more worthless than ridiculous

Loiter Squad in da hizzy, y'all!!!

The South Australian MP is a Minecraft character?

I think if I squint just right I can see the pixels. Yup, definite shoop

Found the charging document:

Dude looks like a Japanese genital.

there's a SOUTH Australia??

next thing you know they'll be a South Korea

Hahaha! He sure is a blockhead!

/Got nuthin'

Adding a photo to your content is an effective way to improve user engagement.

Just not that photo.

Then again, this probably generated a nice traffic spike.

South Australia? What is that? Antarctica?

Someone sprinkled some of that pixel dust on the picture.

Züm

Subby, I don't think you understand. All Austrians look like that. It does look strange to the rest of us, and because their mouths are so pixilated, they can only talk in muffled grunts.

"Radio Australia"? I guess he's got a... face for radio. >rimshot<

runcible spork: "Radio Australia"? I guess he's got a... face for radio. >rimshot<

Radio Australia?

Thank Christ. I clicked on that expecting it to be some newly-discovered nightmarish poisonous insect the size of my head.

Foreign countries take the presumption of innocence more seriously & ban photographs of the accused until they've been found guilty. No perp walks. No released mugshots.

Wouldn't pass First Amendment scrutiny here, but a pretty fascinating quirk between different legal systems and values.

he should see a doctor about that...

/not a pediatrician...

Have you seen this man?

Crewmannumber6: Have you seen this man?

Yes. Bernard Finnigan



Allegedly.

Yeah, great job of obscuring his identity. How about, say, not publishing a picture? Or giving away all of the information necessary to deduce who it is? It's a frickin' burlesque, but without the bbw.

Clearly I know nothing about South Australian law, but why is it illegal to identify an adult and/or show his face who has been charged with a crime?

Eh, we know who he is.We just pretend that the internets can't get past the dingo fence.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: Subby, I don't think you understand. All Austrians look like that. It does look strange to the rest of us, and because their mouths are so pixilated, they can only talk in muffled grunts.

You'll have to excuse me, I'm new here, so I ain't rightly certain: is everyone in this country as pixelated as the PM?

Molavian: Thank Christ. I clicked on that expecting it to be some newly-discovered nightmarish poisonous insect the size of my head.

It was, it just happened to be eating the head of an australian mp who is being charged with accessing child porn.

/so maybe it's a good poisonous insect

Well, so much for that idea...

Spiralmonkey: Crewmannumber6: Have you seen this man?

Yes. Bernard Finnigan

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Allegedly.

Why is that tooth in the middle of his face?

No helpful picture of what child porn may look like?


/although for all we know such a picture was stapled to the guy's face

BikerRay: Well, so much for that idea...

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This made me lol way more than it should have.

Spiralmonkey: Crewmannumber6: Have you seen this man?

Yes. Bernard Finnigan

[images.whereilive.com.au image 326x245]

Allegedly.

He's already failed the "I don't look like a pedophile" test.

GungFu: Dude looks like a Japanese genital.

Well that makes sense, as there arn't many jews in Japan.

Agent1945: Foreign countries take the presumption of innocence more seriously & ban photographs of the accused until they've been found guilty. No perp walks. No released mugshots.

Wouldn't pass First Amendment scrutiny here, but a pretty fascinating quirk between different legal systems and values.

Funny...that sounds familiar...where have I heard something like that before...

Oh, yeah, "...of the people, by the people, for the people..." was in some Sci-Fi movie I saw. That's right.

The identity obscuration is because this is a sex crime. It is acknowledged in our law that simply accusing someone of such a thing taints them forever. Sometimes the accused will have his identity hidden to protect the victim.

The picture is published like this anyway as a protest by the newspaper against the suppression order. You can tell this because of all the identifying information they put in, which was carefully worded to comply with the letter of the suppression order, but not the intent.

News organisations here have lawyers who file against suppression orders every day. It is part of the system that keeps the bastards honest.

Spiralmonkey: Crewmannumber6: Have you seen this man?

Yes. Bernard Finnigan

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Allegedly.


Yikes! Put the pixels back on it, that is one serious case of the fuglies and hurts my eyes. No one should be subjected to that picture, it is just inhumane.