<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>7:23 i remember i got er me and my mate you know we <,> er went to court and of course we'd stolen a car we got caught for that and caught i mean we were both pissed as and we got caught urinating down the street and er well couldn't help it these people were looking out the window so we pulled out and pissed on their garden laughs and they rang the cops and the cops come and picked us up but um you know we we got fined for that and our fine was fifty <.>doll fifty dollars and um we bowled this gas station and i mean you know <{><[>yeah <[>er er we ripped this bag off and i mean it had oh i don't know how much cash but we just took fifty bucks out paid our fine and we got <&>8:00 caught for that and the judge said because we only took fifty dollars and didn't take the rest he said <{><[>nah <[>so it was all right yeah all right i guess you know i guess i never had the i mean <.>i i <.>l i love like i remember pinching a car once and this security guard came over and i was still in the car man mhm and i was right underneath the dashboard you know and he flashed the torch in the and the adrenalin man was running out i was thinking oh it was exciting you know and i didn't give a shit if i got caught or not but you know he came in and he just bypassed us went on to the next car soon as he left we pinched the car laughs <{><[>laughs <[>i was telling you about that joker the other day eh that we used <.>u used to pinch his car um my old joker used to pinch his car he used to <{1><[1>put it in about seven oclock and we used to <{2><[2>pinch it at eight and then we'd bring it back by ten oclock in the morning yeah and this <.>kept no this kept on happening we did it and did it kept on pinching his car and er one day we went there you know to get the <{3><[3>car and there was a note on the dashboard and er and it said er <{4><[4>the note said laughs yeah if you gonna pinch my car how about filling it up <{5><[5>laughs <[1>mm <[2>laughs put it back laughs and he'd never know <[3>mm <[4>fill it laughs <[5>laughs <&>9:00 laughs what a crack up <&>sips drink two seconds er you know life's a bitch man i tell you oh laughs you <.>go you got some real weird things happen in your life you know <.>y you think back on things and i mean i think back on things and i think nah i wouldn't change it laughs you know well you know <{><[>i was talking to someone at work today and they were going on and they saw some movie right about um that sonja davies <&>pronounced davis er life <[>it's oh yeah yeah and they were saying that you know this happened and that happened and this happened and da da da da da da you know and they said they come out of the movie oh i don't know what was that all about <{><[>sort of thing you know and i <.>s so i said to them you can take anyone's anyone's life almost and make a and ask talk to them long enough and that and <[>what's it about laughs yeah and and get a story and <.>ma make an exciting drama out of their life <{1><[1>you know because you take <{2><[2>those word <[1>yeah <[2>but <.>o one thing i find i mean like what i'm thirty three years of age now and i find that um now there's a time when you start looking <,> and like things like you know oh shit should i have accomplished more <&>10:00 um you know what should i do now <.>by by the time i'm forty and you know i just think yeah but a lot of people are just thinking a lot of people by the time they get to forty are just starting to think about kids <{><[>and it's basically all over <[>kids yeah yeah i mean not all over but you know they're mm well that's the <{1><[1>problem i <.>think i think back you know like back on my teenagerhood i think i grew up too quick <,> cos i remember when i was thirteen you know i mean heck i used to put overalls on and go to the pub you know and <,> i mean the barman couldn't have known me that well he used to put a pie and a beer and a twenty cent <{2><[2>piece you know it was all set up for me really and for years he thought i worked at the panelbeaters down the road <[1>you know <[2>laughs laughs i mean you know voc and i was used to run raffles in the pub and i was only thirteen years of age man <,> you know and and <.>i but i was hanging out with guys who were twenty five thirty you know yeah and just i just couldn't relate to my own age you know and now that i'm thirty i think to myself well a lot of people think <{><[>that you're older eh than you are eh <[>OH laughs eh? a lot of people think that you're older yeah you know what i mean? yeah yeah <,> yeah but i was getting away with heaps eh you know i took tut <,> but <.>y once you get you <.>al <&>11:00 once you get away with something you you tend to do it all the time and then <,> somewhere along the line burps <&>swallows drink something's got to happen you know yeah and i think for me um <&>sips drink i mean i was quite lucky i met my wife because that sort of pulled my head in a bit <&>sips drink <,> otherwise who knows where we'd've ended up you know we'd probably would've been a statistic but i guess for me i mean <.>i i was very lucky cos i had a mother that taught me how to think and i <.>always i always knew the consequences that i was doing was wrong but i was prepared to pay the consequence mm you know um i mean <{><[><.