
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  • Paul Andrews
    Paul Andrews Posts: 2,489
    edited March 2010
    I stood next to him at the front against the rail in Melbourne, he is a really nice guy. Eddie personally handed him a tamborine. Hope everything is OK for ya mate.
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  • Flagg
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    Jesus! Poor guy!

    What kind of a coward attacks a guy in a wheelchair??
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  • Wobbie
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    That's depressing as hell. :sick: :sick: :sick:

    I wish him a speedy recovery and a heavy sentence for his cowardly scum attackers.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Elzar wrote:
    wtf is wrong with people?!?!!?

    why would anyone hit someone in a wheelchair?


    Because that is how modern society in Australian cities is in this day and age.
    Especially my town Melbourne.
    You get attacked for no reason.
    Ice addicts and alcoholic thugs rule the street while gutless politicians and law makers do nothing.
    Cops are more concerned for catching drink drivers and speeding motorists.
    I think I want to move overseas, Canada or Croatia.
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,092
    That's awful!!!!!!! Send my wishes for a speedy recovery to him!!

    damn
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  • mjb
    mjb Posts: 1,315
    I read that in the paper today too. An awful story that hits even closer to home knowing he was a member of the club. Those boys deserve whatever punishment is coming to them (and I truly believe karma will catch up with them one day). My thoughts are with him and his family.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    fuck ... he's a PJ fan too!?? ... i hope he has a speedy recovery!
  • burnhard
    burnhard Posts: 21
    my best wishes for a fast recovery for this guy. i don't get that, why some people show such a cruel and incomprehensible behavior.
    same or worse category of youth crime in munich, germany, a few months ago, where a young businessman has been beaten to death by two teenagers. he before interfered, when these teenagers attacked some school kids in the city train.
    seems to be the result of parents letting first-person shooters and television educate their kids.
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  • PillowPants
    PillowPants Posts: 4,877
    good thoughts go out to this jammer


    and i hope the fuckers who did it take it up the ass for the next 40 years
  • PerilJam
    PerilJam Posts: 31
    Was he at the Sydney show - I think if he was I was next to him for a while there. What utter scumbags - but who in their right mind would be going to Mount Druitt anyway?! utter sh*thole of the earth IMO.
    Hope he's going to be ok!
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    PillowPants wrote:
    good thoughts go out to this jammer


    and i hope the fuckers who did it take it up the ass for the next 40 years

    Won't happen in Australia with our weak legal system that cares more for the thugs than the victims.
    These teens will probably say they had a tough childhood, druggie parents bla bla bla and get a community services based order and no jail.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    PerilJam wrote:
    Was he at the Sydney show - I think if he was I was next to him for a while there. What utter scumbags - but who in their right mind would be going to Mount Druitt anyway?! utter sh*thole of the earth IMO.
    Hope he's going to be ok!

    Yes he was.
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  • CazzaBGirl
    CazzaBGirl Posts: 234
    :o thats awful.......i hope he will be ok,my thoughts go out to him as no one deserves that,especially someone in a wheelchair....its just WRONG!!!
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    makes me absolutely sick. Here's to a speedy recovery and some bad fuckin karma to the low-life cowards to did it
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