Posted on 12/31/2013 6:28:22 PM PST by Colofornian
TWO Mormons on the Gold Coast for a church camp stand accused of a shocking attack that left a passing stranger in a coma.
Amanaki Kaufusi, 21, and Onesi Taufui, 18, yesterday faced Southport Magistrates Court charged with grievous bodily harm over a violent attack on a tourist in Surfers Paradise.
Hundreds of Mormons have gathered on the Gold Coast for a Latter-day Saints conference at Tallebudgera.
But as their friends listened to the teachings of church leaders, Kaufusi and Taufui, both from western Sydney, headed to the bright lights of Sin City for a night on the town.
The court was told the pair were walking along Cavill Avenue in the early hours of Sunday morning when an intoxicated Kaufusi allegedly yelled: "I just want to hit someone. I will hit the next person I see."
Witnesses reported Kaufusi "showing an intent to fight others for no reason" and told him he was drunk.
Kaufusi allegedly responded in Tongan: "You want to see drunk, this is drunk."
Police said he king-hit 24-year-old tourist Onyekachi Okoye, who collapsed unconscious to the footpath.
Both men then allegedly stomped on the victim's head before laughing and walking off. When their Mormon friends pleaded with them to turn themselves in after Mr Okoye was rushed to hospital, the duo allegedly tried to flee Surfers Paradise in a taxi to return to the Tallebudgera camp.
Mr Okoye, from Glendale near Newcastle, later woke from a coma and has been transferred out of intensive care at the Gold Coast University Hospital.
He suffered a broken jaw but no brain damage.
Magistrate Brian Kilmartin refused bail due to the seriousness of the allegations. They will face court again on February 26.
Outside court, duty lawyer Mal Chalmers said his clients were in "a state of shock". "(Kaufusi) couldn't remember anything about the event," he said.
Latter-day Saints State President Asa Smibert said the men were not pre-registered at the camp and may have been visiting friends.
"Violence of any sort in the community is a tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go out to the individuals involved."
Bingo!
Do Mormons drunk dial well?
Happy New Year to our obsessed anti-Mormon, Colofornian.
Las Vegas Ron is apparently kinda slow.
Happy New year to the truth crusader Colofornian.
Of course you’ve never knocked anyone out. That would take meeting someone face to face. Most mormons use the “throw poop and run” approach.
Nothing in the story backs up the headline that they were Mormon. The only thing I can take from this thread is that you have some issue with Mormons and are willing to play loose with facts to knock them. But God knows the threat that they pose relative to all the other evil afoot today so you just keep it up tiger.
Most mormons use the “throw poop and run” approach.
Then you must be Mormon. You seem to be a chicken -hit.
Send me a first class plane ticket and you’ll find out for sure, sweetness.
Of course. The newspaper reporting that they were mormon did so as part of a global anti-mormon conspiracy. /s
...you have some issue with Mormons and are willing to play loose with facts to knock them.
Accusation without specificity or substantiation, i. e., poop throwing. Much easier to call someone a liar from a thousand miles away, saves all that money on dental bills.
I wouldn’t waste my time. I hope you’re a lady for calling me “sweetness”.
Sorry.
Cupcake.
Well, you missed your shot. I was helpless with laughter for a few minutes ;)
Happy New Year!
So they went out to get drunk and fight, much like lowlifes of any flavor do and the jihadi making this post assumes they were Tongan and assumes they were Mormon because there was a conference in the area.
I, on the other hand, am simply assuming they were lowlifes because of their actions.
No, no, NO!!!
Flying Inmen bash MORMONS - NOT the other way around!
MEGO
Then you need to actually READ what is posted; just not LOOK at it.
The war is against MormonISM - a demonic heresy.
And whose fault is THAT?
Utah's population is 62.2 percent LDS and that percentage hasn't moved much in the past three years.
Poor you; for according to a mighty famous MORMON 'prophet'; you are headed to HELL!
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
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