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Men’s room graffiti profitable for woman

SYDNEY, July 30 An Australian woman who was the target of lewd graffiti posted inside the men’s room at her workplace has been awarded $20,000 damages for the affront.

July 30th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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More charges over alleged DVD assault

ELEVEN boys accused over the Werribee DVD allegedly showing a degrading assault on a teenage girl face new charges.

June 20th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Man ‘too drunk’ to remember raping niece

A 44-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the Alice Springs Supreme Court to raping his niece in the central Australian community of Imanpa.
The court heard the woman had been drinking with friends in November 2005, when she left the group to find some chewing tobacco.
Her uncle approached her as she was walking, hit her from [...]

May 4th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Woman’s eyes gouged with cattle prod

MELBOURNE: A woman may never see again after a man gouged her eyeballs out with an electric cattle prod in a horrific attack in the main street of a Victorian country town.
Surgeons at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in East Melbourne operated on the woman, 28, for five hours on Saturday in a [...]

May 1st, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 1 comment | Continued
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Use of teen sex webcams growing - expert

More teenagers are posting sexual images of themselves on the internet and stripping naked in front of webcams, an international expert has said.
Dr Ethel Quayle, of Ireland, a consultant with the research organisation Copine (Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe), has been in New Zealand speaking about the “astronomically large” increase in internet child pornography.
Young [...]

April 30th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Man robs bank to pay for boob job

It’s Dog Day Afternoon - the Austrian version. A man has been jailed after robbing a bank to pay for a breast operation for his transvestite lover.
It’s reported that car mechanic Robert Steinwirt, 29, was caught just hours after he handed over the 7,000 pounds he had robbed from the bank in Grinzens, Austria, to [...]

April 27th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Boy dupes YouTube to delete videos

A 15-year-old West Australian pretending to represent ABC TV succeeded in having more than 200 clips removed from the video-sharing website YouTube.
The boy signed a form claiming, “under penalty of perjury”, that he represented the clips’ copyright owners.
The segments, taken from The Chaser’s War on Everything, were removed over a month and replaced by this [...]

April 14th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Muslim leaders warn of tax cheats

Muslim leaders have warned that hardline clerics are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax contrary to Sharia law.
Sydney-based Islamic leader Fadi Rahman says extremist Muslim clerics who were preaching messages against paying income taxes were also staunchly opposed to western ideologies, The Australian reports.
Mr Rahman said he [...]

March 12th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued