Abbott's internet fails in court today

What an incredibly strange but funny day in court today. This was the next court date that resulted from David being charged with breaching an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) being imposed on him at the time over an earlier event with alleged  violence on the person. 

It wasn't at all. David was on the way home from nursing and argued with him, when he was sitting pissed as a fart on the footpath drinking bit of a pub, David was walking past. The guy fell over drunk in the argument. Ultimately having the police charge David with a breach of the AVO. Saying David he pushed him over. He didn't; he fell over because he was fuckin pissed as a fart. It's a wonder the guy can remember anything at all from the night, but he had David arrested after he fell over a step from the footpath to the inside of the pub.

So now this is the third event for David in this. Well me too because this blog is all about me darlings! Me Me Me! :)  

The first event was the surprise arrest completely out of nowhere, almost mystical in it's out of nowhere-ness. Where he ended up suddenly in the morning carted off by the cops. If I hadn't of demanded the cops tell me why, it've been about 3pm that afternoon before I followed him through the system to where they'd taken him without even knowing that. I don't mind saying was near the point of hysteria having to spend the day learning WTF the cops had done to my partner. I found him at the Waverly police lock-up awaiting to appear in the court. 

He was released that day yes, but being arrested out of the blue and going through a day like that..... 

The head fuck was with him of course, but it also was with me. I was in a panic. Already with mental illness the likes of bordering on panic, all I can say in hindsight is that it wasn't a good day. 

He himself has suffered mentally over that arrest, completely apart from the court case. It was a false arrest. Simply, that day was right over the top.

So anyway the second episode was turning up for a hearing, arranged on the day of David's arrest and his appearance on that day. That last time was Jan this year. The police hadn't even given David the brief FFS. So the hearing adjourned as they finally handed to David that day the police brief. That Jan case was adjourned until today, 7th May. 

So we get there and bla...... We get sent to a little court aside from the main one, just David's case alone. And then the hilarity started.... 

Turned out we'd be sent to this court as the accuser guy was up in Queensland, and although the cops had had from Jan to get their shit together they hadn't actually got their shit together at all. They'd in fact completely fucked it up. Declaring that they'd "only heard about this yesterday" they proceeded to try and set up a video link from where this accuser guy was in outback Queensland. Yes, it was a recipe for disaster.

So while the magistrate wasn't bothering to bless us with her prescence, she left these two dumb cops trying to sort out this video link with outback Queensland. May I say it was a fuckin sight to behold. It took the main ringleader of this police panic link up about an hour to get it on the mainscreen via the bloody VGA connection, and that was only after they called a tech guy to come and plug it in, um..... properly........ Then the cop tech guy bragged to all about how good of a tech guy he was to get the VGA connection working through is useless Apple tablet that doesn't want to connect to anything (especially when the plugs aren't in properly).

Then the bullshit got thicker. We have two court people and David and I watching what I can only describe as a pathetic police spectacle. Yep, pathetic. Two dumb cops, actually believing that they can set up a video link in court to outback Queensland. One of them thought he was so good even to get his dumb Apple tablet to do the most basic connectivity thing. Of course it failed, in spectacular fashion.

Whenever they tried to get through, there had to be some Apple device at the other end or it wouldn't work. The accuser had some kind of Iphone. Apparently though they were trying to go to outback Australia, these dumb cops (trying to cover their mistake at not getting the only witness to court) didn't seem to realise that in the outback there's not the same internet coverage that there is to a place like Sydney. Yet they still, for hours, tried and tried to set up a link between a court in Sydney and an outback town in  Queensland. FFS.

After waiting about 3 hours, the magistrate decided that the case had to be adjourned. The next occasion of the hearing is now in August (yes taxpayer's are footing the bill for all of this). The accuser will now have to come from outback QLD to Sydney, to physically be there. A good thing I reckon.

More to the story. Their only witness evidence is the accuser, who was blind drunk and fell himself. Who is in the QLD outback. 

The accuser must have found it very frustrating today in that little outback town. I guess trying to get an internet connection to a live hearing in Sydney would have been big news in police world there, if it had of succeeded. Unfortunately it turned into a police fiasco.

First they tried at the cop shop to connect. It failed. I assume they carted the accuser to the next location.

They then tried at the local library. It failed. I assume they carted the accuser to the next location.

Lastly, they tried at the Sydney equivalent of the Legal Aid centre. It failed. I assume they and the accuser were both bloody pissed off and gave up.