Courier spares us grisly details

Courier spares us the grisly details

The Courier-Mail earlier this week brought us the latest charming installment in the life of Fredo the peregrine falcon who's family live on the rooftop of Admiralty Towers One apartment block in downtown Brisbanal.
That's him on the left of the Courier's picture, with his two new hatchlings and the missus, Frieda.
It was a charming little story that pointed out that Frieda was far from impressed with the "three fresh kills: that Frodo had brought home for the family dinner.
And thus the reason for this month's column.
It appears that the original story included a paragraph saying exactly what those "fresh kills" were. Now while there are probably a lot of readers who would be interested in reading what peregrine falcons find rather yummy, someone at the Courier decided that the paper's younger readers didn't need to know that the killing machine we now know as Frodo Krueger will get his talons into just about anything that moves.
This includes sweet little pigeons, some miner species or other, and we're only guessing here, but someone's pet budgie.
So we at The Bug reckon that if Reality TV is all the go, let's hope that the Courier in future will be a little more up front with life in the wild..
More than that, we're keeping our fingers crossed that the following headlines might appear sooner than later.
"Frodo kills Frieda, eats chicks in vicious attack" and
"Child's eyeball found in Frodo's nest"

Finally, some news you may have missed....

There's a fair chance you wouldn't have read this story in most other newspapers, so your family Bug decided to bring you the news.
A recent AAP report said a Rupert Murdoch-owned company had lost its appeal against an order by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission ordering the reinstatement of printers sacked for drinking on the job.
The four printers, working for Nationwide News at Chullora in Sydney, were dismissed in mid-2002 after being caught on video drinking beer during work hours.
The full bench of the AIRC found that while the company had a valid reason to dismiss the printers, it also found the sackings were "harsh" given the length of service of the four printers and the lack of previous warnings about their behaviour.
While The Bug believes bosses who act harshly and sack people without warning deserve to lose such cases.
But, we also think the printers themselves must share the blame for the predicament in which they found themselves.
They shouldn't have been working for an American in the first place - especially when there are so many media employers to choose from in Australia.