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On a later news bulletin, they stated that the Dandenong drive-in was purchased by developers last year. Plans for its use are unknown.

We had one about 5 km from us, but it closed at least 10 years ago. The sit is now Wantirna Health, a private hospital, specialist centre and paliative care centre, and the remainder of the theatre is a Trash and Treasure market.

Another email I received today. No, Octave, I haven't fact checked it.

You may remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb.

Well......... 

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN ! 

Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay. 

The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behaviour. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows. 

The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million.   

The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals. 

He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand. 

He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Chris tmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Chris tmas tree for $6 - $8 for the holidays and plant it later. 

Yup, he was re-elected last year with 83% of the vote. 

 Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and 
Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. 

He's kind of a 'Git-R-Dun' kind of Sheriff. 

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO..   

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND
HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.  
  

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the 'TentCity Jail': 
** He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.   

** He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jail. 

** Took away their weights. 

** Cut off all but 'G' movies. 
** He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. 
** Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. 

** He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails, so
     he hooked up the cable TV again.....BUT  only let in the Disney channel and the Weather channel. 
** When asked why the weather channel, he replied, "So they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."   

** He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.   

** When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't The Ritz/Carlton...... If you don't like it, don't come back." 

More On The Arizona Sheriff: 
  

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: 
About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County jail have been
given permission to strip down to their government-issued  pink boxer shorts.   

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138  degrees inside the week before. 

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their PINK SOCKS. 

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the TENTS for 1 year. "It's inhumane." 

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates, "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit
any crimes, so shut your mouths!" 

Way to go, Sheriff ! 

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be
punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers' money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves. 

Don't know if this fits in this thread, not sure where it belongs.

The screen of one of Melbournes first, and one of the last, drive-in theatres was pulled down today. The land tax of $1,000 per day was the final nail in the coffin.

Putin overruns Ukraine: 9000 attacks in a week

According to Hanna Maliar, Kyiv’s Deputy Minister of Defense, eastern Ukraine has been the center of heavy fighting over the past week. This reports the German news website n-tv.de.

Russia occupies most of the territory and regularly shells from there the city of Kherson, which was liberated by Ukrainian troops last year. Moscow has announced that it will wage war in the annexed regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhya until they are fully under Russian control.

Hanna Maljar reported that the east had been the epicenter of fighting throughout the week. She said that it had been possible to prevent Russian troops from advancing further towards Kupjansk, Lyman, Avdiivka and Maryinka. In Lyman, the Russians had tried to drive Ukrainian troops out of the Serebryansky Forest area. Fighting was proving difficult for Ukrainian troops as Russian attacks had increased. According to Maliar, it was estimated that the Russians carried out about 9000 attacks on eastern Ukrainian territories within a week, consuming about 500,000 rounds of ammunition.

A Batchelor of Arts seems to qualify you for a job at Macca's.

Meanwhile.....

We are off the track a little. All this has little to do with Putler/Xi/Kim Jong Un.

Two Indians and an Irishman were walking through the woods.
All of a sudden one of the Indians ran up a hill to the mouth of a small cave.

'Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!' he called into the cave and listened closely until he heard an answering, 'Wooooo! Wooooo! Woooooo!
He then tore off his clothes and ran into the cave.

The Irishman was puzzled and asked the remaining Indian what it was all about. 'Was the other Indian crazy or what?'

The Indian replied 'No, It is our custom during mating season when Indian men see cave, they holler 'Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!' into the opening.. If they get an answer back, it means there's a beautiful squaw in there waiting for us.

Just then they came upon another cave.
The second Indian ran up to the cave, stopped, and hollered, 'Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!' Immediately, there was the answer.
'Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!' from deep inside.

He also tore off his clothes and ran into the opening.

The Irishman wandered around in the woods alone for a while, and then spied a third large cave. As he looked in amazement at the size of the huge opening, he was thinking, 'Hoo, man! Look at the size of this cave! It is bigger than those the Indians found. There must be some really big, fine women in this cave!'

He stood in front of the opening and hollered with all his might
'Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!' Like the others, he then heard an answering call, 'WOOOOOOOOO, WOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOO!'

With a gleam in his eye and a smile on his face, he raced into the cave,tearing off his clothes as he ran.
The following day, the headline of the local newspaper read................

You'll like this........ 

NAKED IRISHMAN RUN OVER BY TRAIN!!!

14 hours ago, kgwilson said:

he is the biggest most incompetent, ill informed, biggotted, narcisistic, nasty nutjob ever

13 hours ago, onetrack said:

add "viciously abusive", "offensive", "cunningly manipulative" "off with the fairies", and "constantly derisive" to the list.

Add "vindictive" to the list. It's genetic. His grandfather was as bad. Too bad for Don Jnr, Eric, Ivanka  and Barron.

The AFL are taking a stand, trying to prevent crowd involvement in attacks, physical or verbal, on players of any ethic group, aborigine, African, Muslim, whatever. Having said that, some over-react, pleading "poor me" while doing and saying what they like. eg. Adam Goodes. 

All sorted.