You are drunk. You are having a completely out of control, nonsensical argument with another extremely drunk person.
In the very recent past, you and this person were walking down the street together, talking. Then you were drinking together. Then you were having sex.
But now, everything has gone horribly wrong. Violence is in the air.
This, according to his own account, is exactly where 30-year-old Gable Tostee found himself back in 2014, when his Tinder hook-up with Warriena Wright took a turn.
On 60 Minutes last night, Tostee – who was acquitted of Wright’s murder and is, rightly, a free man – set the record straight, accepting a sizable sum to give his account of a notorious night.
And it's true — he didn't murder 26-year-old Wright. But his actions that night prove he is certainly guilty of being a pretty awful human being. And his story forms a cautionary tale for many of us, whether we're sleeping with men or raising them.
Because back in the lounge room of Tostee's high-rise Surfers' Paradise apartment block, he treated her in a way that many of us wouldn't treat a dog.
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His "date" becomes violent, throwing stones from a decorative rock garden at him. He had the marks and the wounds to prove it. He says she lunged at him with the stand of his telescope, and he feared for his life.
Tostee recorded this whole encounter. Why? Because he had some experience of Tinder hook-ups and thought it was better to have a record of what goes down, especially after he and his date have been drinking his own home-made "moonshine" vodka.
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I lived right in Surfers, and it is absolutely with despair that I saw vulnerable young girls and guys so drunk and out of their minds by eight o'clock at night. Beautiful in their youth, yet so ugly in their belief they need to get drunk to get the confidence to go out. Staggering up to the soaring apartments that make up Surfers and blindly trusting. "Stranger Danger" at every closed-in box apartment.
The 'Red Frog' volunteers at Schoolies are lifesavers literally. But their stories are horrific. It is not only the girls who get attacked. Young and drunk young guys have just as many terrible experiences.
This tragedy was not at all unexpected. The current hysterical culture of drugs, drinking and desperation was the perfect storm for both these sad people.
And in this tornado of modern confusion, Gable let down the honour of all men.
He sure did but I believe this will never register with him.
I think he should have been convicted of manslaughter. He caused her death. No doubt about it.
Did he help her climb over the safety railing was that the only choice available to her?
he didn't force the alcohol down her throat