Recent content by MadDoc

Typical Daily Fail article - preoccupied with the type of houses in the suburb, whether they are rentals or not, and descriptions of the "type" of suburb or development it is. I'm just surprised they didn't list the dollar value of the house.

Reading coroners' reports is one of my favourite ways to waste time online. Makes fascinating reading and before you know it, an hour or two has passed.

Maybe someone (allegedly) murdered him and then tried to cover up the evidence by setting fire to the cell? Purely my opinion and speculation. Anybody who dies in custody becomes the subject of a mandatory coroner's inquest. A report regarding this person will eventually appear on the...

At least he was in contact with a doctor, and was reducing his medication with her knowledge and advice, and actually seeing the doctor every now and then. (Until he wasn't.) This is rare for people with schizophrenia. Mostly they just refuse to take their medication, and stop coming to see the...

Licence revoked? For what? For agreeing to see how the patient goes without their medication for 6 months, and then the patient moves interstate and becomes uncontactable, and never attends for follow-up? If the patient is not involuntarily detained, is not on a Community Treatment Order, has no...

I agree. Security guards at the shopping mall are not armed. They are not being paid to be seriously injured or die on the job. They are mostly there to prevent shoplifting and defuse altercations between (unarmed) customers and staff members. When I heard that the hero with the bollard was...

As if the Ballarat area hasn't suffered enough tragedies in the past couple of months, this just happened. (Clunes - the same place that Hannah McGuire was from.) A woman has died at a wellness centre, after consuming a drink suspected to include poisonous mushrooms Should we start a separate...

Or, as my in-laws call their cat: "Nostrildamus - The Nose that Knows."

On 4 February, when Sam disappeared, sunset time in Melbourne was 8.31pm. (only 100km from Ballarat so there should only be 1-2 minutes difference.)

Sebastopol is a suburb of Ballarat. According to Wikipedia, it was named after Sevastopol in Crimea. Australia participated in the Crimean War (1853-1856) as part of the British Empire. During that time (1850's) the Gold Rush was taking place in and around Ballarat, which would have been a...

I don't know if this is correct or not, but I have heard people say that if there are snakes in an area there are unlikely to be lizards there, and vice-versa. I think they compete for the same kind of habitat, food, etc.

This just appeared on a news website - relates to the disappearance and death of a woman in 2022 which is currently the subject of a coroner's inquest. May have some relevance to Samantha's case. Coroner to recommend Victoria Police train cadaver dogs after search delays for SA woman Colleen...

Always keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.

Note that there were public warnings and product recalls. Affected stores cleared strawberries off their shelves, people were asked to return strawberries to the store or dispose of them if they had purchased affected brands, and if they had purchased other brands, to cut them up before eating...

I work in a very "agricultural" area on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne and I have heard "on the grapevine" that sales of mushrooms are suffering and stores are having whole shelves of mushrooms untouched when other produce is sold out by the end of the day. Echoes of the "needles in...