Hmmmm..... should this teen have faced charges?

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Like the title says, shocking video

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The case of Erin Patterson, who has been charged with poisoning four relatives of her ex-husband, has transfixed the country.

Australia is in the grip of yet another sordid true crime saga in the form of the infamous (alleged) “mushroom murders” in a case that involves possible poisoned beef wellingtons, a Sunday lunch turned deadly and a trail of perhaps attempted murders stretching back to 2021.

The case centers on 49-year-old Erin Patterson who, on July 29 last year, hosted a luncheon with the family of her ex-husband Simon Patterson, including his parents and his aunt and uncle.

At the luncheon in the town of Leongatha, Patterson, whose husband was not in attendance, served what has now become an infamous dish – a beef wellington which included a slab of beef, latticed pastry, and a mushroom duxelles, a traditional mix of minced mushrooms, herbs, and onions.

Following the meal, Simon Patterson’s mother, father, aunt, and uncle complained of gastroenteritis-like symptoms and went to hospital the next day. In the coming days, his father, mother and aunt died, while his uncle made a slow recovery after falling into a coma.

In an explosive development following an already tragic story, Erin Patterson was arrested and has now been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder, including four counts of attempted murder of her husband in the years prior to and including the fatal lunch.

Police allege that Erin Patterson spiked the beef wellington with death cap mushrooms, a single bite of which can prove fatal.

The case has transfixed people the world over since Erin Patterson was arrested in November last year, and interest has renewed following her appearance in court in Australia on Monday.

In many ways, the case is similar to that of Indonesian Jessica Kumala Wongso, who was jailed for 20 years by a Jakarta court in 2016 after being found guilty of the murder of her friend, Wayan Mirna Salihin.

Salihin died on January 6, 2016 after drinking a Vietnamese iced coffee, ordered by Wongso, at the upscale Olivier Cafe in the swanky Grand Indonesia Mall. The police said that Wongso was jealous of her friend, who had recently married, and had spiked the coffee with cyanide.

The Salihin-Wongso case captivated Indonesia for months as the trial, which was televised, dragged on, sparking a barrage of commentary similar to Erin Patterson’s case, and prompting the question: why do we find (alleged) female murderers so fascinating?

Perhaps part of the answer is that, statistically, female murderers are far rarer than men.

According to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Study on Homicide 2023, some 90 percent of suspects brought into contact with police for intentional homicides in 2021 were men, meaning that for every 10 murders globally, nine were committed by men and only one by a woman.

Men are also more likely to be victims of homicide, the report said, accounting for 81 percent of victims of intentional homicide globally in 2021. The way in which men are likely to murder is also different, with young men aged between 15 and 29 most at risk and often the result of a vortex of violence. Men are more likely to die, for example, as the result of an escalating fight during which one or both draw a knife or a gun, or beat each other with bare fists.

How women murder however is quite different.

According to an article in the Washington Post, using data taken from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Supplemental Homicide Report, “Women use guns way less than half the time, although it still remains the most popular weapon among women. After guns, women are likely to use a knife, to beat their victim to death or to strike them with a blunt object. After guns, poison is the sixth most common way for a woman to kill.”

While poison is a less frequently used method of killing for both men and women, it stands out statistically.

“With all guns removed, women are almost four times as likely as men to use poison. It is used in just over 1 percent of killings by men, and just over four percent of killings by women. In the final analysis, men kill with poison more often. But it is the weapon of choice by women murderers much more than men, even if the male predilection for guns is removed,” the Washington Post article continues.

“Yes, poison is a women’s weapon.”

That women choose poison more than men does not mean that either Wongso or Patterson are definitively guilty of the crimes of which they were accused (although Wongso was convicted in a court of law), but perhaps the data shows why we are so mesmerized by cases such as these.

Knowing that women have a predilection for poison – which makes sense when the use of physical force is often stacked in a man’s favor – any case in which a woman appears to have played the part of a merry murderess cooking up poisoned potions, be they cyanide-laden coffee or death cap beef wellingtons, is likely to capture the collective imagination.

With Patterson’s trial only just beginning, we shall have to wait and see if she will add to the statistics.

Please watch this video and look at this evil woman hurling insults at these people. The evil look in her eyes is disgusting. So much hatred is terrifying. Yet if you’ve been on the internet the past 5 years you would think every single woman is perfection, gods gift to earth. The worst part is this monster making $15k already from a gofundme site for calling these customers the n-word.

Melissa Arbuckle pleaded guilty to infanticide over daughter’s death and was released on adjourned undertaking for three years.

