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A tale of Two Cockies

David_Bennett — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:20:00 GMT

This is a nifty site with an interesting story.

Man in Stolen Camel Suit

David_Bennett — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:05:00 GMT

From the news item "A man who had a camel costume removed from his checked-in luggage at Sydney airport says the event raises questions about airport security." I think I would raise questions about security too.

What surprises me most about this story is that not only did the baggage handler steal the costume, they then walked around on the tarmac wearing it. What were they thinking? They probably would have got away with it if it wasn't for the fact they walked around advertising the fact they stole it. Got to wonder about some people.

Although I must admit I would love to have seen some guy wandering around Sydney airport wearing a camel costume :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1340901.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1341052.htm

BTW for those who are not from Australia Shapelle Corby is a woman who was caught with 4 kilos of Marijuana in her suitcase when entering Indonesia. She says the stuff was planted and they are currently have a trail about it in Indonesia, if she is convicted she could be sentanced to death by fireing squad. For smuggling drugs... Causing a bit an incident between Australia and Indonesia, amongst other things.

Spammers in Perth, Australia?

David_Bennett — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:04:00 GMT

I never knew my home town was such a hot bed of spamming, perhaps the people thought it was so out of the way that no one would notice they were spamming everyone?

Sydney Morning Herald article

At least it looks like the fedral government is cracking down more on spammers, although it will probably just mean they move to another country somewhere else and continue onwards. I still get spam mail directed at my old university account that I have not used in many a year, the only mail I get to it these days is spam mail (pretty much anyway). I have watched my inbox grow over the years, I remember when the first major spamming happened on usenet with the Canter and Siegel people advertising about the green card lottery. To the first spams I started to get in my email, to the time just recently where I was getting 60 messages a day, after some filtering, and still all but 1 or 2 were spam. We just put in better spam blocking at the mail server I use and this has cut down on the spam, but for how long? Not sure there ever will be a good solution to this problem, but we can only hope.