Scott Pendlebury kinged-hit in Lakes Entrance

[one-eyed]

COLLINGWOOD footballer Scott Pendlebury is in hospital after being king-hit outside a Lakes Entrance hotel this morning.

"Scott was out with his brother Kris and a few friends and was leaving the Central Hotel when he was hit from behind at about 1.30am,’’ the Collingwood website said.

"Scott hit the pavement in front of him and was unconscious.

"He was taken to a Bairnsdale hospital where tests have cleared him of major injuries.

"He sustained damage to his teeth and cuts to his face as a result of the incident.’’

Pendlebury, 21, remains in hospital for observation and has given a statement to police, who are investigating the assault, the website said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/scott-pendlebury-bashed-outside-lakes-entrance-hotel/story-e6frf9if-1225809847424

[Francois Jackson]

stuffin losers should be thrown in Jail and locked up for 5 years, but we live in a stuffed up society where they will get off with a warning

[WilliamPowell]

effin losers should be thrown in Jail and locked up for 5 years, but we live in a stuffed up society where they will get off with a warning

Take out the swearing daniel and I totally agree with you

We need a "Zero tolerance" policy to deal with the violence in our society now rather than this "rap over the knuckles" mentality

[mightytiges]

Agree daniel and WP.

Thankfully Pendlebury is okay. This could have ended far far worse as we've sadly seen happen with other similar cowardly attacks.

[wayne]

I am not condoning this at all and don't know all of the details, but being a Maffra boy and knowing people who went to school with Pendlebury in Sale, their isn't a lot of sympathy for him. There is a lot of 'he was probably asking for it' and 'wanker probably deserved it'...

[Penelope]

Channel 10 have shown some footage of this incident. Although poor quality you can see that the attack came from behind with no warning what so ever. They also claimed you could clearly hear the coward say 'lets make the news' but the audio was not played.

It seems to be some pathetic excuse for a human trying to big note himself in a cowardly way against what is perceived as a soft target. Hope he gets to share a cell with a 100kg rapist who is a one eyed Collingwood supporter

[wayne]

Channel 10 have shown some footage of this incident. Although poor quality you can see that the attack came from behind with no warning what so ever. They also claimed you could clearly hear the coward say 'lets make the news' but the audio was not played.

It seems to be some pathetic excuse for a human trying to big note himself in a cowardly way against what is perceived as a soft target. Hope he gets to share a cell with a 100kg rapist who is a one eyed Collingwood supporter

Well if that audio is true, then that's not on, even if he is a Pie player.

[mightytiges]

Channel 10 have shown some footage of this incident. Although poor quality you can see that the attack came from behind with no warning what so ever. They also claimed you could clearly hear the coward say 'lets make the news' but the audio was not played.

It looked like there was a bit of push and shove between two groups facing each other outside the pub. They seem to split to walk away from each other but the coward runs back up and decks Pendlebury from behind. I can't remember which channel showed the footage with audio but one had the sound on and someone in the video does appear to say "lets make the news". Seems to be plenty of cowardly lowlifes these days who think they are so 'tough' they only attack people who can't defend themselves  .

[cub]

If you think your "tough" take up triathlons or try boxing or UFC ..
Drunk fuckheads pee me off so bad, will still walk away and say nothing as it just aint worth it these days.
You can pretty much see the dudes that are out for trouble, just don't make eye contact and stay clear, pretty simple most of the time.
Deep down they're just losers with issues, sad excuses for people really.

[Francois Jackson]

its not only the fault of the accused but its the fault of this country as a whole.

if you dont like someone or they have done something bad to you, you might as well destroy their existence because after all you will probably get off within a few years.

what the stuff is happening in this country. Police have got no idea. Nixon stuffed up this state and now Overland is trying to fix up her mess the silly mole. Wide as a truck she was and clueless to boot.

[Penelope]

These sort of problems run much deeper than the actions of the police commissioners of one state. It is a rot running through all western society.
It is no coincidence that as the health of our society declines, so does the behaviour. The brain after all is just another organ of the body that fails to function properly due to poor nutrition.

"Nutrition and physical Degeneration" written by Weston A Price in the 1950s gives a good insight into the decline in physical and mental health of our modern society.

[Francois Jackson]

These sort of problems run much deeper than the actions of the police commissioners of one state. It is a rot running through all western society.
It is no coincidence that as the health of our society declines, so does the behaviour. The brain after all is just another organ of the body that fails to function properly due to poor nutrition.

