when the going gets weird...

[Ken Gargett]

first, if you hit the link here, the bloke is drinking a beer with a large snake wrapped around it. as you would.

BUT, what i find most bizarre about this is that if you read the report, it says he was not fined "the usual $282". HOW OFTEN DOES THIS HAPPEN? i know it is the territory but odd, even for there.

No fine for man who put firecracker up his bum at Darwin party

Alex Bowden, 23, of Wagaman, spent several days in hospital after burning his buttocks with a winged spinning "flying bee'' on July 28.

Acting Senior Sergeant Crispin Gargan yesterday confirmed to The NT News that Mr Bowden was not fined the usual $282.

"`We believe he has suffered enough in relation to firecrackers,'' Sen Sgt Gargan said.

The drunken antics unfolded during a party when Mr Bowden, a fitter and turner, said he was showing some friends from Queensland "a Territory good time".

They had a few beers and set off sporadic contraband crackers -- presumably they had been left over from legal celebrations on July 1.

``And I put one in my arse. . . I didn't burn my balls or back,'' he told The NT News at the time, adding his mum thought it was funny.

[Murri]

Reminds me of a saying I believe from Arthur C Clarke.

" The World has a fixed amount of intelligence, Unfortunately the population is increasing"

[Duxnutz]

After spending quite a few years in the territory in my youth, trust me there's plenty of crazy stories to be had. About the closest thing to the wild west and an amazing place. I quite miss it sometimes.