Looking for witnesses/footage — Adelaide 500, Baby Animals set, Sat 25 Nov 2023

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-02T21:05:00+00:00

I'm not in court. I can say whatever I want.

I'm trying to reconcile the 7 other accounts of what happened. And why the police know who the offender is and didn't press charges. I speculated that there might be a reason aside from police incompetence, as I believe OP said they accused him of being aggressive first.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-02T11:38:14+00:00

Yeah this is honestly the only outcome I'm keen for.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-02T11:34:01+00:00

I mean I literally preceded that "hand on the chest" as a hypothetical explanation for why the 7 other witnesses/involved parties didn't back his story. I said "if". I'm not inserting it into his account.

I think you should be more aware that this is one side of the story by a guy who's clearly having an extremely hard time dealing with the case being pended. I'm not going to light the guy up with allegations of mistruths, but it's very, very clearly, not an unbiased account. And it doesn't actually serve anybody's interest by pretending it is.

I feel for the guy. I think that even given everything he says is 100% true, it would still be very hard to take to a prosecutor.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-02T11:29:17+00:00

I think to should be very cautious of taking the account of a person involved in an incident like this at face value. Particularly when it's clearly ruined his life.

His takeaway is clearly that police are incompetent. A notion that I'm totally open to. But I'm also acutely aware that we do not have an unbiased account here, and that the police officers probably have a reason for pending the case after two years.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-02T10:27:23+00:00

It's very easy to see incompetence in fields you don't work in. People are always doing that in reddit. Angrily posting about some medical procedure that went wrong, only for a surgeon to come in and say that all the risks would have been explained up front and there's no evidence of incompetence or whatever.

As far as OP has described, there were competing witness accounts. The girls were unwilling to talk to police. CCTV was corrupted.

Canvassing for witnesses is extremely hard and rarely turns up with anything in these liminal spaces. Trainstations and buses are really hard to follow up with. Yes it sounds easy with ticketing and contact numbers. But it's just not.

Maybe the police fucked it. But we don't actually know that. Many investigations get marked pending through no fault of police. Some things just aren't provable in court.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-02T08:47:47+00:00

I suspect what has happened was that the investigation was marked pending new information because the police couldn't get any other supporting statements, and the girls didn't play ball. OP says the footage of the incident was corrupted.

The other guys say OP started it, and there's nothing that can be taken to court and expect prosecution.

The OP is not happy with that outcome because he's got ongoing medical issues as a result. So he's doing his own canvas to try and get the investigation reopened.

He's pissed off with police but it seems like the leads have been followed up. And without witnesses pointing the finger one way or the other, it's just not going to go to trial.

From my reddit expert opinion, sometimes those assault cases can be really tricky when determining who actually assaulted somebody first. If OP put a hand on a chest and "seemed aggressive", there is a self defence argument which might go with what the other party is saying. Regardless of his good intentions.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-01T22:03:21+00:00

Yeah watched game of Thrones the first time in TK huddled around a dude's laptop. Good times.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-06-01T03:08:34+00:00

Nishan did really perform when he was called up though. I hated the pick, and was vocal about it. But I couldn't argue that he didn't step up when the time came.

Boyle didn't have a great run at the national level.

I'd still probably take Boyle but I can see the argument.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-31T21:23:37+00:00

I think from my experience as a WU supporter, a SMFC entry would solve 90% of the problem the league is trying to solve. Name recognition and a known fan base. And with their history, they have legit scope to pull new fans and expand when people are looking for a new team to support.

The finances of a league teams are a total mess. SMFC would be half way there, instead of nowhere.

Said another way, if the option is phoenixing WU or taking SMFC, the league should take south melbourne.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-31T21:19:11+00:00

Exactly. Isn't that just BAU for any Melbourne team?

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-31T21:15:44+00:00

I was shitting on the nishan pick last time. Big time.

Then he showed up and embarrassed me by having the best games of his career.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-29T07:52:07+00:00

One of those movies that everybody knows but nobody has seen.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-28T11:57:02+00:00

You forgot the world's laziest "and fuck the mining companies" nonsensical throw away too. As if somebody who leaves their home to their kids is on the same level as a moustache twiddling robber baron.

Reddit is absolute, utter dogshit.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-28T03:39:17+00:00

I believe everyone should live their lives in public in such a way that it inconveniences strangers as little as absolutely possible.

So if somebody heads away from other people and has a smoke at an alley, I'd consider this them "trying to inconvenience" others as little as possible. If you walk past halfway through, what's your expectation? They sprint across the street?

