[First filed: December 26, 2008 @ 09:16]
After we have all had some great discussion on road safety in Canberra, particularly relating to motorcycles recently, I noticed a new posting on YouTube today.
Hopefully nature will be kind to ”Joel” in the clip, but it proves that we “normal” folk worry about going a few kilometres over the limit and being caught by the cameras, while some idiots choose to break the law and film themselves doing so.
Let’s hope the cops catch this guy before a kangaroo does – shouldn’t be hard – how many Z750s are there in Canberra?
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NL7CmfFH3lQ
[Ed (Che): Looks like the CT has read RiotACT and jumped on the bandwagon this morning]
And how much of this sort of behaviour do you think we’d see if there was a regular and visible police presence on the roads?
Comment above by VY, head, nail….
As a sports car driver I can tell you that over the last 2.5 years I’ve seen a definite increase in the amount of marked patrol cars on the roads, well at least down south here I have.
I pretty much see one every time I get in my car and drive, and I don’t forget the amount of unmarked vehicles going around as well.
Pisses me off. Pricks like this give sane riders (the vast majority) a bad name. Don’t get me wrong, riding a motorcycle at high speed is one of the most awesomely fun things you can do, but public roads are not the place to do it.
I’m less worried about a kangaroo catching him than some poor bastard’s driver-side door…
Personally I hope the roo gets him first…
You guys are a bunch of nancy’s. Waa.
Part 2 here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=poxYs15W9V4
What a tool. Only a matter of time before he comes unstuck.
That wouldn’t be the same as this Joel?
With photos of the same red speedo doing 200+ on Anzac Parade.
and more photos including a Z750. The latest pics have an obscured number plate, but there’s another on of what appears to be the same bike with the NSW rego JMM88. Male 20 years old, virgo sign (so August/Sept ‘88 DOB). Is that enought for the AFP to send him a ticket (or at least a caution)?
Damn, nice work Kramer!
What is it with F***tards doing illegal stuff and then placing all the evidence of it up on the web for all (inc the coppers) to see?
I personally hope that when he has his accident (and it will happen, the web is littered with people bragging about their skills to have an accident only days later) it’s between him and a tree, and not some other road user.
VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :
Since you obviously are an expert in this field, please grace us with your plan on how this could be achieved to the satisfaction of everybody….
Simple, put more police in marked cars driving around. If you want to even go one better tell them to be on the lookout for people doing stupid things, not just speeding.
Nice bit of sleuthing there Kramer….
G-Fresh said :
Hope it’s you he wipes out, not one of us “Nancy’s”
Since you obviously are an expert in this field, please grace us with your plan on how this could be achieved to the satisfaction of everybody….
I didn’t claim to be an expert, I gave my opinion. Also, what makes you think I need to come up with a plan to achieve this?
Oh I’m looking forward to this dckhead being roadkill and reading his obituary in the CT. And who said lane filtering was perfectly safe? One example of him going between 2 cars at over 100kph, and he nearly got killed twice in the 2nd video by vehicles merging. Too bad they missed.
Anyone forwarded the video links to the AFP yet?
Pesty said :
Ooh. Feisty nancy.
VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :
Small and unremarkable?
Furry cyclops python…
Heh, his tattoo “??” cracks me up. What he wants to say, “God’s warrior”, would be “???” (assuming he specifically wants to use the word ’samurai’ as opposed to ’soldier’ etc). Wouldn’t you at least hit google translator before getting a language you don’t understand tattooed on yourself?
I guess if you’re stupid enough to put up a photo of yourself in the same album as a photo of you going 200kph down Anzac parade, thinking doesn’t really come naturally… it takes too much effort to be that cool to bother with anything else.
Looks like the site doesn’t support Japanese text, then. ????????
Says he is a christian – looks like he wants an express lane to check out and meet his maker.
The only thing he is is irresponsible.
problem with this guy is that he WILL have an accident. He WILL kill others. and probably survive. This is a mobile organ donor. If he is a christian, so what? he is still a fool, no matter what his religion.
Someone send this URL to AFP before video is ripped down.
Call me an old fart but I have reported this to the AFP traffic operations team, and have local copies of all offending material for when the website and youtube files are taken down.
peter@home said :
hmm a motorcyclist vs pretty much anything = motorcyclist lose.
unless he happened to hit a pedestrian, but that would be difficult hit.
