Sharks and laws Re: [UA] Explain American laws to me

[Loki Carbis]

> Note that in Queensland if they (reasonably) think you have drugs, even of
> personal use quanitites, in your house, they do not require a warrant to
> enter and search.  As such, prohiibted weapons or drugs are a free kick
for
> the Queensland police.

        Which would be fine, except that "reasonable" is not a word you
often hear associated with any East State police force in this country.

        BTW, just finished reading John Birmingham's "Leviathan: the
unauthorized biography of Sydney" and am now itching to run a UA game set
there.   Sleaze, crime, corruption - Sydney has it all.  And the Olympics.
Seriously, though, I recomend this book to anyone who wants a good take on
how to give your city a seamy underside...

        (can you tell I'm from Melbourne? :-)

> Not UN ties, just UN committee ties.  You'll note that the US does not
have
> a committee giving it a hard time about the death penalty, mandatory
> sentencing, or creation of weapons of mass destruction.  By the way, I'm
in
> favour of a republic, an apology, a treaty and ratification of the treaty
on
> the rights of women, so I don't support him, but I believe his argument,
> that the UN committees pick soft targets, is absolutely correct.

        Actually, one of the reasons you don't see these committees giving
the US a hard time is that they've been trying for decades, and the US
almost always uses its Security Council veto to quash any resolution against
itself.

> Guy opens cod in canning works, thinks it has swallowed a dog, pulls out
dog
> carcass.
> Discovers lump is human head.
> Theory: man falls overboard, body is eaten by shark, residual head eaten
by
> cod.
> Now, my take is this:
> Remember the shark in Sydney years ago that was on show in an aquarium and
> spat up a tattooed arm?
> What if the bits are the same guy?  What if we are meant to collect the
bits
> and put them back together?

        The shark arm murders were an obvious frame up by an Epideromancer -
there was no tattoo on the arm when it was originally pulled from the shark
:-)

        I do like your idea though.

        Do you think that the guy being slowly re-assembled might be Harold
Holt?


Loki
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