"Nutrition and physical Degeneration" written by Weston A Price in the 1950s gives a good insight into the decline in physical and mental health of our modern society.

thats the biggest load of crap im sorry.

been to NYC lately?

that city was full of fools running around bashing people,  just like what we have here, however right now it is a very safe city in fact i feel more safe when i go there than being down in Swanston Street on a Saturday night.

How do they change it? By bringing in a zero tolerance attitude much like the one Overland is "trying" to do here. Our judicial system is a comedy act.

As i said Nixon was a weak commisioner who was stuffin usless. She did nothing but sit in her office stacking on the kilo's

ooh and on health declining. we are actually living longer than ever before. This figure will increase over the next 50 years with new medicine so blaming it on health issues is laughable.

[Penelope]

All zero tolerence does is push the problem eleswhere. Perhaps if every jurisdiction had the same policy then you may get a result, but it would involve building a hell of a lot of prisons. prisons by the way, are full of people who either 'are innocent' or were not going to get caught. The level of punishment handed out does not act as a deterrent because people that commit these sorts of crimes are not giving any thought as to the consequences of being caught or of being caught.

Most of us do not act in anti social criminal ways because we know and understand that it is wrong, not because we are afraid of the consequences of being caught.

While we are living longer due to advances in modern medicine, those advances are being called on more and more due to increases in cases of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. while more people do get to the age of 70 now less people who reach 70 go on to reach 90 than early last century. while modern medicine may be keeping people alive longer, in many cases there is not much quality of life.

Many people in the health profession actually are saying that there is a generation being raised that not only will live live shorter lives than their parents, but may actually die before their parents.

Another book that makes interesting reading, is Food and Behaviour - A natural Connection, by Barbara Reed Stitt. As a parole officer she had a 90% success rate in preventing re offending by changing the diet of her parolees. She and her husband also transformed a school to the point they no longer needed armed guards by taking over the canteen and again changing the foodstuffs consumed by the students.

It is actually quite amazing how some simple changes in diet can reduce the anger and aggressive tendencies displayed by many people today.

[WilliamPowell]

been to NYC lately?

that city was full of fools running around bashing people,  just like what we have here, however right now it is a very safe city in fact i feel more safe when i go there than being down in Swanston Street on a Saturday night.

this is scary but again I agree with you daniel. I was in NYC in 2007 and we were out late at night (after mid-night) and felt completely safe. I rarely feel safe in the City anymore espcailly after dark and in certain areas don't even feel safe in daylight hours.

Zero tolerance cut crime in NYC and has made it the safe place it is today. Washington DC is now trying to implement the same things as it's crime rate has sky-rocketed to the point where it is now classified as one of the most dangerous cities in the US.

I actually think peoples brains in our society are working quite well in the sense that the majority know that they can bash someone and more than likely get away with it in the form of a suspended sentence, rap over the knuckles - cetainly no deterrent there I wouldn't have thought

Look at kids today. When I was growing up a copper stopped you on the street if you were up to no good and asked you for your name & address and you were petrified. Today kids laugh at them and say we don't have to give you our name and know the cops can't do anything to them...

Sadly we've gone soft on crime and we are paying the price

[Penelope]

So you actually believe that the brains of the perpetrator of this crime and other mindless violence are working well? that that is the act of someone working on full faculties? That all aspects of their thought processes are fully functional? Not only that you credit these people with an actual complicated thought process before conducting these acts of mindless violence in that they consider the possibility of being caught as well as the possible consequences and make a conscious decision that it is safe to proceed as the legal system will be soft on them?

That makes them sound like psychopaths rather than boorish thugs. The only thing these scum have in common with Psychopaths is the lack of conscience or empathy ( which is not exactly a fully functional brain?).

If this person had actually thought about the consequences of his actions in regards to being caught and punishment he would most probably have followed them to somewhere quieter because he would have realised that this would end up being a high profile case that would not only be likely to see them being made an example of, but would also mean they have to watch their back because the anger it would stir amongst the feral collingwood supporters. To believe that anything remotely like this thought process went through this guy's, or other such cowardly thugs', mind is giving them way to much credit. He would not have had much more than "i'm gunna get this c@#t" go through his mind beforehand

Unless the idea that we have gone soft and crime has somehow let to a phenomena of low intelligence psychopaths, you can be pretty sure that these people (word used loosely) don't give much thought, if any, to actually being caught or the consequences of being caught before they act.

If the severity of punishment for crimes acted as any real deterrent, then those areas that have capital punishment would have very low rates of murder, but that is not the case.