baby, what's in that satchel?

so another prison escapee is on the loose in wa again. this time, it's brian edwards, one of this fine region's longest-serving inmates. and it's squillionth escapee since forever.

he's "resourceful, unpredictable and extremely dangerous" folks, so don't get near if you know what's good for you.

this is edwards's 3rd time escaping from prison, and his 4th breakout from prison in wa in three weeks. what was he jailed for then? well he first got sent to jail for shooting a colleague, just to see what shooting a person felt like (if my memory serves me correctly). then he escaped in 1979 and stole a farm vehicle with a shotgun in it, and killed a couple having a picnic, after raping the girl. he did this because he "hates white people". so fair enough, he wanted to see what it felt like to shoot someone (they die, you know. sometimes) and then he hates white people (ok, they took your land. you've had your cry for years now, move on).
so this is why they decide to parole him, and send him to a minimum security prison. so he can be free to kill white people. however, tim connolly, wa director of regional prisons now concedes that "with the benefit of hindsight, that the prisoner was a higher security risk than was established at the time of the review."

oops. but it's ok. this is perth, city from the dark ages. nobody's out past 5 anyway 'coz all the bloody shops are shut. and in the country? even worse i imagine. but just in case brian edwards is wandering the streets in broad daylight, this is what he looks like...



some alternate looks here..



very stylish. and if he is struck by whimsy, he could even look like this..



one final note: he's an aboriginal, 170cm tall, of medium build with grey hair. oh my god !! that's like .. almost every other aboriginal person on the streets, or sleeping in elevators, or scuffling with the nyoongar police! is there anything more distinguishing than that?? why as a matter of fact, YES !! his right ring finger is missing and he has a scar on his right wrist. hopefully by the time you get close enough to notice the peculiarities of his hand, you're not being held hostage, or dead.

fuck dude, i dont really understand this place. australians would rather try to rehabilitate and baby-talk hardened criminals, but when it comes to 104-year-old chinese women who just want residency status in australia so they can spend their last years with their one remaining daughter, they decide that no old lady, you die alone in china. bwahahahahaha. i mean sure she's old and probably not of any use to society, but geez where's the compassion? she's only got one kid with a family of her own, they can't all up and go to a shithole in china to wait out the last few days/months/years of this old lady's life. i mean she's 104! she could cark it at any time so what's the big deal, dude? it's not going to affect the government or society either way, so why not just do the nice deed?

sometimes this country is too too strange.