This is the Message Centre for Ivan the Terribly Average

February Dragon

Post 21

Ivan the Terribly Average

There are now 108 confirmed dead.

This site lacks a smiley for numb horror.


February Dragon

Post 22

Websailor

Frenchbean, I saw that broadcast too. Dreadful that the death toll has gone up yet again. I hope it ends soon.

Ivan,

Take care, glad to know you are still safe.

Websailor smiley - dragon


February Dragon

Post 23

frenchbean

I've got friends near Bendigo I can't raise. I'm hoping they're safe.


February Dragon

Post 24

Websailor

Hope you hear soon Frenchbean, I have checked my email accounts, and my friend's blog and there is no word. Looking at the maps I think she will be ok, but it can't be pleasant.

Websailor smiley - dragon


February Dragon

Post 25

HonestIago

I just can't believe that people would start fires like these. I can't comprehend what, if anything is going through their minds.

I'm a vehement opponent of the death penalty but I have an alternative punishment, which I offer free to any government that wants to use it. Such cretins should be locked up for life and every day they should be shown pictures and videos of the people killed and lives destroyed by their actions. Then before they go to sleep, they should get punched in the face by someone close to their victims, a different person each night.

Stay safe guys.


February Dragon

Post 26

psychocandy-moderation team leader

I'm utterly at a loss for words right now.

I'm with HI in that I'm vehemently opposed to the death penalty, but any smiley - bleep who started one of these fires that has destroyed entire towns and taken so many lives... should indeed be forced to view the lives they have ruined, every day, for the rest of their lives.

I don't know what else to say except I hope these fires are got under control soon.


February Dragon

Post 27

Ivan the Terribly Average

131 confirmed fatalities now, and almost certainly many more yet to be found. Maybe a hundred more. 750 houses lost, who knows how many other buildings, 330,000 hectares of land burnt, thousands of people who have lost everything. I'm feeling a bit numb, and I'm not even in the affected area. Flags are at half-mast.

My initial response was to think of lynching arsonists. Yes, I'm vehemently opposed to capital punishment too, but in the heat of the moment, so to speak... On reflection, Iago, I think your plan has considerable merit.


February Dragon

Post 28

aka Bel - A87832164

This is absolutely horrible. The suffering doesn't bear thinking of.
I hope they'll find whoever did that - although, 25 years max in jail doesn't sound very much, does it?

smiley - hug


February Dragon

Post 29

Ivan the Terribly Average

I've been given the link to a website run by the tourism industry of one of the destroyed towns. It adds a whole new dimension to things - these aren't statistics, these are people and businesses and this is a pretty little town preserved like an insect in amber.

It's up to you whether you look at it or not. I'm just putting it here for want of any better idea about what to do with it.

http://www.marysvilletourism.com/


February Dragon

Post 30

~:*-Venus-*:~

I've seen broadcasts on our news about the terrible fires, it beggers belief that some people would deliberately start fires. I'm lost for words.


February Dragon

Post 31

Ivan the Terribly Average

There are idiots everywhere, unfortunately. I don't understand how they think, I never will, but they exist and the flicker of flames draws them in...

B'el, I agree, 25 years isn't all that long. But it would be 25 dangerous years for them. The other prisoners can be counted on to make their existence hell. (There's honour among thieves, and all that.)


February Dragon

Post 32

aka Bel - A87832164

Yes, you're probably right, Ivan. I bet they'd be 'protected', though.


February Dragon

Post 33

Ivan the Terribly Average

The protection provided might not be very good. Guards can be careless sometimes... smiley - whistle


February Dragon

Post 34

Noth€r

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Naylor_(broadcaster)smiley - sadface names and faces- no longer numbers, tell me how do they no who are the arsonists? how do they prove what they did? my condolenes to you allsmiley - rosesmiley - rose


February Dragon

Post 35

Ivan the Terribly Average

Oh, they'll find them. Forensic evidence, witnesses - more alarmingly, previous offenders... smiley - cross They'll find them.


February Dragon

Post 36

Ellen

Hello Ivan. I'm so sorry to hear about these terrible fires, and all the lives lost. smiley - wah Not sure what else to say, that doesn't sound contrived. It's horrible.


February Dragon

Post 37

Ivan the Terribly Average

'Horrible' is the right word, Ellen. smiley - hug It gets over-used, but now it's precisely right.

I'm rummaging around in my mind, drawing up a list of people I know - however vaguely - in country Victoria. I'll have to start tapping into the grapevine to see what I can find out.


February Dragon

Post 38

Ellen

smiley - cuddle


February Dragon

Post 39

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - cuddle


February Dragon

Post 40

Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate

This is just stunning in the extreme, everytime I hear more news, it just becomes harder to believe'

my friends, friends where originally told they would be okay to stay.... then the winds changed, and they became trapped in their home, they rang their families to say goodbye.

words fail me, this is just terrible, terrible.

there are also many many stories of extreme survival and miracles coming out as well


Key: Complain about this post