Ultimate Cop Fashion: Two Days Before Retirement Cop

Roger Murtaugh, two days before retirement.

A Perfect Getaway

After a week of bad horror films, I was very pleased with A Perfect Getaway, a new thriller / mystery with Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant and Steve Zahn set in Hawaii.

I usually hate Olyphant in anything he’s in, but his character is a long-deserved throw back to the survival heroes of the 80s and 90s, with a touch of Iraq for relevancy. The quality writing is down to David Twohy, co-writer on The Fugitive.

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For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but well-meaning spirits who help guide them through the lush jungles. The picturesque waterfalls and scenic mountainsides quickly give way to terror when Cliff and Cydney learn of a grisly murder that occurred nearby and realize that they’re being followed by chance acquaintances that suspiciously fit the description of the killers. Written by The Massie Twins

Recommended.

Sushi Train Vs QLD Rail

Lovely dinner with Spencer. We had sushi delivered to us on a train which was more reliable than @TranslinkSEQ.

Contemporary standards of decency

The controversy surrounding the Kyle and Jackie O lie detector broadcast had the markings of a modern day witch hunt and many of those protesting disregarded the more important problem at hand: the sexual assault of a child.

Now ACMA is investigating whether the program met ‘contemporary standards of decency’.

‘The investigation will focus on whether the content of the broadcast met clause 1.5(a) of the code, which provides that ‘all program content must meet contemporary standards of decency, having regard to the likely characteristics of the audience of the licensee’s service’.’ - ACMA media release 106/2009 – 18 August

Considering the amount of time and effort stations devote to researching their listeners, I wonder how ACMA’s consideration of audience characteristics will affect the outcome of their investigation.

I could be wrong, but I expect many complainants were not regular 2DayFM listeners. It’s not hard to imagine that the standards of decency held by 2DayFM listeners is different to those held by ABC Classic FM or 4ZZZ listeners.

Any investigation into matters of decency or morality are something we should watch carefully and be wary of supporting or even insitigating, for the carry-over effects might end up hurting us more than it does the big guys. Sometimes its more helpful to take a deep breath, step back and look at the bigger picture. There may be a better course of action.

'I Photograph Nude Sinners' - Exposed Magazine #1, 1955

First published in what I believe to be 1955, Exposed could be described as a retro equivalent of Who Weekly combined with those dodgy imported magazines about UFOs and true crime. There’s an overwhelming voyeuristic quality to it, as is there a little bit of loon.

I purchased it cheap online from the States (back in its day it cost 25cents and I didn’t pay much more).

Private detective Graham Moulton, who specialises in catching ‘passionate men and maids with their guards down’, tells his story in issue #1. It’s primarily a tale of a man (and sometimes his wife and son) snapping shots of women and men in bed with people they should’t be.

It’s message is clear: Don’t cheat you scumbag. Not because it’s probably going to hurt your loved one, but because Graham might take a picture of you and you’ll be splitting the house with your wife, all the while she’s shacking up with your best mate and leaving you to look after the kids.

The good bits:

• Moulton says 90% of his male clients have received child custody.
• Moulton can’t be bribed. He tells the story of how a musician laid 3K on the table for him to take photographs of his wife cheating. The catch: she was faithful, the muso just wanted a divorce. The husband’s plan was to send a man to visit his wife, disrobe in her bedroom and for Moulton to snap some pics of the two. As hard pressed for cash as he was, Moulton says he shoved him out the door.
• Moutlon has been stabbed, shot at (by a gun he had previously removed the bullets from) and dodged an axe flying through the air at him.
• Chasing down hussies is a thankless job.
• He finds most people cheating are looking for something they can’t get at home.

What I love most though is Moulton’s water off a duck’s back attitude towards cheaters. He tells one husband whose 18 year old wife had been screwing three sailors:

‘I don’t think you got a very good deal’

The hubby agreed.