Victorian Road Toll - 2023 Worst year for road deaths since 2008

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Its all a bit of a laugh, the newer legislation has harsher punishment than the older stuff. its usually knee-jerk political responses to an issue that grabbed media attention and got the public talking, hoon laws and their extension are a good recent example, or Victoria and its criminalisation of traffic offences, they hand out criminal records in VIC like lollies.

Things like family/domestic violence offences, drug dealing, assaults et al where there's no mandatory minimums and there's a lot of room for lawyers to work their magic, one of the cases that was up when I was going through was family violence offender who beat the snot out of his ex wife who had an AVO out against him, and he got less than all of us on various driving offences. He had a massive history of alcohol abuse and family violence, all his siblings had AVOs out on him, one of the things he did on this massive rampage was called up his brother then threatened to eat the family dog, gets into fights with police, beats the crap out of the ex missus

He had this young looking kid with curly red hair in a blue suit representing him and he had the magistrate wrapped around his finger, it was amazing.

If anyone is bored go sit in on your local magistrates court one day when they're sitting and just observe what happens, the public can sit in and watch.

We had 53 of us going through on the same day in a small regional court, and it was things like me and the hoons, family violence offenders, drug dealer, disputes between ex wife and new wife over school pickup nastiness and all sorts of things.

I wouldn't have minded working with local police and having to do the knock or attend fatal accidents/hospitals and that sort of thing, would probably have more of an effect on my attitude than just taking my licence off me for 13 months and spending about $4000 all up in fees/fines et al.

And even if there are "mandatory minimums" such as in one punch attacks, they're not enforced. Welcome to Dan's (or Dan's lackey's) lawless peepee-soaked heckhole. Drugs are defacto legalised, assault is essentially entirely decriminalised, and outright murder is called "manslaughter" because the poor wittle offenders somehow didn't realise that beating someone to a bloody pulp would kill them.