>there's there's a saying in jail that says you know hey man you know no good crying about it if you can't do the time eh don't do the crime and it's it's exactly it you've just got to weigh it up and you've got to pay the price man and whatever it is but um you know i laugh now i look at the paper and these fellows getting prisoners' rights what a lot of shit prisoners haven't got rights <[>clears throat laughs if you're gonna screw with the society man and you're gonna you know go around smacking people <&>12:00 over and raping them i mean what do you expect you know you just you reap what you sow yeah and i think these fellows have got <.>sh voc i reckon they should like we went up to the prisons up north and MAN they got t vs in it and <{><[>carpeted and GOODness me <.>i the first thing i'd do is <.>r i mean it's all right for those that've got the money and that can do it but those poor buggers that got nothing oh it's not fair i reckon the it's one rule for everybody man NOTHING and if you're very good you'll get a mattress <,> you know oh all this blimmin rubbish rehabilitation rehabilitation is paying the consequence of your action man <,> and you know these fellows man they just get away with blimmin voc doing time's fun <[>laughs word yeah i used to have really sort of like oh no no no no i didn't not at first think about it a lot but <.>used since i had kids i'm more man i'm sort of much harder laughs much harder much harder on the criminals both laugh get this done and that done oh yeah <{1><[1>for sure mate for <{2><[2>sure yeah <,> yeah you know i mean like that um oh these <&>13:00 jokers you know they <{3><[3>play with kids man you know they're oh <{4><[4>bullshit man <[1>you know <[2>you know <[3>what about <.>th <[4>oh what about that joker just recently just the other day a joker he repeatedly raping that eighty one year old lady eh oh <{><[>yeah <[>did you see that yeah get that bastard <{><[>oh man <[><&>sighs scumbag i <.>go you know i <.>s well it's time to laughs yeah yeah yeah shoot the bastard yeah laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs yeah voc man shoot the bastard but you know i think i think voc they got to be they got to be publicly um you know i think what's wrong with you know the old days like you know stick them in a stockade and put them down the <{><[>manners mall <[><.>hu humiliate them man yeah yeah and have old rotten tomatoes sitting there and you can throw it at them yeah oh you know exPOSE the mongrels yeah i mean do that a couple or three times i mean who's gonna do it after that laughs you'd think twice wouldn't you laughs um do i really want to be up there <,> yeah i mean someone would be <&>14:00 oh that's the problem with this country you know and the world is <.>common it's too many rights <,> i mean there's common sense and there's rights you know and i think you know <.>you you've got to <.>st to discern between the two <,> but you know far out <,,><&>3 i mean even when they're talking about the death penalty um you know <.>i <.>i <.>i i think that if you're gonna <,> premeditate and kill somebody or rape or or rape <{><[>or yeah for sure you know and with and if you've been found guilty without reasonable doubt and then there's no other choice then that your life needs to be taken <[>steal <.>some yeah i <.>n i NEVER used to think that people's lives should be taken but then <.>n now it's funny eh cos then you get older must be getting old now boy laughs <{><[>laughs yeah i used to think <[><.>getting must be getting old bro laughs OH yeah <.>i now i <{1><[1>think now i think man if somebody did something to my family or something <{2><[2>i mean i <.>w <{3><[3>i would you know i would i would um well <{4><[4>i'd want <&>15:00 to kill them <{5><[5>basically i wouldn't want to put them in jail or anything <[1>yeah wise bastard yeah laughs <[2>yeah <[3>yeah yeah <[4>yeah <[5>mm for sure for sure i mean it's like that fellow that got um tortured by the mob yeah you know he was supposed to be <{><[>prospecting for them yeah <[>he died eh yeah you know i mean they cut pieces of his thigh out and all this sort of shit you know i mean those dickheads man <.>th <.>they they need to be you know i mean okay they got ten years but they were out in five or six you know <{1><[1>i mean what's <.>that what justice is that i mean if you're gonna send the mothers away you know send them away <,> goodness me but the guy in masterton man must be relation of yours he'd <{2><[2>word laughs no <{3><[3>laughs who'd come from masterton he killed his family you know <[1>yeah yeah i know <[2>word <[3>doubt it oh yeah i mean he got ten years <,> for five people's lives yeah i mean how do they work that out it should be ten years for each life yeah yeah only got one fella who who killed um <&>16:00 friend's <,> son and he he gets ten years and this dude kills five and he gets ten years work that out <,> <{><[>oh should be ten years concurrent <[>word there's just a little hole there's a loop hole in the system oh i reckon oh yeah makes you wonder who the criminals really are laughs um dick heads but still no good getting angry about it i mean that society isn't it that's the way things are going inhales what can we do as individuals laughs i mean you can pee in the wind but you'll only get wet both laugh <&>16:36