Drunken fool
AN obnoxiously loud, opinionated, seemingly drunk patron ruined an outing for mother and daughter last Thursday afternoon at the State Cinema, North Hobart.
After hearing continued grunts, heavy breathing and inappropriate comments being expelled from this vile creature, my distressed daughter reported the incident (during what would have otherwise been an entertaining but sometimes sexually explicit movie, Red Sparrow) to staff.
It took one staff member half an hour to respond by standing at the door for 20 seconds to investigate.
We were so distressed by the patron’s behaviour that we moved to the back behind the only two other patrons in the intimate upstairs cinema. Imagine our dismay when those two patrons left the cinema early, leaving us alone with him. We left shortly after ourselves and upon attemp-
Recycle breath tests
RANDOM breath tests help keep our roads safe, but I was dismayed yesterday to see the amount of plastic wasted with each breathalyser. I was informed that all plastic, the puffers and their plastic covers, ends up in the bin. Don’t we have enough in our soil, waterways, oceans and landfill? How hard would it be to recycle?
Syrian doubts
COLUMNISTS Charles Wooley and Randall Doyle provided good reads in their TasWeekend and Talking Point columns ( Mercury, April 21). Amid other issues discussed, both asserted with certainty that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used poison gas on his own people.
The similarity of the wording in both articles picks up on the rush to judgment of much of the anti-Assad media as though it were a proven fact. No mention of why he would do such a thing that could only advantage his opponents, considering his almost complete, ongoing conven-
Reality dwellers
AFTER reading Jan Davis’s Talking Point article ( Mercury, April 18), I was somewhat amazed. With respect to banning live exports, she said: “Like many solutions put forward by urban dwellers, that have never set foot on a farm, this doesn’t stand up when put to the test.”
Urban dwellers have watched footage for the past 10 years of brutality in Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Middle East and now on the live export vessel Awassi Express heading to the Middle East with heat stressed, dying sheep. Ministers with emotional responses promise us the treatment of animals in this industry will improve, but we’ve all heard it before. All Australians, urban dwellers or farmers, know when they see stressed animals in cruel, frightening situations. We recognise blatant animal cruelty when we see it, whether we have set foot on a farm or not.