Karma - a true story

[Homestar]

So, I just have to relate this story - you couldn't write a story like this.

A neighbour parked his brand new Husaburg dirt bike at another neighbours after a quick ride to shoot the breeze and have a beer. He had only just made it out the back door when he heard the bike start up - by the time he got to the front door, some low life was riding up the street with it...

The Police came around and took all the details, said they would keep an eye out or it. Over the next week, the local constabulary saw - and chased it 3 times, but each time they got away.

The 4th time, the thief wasn't so lucky. They drove past a Police car pulling out from a side street - who, on recognising the bike, gave chase - it lasted 200 metres. As the thief gunned it, he lost control and dropped the bike sliding to a halt in a round a bout. As he stood up, he got cleaned up by a car coming through the intersection... The car ran him over, but it gets better - the driver of that vehicle thought they had stopped on top of him - so reversed up just as he was getting to his feet to do a runner - only to be run over again. With a severe compound fracture of his left femur - ripped out from his knee to his hip - he's now not going anywhere. Ambulance was called and he was carted off to be patched up.

Great story, but it still gets better... The guy who owns the bikes Wife is a nurse at the local hospital. Guess which ward he ended up in...

So, after 5 weeks in Hospital, he was transferred to a rehab unit, he has had a bedside court appearance and has been refused bail, so once he can use crutches, it's off to he remand centre until his day in court.

The Police raided his house, and found drugs and stolen goods there, as well as 5 of his mates, who were arrested on various charges and have had their houses searched - again. With drugs and stolen goods found.

So, the Police are stoked with the result, there is video footage from the patrol car of the whole incident - my mate has seen it un officially as it can't be released until after the court case - can't wait to see it...

So, who believes in Karma? I sure do. :)

[Ean Austral]

its good to read a story like that , gives you faith.


Cheers Ean

[steane]

Awesome :D

[sheerluck]

Give me a minute, I'll have a hunt around and see if I can some sympathy for the poor fella.












Nope. Fresh out. :D

[Chops]

haha,, the only thing that could have made that better, is if the person who ran him over was the bike owner,,, ;)

[worane]

SEE.... I TOLD YOU THERE WAS A GOD!!!!!!!

[digger]

Give me a minute, I'll have a hunt around and see if I can some sympathy for the poor fella.












Nope. Fresh out. :D


If he wants sympathy I'll tell you where to find it...

its between ****(poo word) and syphillis in the dictionary.....


I love a happy ending.. hope your mate got a new replacement..

(bike that is, not replacement crim!)

[Homestar]

Bike wasn't damaged too badly. New front rim and disk. Various scratches on things, bent foot pegs, etc. he repaired it and is back riding it.

[korg20000bc]

Although I can understand the appreciation of someone getting their come-uppance I can't get gleeful about someone getting smashed by a car to that degree nor deliberately inflicting pain on a defenceless person.

I don't like the precedent it sets.

I'm glad your neighbour got his bike back without too much damage and some thieves have been caught, though.

[Keithy P38]

I'm of a similar mindset, I dislike the thought of inflicting hurt to anyone. But even I can make exceptions... This criminal has not only inflicted pain on others who he's stolen from, but is manufacturing/distributing drugs. He deserves a bit of hard love.

A good karma story.

[noj44]

One low life scumbag down. A few million to go.:angrylock::wasntme:

[william mcallan]

Great great story,

Has he a job? Or are we “keeping" him and his feral mates? Beside the stolen goods he has taken possibly from the persons that go to work to “keep” him, I have no sympathy at all for thief’s and junkies, and further, he or his mates should not be a part of our society and or culture. Let the feral go to the slammer (preferably located middle Simpson Desert) indefinitely. Don’t mind paying to keep “em there!

[goingbush]

Although I can understand the appreciation of someone getting their come-uppance I can't get gleeful about someone getting smashed by a car to that degree nor deliberately inflicting pain on a defenceless person.

I don't like the precedent it sets.

I'm glad your neighbour got his bike back without too much damage and some thieves have been caught, though.

you are kidding aren't you,
too bad the guy that reversed over him didn't kill him, there is defenetly not enough Summary Justice in this country.

[korg20000bc]

you are kidding aren't you,
too bad the guy that reversed over him didn't kill him, there is defenetly not enough Summary Justice in this country.

