A Mildura man has allegedly pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a cryptocurrency trading platform accidentally added an extra zero to the funds in his account.
  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    I’m kinda interested in that the paper refers to the accused as “a Victorian man” and not “a Victoria man”. Raises time-traveling issues were a person from Victorian times settle in Australian Victoria.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Haven’t you heard? The State of Victoria was annexed by time-travelling Victorians in the name of their queen. We’ve been at war for over a decade; it is why Australia spends any significant amount of money on its military.

      It’s been rough because the time paradoxes are not in our favour. Killing a Victorian causes a battalion of soldiers to BTTF fade from existence.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      6·
      10 months ago

      Why would they be called a Victoria man?

      Its like saying an Alaska man instead of an Alaskan man.

      - A Victorian man from Victoria.

    • jonhendry@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      I’m fairly sure some parts of Australia are still pretty Victorian. Editorial pages, much of the parliament thingy, etc.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      7·
      10 months ago

      Not really.

      He wasn’t a criminal before he started hiding the money. Now he is, and he’s going to have to go into hiding for the rest of his life or be arrested if he hasn’t managed to flee the country.