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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the fact that his friend's house party is well and truly pumping, Brad Miller (20) has decided to find a table in the courtyard and smoke marijuana non-stop through a ceramic bong. The fact that he has brought his own novelty bong with him to a party where most people are drinking cocktails is not lost on the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT 68-year-old fibreglass swimming pool builder, Glenn Hardman has left his two adult children and wife in the lobby of his local cinema to quickly go and get the car ready, it has been confirmed. Without saying anything about the film they just watched, Glenn whispers 'I'll meet you in the car park, I think your mother wants to...

8 February, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact On the first of August last year, the body of a retired teacher and former scoutmaster was found in bushland on the edge of Betoota. Dennis Coolidge was discovered in a shallow grave with his hands tied behind his back, covered in multiple burns and contusions and two small calibre bullet wounds...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Arriving at the pub at 8:45 was not a good move for Sydney man, Charlie McCarthy (29). After a late client meeting, he rushed to meet his remaining unmarried mates at the local Bag 'n' Famish Hotel, only to learn that he had just missed the opening hours of the kitchen. "I should have known better. Of course you...

7 February, 2016. 16:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a time in Sam Grotley's life when he used to care about his handwriting, but that part of him died shortly after Peter Brock miscalculated a downhill sweeping left-hander. Not long after, the predictive text and spell check on his mobile and laptop left his desire to spell words correctly...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A group of Betoota roadside council workers have today concluded that the older bloke who has been put in charge of one of the utes has probably spent a bit of time in the nick. Their assumptions come from the fact that he smokes roughly one unfiltered, roll-your-own White Ox branded cigarettes every 15 minutes, also the...

6 February, 2016. 11:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact When leasing agent Lisa Ackorn found herself stumbling into Kevin Foster's bedroom early on Saturday morning, she knew she'd made a serious error in judgement. "If I knew he had a poster of those t.A.t.U girls pashing on his wall, I probably wouldn't have got in the cab," she said. "That and the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local insurance analyst, Luke Maestri, has spent the morning remembering the good old days when he and his mates would drink 660ml cans of Woodstock Bourbon and fight cunts. Despite living a sterile, white collar existence - Luke is having warm feelings in his loins as he thinks about when he was 'about that life'. These feelings, he says,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local cyclist, Anthony Loveridge (45) says inconsiderate drivers are plaguing his people. "We feel unsafe all the time. They never let us in, they drive too slow" While weaving through peak hour traffic on the way to his office, that doesn't have shower facilities, Anthony says he gets irritated by these obnoxious cars who sit just under the speed...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Imagine being ignored by your own mother. The person who brought you into this world. Imagine her looking at you, pretending like she had never seen you before in her entire life. That was the nightmare scenario that Marty Wilson, a 23 year old university student faced this week. Whilst studying an Arts degree at the University of Western...