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Old 01-10-2013, 06:04 AM   #1
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An amazing amount of effort which looks set to fail miserably...

A MAN created a fake 60km/h speed limit sign and then photographed it to use as evidence in court to avoid a speeding fine, a court has heard.


http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/s...-1226730306435

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that is just plain dumb
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Great idea if it had of worked!
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:38 AM   #4
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What an idiot, way to dig yourself a massive hole to get out of.

To avoid a simple speeding fine....... He could have easily plead guilty and had the matter dismissed if his record was OK.

Never ceases to amaze me the idiots you see in court arguing such nonsensical things.

Reminds me of this, a well known Judge of all people BS ing to get out of a speeding fine:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/forme...0320-93sr.html
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I just noticed that in both articles they spell the word gaol "jail" is this the way we have to spell it these days because if it is I want to go and give my 2nd class teacher a huge slap.
Man she used to give me a flogging because I always used to spell it the American way.
Sorry fellas...rant over.
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Gaol is still the correct Australian spelling but we have the uneducated and TV addicted frequently spelling it wrong and as we must worship the US it gets spelled incorrectly more often than not. I spell it gaol and correct those that spell it jail
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I just noticed that in both articles they spell the word gaol "jail" is this the way we have to spell it these days because if it is I want to go and give my 2nd class teacher a huge slap.
Man she used to give me a flogging because I always used to spell it the American way.
Sorry fellas...rant over.
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Gaol is still the correct Australian spelling but we have the uneducated and TV addicted frequently spelling it wrong and as we must worship the US it gets spelled incorrectly more often than not. I spell it gaol and correct those that spell it jail
I went through primary school in the 70's and was never taught to spell it "gaol".
I only learnt that spelling on an excursion to the Old Melbourne Gaol.
Didn't make sense then and it still doesn't now.
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I went through primary school in the 70's and was never taught to spell it "gaol".
I only learnt that spelling on an excursion to the Old Melbourne Gaol.
Didn't make sense then and it still doesn't now.
your teachers were probably all American TV addicts . unfortunately our teachers don't always get it right.

as for the guy in the story he is a moron and deserves gaol time he fabricated evidence to pervert the course of justice and the courts don't take that lightly. a well known judge went to gaol for it over a speeding fine . if someone has a creative method for beating a fine without committing fraud good luck to them but committing a criminal offence to beat a speeding fine is just plain stupid
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I went through primary school in the 70's and was never taught to spell it "gaol".
I only learnt that spelling on an excursion to the Old Melbourne Gaol.
Didn't make sense then and it still doesn't now.
It's an interesting word as it actually has both traditional French (jaiole)and Anglo-Norman French (gaole) roots which is where the two origins sprang from. The Oxford English Dictionary still considers both correct for current usage.

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If he went to all that effort...a SMARTER criminal would of just pulled a speed limit sign out from somewhere else and put it in place where that one was and took a photo of it...****, even leave it there till council pick it up.

No im not telling you all to go do that to avoid fines...
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If he went to all that effort...a SMARTER criminal would of just pulled a speed limit sign out from somewhere else and put it in place where that one was and took a photo of it...****, even leave it there till council pick it up.

No im not telling you all to go do that to avoid fines...
This is the first thing that I thought of when I heard of this bloke.

Who would notice a "genuine" 60 sign missing from their street, then he would have had a perfect defence if they found a genuine sign planted there. Oh well…
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If he got away with it he would of been a genius, but he didn't so he's a dunce. The spelling of jail is how I learnt to spell it when I was at school, I only found out the correct way later in life. But I'll never spell it that way myself as I'm use to the American way, as the Aussie way looks like gay hole.LOL
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hah! Trading a speeding fine and some demerit points for some jail (gaol) time.
Someone's really S.M.R.T.

I wonder if he will try for a takesies backsies clause.
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Generally American spelling makes sense. Most English spelling is silly because its roughly 30% french origin owing to the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Imajin how much time kud be saved in skools if speling woz lojikal and we didnt have silly werdz like 'knife' or 'cheque' or 'phonetic'. Hell, it wud even make our immigrants mor produktiv!
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Imajin how much time kud be saved in skools if speling woz lojikal and we didnt have silly werdz like 'knife' or 'cheque' or 'phonetic'. Hell, it wud even make our immigrants mor produktiv!

I find this extremely hard to read.
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Wow a funny story turns into a spelling bee...

+1 for the guys imagination.
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Wow a funny story turns into a spelling bee...

+1 for the guys imagination.
Sorry mate, I shouldn't of brought it up. I just hated that teacher.
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Sorry mate, I shouldn't of brought it up. I just hated that teacher.
Nah mate all good. But seems some folk take life way to seriously on here. (Not you)
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An amazing amount of effort which looks set to fail miserably...

A MAN created a fake 60km/h speed limit sign and then photographed it to use as evidence in court to avoid a speeding fine, a court has heard.


http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/s...-1226730306435
now this bothers me...
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Giving evidence, Constable Iain Farquharson said he had never seen speed limit signs on Boothby St since he began conducting laser duties there.
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now this bothers me...
more of a context thing, as soon as youre off the main drags in radelaide you is assumed to be doing 50kmh..

unless you put your own signs up..

way i read article he initially had a win, then the po po mustve looked in to it..

lols @ spelling bee..
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Old 01-10-2013, 07:20 PM   #24
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for future referance..

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Speaking of.... How many gaols did Hawthorn kick in their GF win?
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Speaking of.... How many gaols did Hawthorn kick in their GF win?
GOAL's dunno, but did they go to GAOL?
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One thing I have always wondered if someone switched the speed limit signs, would motorists travelling at the 'new limit' still be speeding
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great! all we need now.... another tool changing speed limit signs.
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I knew of a guy who made a heap of fake multi nova cameras with a flash and all, then put them out in random places. It got in the papers. Not quite the same as faking a sign to fool a court. I think it's the "fooling a court" thing which has got this guy undone.
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I know for a fact there are no laws or limits in Pottery's street, way too much evidence to suggest there is, head there for fun if that's what you seek.
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