Danman said :
nice one! i’m sure they could probably get enough from the videos if they tried hard enough even without the obvious identifiers. I wonder if this idiot is the same person as the one(s) that did 200kph past the cameras on the parkway a few months back too..
Danman said :
Well done that man! If I had had the technical savvy I’d have done the same.
Pommy bastard said :
+1. I just cannot comprehend this kind of stupidity. I hope this clown finds a traffic light or light pole to ram into rather than an innocent bystander.
BerraBoy68 said :
bd84 said :
hmm bd84. Kinetic Energy is equal to half the mass times the velocity squared.
300kg of motorcycle and idiot travelling at 230km/h has more kinetic energy than a two tonne vehicle travelling at 80km/h, more than enough to be lethal to other drivers and passengers, as well as pedestrians, cyclists and other motorcyclists. I don’t wish him harm but he shoud be removed from the road for everybody’s safety
I have it on good authority that this twat is no longer an issue, and that he had a crash a little while ago. Problem over. Natural justice is so sweet…
So… he went to meet his maker – or just incapacitated for life (Evil grin)
People who abuse their privilege to ride on the road so irresponsibly deserve a little extra attention from Karma – and a lot less respect from society.
So now we wait for Eppiphany-Rae-Tahyler Smith-Jones (Or last years Miss SummerGnats) to tell us how good he was and how he baked her a cake.
bd84 said :
“Joel age 20″ stated on Kramer’s find that he’s planning to go for a pilot’s licence next year … should let the pilot licensing authorities know as well … I wonder whether he has designs on the RAAF? Presumably he would be weeded out very early …
I-filed said :
not the kind of hotshot they are looking for…
Looks like the Canberra Times has been trawling the RiotACT pages for stories again…
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/police-target-youtube-speed-hoon/1396688.aspx
Funny how the CT journos never like to acknowledge where they picked their story leads from.
Following up on Kramer’s original investigative work, it appears that if you do a search in google for JMM006 there is a profile on Bebo that gives a full name, NSW location and pictures that correlate with the Myspace and YouTube images… shouldn’t be too hard for the police to track the individual down given the bread-crumb trail he scattered across the interwebs.
Joel features on the front page of today’s CT. Wonder where they got the story from? I’m surprised they didn’t claim Kramers detective work as their own too
Perhaps a few comments in the CT, informing the populace of the sterling work done here, would not go amiss?
Just think, we have the power to get stuff on the front page of the CT! Woo hoo. Pity no one reads it.
Danman said:
Danman said :
CLASSIC!
Perhaps a few comments in the CT, informing the populace of the sterling work done here, would not go amiss?
One would think so….
and at more than 200km/h on Anzac Parade …. Both videos appear to be shot in the inner south
wow, those CT journos have the grasp of their city – geography being their strong point, too…
Maybe they’ve outsourced the CT to the Illawarra Muckury.
Just saw on the 10 news update that “a man has been arrested after posting a video on youtube” (showing the same bike footage)
Shame its only the absolute fools who get caught this way.
I wonder if putting a stinger out around 10 tonight might get me the idiot you likes racing his turbo down my street till the pop-off valve goes off. I might even call an ambulance if it rolls, or maybe not.
Haha, reminds me of the forum website in Calgary that tracked down a stolen car and a few of the posting members staked out the culprits house until the police showed up.
They found out all of the information about the scum via the interwebz.
Just saw on the 10 news update that “a man has been arrested after posting a video on youtube” (showing the same bike footage
It’s now on ABC Canberra’s website.
A 20-year-old Canberra man is being questioned by police over a video posted on a website showing a motorcyclist travelling at more than 220 kilometres an hour.
From that article:
“We want Canberrans to recognise themselves that simply promoting this sort of behaviour, viewing this sort of behaviour and commenting on it online encourages this sort of thing and it’s quite simply a stupid irresponsible act that puts other people at risk,” he said.
Is he having a go at us?
Deckard said :
I think the comment is more directed at the dckhead posting his antics on youtube. But I think everyone should do it, makes it easier for us to send the links to the AFP to investigate!
I think Varley’s comment must be directed at us. Unless he has been misquoted. If this is what he actually said he should read the comments above and apologise.
Got an email from ACT Policing today stating that they were currently investigating this matter (Read charging IMO) – the power of RiotACT prevails, good detective work Kramer…A win for all law abiding road users.