since u guys like bagging the Poice so much, ya may as well blame them for this to. On a more serious note this SUCKS
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Community work term for u-turn death driver
22.10.2004
By LOUISA CLEAVE
Engineering student James Stampa only ever wanted to design high-performance vehicles.
While he studied for the necessary degrees to achieve his ambition, the 20-year-old also worked hard to own them.
His last purchase was a 600cc Honda motorbike and he was so thrilled with his new bike, his mother recalls, that he gave her a rare kiss the night before he died.
"We were in the kitchen talking and James told us his bike was the best thing he'd ever owned, even better than his stereo, and he was so happy I even got a kiss," said Sam Fuller-Stampa.
"When he was a little boy hugs and kisses were abundant, but as he became older they became rationed, and being so tall - James was about 1.9m - I couldn't sneak them so I had to bribe him."
The following day James was taking friend Joe Griffiths for a ride on the motorbike during their lunch break at Auckland University when a vehicle made a u-turn in front of him in Symonds St, central Auckland. He braked heavily but could not stop in time, and collided with the car.
James' sister Holly was just leaving one of her own university classes and walked into the middle of the accident scene. She had to phone their parents with the devastating news that he was dead.
Student Bo Cong pleaded guilty to careless driving causing the death of James and injuring Joe, who recently turned 21 and still suffers from a leg injury suffered in the March 25 crash.
Cong, who came from China in January 2001, pleaded not guilty to driving while forbidden. He said he did not understand the meaning of a ticket he was issued two months before the crash for failing to produce a New Zealand driver's licence.
Judge Simon Lockhart, QC, found Cong not guilty of driving while forbidden to drive. He said there was a possibility Cong did not know what "forbidden" meant because of his limited English.
Yesterday Cong was sentenced to 250 hours' community work and disqualified from driving for two years.
Mrs Fuller-Stampa described the sentence as "a load of garbage" but she did not think a prison sentence would have served any use.
The family still grieved for their son and brother, she said.
James was in his third year of a degree in mechanical engineering and had started to make inquiries in Europe, Asia and America about studying aerodynamics - the next step in his path to becoming a designer of high-performance cars.
Mrs Fuller-Stampa said James worked part-time jobs from age 15 to buy cars and motorbikes. The aim was to cash up his assets eventually and pay for his overseas education.
His other passion in life was big game fishing, and his 1996 national junior record for a 71kg mako shark caught on a 8kg tackle still stands, said Mrs Fuller-Stampa.
James spent holidays with his grandparents in the Bay of Islands and his grandfather, Snooks Fuller, who began the Fuller ferry company, introduced him to fishing.
Over the years James caught eight marlin, which he tagged and released, and enjoyed his last big- game fishing expedition with his grandfather on a Fiji holiday to celebrate his 20th birthday.
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and while we are bitching about our knowledgable sentencing ones - compulsiry steralization should of been carried out at conviction 1.
Poor health saves fraudster from jail
21.10.2004 2.00 pm
A Rotorua mother of eight with more than 40 previous dishonesty convictions has escaped going to jail because of her ill health.
Maru Teremoana Karika, 36, beneficiary, admitted eight charges of fraudulently using a document and three of attempted fraud.
Ms Karika was one of two women who used a dead man's cheques, made out for amounts totalling $23,000, to top up a Warehouse credit card between August 29 and September 10 last year.
Judge Phillip Cooper told Rotorua District Court Karika had 43 previous convictions for dishonesty and was jailed two years in 2001 for some of those offences.
She was on parole when she committed the latest fraud offences.
However, it was not appropriate to send Ms Karika to jail primarily because she had a serious illness and it was not known if she required more surgery.
He noted Ms Karika was also pregnant.
He sentenced her to 200 hours' community work and said a final prison warning would be put on her record.
Ms Karika's associate was sentenced to 120 hours' community work last month.
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Originally Posted by Hoon
All cops know ching-chong anyways as all the instructions for their radars are written innit ehh hur hur hur....get me another beer Jed!!!
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