February sucks

[Ant7]

@greenpea  Camp Cope the opener 

[greenpea]

@Ant7  it's great positive music, very up beat :D! great music to run too as well lol. I would have love to have run to that song when I was running.

[Ant7]

@greenpea  Yeah it’s very quick passed the line that’s got me tonight was “doesn’t it suck growing up” just how I feel Tonight lol 

[greenpea]

@Ant7  yeah it does Ant7 lol. but is better than the alternative. Although my 83 year old mother always says 'I am not sure it is' when I tell her that. I suppose when you are that old all you have to look forward to are aches and pains.

Tell me Ant7 if you were made redundant is there anything that you would really like to do. As I said my ex has really found himself and although he says the work he is doing is just a job he can do it from home which means he can do his exercise routine in the morning and has so much more freedom then having to go into an office every day.

[Ant7]

@greenpea  not really I am an Electrician by trade but I am a bit too old to be climbing through roofs and under houses or pulling big cables anymore. And I think I am to old for professional athlete lol

[greenpea]

@Ant7  that makes it hard but not impossible. You could reskill. Being a electrician means you are a smart cookie you could do something you have always dreamed of doing :).

What would your dream job be Ant7.

Btw I still think you are amazing doing triathalons really I wish I had had the stamina and strenght to do them.

[Ant7]

@greenpea  I like doing what I do now I am a operator but we still do electric work and mechanical work. My dream job would be mechanical engineer working on race cars or engine and chassis development but it is hard to get into anything like that 

[greenpea]

@Ant7  0o0o0o0o0o .... do you like fast cars!!!! I love fast cars and motorbikes for that matter :D. 

Getting back to being a mechanical engineer for racing cars I suppose it is not what you know but who you know.

[Tyr]

Hi this is my first post anywhere on the internet. I have a story and I really need to tell someone anyone. Me and my beautiful wife and 6 month old daughter parked our car in a very busy shopping area. I decided to sit in the back of the car and play with my daughter while I waited for my partner. My little girl went to sleep and I leaned back and closed my eyes think how lucky I was to be a dad. The car doors were open and 3 of the windows were half down. All of a sudden my car door opened and a police officer shoulder charges me into my baby’s capsule and yells” Your under arrest for being in a stolen vehicle whilst he hand cuffed me! I’m in total shock. There was 2 police cars then 3 then 4 then 6? A police women opens my daughters door and I asked politely what she was doing and she stated” Getting her away from you! She’s going to DOC’s and this will be the last time you see her as she slammed the door. 8 police cars, 16 police officers. Then the fire brigade turn up. By now there is 50 or so on lookers many of them filming this. I could her my daughter screaming as my Partner comes around the corner historical begging for our daughter and an explanation. She was immediately detained. I was then dragged out of the car by the same police officer as he shouting we’re are the drugs! Over and over again! I’m begging him to please calm down and tell me what’s going on. He then trashed our car searching for drugs ripping interior and scatter our possessions everywhere. By this time my Partner is pleading them to let her show him our rego papers that he had thrown on the ground. Thank god a female officer let my partner pick them up. Then after several attempts for any officer to look at our paperwork the male officer that just trashed our car and had even thrown our baby capsule in the street snatched them. He looked and looked and held them up to the sun and then he went white? Then red again as he studied it one more time. Then he gathered sum officers together while others continued searching our car and the 4 officers detaining my and my Partner. They huddled around together about 10 minutes as a police rescue truck arrived. Then some were shaking there head while other officers tried to hide there faces from the people filming. Then the male officer comes over and says” well this is how it is” we got your number plate wrong” yeah we thought the j was a u. Immediately we begged where’s our daughter and he said the rescue squad need to run sum checks on her. I’m like what? She’s screaming! Then a female officer freed my Partner so she could comfort our baby. I’m still in hand cuffs? I look in the crowd, there’s my real estate agent. There’s 2 women who attend our church and then I got one of me work mates yelling out am I ok. I then shouted to everyone there has been a mistake they got the wrong number plate. Some people were horrified and others probably didn’t believe me until they removed the cuffs, Not one apology from the police? Not one? He said if you want an apology take it up with the operator who made the mistake. Then we couldn’t leave for about half hour because we were boxed in by there vehicles. When they left we were approached by so many people saying that was the horrendous abuse of power and publicly humiliating us like that. People are like we got all that on camera and we should contact a current affair as there writing down there phone numbers to bear witness. We did get an apology from the security guard who was a lovely man. This is hard to go on because this story gets worse. A drunken man or heavily on drugs starts yelling abuse and running at us saying he is going to bash us for stealing cars. The guard stopped him and the police there in seconds. Searched the man but let go. Then finally we went straight home in damage control trying to let everyone know what happened. So we’re safe at home. OMG It gets worse. It 9 pm knock knock at the door? It’s 2 women from DOC’s????????? They exsplained because there was a large police event they need to do a welfare check on our baby who is sound asleep in her cot. I kindly let them in and they were very very nice ladies and so embarrassed because the mix up thing wasn’t told to them. The only thing is they got my house mixed up with the bloke next door who had the same first name so they informed him that of the welfare check. Any way after about 5 minutes they were assured everything was more than perfect and they said it best house visit therve ever had. But a file has now been opened with them and there protocol is they have to come back and to a risk assessment over the next 3 weeks. That part isn’t a worry because we live for our daughter and were good parents. But I am outraged that docs have a file on us and the whole street now knows it. I’ve already heard rumours i my lose my job and by the disgusting look my real estate agent gave me well probably lose the house. I spoke to a solicitor and he said if I go to a current affair or put a formal complaint in the police will target and harass me. He asked am I prepared for that risk because obviously they might lose there job and get into trouble. My Partner has been bed ridden for days in shock. I’m embarrassed to leave the house. I suffered really bad depression for years and just started to come good since our little miracle came into our lives. I call here that because we tried for 6 years and my Partner had a phantom pregnancy which really traumatised her body and we were told that we may not be able to conceive. Now we’re under investigation by docs or Fax whatever there called. We have church on in the morning, well today. It’s 2am? I always in bed by 9:30. Like I’m scared to show my face at my on church because a j looked like a u. I’m so grateful for this site and to be able to tell my story. Even if it is only to my iphone. I am thankful. I’ve lost my 3 best friends to suicide and I find it hard to get close to anyone now in fear of reliving that grief. I can not all that happend in one afternoon. A simple apology would have worked wonders for us. I didnt think I would ever say that I’ve totally respect for our police. My partner is actually scared of them now. The only rational explanation is the “u” number plate thieves are really bad and they may have been extremely frustrated that is was a false alarm and being in such a high stressed job dealing with undesirables and evil all the time may have affected or harden there compassion and humanity. And Maybe being understaffed they didn’t correct there paperwork trail which would have automatically gone to docs because it was a police event and it’s protocol. I just hope I don’t lose my job my house my reputation my friendships and credibility. Thank you again for being able to share. If anybody reads this I’m pretty sure this kind of thing very rarely happens. I’ve never been so desrespected wrongly accused judged and totally humiliated in front of hundreds of people in my community. I think I’m still in shock and should get sum sleep. Feel a lot better for telling someone this

[Ant7]

@greenpea  My bike 

yeah I like fast cars and bikes 

Yeah I think you would have to know someone to get your foot in the door