FTA-TV First Dates - Part 8 - Dead Dates

[Voula]

1990 A once in a lifetime moment

Q. What is it?

Think. How Americans write their date

They wrote it DMY instead of MDY?

 

[Voula]

A photographer made a bizarre contraption to catch Erin Patterson. The gamble paid off

Erin Patterson believed the confines of her prison van would shield her from the media’s relentless gaze – but she was wrong. This is the story behind the visceral photographs that exposed her anguish, a testament to the dedication of the photographers and journalist who captured the defining...

www.theage.com.au

On Monday, May 12 – two weeks into Erin Patterson’s trial in the usually quiet Victorian country town of Morwell – most of the photographers and journalists covering the murder trial were taking the opportunity of a jury-free day to get some well-earned rest.

Martin Keep, though, ventured out into the bitter cold, a custom rig held high above his head with studio flashes twisted around his camera.

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Patterson also wasn’t expecting any media to bother showing up at Morwell Police Station on May 12; she thought they’d spare themselves the boring legal argument, South suggested.

Photographers had two chances a week to capture her in the van – when she was en route to and from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Melbourne’s west.

On May 12, Keep thought he’d test out his rig for the first time, and caught her staring dead-eyed through the window of the police van.

In his images, her shock at being photographed is visceral. Her face falls before she turns away from the camera, covering her face with her hands, in a now-iconic set of photographs.

“After that series of flashes through the window, [photographers] never saw her again,” South said.
“She would dive underneath the window, or … [sit with] the back of her head on the window, so there’s no chance of seeing her. She’d ride like that all the way to Melbourne – 165 kilometres back.”

 

[Shell]

They wrote it DMY instead of MDY?

Think about the actual numbers

 

[Voula]

24 hours

50 hours

 

[Shell]

24 hours

Still

 

[Shell]

50 hours

 

[Shell]

She must have been on ice. How could you stay awake this long

 

[Shell]

Dinner tonight; steak, brown rice, Turkish roll and tzatziki. Dessert; Caramel banana


Tomorrow night is sorted too the spaghetti Bolognese sauce is defrosting in the fridge

 

[Voula]

Seriously??

I'm just going to be silly and double it. 100 hours?

 

[Voula]

She must have been on ice. How could you stay awake this long

What about going to the toilet??

 

[Voula]

Dinner tonight; steak, brown rice, Turkish roll and tzatziki. Dessert; Caramel banana


Tomorrow night is sorted too the spaghetti Bolognese sauce is defrosting in the fridge

Paella tonight.

 

[Shell]

My Wild Week at Faaker See: Guinness Records & Chaos

Traveller Garry Sowerby relives his surreal 1982 gathering in Faaker See, Austria, with 60 Guinness World Record holders, from a plane-eater to a giant.

tractionlife.com

 

[Shell]

Paella tonight.

Seafood?

 

[Voula]

Think about the actual numbers

Ok it took me a bit to get it because I was thinking 7/8/1990 instead of 7/8/90.

The time and date is consecutive numbers...

12:34:56 7/8/90

 

[Shell]

Holy cow

 

[Shell]

That world record could very dangerous you could choke on all that spaghetti

 

[Voula]

Seafood?

No seafood because I don't like prawns and other shellfish. (My brother hates me for that!). So it's chorizo, rice, some veggies and the spices.

 

[Shell]

Wtaf.

 

[Shell]

One dude ate an airplane

 

[Shell]

He ate a Cessna. The worst part were the tyres

 

[HomerThompson]

He ate a Cessna. The worst part were the tyres

Nobody likes airplane food. Imagine his coach "here comes the plaaaaaane...."

 

[Shell]

What a fascinating article..

 

[Shell]

 

[HomerThompson]

Seriously??

I'm just going to be silly and double it. 100 hours?

Think of the poor person whose belly was being danced on all that time

 

[Shell]

Tallest man in the Commonwealth. 7 1/2 feet. Doesn't seem that tall to me