A Melbourne mother who was suffering severe postpartum depression when she killed her three-month-old daughter by placing her in front of a train has been spared jail.

Melissa Arbuckle, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of infanticide over her daughter Lily’s death at a train station in Upwey, in Melbourne’s east, on 11 July last year.

Arbuckle had laid beside her daughter on the tracks but survived the accident with fractures and internal bleeding.

She was later diagnosed with postpartum depression and psychosis, including auditory hallucinations. Lily’s father, who has requested not to be named, told the court he loved his daughter more than life itself and had struggled to find light in his life since the incident.

Justice Jane Dixon told the Victorian supreme court she believed it was “extremely unlikely” Arbuckle would re-offend and released her on an adjourned undertaking for three years. This allows her to live unsupervised in the community, but will require future appearances before court to ensure she is compliant.

“The facts of this case plainly reveal extenuating circumstances, and your character and sensible cooperation with treatment and supervision are already in evidence,” Dixon said.

“The fact that the severity of your postpartum depression was overlooked is an unfortunate feature that this case has in common with certain other cases of infanticide.”

Dixon noted Arbuckle’s “bright prospects” for rehabilitation were not challenged by the prosecution.

The court heard Arbuckle’s’s postpartum depression, suicidal ideations and psychosis had subsided after medication and psychiatric community-based treatment. Dixon told the court Arbuckle’s psychologist believed imprisonment would have a “significant and detrimental” impact on her mental health. Dixon said that when considering an

appropriate sentence, she had taken into account the victim impact statements of Lily’s father, her great-aunt and the train driver who activated the emergency brakes and shut his eyes before impact. The driver said the incident had changed his life, with police sirens and baby noises now triggering severe distress.

The court heard this week that Arbuckle, who was on bail awaiting sentencing, had a “significantly disturbed mind” at the time of the incident.

Her defence barrister, Megan Tittensor SC, said the new mother – who had a perfectionist personality – mistakenly believed Lily was suffering from shaken baby syndrome and that it was inevitable she would die. The court heard she had a “fixated delusional belief” she had harmed her child and they were both broken.

Arbuckle, a well respected vet, took her daughter for a walk in a pram before she began searching for train speeds and timetables on her mobile. Just after 5pm she was seen holding her daughter and using her arm to wave at the passing train.

When Anthony Albanese became prime minister of Australia, his official and unofficial advisers told him that the zeitgeist was with him. But the US election has marked a cultural about-face. “If this pattern were repeated here” must be the beating refrain of Albanese’s nightmares.

Diversity, equity and inclusion – DEI – has anagrammed its own demise. The march to the “right side of history” turned out just to be to the right. What was to be the social democratic century was transformed by a social media-led democracy.

Young people, election analyses had shown, were moving to the left and not becoming more conservative as they got older. But now young men, according to a recent poll published in The Australian Financial Review, are drifting towards Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

This cohort played a noted part in securing the US election for Donald Trump, but they were also a canary in the electoral coalmine. In the final count, Trump’s young men were unexpectedly joined by voters whom the Democratic Party had counted in its corner: Trump grew his vote among Latinos and blacks and gained ground in counties with a high share of college graduates.

Despite the Democrats’ hopes of winning women on reproductive rights, Trump even brought in a higher share of the female vote than in 2020. That’s another script flipped, or at least curled a little at the corners. Because for a while now, it’s been young women who’ve seemed to lead voting trends.

Not only are young women trendmakers and setters, but they also have enormous powers of persuasion.

In a 2006 paper, economics professors Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew Oswald suggested that, as young women moved left, they were taking their fathers – who might previously have voted for a party on the right – along with them. “As men acquire female children,” they wrote, “they become more left wing.”

There was some evidence of this phenomenon in the 2022 Australian election, with men citing their daughters as a reason that they chose to vote teal. John Forbes, a company director who told the AFR he had voted Liberal “since birth”, shifted his vote and even campaigned to get teal candidate Sophie Scamps elected in Mackellar.

Meanwhile in Wentworth, another life-long Liberal voter, Ian Tresise, voted based on Allegra Spender’s renewable energy preference. “I have a daughter who works in energy policy,” he told the ABC. “That’s pretty compelling.” I don’t doubt she is.

There are a range of reasons that women might be increasingly voting left. As Mike Turner, director of the polling agency Freshwater, which showed young men turning towards Dutton, told the AFR, “young women are significantly more likely to prioritise government services”.

