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actsnoblemartin
06-14-2008, 10:03 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080611/od_nm/sudoku_dc

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian drugs trial lasting more than three months and costing taxpayers over A$1 million ($947,000) has been aborted after a number of jurors were found to have spent up to half the time playing Sudoku puzzles.

Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra cancelled the trial of two men on drugs conspiracy charges after the jury foreperson admitted that four to five jurors had been playing the addictive number sequence game, local media reported. The judge was alerted after some of the jurors were observed writing their notes vertically, rather than horizontally. The game involves completing a grid of numbers in the correct sequence.
gabosaurus
06-15-2008, 01:10 AM
The MTV "instant gratification" generation strikes again.
My Winter Storm
06-15-2008, 01:27 AM
Must have been a bloody boring trial, is all I can say...
diuretic
06-15-2008, 02:12 AM
It's not unknown for a judge or two to drop off to sleep in the middle of a trial either.
dan
06-15-2008, 02:43 PM
It's not unknown for a judge or two to drop off to sleep in the middle of a trial either.

Well, you Australians spend all day running from wild kangaroos and crocs, right? ;)
Said1
06-15-2008, 03:47 PM
Well, you Australians spend all day running from wild kangaroos and crocs, right? ;)

And Aboriginies. Don't forget the Aboriginies withe spears and war paint.
diuretic
06-15-2008, 10:09 PM
Well, you Australians spend all day running from wild kangaroos and crocs, right? ;)

Of course! Oh and snakes :coffee:
diuretic
06-15-2008, 10:11 PM
And Aboriginies. Don't forget the Aboriginies withe spears and war paint.

Awww, they're good folks, we've stopped giving them poisoned flour and they stopped spearing us.... :o
dan
06-15-2008, 11:28 PM
Awww, they're good folks, we've stopped giving them poisoned flour and they stopped spearing us.... :o

Quitters. We Americans know the two inrgredients to finishing what you start: smallpox blankets and the trail of tears.

Inappropriate!:slap:
gabosaurus
06-16-2008, 12:10 AM
When I was in Australia, I was disappointed that I never got to see a crocodile. Got to hang with the kangas, koalas and platypus, but never saw a croc.

I have never played sudoku in my life. Am I deprived?
diuretic
06-16-2008, 03:23 AM
Quitters. We Americans know the two inrgredients to finishing what you start: smallpox blankets and the trail of tears.

Inappropriate!:slap:

I was told there's no truth in the smallpox blankets allegation.
diuretic
06-16-2008, 03:26 AM
When I was in Australia, I was disappointed that I never got to see a crocodile. Got to hang with the kangas, koalas and platypus, but never saw a croc.

I have never played sudoku in my life. Am I deprived?

Crocs are up in the far north Gab - along the tropical coast up there. They are also in the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory, completely wild, they leap out of the water to be fed http://tinyurl.com/6mz5v2

Sudoku - I can't make heads nor tails of it but it's all numbers and I don't play well with numbers :laugh2:
dan
06-16-2008, 11:10 AM
I have never played sudoku in my life. Am I deprived?

I've never played it either. I'm a crossword kinda guy.
dan
06-16-2008, 11:11 AM
I was told there's no truth in the smallpox blankets allegation.

Ah, whatever. We "discovered" our land, the Indians got their casinos. It's a victimless crime!
diuretic
06-16-2008, 10:33 PM
Ah, whatever. We "discovered" our land, the Indians got their casinos. It's a victimless crime!

Nah, just sayin' - I don't know one way or the other but I was corrected over it once and it came to mind.
dan
06-17-2008, 09:14 AM
Nah, just sayin' - I don't know one way or the other but I was corrected over it once and it came to mind.

Yeah, I'm just being a dick, basically. It's a very sensitive topic in the States. But, I really don't know how true it is.
diuretic
06-17-2008, 10:04 PM
For what it's worth our early settlers actually did hand out poisoned flour and they did poison drinking wells and they did go on "hunts" for aboriginal people. I remember as a kid going on a trip down the peninsula where I lived (couple of hundred miles south) and finding a plaque near a cliff. The plaque was recognition of the fate of the local aboriginal people who were forced by local settlers to leap from the cliff. That was a bit of a shock for me.

Mind you it wasn't all one way, the aboriginal people launched their own raids especially on outlying missionary stations. But they were on a hiding to nothing.

No-one comes out of colonialism unscarred or with reputation unsullied.