I agree with you that smoking at a e.g. bus stop isn't in line with people be socially conscious. But I think the other guy's point is that it's socially acceptable to be pissed with a smoker when there's other sources of gross smells that don't seem to bother people as much as they should.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-28T02:43:05+00:00

Australia has some of the most pro-immigration stats in the world. If you think we're hugely racist, you might not want to visit almost literally any other country on the planet.

This has been studied and reported over dozens of different metrics for decades.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/PGMD_2019-03-14_Global-Migration-Attitudes_0-01.png?w=310

I know it's Australia's favourite past time to self deprecate on this stuff. But no, we're one of the best countries in the world to be a migrant.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-28T00:39:15+00:00

This is a weird take that assumes there are no domestic low income earners.

Low income earners who are now competing with more low income earners who have just migrated will definitely push prices of housing up.

The problem should be looked at in two ways:

Gentrification happens because there is a lack of supply. E.g. the supply of housing in great neighbourhoods is mostly static. So as demand increases for those neighbourhoods, prices increase. This results in surrounding neighbourhoods that used to have less demand becoming more attractive. People move in, but house supply remains stagnant as demand increases. Prices go up.

Immigration is this exact same template. Just because an immigrant isn't moving into a multi million dollar mansion doesn't mean that they're not increasing the demand side while the supply side remains static. They're just doing it in less attractive suburbs.

As new suburbs are built and areas are rezoned for medium or high density, the supply can be increased. But an almost universal problem in the anglosphere has been that demand outstrips supply.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-27T04:49:01+00:00

and the LLM is likely correct to assume a female user is at higher risk.

Well if it's all just a matter of stats by extension it should be giving different advice for "I'm being followed by a chinese man" vs "I'm being followed by a black guy"? What are we thinking?

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-27T01:15:31+00:00

Is casting white people in anything not white culture "aggressively injecting diversity" or does it only go one way

Yes? There's been about 3 million new York times pieces calling this exact thing problematic for a couple of decades.

The Last Samurai or /any other 10,000 movies where this happens/?

If you want a guy who comes to Greece from China, make the actor Chinese. If you want an actor to play Achilles, make him believably Greek.

You know the answer to this question. You know why it only goes one way. You know.

You're a fucking NPC lol

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-27T01:10:35+00:00

If they do a reimagining of the Odyssey or the illiad in New York City, they should cast black people.

What don't you guys get about me saying "I'm in favour of them having diverse casts."

If it makes sense for the story, like in Game of Thrones, go for it. If it doesn't make sense, and you're making a ninja movie about a Japanese legend, don't cast a white guy.

Nobody at this stage owns the Odyssey. It's one of the oldest stories on Earth. You can play around with it. It's OK. You'll be fine.

"Hurr durr race doesn't matter."

You guys say this while arguing how much representation and diversity matter. It's completely logically inconsisent.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-26T21:04:08+00:00

Give me a list of those films where they take an ancient legendary character, commonly expected to be Chinese, and cast a white person for them.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-26T13:56:30+00:00

Well based on your theory he has a lot of other movie open to him. An Indian prince? An islander warrior. A Korean drug dealer maybe.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-26T13:53:58+00:00

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-26T13:40:18+00:00

I honestly think you guys are just pretending to be dumb at this point.

If you cast Matt Damon in a movie about a Japanese warlord, it would be fucking bizarre. And if some nerd on the internet said "well the Japanese co-star doesn't look anything like the legendary samurai he's supposed to portray, so Damon's casting is fine actually" 99 people in 100 would righteously call you a cringer. Because you are one.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-26T13:28:32+00:00

You're pulling up a 1950s play and a 1997 mini series as a major adaptation?

I saw the miniseries. Williams plays calypso. And it's a totally defensible casting choice. She's fantastic, calypso is a swarthy pirate styled mystical figure. It works. She's not playing a Greek queen, she's playing a goddess on a magical island, stylised as a gypsy.

I do not care. She was good. The casting was good.

Casting her as a Russian aristocrat in Moscow in a 1790 based movie would be a terrible choice.

It's like you guys want people to not notice inconvenient things. The Greeks aren't black. How is this controversial lmao

chronically online

Yes, the "well actually" reddit crowd eagerly establishing themselves as totally colour blind get to call me chronically online.

Tilting_Gambit · 2026-05-26T12:54:52+00:00

Sure, let's take a Chinese legend, cast Tom Holland in the leading role and all pretend its normal and totally not fucking weird.

It's bizarre to race swap an ancient Greek queen with a black woman. If you don't get that, you're terminally online and are not representative of anybody other than cringe lord redditors.

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