Young peoples fun spoiled by dickhead.

On Friday night a group of young men decided to test their cars out.

I can empathise, as a young man many many moons ago I also joined others in doing the a similar thing.

To this end the men (and women, the main reason for having the cars in the first place) found a stretch of road far out in the country, making sure that the road was basically untraveled and no houses were nearby so that they would interfere with no-one.

After gathering they were accosted by a member of a gang, a jackbooted storm trooper hero who decided that being in a fast car with a fancy paint job and pretty lights made him 10' tall and bullet proof and determined that the young men should not have fun where they were disturbing no-one.

The boys reacted much the same way most of us would when some dickhead decides to ruin good, honest and harmless fun.

They drove the bastard away.

A person there at the time advised me that it didn't take much, once the bully boy realised his bullying was over in that place he scarpered quicksmart.

Now in a real world the halfwit would have been admonished by his superiors for being stupid and ignorant and taken away from any decision making position until he could prove he was capable of making good decisions.

Not so here.

The police instead went crying to the media, claiming they were incompetent (probably the first true thing coming out of that organisation's press releases for years) and demanding someone else does their job for them and NZ's police state be tightened up to allow them to work towards the joyless, regulated world they so much admire.

The cowboys in their fancy painted cars with the pretty lights meanwhile continue to pick and choose their jobs, taking easy targets every time and ignoring anything that suits them or is too hard.

A good, thinking, intelligent and considerate police force is hard to find.

NZ Police, in Christchurch anyway, has not got close.

They need to try MUCH harder.



NB The detail of Friday night's incident was told to me by one of the young men (not, he assured me one of the bottle throwers) who had gathered to try his car out.

I believed him.

Success

As I stated the other day I've been attempting to purchase a PC notebook, preferably a netbook.

I have finally found one in a shop that just let me buy it, with a discount for cash, Dragon PCs in Gasson Street, Christchurch.

I purchased a Linux based Asus Eee PC 900

Of course now I can't get the bloody thing to connect to the internet through my router but hell, at least I've done the first bit.

Tips will be welcomed.

Beaten again. Bugger!

This blog is my place to rant. I wish I'd had one as good as this fellow so often does.

I'm an old fart and male which, among other things, means I hate shopping.

The internet has been great for me, allowing me to investigate purchases on line and then just wander in to a place I know what I want is on sale and buy it.

I always pay cash so am usually in and out quickly.

Unfortunately recently the internet has let me down.

I want to buy a PC notebook.

All I want it for is to run a word processor and spreadsheet program, work some of my business records, send the odd email and maybe play on the internet.

For anything more I have my desk-top PC.

I searched the internet and decided that the ASUS Eee PC 701 (4 Gig solid state HD and 512meg RAM) netbook running on linux was probably going to be good enough for my wants, put a few hundred in my pocket and wandered out to buy one.

I parked at a shopping centre where Harvey Norman, Noel Leeming, Dick Smith, Warehouse Stationary and Smiths City had set up shop

Whoops!

The only ASUS 701 I could find was running Windows XP, reducing memory dramatically and was pink.

I returned home and re-researched notebooks, recorded a couple that appeared to be suitable, particularly the ASUS 901 and ventured forth once again with high hopes.

A couple of hours later I returned home deflated once again.

I have discovered that computer shops either contain salesmen who are way over the top, hard sell types not immune to lying through their teeth for a sale and who would rather push a rental/hp type sale than simply take the cash or disinterested scrofulous youths with no sale skills, no people skills and no interest in creating an atmosphere that will encourage sales, instead preferring to display their hearing disabilities to the world.

Two weeks after starting my quest I remain notebookless.

But richer.

Wowsers win - it must be America

The Lingerei Bowl, the greatest American Football event each year has been forced out of mainstream America by a bunch of bloody Yankee wowsers.

Probably the same tossers who voted for B Hussein Obama.

It will this year be held in a nudist camp.

The only good news is a new LFL being televised in 2009.

I hope Sky carries the feed.

Another Winston

Much hated ChCh mayor Bob Parker has stated he will give away his payrise.

Good on him you might say.

Unfortunately he hasn't stated that he will give the money back to the poor bastards who pay him, the rate payers.

My bet is he will make a tax deductible donation to some charity the he controls.

Talk about indian-giver - is this bastard related to NZ First?

These people affect your lives

They let these people vote?