Motorcycle thief arrested by Armed Offenders Squad

**Slyer** · 29th July 2009, 16:41

I earn 32,000 a year.
That's $6400 in taxes per year.

It would take 15 of me just to support a single prisoner, and that's if our taxes paid for nothing else...
(No counting GST...)

**vgcspares** · 29th July 2009, 16:46

Originally Posted by jetboy

My god. That's because there's SkyTv, heating, 3 decent meals etc.

I can't even bloody afford Sky and I'm an 'honest' citizen!

I had occasion to visit a biker in Paremoremo, didn't look like any kind of picnic to me - if they were spending $92k pa on him it must have been through his per capita share of the total Justice department bill

**The Stranger:Me** · 29th July 2009, 16:59

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Don't believe it for an instant, we all know the police do nothing but hand out speeding tickets and don't do anything about real crime

They only got him because he was speeding from the scene.

**Motu** · 29th July 2009, 17:23

Armed robbery of bikes in broad daylight? I think there is more to it than a bike theft.Maybe ''I want my bike back''......'Not until you pay for it'....and ultimatly he took it by force.And then went home.

**mossy1200** · 29th July 2009, 17:36

Isnt bike theft the modern day equivalent of horse theft.
I though the punishment was a public hanging.

**jetboy** · 30th July 2009, 08:27

Originally Posted by vgcspares

I had occasion to visit a biker in Paremoremo, didn't look like any kind of picnic to me - if they were spending $92k pa on him it must have been through his per capita share of the total Justice department bill

No and it's not ment to be a picnic.

I agree that not-so-serious crimes requiring jailtime should have better conditions than serious murderers and rapists etc, but SkyTV?

**cs363** · 30th July 2009, 10:27

Originally Posted by Motu

Armed robbery of bikes in broad daylight? I think there is more to it than a bike theft.Maybe ''I want my bike back''......'Not until you pay for it'....and ultimatly he took it by force.And then went home.

Yeah maybe, though reading this: http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=1&t=102&id=40069 tends to make me think it was possibly a gang related theft. Maybe a combination of the two?