Friday, July 9, 2010

Let the Octopus decide!

Nobody asked me, but ... I reckon Joe Karam and co will now have their work cut out getting any kind of compensation for David Bain following the TV programme on his father Robin that aired during week.
I am no criminal expert, but it seems pretty implausible to me that Robin could have killed his family as Team David have claimed and reiterated again during the re-trial.
Just how did Robin Bain manage to get up and collect the newspaper, take a gun from David’s room, find the trigger lock key and put on David’s ball gloves, shoot his wife, then this two daughters, get into a massive fight with son Stephen before finally finishing him off, change his clothes, put on his watch and beanie, put the bloody jersey into the wash while disposing of bloody trousers, underclothes and socks so well that they were never located, washed – nay scrubbed – the blood off his hands and feet which were stained from the bloody gloves and socks, wiped off his fingerprints from the gun, fired up the computer, wrote a note to David and then shot himself (managing to wipe his fingerprints off the rifle in his last dying moments) – all on a full bladder has got me buggered.
As expected, following the airing of the documentary, David Bain’s chief supporter – former All Black and the country’s biggest legal aid recipient last year – Joe Karam predictably went apoplectic. Karam did his best Winston Peters impression accusing the documentary of being full of unsubstantiated rubbish – without actually substantiating what was rubbish and making all sorts of nasty smears against it maker Bryan Bruce.
To be fair, I find Bruce hard going at times – but, if pushed, I’d back him over the Karam any day. I still find it hard to trust – or forgive – Karam after he sold out his rugby career and our national game by converting to rugby league for about $500 in 1976; leaving the All Blacks without a fullback and another test series loss in South Africa that year. In my book, that makes Karam the 1970s version of Matthew Ridge – enough said!
Meanwhile, if Karam’s antics didn’t put me off David Bain enough; then his pompous-sounding, holier-than-though, legal-aid troughing QC Michael Reed completely puts me off.
However, I reckon we could finally put the Robin vs. David question to bed once and for all by getting Paul the German Octopus (with his uncanny knack of picking the outcome of World Cup soccer games) to tell us if it was who did it!
By doing this, we would have actually saved taxpayers a whole lot of money, Joe Karam a whole heap of publicity and the NZ public a great lot of angst.
Bring on the Octopus I say!

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