Nadir
This is what it’s come to at the Age:
The story, inanely, is about a Kiwi who got drunk and called police saying he’d been raped by a wombat.
Clearly, clearly newsworthy.
Also clearly necessary was the picture of the randy-looking wombat. Originally I thought the story was about a man raping a wombat, which made the picture and the story a whole lot less amusing.
As pathetic as this appearing on the front page of theage.com.au is, the story itself even better:
[Police prosecutor Sergeant Chris] Stringer said alcohol had played a big part in [callmaker] Cradock’s life. However, defence lawyer Michael Vesty said alcohol was not a problem that day.
Well put.
For his part, Cradock called back to withdraw the complaint, noting that his only ill-effect was ’speaking Australian now.’
Sometimes I wish the Internet had less space.
[By the way, theage.com.au linked that through stuff.co.nz who got it from the Nelson Mail. No one took the time to edit that story at all - just slap it on up there with a funny picture...]
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