No, not kidding.
I think even scumbags' lives are valuable, precious and worth defending. I want justice but I don't want you or I to mete it out on the spur of the moment. If the courts decided that the guy needed 3 days in the stocks or a drubbing, etc. I'd be plenty happy. But a medical professional deliberately trying to hurt a patient because they have a personal beef with them bothers me.
...10 stripes across the doodle with a wet bootlace- fine. :)

[Mick_Marsh]

No, not kidding.
I think even scumbags' lives are valuable, precious and worth defending. I want justice but I don't want you or I to mete it out on the spur of the moment. If the courts decided that the guy needed 3 days in the stocks or a drubbing, etc. I'd be plenty happy. But a medical professional deliberately trying to hurt a patient because they have a personal beef with them bothers me.
...10 stripes across the doodle with a wet bootlace- fine. :)
Well, if the judiciary handed down reasonable sentences that were adhered to, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth attitudes in the populace might not be as prevalent.
There is a general feeling in the community that criminals have more rights than victims.

[korg20000bc]

Well, if the judiciary handed down reasonable sentences that were adhered to, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth attitudes in the populace might not be as prevalent.
There is a general feeling in the community that criminals have more rights than victims.

Well, let's do our best to change the judicial system. Rather than break the law to get our own justice we should change the law.

Or should we get a group like ISIS over here to show us what it's like when any group with a beef makes it's own justice?

[Homestar]

Well, let's do our best to change the judicial system. Rather than break the law to get our own justice we should change the law.

Or should we get a group like ISIS over here to show us what it's like when any group with a beef makes it's own justice?

Um, where in my story does anyone break the law to get justice? The criminal broke the law, and got what he deserved. Just because I think that is just, doesn't make me a monster. I laughed myself silly while being told all about this - as did everyone else there...

[goingbush]

No, not kidding.
I think even scumbags' lives are valuable, precious and worth defending.

Well mate, that is one strange attitude you have got !

Living in the Tasmanian highlands must have removed you from the possibility of being a victim of crime.

As for ISIS, credit where credit is due, I'm all for chopping off any thieving bastards hand, its just their attitude towards women that I'm at odds with.

[Tombie]

I'm of a similar mindset, I dislike the thought of inflicting hurt to anyone. But even I can make exceptions... This criminal has not only inflicted pain on others who he's stolen from, but is manufacturing/distributing drugs. He deserves a bit of hard love.

A good karma story.

That will likely happen when he takes up residence at Her Majesties..

[Mick_Marsh]

Well, let's do our best to change the judicial system. Rather than break the law to get our own justice we should change the law.
Great suggestion. Just how do we do that? All my efforts to date have failed.

Or should we get a group like ISIS over here to show us what it's like when any group with a beef makes it's own justice?
Works for some.

I'll just go and get my pitch fork, shall I?

[korg20000bc]

Um, where in my story does anyone break the law to get justice? The criminal broke the law, and got what he deserved. Just because I think that is just, doesn't make me a monster. I laughed myself silly while being told all about this - as did everyone else there...
Nowhere at all.
I was responding to the attitude that these thieving bastards should be killed without due process.

[Homestar]

I'll just go and get my pitch fork, shall I?

Ye haw! Where's the good old fashioned lynching goin' down?

[korg20000bc]

Well mate, that is one strange attitude you have got !

Living in the Tasmanian highlands must have removed you from the possibility of being a victim of crime.

As for ISIS, credit where credit is due, I'm all for chopping off any thieving bastards hand, its just their attitude towards women that I'm at odds with.

Actually I'm only fairly new to Tasmania having moved from Sydney where I was employed as a Law Enforcement Officer.

You may not have an issue with ISIS, but they do with you and would happily execute you as a product of the decadent West. Which is the point that I was trying to make i.e. when people feel justified in creating their own justice regardless of the law of the land they tend to forget that other people with a different moral compass or worldview can do the same.

Yeah, I'm getting that my attitude is "strange" at least to the majority of people posting on this thread.

I can understand your attitude- I just wouldnt like to see it taken to its logical conclusion in a society where I've got to bring up my children.

