Recreational Whinge: A friend was telling me last night that he went to the football (Australian Rules Football) over the weekend and during the between-period break, there’s a part of the stadium area where kids and others can pass and kick around a football.  All good sporting atmosphere fun, right?

Well, some jerk (a 20 something adult) comes up to two kids kicking the football around, tackles one of them, takes the ball and kicks it out of the stadium, then walks back to his mates laughing about it.  Meanwhile the kids have stunned looks on their faces wondering what just happened and why.

Recreational Whinge: This past week, the Australian Senator Steve Fielding (from the Family First party…that’s a RW for another day!) stated in the Senate that he was concerned some women would choose to get pregnant, receive parental leave benefits from their employers (as part of new government legislation granting these rights) and then have a late term abortion and keep the money.

Does he really believe the rubbish that comes out of his mouth?  Is it possible he’s had a serious trauma to his head recently?

Recreational Whinge: There was a news report recently about some hooligans who late at night decided to jump start some bulldozers, put one in a lake and use the rest to demolish an historic gazeebo and destroy some beautiful park lands.  Could alcohol have been involved?  You can read about their stupid vandalism here.

What could possbily have been going through these young guy’s minds to think that their prank which destroys really expensive equipment and historic structures is fun?  I will never accept that the alcohol made them do it if in fact that’s an excuse they might base their defense on.

How fun will it be when they get sent the bill for their stupidity?