Be careful with those YouTube videos

[Forest]

This story ran in The Age this morning. It relates to an incident in Victoria, but the lesson is a good one. Especially if you ride a distinctive bike.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/web-video-hoons-downfall-20081203-6q85.html


Web Video Hoon's Downfall

A man has been charged more than seven months after doing a burnout - because his crime was caught on a mobile phone and posted on the video-sharing website YouTube.

Traffic management unit officers admit the capture of the Kangaroo Flat man fell into place.

It began when an anonymous resident emailed the link of the burnout on YouTube to the Prosecutions Office at Bendigo police.

Leading Senior Constable Richard Webster said police viewed the footage, noting the distinctive white Commodore.

Days later, Leading Senior Constable Peter Dyer was at a service station when he saw the car filling up. A bumper sticker on the car bore the same name as the YouTube video.

Following investigations, the owner of the vehicle was called in for questioning.

"He made full admissions and admitted he did in the burnout in Arblaster Street in California Gully earlier this year,’’ Senior Constable Webster said.

Senior Constable Dyer then went to the address and saw tyre marks still visible on the street.

Knocking on several doors, two residents recalled the incident, with one pinpointing the date to April 25.

Police say the vehicle cannot be impounded so long after the incident, but they will apply for the 25-year-old offender to be banned from the roads for three months.

He faces charges of careless driving, improper use of a motor vehicle and causing undue noise, and will appear at Bendigo Magistrates Court at a date to be fixed.

[R6_kid]

So how many babies did he kill?

[Blackshear]

Oh lawdie lawdie. Someone did a little skiddy, and the fun police actually took the time to forward this to the authorities?
Pshaw.
3 months is pretty bad for a skid.

Chase down real people, if you don't mind. Thanks.

[spookytooth]

And if he had of said nope not me ...

[Insanity_rules]

Aussie has even bigger fun police than here. I got a speeding ticket on the way back to Melbourne from Phillip island, I was clocked doing 115Ks (100 area) by a helicopter then intercepted by a car. From the dressing down I got you'd think I murdered someone.

Only found out the heli was involved while I was talking to the copper (once he'd returned to human mode)

[Blackshear]

Aussie has even bigger fun police than here. I got a speeding ticket on the way back to Melbourne from Phillip island, I was clocked doing 115Ks (100 area) by a helicopter then intercepted by a car. From the dressing down I got you'd think I murdered someone.

Only found out the heli was involved while I was talking to the copper (once he'd returned to human mode)

Wut?
Cause that's not a waste of rescources.
I guess it depends how many they catch in such a short time, but goddamn!

[slimjim]

yea..hear the police are gona use aircaft over the xmas period,,,patroling from turangi to auckland with the hight light of x555 calls and patrolcars...shit be looking above an ahead when riding...

[Brooke]

yea..hear the police are gona use aircaft over the xmas period,,,patroling from turangi to auckland with the hight light of x555 calls and patrolcars...shit be looking above an ahead when riding...

Oh the big brother world we are starting to become...

[roy.nz]

Bring on the chopper coppers. what a waste of time now all my tax money is going to be used to fuel a chopper so it can get x555 calls quicker, how sad :angry2:

[munterk6]

lucky for us Southerners our lice(Po) cant afford to run choppers lol!
In fact, in some areas in the deep boonies, they cant even afford the cars hahahah!!
Why the fuck dont they just stick to crime fightin....ya dont dont see Spiderman handing out speeding tickets to little ol ladies doing 6kmh over the limit now do ya?
Hes the role model for the lice(Po) you know.:done:

[madbikeboy]

If we can only afford a single working herky bird, how the how can the country afford multiple heli's to catch speeders..

[davebullet]

Good. Idiot doing burnouts in a street. Probably not the first time and likely a reckless driver. Stupid enough to film it, post it publicly then admit to it. Hope he learns from it and considers 3 months loss lucky. Of course he'll probably go onto something more dangerous, until eventually some innocent will get wiped out.