At the hearing held by the committee to decide Scottie’s fate, one of his defenders made the comment: “At least he’d had the decency to remove his spurs”.
As we’ve seen time and time again in politics, sport and many other facets of life, moral integrity has nothing whatsoever to do with who is allowed to play the game or how the game is played. But even those who would normally get away with sidestepping the rules are sometimes required to obey them.
Such was the case with Scottie McFadden. Nobody gave a damn about whether or not he’d fucked Jimmy Brown’s wife into unconsciousness. But the committee members of the Uranus Lawn Bowls Club did give a damn about one of their members having the gall, the hide and the downright temerity to run across the club’s greens wearing high-heeled cowboy boots in contravention of the club’s rules.
Scottie McFadden had his membership suspended for life. As he is unlikely to ever receive an invitation to join the tennis club, he now drinks and socialises down at the Royal Hotel.
This should be a lesson for us all. Even places that everyone sees as being the arsehole of the world have standards.
That’s something it would be wise to remember if you ever find yourself passing through the little Riverina town of Uranus while on your way to another nowhere, somewhere else.
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