Torture in Australia

[Mycroft]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15714695-17001,00.html

Teenager drugged, tortured by mates

A TEENAGER told last night how he was drugged by "mates", then burnt with a red-hot spoon until his skin melted.
Ashley Irvine, 17, said he woke up in excruciating pain.

He is horrified at what the five teenagers did to him.

"Mates don't drug you, then sit back and watch as an acquaintance melts your skin while you are unconscious," he told the Northern Territory News.

"They said they got bored and were trying to get a reaction out of me.

"But they didn't get a reaction because I couldn't feel anything because they drugged me."

Sometimes it seems as though Aussies have a different sense of "fun" than the rest of us do.

[Kevin_Lowe]

Originally posted by Mycroft
Sometimes it seems as though Aussies have a different sense of "fun" than the rest of us do.

There's no question those lads went too far. Burning people with spoons isn't on, not even if it's a buck's night.

Shaving a mate's hair and eyebrows and handcuffing them naked to the seat of an express train, on the other hand, is good clean fun.

[Zep]

Love, just LOVE your headline writing style, Mycroft.

How about this one:

TORTURE IN THE USA!
TENS OF MILLIONS SUBJECT TO SICKENING ASSAULT EVERY NIGHT!

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[Nova Land]

Originally posted by Mycroft

Sometimes it seems as though Aussies have a different sense of "fun" than the rest of us do. No. Sometimes it seems as though sadists have a different sense of "fun" than the rest of us. And the reason for that is because they do.

This incident could have happened in any country. I have read of many incidents far more horrifying than this in my own country, for example. Yet I would not say Sometimes it seems as though we in the USA have a different sense of fun..., because it wouldn't be true. I, and most other residents of the USA, do not find torture fun, even though incidents of torture such as the one you describe occur on a regular basis, year after year, in this country.