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Essential watching for non Australians. How's the blokes barry beef too?
Aren't those funnel web spiders living proof that the old adage "Leave them alone and they won't attack you" is complete bollocks? As they are savage blighters and like to have a go at anyone that comes near, especially crawling babies and toddlers.
this might be the most aussie video ever
That fuckwit is lucky the roo didn't rip his guts open with its hind legs.
That fuckwit is lucky the roo didn't rip his guts open with its hind legs.
Dumb and dumber arsonists burn pizza shop and themselves
Pizza shop owner Derek McPadden and regular customer Habil Biyak are unlikely to qualify as criminal masterminds after they were convicted last week over a deliberately lit fire and fraudulent insurance claim in 2013.
Biyak, who was sentenced in the County Court to 22 months in prison, suffered horrific burns from the botched arson attack that caused more than $100,000 in damage to the St Albans shop and threatened a family living above the premise
Former pizza shop owner Derek McPadden, was convicted of arson. Photo: Angela Wylie
McPadden, who hatched the hare-brained plan to torch his own business and lodged a $717,000 insurance claim, will be sentenced next year after he was found guilty of several charges including arson, perjury and reckless conduct endangering life.
If the plan was poorly conceived, its execution was even worse. In the early hours of August 11, 2013, Biyak entered the pizza shop armed with a jerry-can, while McPadden parked his car in a nearby street.
As the premises were doused with petrol, the 48-year-old tripped and soaked his jeans in the accelerant.
When a flame was lit, Biyak went up like a Roman candle.
Engulfed in flames, Biyak rushed for the exit, but found the door had been accidentally locked. He escaped by smashing a window, but received significant burns to more than 30 per cent of his body.
Former pizza shop customer and convicted arsonist Habil Biyak shows his scars at Melbourne Magistrates Court in 2014. Photo: Angela Wylie
McPadden was waiting in his car, and according to Biyak, who testified against his accomplice, asked him: "Is it done?"
Severely burnt and near-naked, Biyak probably did not need to respond.
Biyak was later dropped at the Broadmeadows home of a female acquaintance and given a wad of cash by McPadden.
Biyak told the woman that his shocking burns had been sustained from siphoning fuel from a motorcycle.
The woman testified against both men and said she witnessed Biyak re-enacting the arson scene in front of her sons. He also told the boys that the blaze was an "insurance job".
After spending a day-and-a-half on the woman's couch in excruciating pain, Biyak was taken to The Alfred hospital by ambulance, where he remained for almost three months before undergoing further rehabilitation at a hospital in Caulfield.
As Biyak convalesced, McPadden scrambled to cover his tracks. He replaced the front seat of his car at a wrecker's yard in Deer Park.
Unfortunately for McPadden, he confided in an undercover police officer and confirmed the seat had been swapped to remove all traces of Biyak's burnt skin.
The police officer had been introduced to McPadden by his former mate Biyak, who received a discounted sentence for assisting the police investigation.
While awaiting trial, McPadden relocated to Colac, where he opened another pizza shop.
He will spend Christmas behind bars and will be sentenced on February 6 next year.
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Stingers - jelly fish or sting ray?No stingers, either - sounds like a great place for a swim!