Venting Thread #1

There was a post here in which, as a joking response to a protracted period of demoralising hot weather, readers were invited to vent comically about minor annoyances.

In that context I mentioned an incident in which a parking officer at a Queensland airport, who had apparently alighted from the wrong side of his bed that morning, rather outrageously abused me and my friend - and then issued me a dodgy fine, which was subsequently withdrawn by the airport when they reviewed the footage and realised it was in error.

Unfortunately, due to my previous advocacy for progressive issues like marriage equality and asylum for refugees, certain disreputable far-right polemicists used the opportunity to misrepresent the incident.

There are some excellent reasons why a private citizen defamed by such people might nonetheless elect to leave the matter there, which is ultimately what I did.