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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.

Pettipoint

page 11

Pettipoint

So The Police do no approve, apparently, of Canterbury's student game "Carnage"—imported from the States. "Surely the students are old enough to recognise the dangers of such pastimes as Carnage—dangers possibly not so much to themselves as to others, especially those of similar intellect likely to emulate their poor example" the police are quoted by Salient. After all, you never know when one of these students, aroused to a fiery blood lust by dotting people on the head with a pillow labelled "2000lb safe" may decide that these are not thrills enow, and turn to real 2000lb safes (saves?). I have a technically perfect kill—you get the victim to cross a Christchurch pedestrian crossing.

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"Hallo, beating up that old lady, eh? Just step aside, there's a rood fellow —that's our job."

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Useful, was it not, how Charlton Heston just happened to be in the country at the time the United States escalated the Vietnam war again. Apparently our troops are "completely free from misconceptions and misgivings," like the American soldiers. Which says a lot for either the thinking ability of the local soldiery or the perception of Mr. Heston, for does not any thinking person have the odd touch of misgiving, the occasional qualm, as it were, on these matters? Whatever his views?

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Mr. Kirk is quoted as saying that be felt the bombing of Hanoi to be "profoundly disturbing." Particularly, I would say, for the locals. Apt to be a little dissuasive of sleep, you know, the sight of the family disintegrating neath a bomb or two. Not that we expect Mr. Kirk to actually do anything about it—after all he has his position to consider, does he not?

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Oh, Come Now, surely not a bright yellow five-dollar note. At least it could be something appropriate, say, dark blue with a yellow stripe?

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Decatur (Georgia)—A 19-year-old youth is serving an eight-month jail sentence after he refused to allow his hair to grow, the Associated Press reported.

Anderson Billy Lee, Jnr, was sentenced after a Civil and Criminal Court judge gave him a choice of growing his hair shoulder-length or going to jail.

The youth was arrested during a fight at a private country club, and the court was told he already was serving an 18-month probationary sentence after an earlier conviction of assault with attempt to murder.

Lee told the judge that he had to have short hair because he played in a band.

"I told him he could get himself a hat if he wanted to, but he was going to let his hair grow or he would go to jail," Judge Mitchell Oscar said today. "We don't want any of your mid-century habits here, my lad, I said to him, I said."

"He refused, so I sent him to jail. I told him that if he changed his mind, and wanted to reconsider, I might give his case more consideration."