Preposterousness

A man assaulted a service station attendant with chocolate bars, Parramatta Bail Court heard yesterday.

Peakhurts man Rex Payne allegedly threw Cherry Ripes, Crunchies, Picnics and Killer Pythons at an employee from the BP Service Station on the Princes Highway at Carss Park while in a drunken rage.

During the attack, he repeatedly demanded the employee call the police, saying he had been hit by a car.

Payne was arrested when the police arrived.

Police said Payne had recently inherited about $800,000.

Registrar Donna Evans granted Payne bail, warning him to stay away from the service station, adding "particularly the Crunchies, Cherry Ripes and Picnics".

This "news" article was printed in The Sun Herald (one of Sydney's major Sunday papers) on 10 August 2003.  Yes, 6 years ago.  While Diane and I were packing, we found the page which we'd removed from the paper and kept.

We take pack-rat-dom to a whole new level.

So, I'm now posting it here for two reasons :

1. we can now throw out that snippet of paper, and
2. we can continue laughing at how ridiculous this is, and the implication that inheriting $800,000 might send you into a drunken rage and attack people with chocolate...naturally.