When do we get our peanuts?
Posted on 03/10/2006 4:09:37 AM PST by beaversmom
HOURS after boarding the luxury cruise that would result in her death, Dianne Brimble's friend warned her of a group of men who had been ogling female passengers, a Sydney inquest was told today. The next morning, Ms Brimble, 42, was found dead in a cabin belonging to some of those same men.
Police allege she had been given a lethal dose of the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate before being sexually assaulted.
The inquest was told Ms Brimble had been ecstatic, setting out on the "holiday of a lifetime" with family and friends on the P&O liner Pacific Sky on September 23, 2002.
That night, she met a group of eight men at a disco on the ship.
Close friend Nancy Chard today told Glebe Coroners Court she warned Ms Brimble not long after boarding the ship to stay away from the men.
"They were just basically watching every female so I just said to Di be very careful," Ms Chard said.
"They were odd, to my eyes they were really odd-looking people.
"There's a difference between just looking at a woman and undressing them by looking."
Ms Chard said she heard some of the men, who were staying in a cabin directly opposite hers, involved in an argument earlier that night with a group of girls.
She told the court the girls later informed her the men had asked them to expose their genitalia and had propositioned them.
The men were obviously drunk and had been making noise until the early hours of the morning, she said.
The day Ms Brimble's body was found, Ms Chard said she saw one of the eight men crying in the hallway, and in the following days, she said the men gave Ms Brimble's friends "filthy looks".
"They would give us a look as if to say, they have no shame," she said.
"It was almost like it was just playing, they had no remorse."
Ms Brimble's older sister Alma Wood, who also was on the cruise, tearfully told the court her sister had been a "prude" who would not have wilfully taken drugs or engaged in promiscuous sex.
"That sort of stuff was always gross to her," Ms Wood said.
The inquest before Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge continues next week.
I thought this was going to be a thread about Tom Cruise.
Are you really that big of a dick, or is it just an affectation?
Thank goodness for that.
(Only way a homely guy like me is married with two kids and a third on the way.)
The $97.98 cruise is just around the corner!
Excellent. Another post demonstrating the worst of freeperdom.
When do we get our peanuts?
If it's you, me, Eaker, Squantos, and Humblegunner going up the Atachafalaya on a Siwft Boat with a couple of Ma Duces... count me in!
What a weird story. No background on the men, no descriptions of the men or even if they had been detained!
Worse, it takes eight to make a lib air-tight.
"Cruises are getting cheaper and cheaper. Heck, I even read recently that Wal-Mart is going to be selling cruise packages. You get a different class of people the cheaper they get."
I recommend an Alaskan cruise. The people who go on these cruises are usually older and wealthier and the scenery in Alaska is fantastic.
If somebody slipped her a "lethal dose of the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate", whose fault would that be?
I wonder if the men's names are middle eastern?
Goodbye, Joe, me gotta go ... me oh my-o ... me gotta go fo me pirogue dans le bayou ...
lol, that is funny
Simple solution to questionable conduct:
Closed Circuit TV cameras. Have a simple line in the brochure that states,"Our guests' enjoyment are our most important purpose. For the safety of all the common areas have closed circuit security."
Just put up a lot of cameras with a light on and have a sensor if a towel is thrown over them so they will alarm and security can come out straight away.
Please read my post carefully before you attack me. I was not referring to this woman at all, since I do not know her nor do I know how she behaves. Thats no. 1. Now as to your no.2, get a life please, it is liberals who do not want to punish the types that use such things as date rape drugs, you see, in my world you would die if you use such a thing, get it? Your no. 3. Irrelevant as you are speaking of one person while I was speaking generally, not about this one woman
I prefer to use rollers or electric sprayers if Im going to do the job in the first place.
You dont want the truth, you cant take the truth.
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