Harold Scruby Tries To Generate Hysteria With Misleading Videos

I found this video on Harold Scruby's website, and it's typical of the way he attempts to generate public hysteria with misleading presentation, much like Today Tonight and other such shows.

It's actually quite amusing, right up there with the "Window Tinting Homeland Security Threat".

The title of the page is: (Wait for it:) "Burnout Hoon Crash Video".

It features a guy performing a burnout in a car at first, nothing too earth shattering there.

Then, he gets the car into a doughnut, and proceeds to get out of the car, with it still performing doughnuts, while he stands next to it. He stuffs it up and ends up getting run over by his own car.

It is not the burnout that causes this guy to come unstuck, it's the fact that he gets out of the car whilst it is still moving, a very risky thing to do. I have grown up around "Hoons" and I have never seen anyone attempt this. It's totally obvious that if he had have stayed in his car, he would not have been run over by it.

Another point worth noting, is that the footage in question is not on a public road, but rather at what appears to be an appropriate location, so he is not breaking the law anyway.

A more appropriate title would be "Burnout Hoon Gets Out Of Car While Still Moving and Gets Run Over By It Video", but that wouldn't generate quite the same hysteria, and wouldn't hit the public with the same "shock" value, and wouldn't create the emotion you are trying to evoke would it Mr Scruby?

It seems that everything this idiot does and says erodes more and more into his credibility. We can only hope he is stripped of what little voice he has left, sooner rather than later. I haven't seen him appear in the media lately, hopefully they are getting the message.

Here is the link to Scruby's ridiculous attempt to get you all worked up:

Petrol Prices out of control, John Howard thinks Big Brother is important

It's an amazing state of affairs, when we have major issues with new industrial relations laws, people protesting in the streets. The oil companies (with the government riding on their back) are ripping us off, week by week.

Prime Minister John Howard made a statement on Monday, saying the Big Brother show should be axed. Big Brother, like all TV shows, will be axed when no one watches it. If it doesn't breach any laws, then it has as much right to be on air as any other TV show.

More to the point, this man is charged with making the most important decisions critical to the running of the country, and he makes a statement on something so trivial as a late night reality TV show? Is Big Brother really a big issue for this country that requires prime ministerial intervention?

I have a message to John Howard: If I don't like Big Brother, I will turn it off. I will decide if I think it's a "stupid program". One would think that such a professional politician would not make such sweeping and subjective comments.

What I do need you to do, though Mr Howard, is look into price gouging by petrol companies, as, unlike Big Brother, there is no button I can push to remove the damage the spiralling fuel prices (and the taxes you reap as a result of them) are doing to this country.

I think John Howard was perhaps trying to appeal to his conservative base of supporters by denouncing the show. Either that, or there was another issue that happened that day that he would rather we didn't know about.