Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Remember this dude who walked up to the valet attendant at Crown and schmoozed his way into them handing over the keys to the $350,000 car which wasn't his..?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/794210...led-four-months

Kinkstaah, I was going to post the same thing. Unfortunately this is how the court system works. Almost all the sentences are concurrent almost giving crooks free rein to go on crime spree once they know they will be going inside. Who cares if you go to jail for 1 crime or 1000 if the sentence is exactly the same. He must have some serious prior history and done A LOT of frauds to get 35 months.

yes I realise the article says the 4 months is being served concurrently, but the judges comments about the sentencing were interesting:

Chief Magistrate Ian Gray said the crime was "bizarre" but not significant enough to warrant a tougher sentence.

"I accept that this was a spontaneous act," he said. "There are no aggravating circumstances of this crime which call for an additional period (of imprisonment) to be served," he said.

This implies that the crime was not considered significant enough to be more harsh in sentencing, regardless of whether or not there was an existing sentence for other matters.

Van isn't happy about how soft the penalty is either. I'm continually giving him sh|t about it.

The poker community still thinks it was a publicity stunt by Full Tilt Poker to promote his promotion to becoming a sponsored pro.

He's now trading up to a 458 pretty soon.

He would have only got 4 months because it was a Ferrari and in the media and sentence was irrelevant due to his other matters. Could steal 100 Skylines and would only get a suspended sentence or similar normally.

This is how the court system works. Crooks go on crime wave and then Adjourn matters over and over so in the end it all the matters get heard at once, then they plea guilty and everything gets wrapped into one and all the sentences are consolidated.

There is no deterrence at court and this is why most proper crooks continually re-offend.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • @Murray_Calavera  If I were an expert I wouldn't be in here looking for assistance.  I am extremely computer literate, have above average understanding on how things should be working and how they should tie together.  If I need to go to a professional tuner so be it, but I'd much rather learn and do things myself even if it means looking for some guidance along the way and blowing up a few engines. @GTSBoy  I was hoping it would be as simple as a large vacuum leak somewhere but I'm unable to find anything, all lines seem to be well capped or going where they need to be, and when removed there is vacuum felt on the tube.  It would be odd for the Haltech built in MAP to be faulty, the GTT tune I imported had it enabled from the start, I incorrectly assumed it was reading a signal from the stock MAP, but that doesn't exist.  After running a vacuum hose to the ECU the signal doesn't change more than 0.2 in either direction.   I'll probably upload a video of my settings tomorrow, as it stands I'm able to daily drive, but getting stuttering when giving it gas from idle, so pulling away from lights is a slow process of revving it up and feathering the clutch until its moving, then it will accelerate fine.  It sounds like I need to get to the bottom of the manifold pressure issue, but the ignition timing section is most intimidating to me and will probably let a pro do that part.  Tomorrow I'll try a different vacuum line to T off of, with any luck I selected one that was already bypassed during the DBW swap. @feartherb26  I do have +T in the works but wanted to wait until Spring to start with that swap since this is my good winter AWD vehicle.  When removing the butterfly, did it leave a bunch of holes in the manifold that you needed to plug?  I thought about removing it but assumed it would be a mess.   I notice no difference when capping the vacuum line to it or letting it do its thing.  This whole thing has convinced me to just get a forward facing manifold when the time comes though.
    • Update: tested my spark plugs that are supposed to be 5ohms with a 10% deviation and one gave me a 0 ohms reading and the rest were 3.9ohm<, so one bad and the others on their way out.
    • 9" wheels are a little too wide for a RWD 32. They can fit. People have put R33 GTR wheels on 32s for years and years. But they are a very tight squeeze. This has been known for about 30 years. As I said - there is no difference between a 17 and an 18 in terms of what will fit. The rolling diameter needs to stay about the same as stock - not very much larger. If you increase that, you will start to have problems. If you increae rolling diamater at the same time as yo increase width, you will have problems earlier. as 9" wheels are pushing the boundaries already, you would need to be careful with tyre choice. I would put 8.5s on the front of mine, but would expect problems with 9s.
    • post up screen shots of your injector tables
    • Diagnostic flow for a code 21 says check signal at the ECU pins, on a voltmeter of some kind it should read 0.1V at idle, 0.12V cranking, 0.15-0.25V at 2000 rpm. Check each coil such that +1, -3 is infinite or very high resistance, -3, +2 should do the same. (-1, +3), (+3, -2), (+1, -2), and (-1, +2) should all be somewhere between 0 ohms and high resistance. If you trace the path from the coil pin all the way back to the ECU in the diagram the resistance you measure at the coil vs connected to the harness should be pretty much the same. 
×
×
  • Create New...