YouTubing High Speed Motorcyclist gets away without even a fine

Yep.

: )

Perversely, I kind of think there is something noble about youngsters saying ‘up yours, lets take some risks’ A hell of a lot of us did exactly the same sort of thing when we were young. We were stupid and we took risks. OK, the guy is an idiot. It was great wasn’t it?

Inappropriate said :

I reckon 300hrs of community service is a better punishment than a fine. He won’t be forgetting what he did in a hurry.

But it’s the vibe.

well at least she got 3/4 of the sentence right, which is above average of most of the sentences handed out these days.

I think we do a pretty good job catching crims sitting in front of the computer, lookout Stanhope’s next policy, put all police in front of a computer and put some more speed cameras up. They did a really good job in this case too.. or not.

Is video evidence less compelling than a policeman’s word?
Maybe they decided not to fine him because he basically convicted himself.

Hopefully he will be required to spend the 300 hours helping in a brain injury unit.

astrojax said :

money isn’t everything – fines aren’t the only punishment.

why do people think community service is ‘getting off lightly’? what would you earn for your next 300 hrs work??

Yeah good point Jaxmeister. Even if the kid only earned 20 bones an hour it still equates to a 6 grand fine on top of his 2 year suspension. Is that not enough for yuz?!

Why don’t we organise for the traffic coppers to demonstrate AGAINST giving tickets out.

It would seem that giving them out is worthless.

I know I wouldn’t waste my time if the Courts are not going to back me.

Oh, hold on…. The Courts aren’t already supportive of coppers.

Who would have thought……

money isn’t everything – fines aren’t the only punishment.

why do people think community service is ‘getting off lightly’? what would you earn for your next 300 hrs work??

elena said :

What! No fine!!!

Mine got a, get this, $1700 fine along that stupid strip on the Monaro Hwy going past CanTurf.

Evil reckless man you might say, but the extenuating factors where that:
– he’d was put-putting his way home in his van after a long road trip where the speed limit (on similar or worse condition roads) was 110
– he was busted going a smidge over 100
– there wasn’t anyone else on the road
– it was temporarily marked road works – so a motorbike cop ‘busted’ him going 40+ over in a 60 zone
– (he wasn’t filming it to put on youtube)

The evil cop was snide and cocky, mine politely tried to challenge it, even drop it back down in to the realms of realistic punishment-fitting-the-crime sort of fine, particularly in this economic climate, but the vindictive power-grubbing hate-inspiring copper loved it up and seemed to enjoy the whole proceeding.

In the end we payed the fine – nearly $2 grand for my otherwise painfully-conservatively-driving beau – and it really bites.

Then this reckless bastard doesn’t even get fined.

What’s going on here?

Boo hoo. Dispute it don’t whine…. that this fool got off lightly isn’t a surprise to anybody is it?

I’m led to believe that people sentenced to community service are organised into teams that do stuff like painting of schools and government buildings. If you’ve got a job – or reasonable prospects of one, the community service is done on weekends.

Get real people! Do you think this tosser is going to stay off the road because he does not have a license???

And how is community service enforced and monitored? He going to walk around picking up litter for 30 minutes for only half of that 8 weeks, and that will be that.

This punishment isn’t going to do s**t to change this twerps attitude. Through him in the new prison for a couple of months, I hear there’s plenty of room at the moment.

and with his cavalier disregard to the rules that most of us have to live by I doubt not having a licence will stop him getting on his bike if/when he buys another own….

elena said :

What! No fine!!!
Then this reckless bastard doesn’t even get fined.
What’s going on here?

I reckon 300hrs of community service is a better punishment than a fine. He won’t be forgetting what he did in a hurry.

Great punishment 🙂 smiles allround

What! No fine!!!

Mine got a, get this, $1700 fine along that stupid strip on the Monaro Hwy going past CanTurf.

Evil reckless man you might say, but the extenuating factors where that:
– he’d was put-putting his way home in his van after a long road trip where the speed limit (on similar or worse condition roads) was 110
– he was busted going a smidge over 100
– there wasn’t anyone else on the road
– it was temporarily marked road works – so a motorbike cop ‘busted’ him going 40+ over in a 60 zone
– (he wasn’t filming it to put on youtube)

The evil cop was snide and cocky, mine politely tried to challenge it, even drop it back down in to the realms of realistic punishment-fitting-the-crime sort of fine, particularly in this economic climate, but the vindictive power-grubbing hate-inspiring copper loved it up and seemed to enjoy the whole proceeding.

In the end we payed the fine – nearly $2 grand for my otherwise painfully-conservatively-driving beau – and it really bites.

Then this reckless bastard doesn’t even get fined.

What’s going on here?

At the very least, they should have fined him whatever the going rate is for 45km/h+ over the speed limit.

It’s pretty piss weak not to have fined him, when virtually all other traffic offences incur fines.

Hell, I’ve been fined over $100 for parking in a no parking zone on a Sunday afternoon where the only other person to go past my car was the bastard that booked me. Sure I did the wrong thing, but it had no effect on anyone else. This clown fangs around Canberra’s streets at 200km/h+ in broad daylight, with other road users around, and gets no fine.

Bizarre.

Damning evidence on you tube or not? I think that it would be a difficult case as there is only a speedo to look at in the vid.

You could work out the time it takes him to go from one place to another, and calculate average speed. But I suspect that even if the speedo was reading a bit over, he must have still been going pretty bloody fast.

Two years loss of licence + 300 hrs is pretty tough. I wish they would give that sentence to DUI offenders.

Joel Mason, 20, from Kingston, may I take this opportunity to inform you that you are a complete imbecile.

Oh, and to heartily laugh at you losing your license.

My thanks

ABC have this now. Seems that the claim that was posted on here at the time that he’d managed to wreck his bike soon after filming the clips was in fact true. Difficult to feel sympathy for that, I’m afraid.

Two years loss of license keeps this tool off our roads, hopefully, for a while.

300 hrs of community service, not too shabby.

Maybe he’ll value his license a bit more following this.

Two years of catching the bus will teach him…

And he’ll have to catch buses to get there.
Cruel punishment indeed…

PBO, they found the original unedited footage at his house.

300 hours of community service is reasonably steep – that’s 8 solid weeks of 7.5 hour days.

Damning evidence on you tube or not? I think that it would be a difficult case as there is only a speedo to look at in the vid. Just because he loaded it onto you tube and it features a bike that may or may not be his going around and area that has been identified as canberra, oddly enough that, in some cases would not be enough to charge this idiot. I could be wrong though.

Damn! It’s been removed from YouTube.

johnboy said :

Pommy bastard said :

Idiocy, what message does this send out to young people?

Innocent until proven guilty? Let’s see what his defence was before turning the dudgeon to 11 eh?

Fair point John. But teh evidence on YouTube was pretty damning, was it not?

Yeah, I’d have like to have heard his defence.

Pommy bastard said :

Idiocy, what message does this send out to young people?

Innocent until proven guilty? Let’s see what his defence was before turning the dudgeon to 11 eh?

Idiocy, what message does this send out to young people?

And people wonder why 10km/h over the limit isn’t taken seriously by most people.

That certainly was a quick turnaround.

I bet he made a quick getaway from court that day.

He must be a fast talker.

Motobie!!

… or prove that it was possible to fake the speed.

At a complete guess he might have been able to prove that he faked the speeds in the video.

WTF? How could he be sent walking??

The threat to publish them is an important deterrent.

But enough of that, let’s get back on topic please.

It varies depending on what sort of day I’m having with the abusive nutjobs.

The foxhole has been upgraded to bunker status?