Virtual searches will test boundaries of privacy
Soon Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide airports will be equipped with high tech x-rays. What makes them so special is that they will have the ability to perform virtual strip searches on passengers. In the name of “national security” airport screeners soon will be oggling nude images of you on their screen trying to determine whether your tiny schlong is a weapon and whether your girlfriend’s silicon breasts are plastic explosives.
Concerned? You should be. Last time I checked the people working at the airport were high school drop outs getting paid the minimum wage. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Virtual strip searches + camera phone + celebrities = YouTube fame. Before you know it virtual strip searches won’t be invasive enough and actual physical strip searches will become necessary. Strangely only the attractive people will get searched … I’m going to fill out an application to be an airport screener right now.
Knife wielding man arrested at mall
A man has been arrested after a plain-clothes policeman and another man were slashed with a knife in a suburban Melbourne shopping centre.
Police say a man approached a group of four other men, produced a knife following an exchange and slashed one in the face at the Knox Ozone complex in Burwood Highway, Knox, about 8.45pm (AEST) last night.
One man in the group suffered a slight cut from his right cheek to his ear.
Two plain-clothes officers, both constables from Knox, approached and identified themselves as police. (news)
Jack Amanatidis steals from council to fund secret mistress
A council worker who stole almost $600,000 to fund a lavish lifestyle that included two mistresses and overseas holidays has been jailed.
Jack Amanatidis, 36, took 88 cheques with a total value of $596,868 from the City of Maribyrnong in Melbourne where he worked as an accounts clerk, between February 2005 and June last year.
He used the money to buy dinners, shoes and handbags for his mistresses but also looked after his wife, buying her $10,000 worth of clothes.
His two children didn’t miss out either and were taken on a holiday to the US which included a trip to Disneyland. (news)
Headshot victim drives to hospital
A man has driven himself to hospital after being shot in the head during a fight outside a Melbourne service station. Police say a 25-year-old man who was shot in the back of the head by an unknown gunman and drove himself to Werribee Hospital after being left for dead on the Kings Rd nature strip in St Albans, the Herald Sun reports.
The shooting, which happened about 9.30pmn (AEST) last night, has police searcing for witnesses who may have seen the gunman and his accomplice flee the scene. (news)
Killer claims racism in jail
A Nigerian man who tried to wash off his murder victim’s blood using his own urine claims he is being discriminated against in a Victorian jail because of his race.
Charles Imadonmwonyi, a chronic schizophrenic, was sentenced in 2004 to a 20-year hospital security order for the stabbing death of a 29-year-old man outside a block of high-rise flats in Flemington.
Imadonmwonyi today told an anti-discrimination hearing in Melbourne that prison authorities had denied him access to full-time study because of his African descent.
He is taking action in the Victorian Civil and Administrative tribunal against Victoria’s justice department and former Barwon Prison operations manager, Paul Spadano. (news)
