{"id":207971,"date":"2010-01-21T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1050565"},"modified":"2010-01-21T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:38:51","slug":"bogan-farewell-to-crash-victims-in-melbs-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207971","title":{"rendered":"Bogan farewell to crash victims in Melb&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Oh wow. Two people have died.. and they mourn it by getting drunk and chain smoking around the tree where they died? I guess it&#8217;s the bogan way to mourn, but it isn&#8217;t respectful.. well not in my view. Do you do it?<\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.theage.com.au\/national\/national-news\/cigarettes-jim-beam-and-flowers-1057436.html&amp;exc_from=videobox\" >http:\/\/media.theage.com.au\/national\/&#8230;_from=videobox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking at that.. i mean WTF? They&#8217;ve taken un-used ciggis\/packs and lighters and sticky taped them to the tree? What the fuck? Full bottles of JIm Beam as well&#8230; what the fuck?<\/p>\n<p>L2 who thinks the girl was sort-of-cute-but-not-that-great :nuts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/hundreds-attend-crash-teen-victim-anthony-ianetta-funeral-after-high-speed-mill-park-horror-crash\/story-e6frf7kx-1225822095274\" >http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/vic&#8230;-1225822095274<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:20px; margin-top:5px; \">\n<div class=\"smallfont\" style=\"margin-bottom:2px\">Quote:<\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"alt2\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>\t\t\t\tUPDATE 3.40pm: YOUTHS have ignored a priest&#8217;s pleas, attacking media at the funeral of a teen who died in a high-speed crash.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of the young mourners, many of the teenagers, swarmed across the road and tried to wrestle cameras and other equipment from reporters, photographers and TV crews.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral for Anthony Iannetta, 18, follows his death in a Ford Falcon which slammed into a tree at high speed on Plenty Road, Mill Park, while being driven by 19-year-old drunk P-plater Steve Johnstone.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSoon after, a large number of the mourners walked or drove to the crash site at nearby Plenty Rd, where traffic was reduced to a crawl by milling youths and cars parked on the sides of the road.<\/p>\n<p>During the service, Father Anthony Girolami called on the mourners to control their anger about how they felt, but his calls for calm went unheeded.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, media crews and other onlookers faced a barrage of obscene language and gestures from up to 50 angry youths.<\/p>\n<p>Some threatened to smash camera equipment, while a young woman told a video crew, &#8220;you&#8217;re lucky I don&#8217;t f&#8212;ing bash you&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nDespite the circumstances of his death, there was no comment about drink-driving or speeding during the service.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Iannetta, 18, died after a Ford Falcon driven by 19-year-old drunk P-plater Steve Johnstone slammed into a tree on Plenty Road, Mill Park.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMany of the mourners had earlier stopped by the crash site to add to the growing tribute of flowers and other mementos.<\/p>\n<p><b>The tree is adorned with floral tributes, as well as an Australian flag, bottles of Jim Beam, cigarette packets and football scarves.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wow. Two people have died.. and they mourn it by getting drunk and chain smoking around the tree where they died? I guess it&#8217;s the bogan way to mourn, but it isn&#8217;t respectful.. well not in my view. Do you do it? Video &#8211; http:\/\/media.theage.com.au\/national\/&#8230;_from=videobox Looking at that.. i mean WTF? They&#8217;ve taken un-used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}