A SENSE of bravado, over-confidence, alcohol, showing off to friends – there are lots of reasons why teenagers and young men fall prey to the dangers of rips at beaches. Those aged 15-39 years are statistically the most likely to get caught and die in rips, and two-out-of-three people who think they can identify rips are wrong. Surf Life Saving Australia points out that more people drown in rips each year than deaths from shark attacks, floods and cyclones combined. And it’s not only tourists who get caught in rips and drown with only 15 per cent of those dying…
Author: Stephen Taylor
LANGWARRIN fisherman Harry Sellers is the 2016 Victorian Amateur Snapper Champion after he landed an 11.866kg fish over the Melbourne Cup weekend. Jake Milligan, of Mornington, was a close runner up with a snapper weighing 11.620kg, while Rohan McRae, of Wonthaggi, caught the third heaviest Big Red at 9.840kg. The 2016 junior champion is Hunter Blackford, of Frankston, whose fish weighed 7.800kg. The 33rd Tea Tree snapper competition was held on both Port Phillip and Western Port bays with the weigh in and presentation at Mornington Racecourse. The 1492 competitors caught and weighed 1200 fish, with 719 fish coming from…
AN elderly Seaford couple is reeling after the theft of rare and valuable jewellery from their bedroom but pleased that Frankston police have managed to track much of it down. A 30-year-old Frankston man – now in custody on a range of burglary, deception, car theft and criminal damage charges – allegedly stole the jewellery valued at more than $10,000 from the Moresby Av house on Tuesday 25 October. The haul included a Pandora bracelet, gold watches, rings of various sorts, necklaces adorned with crosses and diamonds, rosary beads and a 110-year-old ruby ring given to the woman by her…
POLICE are investigating links between armed robberies on service stations in Mornington and Chelsea Heights and a McDonald’s restaurant in Carrum Downs this week. In the three raids, two men of African appearance wearing balaclavas, dark-coloured hoodies and one carrying a tyre lever, smashed their way into the businesses in the early hours while terrified staff members looked on. In one robbery a man was bashed. The men, aged in their 20s, ransacked cigarette cupboards and stole cash from tills while making violent threats. Their getaway car – a silver Holden Commodore sedan – was stolen from Aspendale earlier in…
WHO would leave a child alone in a car on a hot day? No-one would be silly enough do that, would they? Sadly, quite a few people do – and this time of year the warmer weather makes incidents even more dangerous. “This practice is completely unacceptable,” Mornington fire station officer Simon Mildren said. “Many people are unaware of the high temperatures that can occur in a brief moment of sun exposure on a locked vehicle. It can take only minutes for the temperature in a car to become dangerous and life threatening. “The message needs to be clear: Do…