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   More proof that white Australians are human garbage.  Is it time for   
   retribution?   Nothing more fun than kicking the teeth out of a fucking   
   Aussie, if you ask me.   
      
   March 10, 2010   
   Canadian wheelchair user beaten in Australia   
   By CBC News   
   CBC News   
   A 35-year-old Canadian who uses a wheelchair has been beaten in Sydney,   
   Australia, and is in hospital in serious condition, according to police   
   reports.   
      
   A 35-year-old Canadian who uses a wheelchair was beaten in Sydney,   
   Australia, on Tuesday and is in hospital in serious condition, according   
   to police reports.   
      
   Heath Proden is from Manitoba but has been in Sydney since November on an   
   extended visit with his girlfriend.   
      
   He was waiting to catch a train at a city station at about 11 p.m. local   
   time when he was approached and verbally attacked by two teenage boys, the   
   New South Wales police said on their website. The physical attack that   
   followed was recorded by security cameras at the station.   
      
   Police have charged two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, with armed robbery and   
   attempt to cause bodily harm. Both have been denied bail.   
   Trapped in elevator   
      
   After being confronted by the teens, Proden tried to leave the station via   
   an elevator but was punched in the face by one of the boys and knocked   
   from his chair, police said.   
      
   "I know he was quite intimidated and the only way for him to escape was by   
   the lift, which unfortunately was where they trapped him and beat him,"   
   his girlfriend, Kristin Sharrock, told CBC News.   
      
   The teenagers allegedly then stomped on Proden and hit him on the head and   
   body with metal bars, including one from his wheelchair.   
      
   The teens ran away with Proden's belongings and wheelchair, police said,   
   but returned later - and repeatedly - to resume beating him.   
      
   Proden remains in a hospital northeast of Sydney, where he was being   
   prepared for surgery on Thursday morning to treat severe cuts on his head   
   and a depression in his skull.   
      
   "Fortunately, there's no injuries other than a compressed fracture of the   
   skull," Sharrock said. "All his neurological exams have come back good,   
   thank goodness.   
      
   "All the bruises are starting to appear now, so now pretty much his whole   
   arms and torso are just black and blue from where he defended himself."   
   'It's sick': mother   
      
   Sharrock said Proden was "awake and lucid and doing quite well under the   
   circumstances, but he's "distraught, obviously, and very upset, and just   
   can't believe that it's happened."   
      
   She said Proden went to a pub to listen to Doc Walker, a Canadian country   
   music band that was playing in the city. He was on his way home when the   
   beating happened.   
      
   He grew up with members of the band in Portage la Prairie, Man., located   
   about 70 kilometres west of Winnipeg, but now lives in Winnipeg Beach, a   
   town about 65 kilometres north of Winnipeg.   
      
       'I just want him home. I just want him home and safe. I just want to   
   see him.'- Shellan Proden, victim's mother   
      
   "He's a kind, generous, strong individual," Sharrock said, fighting back   
   tears. "He doesn't deserve what's happened to him."   
      
   Proden's mother, Shellan, who also lives in Winnipeg Beach, said she was   
   sick to her stomach when Sharrock told her about the attack.   
      
   "I just want him home," she said. "I just want him home and safe. I just   
   want to see him."   
      
   Shellan has not been able to watch the video of the beating, which is   
   being played on news broadcasts around the world. Every time it comes on,   
   she has to leave the room.   
      
   "It's sick, sick," she said, stopping to cry. "These tears have been over   
   and over and over."   
      
   Proden's grandmother, Vivian Proden, said he has used a wheelchair since   
   breaking his back in a snowmobile accident in 2000.   
      
   "This boy has had a devastating life," she said. "He's a paraplegic. He's   
   had a difficult time dealing with life and now this trip to Australia to   
   visit his girlfriend was a highlight of his life, a happy part of his life   
   for the first time, and now this happens. It's not fair, not fair at all."   
      
   Despite his physical limitations, Proden has never given up living an   
   active life and Shellan said she expects he will use the same strength of   
   mind to heal after the beating.   
      
   "No matter what, he'll come back," she said. "He's a strong, strong,   
   strong individual."   
   Motive unknown   
      
   The incident "appears to be a random act" and police have not determined a   
   motive, police spokeswoman Joanne Elliott told CBC News. She said she'd   
   never heard of an assault like this one.   
      
   "And I know that very, very experienced police who have worked in Sydney's   
   western suburbs for 20 years ... were absolutely appalled by what   
   happened."   
      
   But according to freelance reporter Tim Stackpool, many in the community -   
   about an hour's drive west of Sydney's famed beaches - say this type of   
   beating "was destined to happen."   
      
   "The crime rate there has been going up and up and up and up," Stackpool   
   told CBC News. "The police have been doing their utmost to keep it under   
   control, but this is a place in Sydney where perhaps there is not a lot   
   for the youth of the streets to ... do.   
      
   "It is a cheaper area to buy property in Sydney, and some young families   
   and young couples are moving in there now. But of course, over many years,   
   some undesirable elements have crept into that community and   
   unfortunately, 11 o'clock at night on that railway station where the   
   victim was is perhaps not the place to be."   
      
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