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Message: [QUOTE="Organix, post: 2774053, member: 8187"] [COLOR=#1B2024][FONT=HelveticaNeue-55-Roman][FONT=Museo-Slab-700][B]Colourful independent MP Bob Katter feels charges should be dropped against a number of North Queensland NRL players after the egging of a number of cars.[/B][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1B2024][FONT=HelveticaNeue-55-Roman][B]Source: AAP [/B] [COLOR=red][B][COLOR=#1B2024]9 SEP 2016 - 5:26 PM[/COLOR] UPDATED 37 MINS AGO[/B][/COLOR] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#1B2024][FONT=HelveticaNeue-55-Roman][B]NRL star Jason Taumalolo and four other North Queensland players deserve nothing more than a kick in the backside for allegedly throwing eggs at cars in Townsville, according to federal independent MP Bob Katter.[/B] [B]So says the man who claims to have done the same thing to The Beatles when they toured Australia more than 50 years ago.[/B] [B]Five players, aged 18-25, have been charged with wilful damage and are due to face court next month over the late Wednesday night incident.[/B] [B]Katter said egging was a great Australian pastime and called for the charges to be dropped.[/B] [B]"In my younger days. I was a naughty boy. We threw eggs at The Beatles," he told reporters on Friday.[/B] [B]"I just hate young people being picked on all the time for being stupid and irresponsible. That's what young people are like.[/B] [B]"Of course, you should get a kick in the backside for it. Should you have done it? No, you shouldn't have.[/B] [B]"I just think the whole thing has been well and truly overdone.[/B] [B]"I ask people to show a bit of humanity and a bit of understanding. We were all young and stupid once upon a time."[/B] [B]The colourful and outspoken politician insisted he wasn't defending their behaviour, but believed most people had done something utterly stupid in their youth.[/B] [B]And for those who say they hadn't?[/B] [B]"I'll point out to you a person that is maladjusted and doesn't really fit into society, and also a person that is telling lies," he said.[/B] [B]Taumalolo is still set to play for the Cowboys in Saturday's NRL qualifying final against Melbourne, while his club investigate the alleged incident. [url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/09/09/drop-cowboy-egging-charges-mp-katter-says]Drop Cowboy egging charges: MP Katter says | SBS News[/url] [/B] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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