White Commodore meets its fate

p1 said :

Antagonist said :

First line: “… seized a second vehicle within a 24 hour period after an organised burn-out event last night (Wednesday, December 5).”

Then the next line: “police attended Brindabella Road, Coree in response to an anonymous report of burn-out activity”.

Last night, someone “organised” a “burnout event”. This means more then one person, with more then one vehicle arrived at a prearranged place and did a prearranged burnout.

The police received an anonymous tip that this event was taking place. They arrived and caught the offender.

There is no conflict in what the police have said in regards to this.

It ties in with the rest of what I said (which is not quoted). It is less about the conflict and more about the whole piece flowing better if the first five paragraphs (sentences) were combined to one paragraph. Joining the first five paragraphs (sentences) to form one single paragraph would look better and read better. The choppy way it reads at the moment leaves a feeling of awkwardness around the series of events that led to the confiscation. And as a Ford fan, I am still happy to see any Commodore taken off the road, even if only for a short while.

I get the impression that five dot points were dropped into a ‘Dear John’ pro-forma (the last three paragraphs). The two writing styles are very different.

Is there a form that one has to submit to the AFP if one is organising a “burn-out event”? Where do I obtain said form?

Might write a deranged letter to Shane seeking some clarification and assistance.

Grimm said :

Jim Jones said :

Grimm said :

All while there are hundreds of unsolved ACTUAL crimes, the AFP are driving out to Coree to catch kids doing burnouts. I guess there’s revenue in traffic offenses and not in catching people who commit real crimes though…

Yep – police stop totally stop trying to arrest people until they’ve consulted some knuckledragging revhead bogans to check their opinion on whether it constitutes an ‘ACTUAL crime’ TM.

Well, being neither a revhead or a bogan, I still see no value in police wasting their time catching kids doing burnouts on a deserted country road. I’d prefer they focused their attention on all the assaults, robberies, rapes, muggings and drug dealing that goes on. Stopping that is of value to the community. Stopping people doing burnouts in the middle of nowhere is not. It also hampers natural selection.

I can understand them being busted if the police saw them doing this in a suburban street or somewhere that they are likely to injure other people, but driving all the way out to Coree in some sort of burnout sting operation is laughable at best, and a waste of time and resources.

Someone tipped off the cops, so someone was obviously quite unhappy about it.

Not sure why you think it’s ridiculous for the cops to respond to reports of incidents happening outside of the city – the same laws apply, don’t they?

Jim Jones said :

Grimm said :

All while there are hundreds of unsolved ACTUAL crimes, the AFP are driving out to Coree to catch kids doing burnouts. I guess there’s revenue in traffic offenses and not in catching people who commit real crimes though…

Yep – police stop totally stop trying to arrest people until they’ve consulted some knuckledragging revhead bogans to check their opinion on whether it constitutes an ‘ACTUAL crime’ TM.

Well, being neither a revhead or a bogan, I still see no value in police wasting their time catching kids doing burnouts on a deserted country road. I’d prefer they focused their attention on all the assaults, robberies, rapes, muggings and drug dealing that goes on. Stopping that is of value to the community. Stopping people doing burnouts in the middle of nowhere is not. It also hampers natural selection.

I can understand them being busted if the police saw them doing this in a suburban street or somewhere that they are likely to injure other people, but driving all the way out to Coree in some sort of burnout sting operation is laughable at best, and a waste of time and resources.

That road is dark and infested with wild animals, you’re probably more likely to crash doing the 80km/h speed limit then you are doing a 2km/h burnout

Grimm said :

All while there are hundreds of unsolved ACTUAL crimes, the AFP are driving out to Coree to catch kids doing burnouts. I guess there’s revenue in traffic offenses and not in catching people who commit real crimes though…

Yep – police stop totally stop trying to arrest people until they’ve consulted some knuckledragging revhead bogans to check their opinion on whether it constitutes an ‘ACTUAL crime’ TM.

Antagonist said :

First line: “… seized a second vehicle within a 24 hour period after an organised burn-out event last night (Wednesday, December 5).”

Then the next line: “police attended Brindabella Road, Coree in response to an anonymous report of burn-out activity”.

Last night, someone “organised” a “burnout event”. This means more then one person, with more then one vehicle arrived at a prearranged place and did a prearranged burnout.

The police received an anonymous tip that this event was taking place. They arrived and caught the offender.

There is no conflict in what the police have said in regards to this.

Antagonist said :

First line: “… seized a second vehicle within a 24 hour period after an organised burn-out event last night (Wednesday, December 5).”

Then the next line: “police attended Brindabella Road, Coree in response to an anonymous report of burn-out activity”.

Please make up your mind, ACT Pol. Was the car seized as a result of some amazing intelligence gathering exercise relating to organisation of a burn-out event, or because an anonymous report of burn-out activity?quote]

I don’t get your point.

The media release is stating the event was organised. This usually means that two or more people got in touch with each other and said ‘let’s do this at this spot at this time’. It then states that someone, who declined to provide details of their identity, contacted them and let them know what was going on.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Oh, and to the people who think the offence was committed in the middle of nowhere, since someone called the police it obviously wasn’t ‘in the middle of nowhere’ but more likely on nowhere’s edge. Either that or one of the ‘in crowd’ dogged you.

Grimm said :

All while there are hundreds of unsolved ACTUAL crimes, the AFP are driving out to Coree to catch kids doing burnouts. I guess there’s revenue in traffic offenses and not in catching people who commit real crimes though…

Doing burnouts is an offence under Section 5B Burnouts and other prohibited conduct, of Division 2.1 Speeding and other dangerous driving offences, under the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic
Management) Act 1999. As such, it is both an “ACTUAL” crime and a “real” crime.

Do you mean that you wish the ACT Policing would focus on crimes that you either don’t partake in, or don’t condone? Wouldn’t it be joyous if we could use that as a reason…

Defendent: “Your Honour, I would like to submit that my arrest was unwarranted, as I don’t believe that losing control of a vehicle and causing the death of an observer is an actual, real crime.”
Judge: “Oh, well, that changes everything. Case dismissed.”

Grimm said :

All while there are hundreds of unsolved ACTUAL crimes, the AFP are driving out to Coree to catch kids doing burnouts. I guess there’s revenue in traffic offenses and not in catching people who commit real crimes though…

If they crash, everyone has a cry of why the police didn’t do anything to stop it. They also annoy the local farmers, cause risk of crashing themselves, or starting a fire. It also makes it a pretty uninviting place for people trying to drive through.