Yes, it seems strange that his parents would allow him to roam free, with his 13 year old mate, in the Kuta strip with an unlimited supply of money to buy massages and pot, and whatever else takes their fancy.
These are massage parlour girls, some as young as the boys, who solicit on the street, and take their customers to their parlour. The girls get only a fraction of what the customer pays.
Did you know the one second from the left with the muscled arm is a bloke.Did you know that the girls in that photo are all over 30 years old, one looks to be over 40.
The Australian Lawyers Alliance argued attempts by the government to free the boy were hypocritical.
''How can we be critical of Indonesia's detention of a 14-year-old Australian boy when we have Indonesian children of the same age locked away in detention centres, without charge for a year or more here?'' the alliance's president, Greg Barns, said.
Agreed, though I'd say that the "modern punishment equivalent" ought to still be literally a damn good kick up the bum.At 14, the lad needs the modern punishment equivalent of a good swift kick up the bum and/or a longer term punishment, such as grounding to help him reflect.
He does not need his life ruined by being sent to jail. If there are deeper problems, that possibly raises issues about the parenting, but it's difficult to judge without knowing all the facts.
Going by the reports, this family has been to Bali quite a few times, so its nothing new to this boy.
We have just had, how many years of Corby, dont these people think it will happen to them? Unbelievable.
Says alot doesnt it.
From face book evidently the kid thinks he's bullet proof.
Set up or not---loose lips sink ships.
Some one needs to take away his I pad---NOW!
Left foot instead of right came to mind, but I didn't want it to sound like (nor do I advocate) physical violence against minors.Agreed, though I'd say that the "modern punishment equivalent" ought to still be literally a damn good kick up the bum.
Lock up the parents.x2. The kids a goose...probably locking him up would do some good.
Apparently he's tried the stuff at 12 years old?
UPDATE 9.35am: DEAN Laidley says a "horrifying" gang attack on his family in a Bali nightclub was most likely a setup.
Laidley was hit over the head with a bottle by security staff and has stitches, his son Kane has a broken jaw, and several other family members have severe facial injuries, including women.
"Yes,I knew the Sari Club', he wrote in a piece that would have struggled at the time to find a spot in most Australian newspapers. "Filthy place. Reeking of beer and sweat; the air thick with smoke and jagged with strine; packed out and heaving into the night at the scummy end of the Legian-Kota strip, down past the Gado-Gado, Hard Rock and Peanut
"Everybody knew the Sari Club. It had been there about 15 years, sopping up the dregs of the Kuta night, where the carousing begins in the early evenings at the chichi Legian end of the strip, then cascades down the drag in seven waterfalls of deepening drunkeness to debouch onto Kuta Beach and sprawl snoring at the dawn, or sink into the strip's last sump, the Sari Club.
"It was well-known. If you couldn't score anywhere else, you could score at the Sari Club. To that rickety firetrap would lurch the last of the night's purblind drunken foreigners."
Apparently he's tried the stuff at 12 years old? What a respectful, upstanding young member of the community this teen must be. I'd prefer if we had more heavy handed approaches to drugs here - obviously not 12 years in jail for minor possession - but something better than a slap on the wrist.
Why? I'd rather my tax dollars actually contributed to something useful than busting teens with an 8 ball of weed on them. The overwhelming majority of people who do drugs lead otherwise normal productive lives.
Don't get me started on the sniffer dogs in pubs and on public transport either.
Drug related crime? Drugs ruin lives? Have you not seen cases recently where people say they were under the influence of drugs? Sheesh.
- Risky or high risk alcohol consumption caused the death of 32,696 Australians aged 15 and older in the 10 years from 1996 to 2005, and 813,072 Australians were hospitalised due to alcohol-caused injury and disease over the same period.[1]
- Alcohol-related crime is estimated to cost Australia AU$1.7b with AU$750m alone spent on policing.
- Research by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics on road crash costs in Australia found that alcohol is involved in more than 32% of road trauma deaths.[9]
- The cost of road traffic crashes in Australia has been estimated to be $15 billion per year, with total human costs totalling $8.4 billion per yea. Long term care of people seriously injured has been estimated at $2 billion per year, with the average cost of a serious injury crash being approximately $408,000.
-Over five million Australians have been affected by alcohol-related violence, including 2.6 million who have been direct victims of such violent incidences
Mate if you're happy with some try hard young 16 year old shivving you for 20 bucks to buy some weed then be my guest...i'd rather he get thrown in the slammer for a bit of home cooking from a tattoo laden/moustache wearing bikie. That'll treat him nicely.
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