WHO says manners are extinct these days?
Politeness is always a virtue and, if you need an example, look no further than the knife-wielding bandit who fled a North Geelong convenience store with a wad of cash on Monday night.
The thief robbed the Separation St store after convincing a staff member to unlock the door around 10.30pm.
He pulled out a knife and threatened the worker before saying sorry on his way out.
And if you’d like to thank him back, he’s caucasian, about 30 and 175 cm tall with an average build and unshaven.
As well as manners, local robbers were also high in the fashion stakes this week – namely the scumbag pictured who knocked over a Newcomb Westpac on Wednesday while dressed in a hot pink hoodie.
Perhaps it’s a sign of things to come. What with polite pilferers and urbane bandits setting the pace, should we expect more examples of debonaire deadbeats in haute couture extorting our hard-earned?
Maybe robbers in ruffs, bandits in Boss, terrors in tutus…
VALE Graeme Lear, one of the Geelong region’s best-loved long-time entertainers who has passed to a higher musical calling.
Musicians across Geelong this week praised his humour, larrikinism and kindness.
Joe Serra described Leary’s passing as very sad news.
“We go back a long way. What a great entertainer he was.“
Said Russell William Love: “What a legend he was, they don’t make many like him any more!“
A CURIOUS development we suspect might get a certain group of local campaigners up and agitating again comes from the US on the touchy subject of fluoride.
New research published in the journal Environmental health, argues a strong correlation between water fluoridation and the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, in the US.
Our guess is the study’s bound to attract attention over here, too, at least among the region’s anti-fluoridation brigade.
