Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Reference :- Today we decided to run a local news item .

 Reference :-   During a lull in the world news ,  The Sky Reply decided to run a story about events at the Kooralya Pub .  And the pending court case . 

Usually there is not much news to report from Kooralya . Except for the regular devastating droughts and uncontrollable infernos , not a lot happens out our way .   

Recently however , everybody in town has been talking about the dodgy barman who was sacked from the Kooralya pub .    His name is Ronald , and since he has been  whiningly out of sorts lately , we have nick-named him Ronald Grump . 

Anyway ,  here's what happened .   Ronald ran the bar for a few years.   Soon after he got the job , he started giving free beers to those he owed favors .   The publican didn't know this was happening , and Ronald kept telling him the Kooralya pub was more popular than ever , and profits were soaring .  But when the overdraft on the business account showed the opposite , the publican looked past Ronald's lies.  He then discovered the free beer racket , plus a fingers in the till racket , and the fact that Ronald hadn't been deducting his PAYE tax from his monthly wage .   Ronald was sacked on the spot .

 But Ronald needs to keep providing free beers for favors , since he owes a few hard men quite a lot of spondula ,  especially his bookie . And he is also heavily in debt to a blonde haired lady called  Cherish  who rents an upstairs room at the pub .  So Ronald decided to get the local bikies to come to the pub and force the publican to keep him on as barman . 

Things got out of hand . The bar was trashed , and the local cop ended up sustaining a broken jaw . 

 Next month there will be a court case .   Ronald says the hearing will be a farce , since he doesn't even work at the pub anymore . 

 "  They can't fire me if I don't work there anymore " ,  Ronald said . 

  The cops say that has nothing to do with being charged for provoking a civil disturbance . 

 It's all pretty exciting for a quiet little town like Kooralya ,  though obviously one would never encounter such shabby behavior in the marbled halls of global power .

 But one thing I can't understand is  .....   why has nobody  ever introduced me to Cherish ? 

Your comrade , Ken

   



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