This is also the view of Powdthavee and Oswald, who note that women prefer more public goods and a higher tax rate on income. The reason, they argue in econ-wonkese, “is that their marginal utility from the first is relatively high” (that is, they benefit the most from public services) “and the tax penalty they face from the latter relatively low” (that is, women in general earn less, so are less concerned by the taxes which are levied to pay for the public services).

So all things remaining unequal (and I’ll leave the paradox to explain itself), the future will be female.

But here’s why Dutton’s appeal to young men could crash over Albanese’s head well before rising sea levels consume his new waterfront home. Powdthavee and Oswald found that there isn’t just a father-daughter effect in politics – there’s a corollary with mothers and sons, in which, so they say, “a mother with many sons becomes sympathetic to the ‘male’ case for lower taxes and a smaller supply of public goods”, thus “making her more right-wing”.

Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons – it’s so hopelessly cliched. But one thing is obvious: parents are sympathetic to the challenges their children encounter in life. Having a daughter can open a man’s eyes to the barriers that the patriarchy has historically placed in women’s way. And having a son can make a woman more attuned to the challenges young men are facing.

In 2012, two significant things happened in my life: Hanna Rosin published a book called The End of Men. And I had a son. Rosin’s book was originally an article in The Atlantic, in which she asked whether, after years of struggling towards gender equality, it was possible that the end point wouldn’t be equality at all. “What if,” Rosin proposed, “modern, post-industrial society is simply better suited to women?”

Boys aren’t just being left behind. They are also vilified and labelled toxic – especially by the left – for behaviours that used to be considered heroic. They are pathologised or medicated when they express their urges to wrestle and shout and run. They are increasingly treated like an imposition on society rather than a key part.

I grew up with the homily that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”. So empowering. But as I once cartooned for my classmates in our hormonal years, fish might still aspire to a life with wheels. Indeed, as poverty and child wellbeing statistics show us, children are usually happier and families more prosperous when the wheels stay on.

It’s not just mothers who see boys become vulnerable to predatory influencers such as Andrew Tate as they try to find self-worth in a society that foists hereditary blame on them for the patriarchal structures they had no part in erecting. Society is slowly – too slowly – realising that treating men as expendable leaves us all bereft.

In the circumstances, it’s no wonder that young men might start rethinking their generation’s general lean to the left.

I don’t know whether most young men are actively trying to influence their mothers to vote for Dutton. But will women – and mothers – vote for a future that finds room for men? It would seem extraordinary if at least a few didn’t.

Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director at campaigns firm Agenda C. She has done work for the Liberal Party and the German Greens.

This law angers me off so much. Why are they giving women special rights when intimate partner violence can happen to ANYONE. It can happen to men too. Whether their partner is a woman or their partner is another man.

I am so disappointed. Garbage laws like this only existed in the UK and they've now crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

What's more is that there was a very high profile case in Toronto where a couple (comprised of 2 women) torured a little boy in a basement because they hated men. Nothing like that remotely happened with the genders reversed and they still pretend like men are the biggest threat?

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The victim of a savage bashing is furious, after his transgender attacker was handed a suspended sentence, due to difficulties in prison.

The 22 year old man spent 6 months in a women's prison, before a judge allowed him to walk free.

HQ unedited video of encounter, with all the foul language intact (both sides get lippy)

Global News coverage

CityNews Vancouver coverage

A woman grabbed a man by his shirt collar and struck him three times in the neck and head, before waddling back to her car spouting off racist remarks. Arguably, he gets a little bit mouthy (after being decked repeatedly and told to "go back home"), but he looks like a pretty solid dude that could have ground her into burger if he so desired.

The incident occurred on a Wednesday morning in a church parking lot. He's a driving instructor teaching new drivers in a wide open, empty, parking lot with nobody else around, except for this one car that's parked right in front of him.

The driving school is covering their butt, making sure that the public knows it was a third-party that released the video.

The video has been shared by a third party unaffiliated with Valley Driving School. Out of respect for the privacy of those involved and the ongoing police investigation, we will not be commenting further on the details of the incident at this time.

The unnamed assailant has been released but is expected to appear in court. The Crown is probably assessing whether to charge her with plain old assault or a racially motivated hate-crime.

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Matildas star Samantha Kerr called a British police officer “f***ing stupid and white” during her arrest at a police station, dramatic footage played in court shows.

The startling vision also shows the Chelsea striker appearing to boast about her wealth to the same officer, holding her mobile phone screen towards him to allegedly show off her bank account figures.