[korg20000bc]

Ye haw! Where's the good old fashioned lynching goin' down?
Wait, this is bacicat, the super moderator, isn't it?
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[Mick_Marsh]

Actually I'm only fairly new to Tasmania having moved from Sydney where I was employed as a Law Enforcement Officer.
Police or ranger.
Why I ask, was your experience with murderers or stray dogs? If it was with thieves, did you find it a little monotonous arresting the same individuals week in, week out?

[AndyG]

And i thought i was a red neck, no-one deserves to have to have a leg partly ripped out and then being mistreated by medical staff.

Maybe i have seen too much summary justice up here with innocent parties being killed, houses burnt down, general rape & mayhem, just because they know the guilty party, and that's just the Police & Army having a day out.

It's a slippery slope once you start that sort of stuff.

Sure lock em up, hard labor in the sun, porridge, and a kick up the bum, but that's about it my book.

[korg20000bc]

Police or ranger.
Why I ask, was your experience with murderers or stray dogs? If it was with thieves, did you find it a little monotonous arresting the same individuals week in, week out?
No, I wasn't a ranger.
I just can't get the attitude.

Say your son has gone off the rails, fallen in with the wrong crowd and, despite your best efforts to help him, has started thieving to support his drug habit. You're walking home one night and see a motorcycle rider trying to flee the police. He comes off and then tries to leg it. With horror you realise it's your precious boy right as he gets hit by a car and then the car stops and backs over him over him. His leg is smashed and he'll never walk properly again.

Is anyone trying to tell be they'd stand there and say something like "Piece of **** got what he deserved...", "Would have been better if that turd was killed.." or, would have a good guffaw with the rest of the blokes who told you that the nurse pulled his catheter out to cause him some more pain?

No.
At least I wouldn't like to think so. You'd act as his advocate, defender or would be pleading for mercy in the hope that he might get help and come right. I don't think you'd just stand by if the crowd of onlookers tried to get their justice either. I can't imagine anyone would not do their darnedest to protect him from that justice.

...whatever. Maybe I just read too much Tolkien.

[Homestar]

My my, hasn't this turned interesting.:D

Mind you all don't fall off that very high horse you're on at the moment...

Scum bag thieves deserve what they get in my book - simple. IMO there are too many do gooders in this world standing up for people's rights who really don't deserve it or wouldn't give a **** about anyone else's rights to start with. Someone who steals someone else's property clearly doesn't care for their fellow man, so why should I give a **** about him?

Am I sounding too harsh? Have you had some low life steal thousands of dollars of stuff from you you've worked your arse off for?

[korg20000bc]

My my, hasn't this turned interesting.:D

Mind you all don't fall off that very high horse you're on at the moment...


Argh, don't say that.
Its a sad story to me.

I'm not saying the thief shouldn't be brought to justice or didn't do wrong.


Someone who steals someone else's property clearly doesn't care for their fellow man, so why should I give a **** about him?Because you're a better man than the thief.

[Homestar]

Sorry if this is close to home for you - it isn't my intention to deliberately upset anyone, but from my side of the fence, it is a very different story and quite cut and dried to me.

Again - apologies if you have a personal story that this conflicts with this.

[korg20000bc]

Sorry if this is close to home for you - it isn't my intention to deliberately upset anyone, but from my side of the fence, it is a very different story and quite cut and dried to me.

Again - apologies if you have a personal story that this conflicts with this.
All good, mate.

[Homestar]

Because you're a better man than the thief.

True, and I am. I do actually have a lot of compassion for people, but crime rates in my area are going up dramatically and everyone has a cut off point. Mines been reached with this sort of thing.

Some might say it's because of the way the economy is at the moment, and the high youth unemployment - which may have some bearing on it, but there are also just a lot of turds out there that think the world owes them a living and seem to have no internal 'right or wrong' indicator inside them and think it is just ok to steal.

I also think that work ethic is something that is passed from generation to generation. If a kid sees Mum or Dad sitting on their arse all day, only doing enough to get buy, and blaming the world for their problems, then they will grow up the same way. Conversely if they see Mum and Dad getting up early every day and going to work to make the world a better place, then they are far more likely to do the same.

My 16 YO Son recently told us he didn't want to be at School any longer - for various reasons I won't go into here. We said that if he found gainful employment for more than 20 hours a week we would look at bringing him out of School. 2 weeks later, he announced he had secured a full time position with training to give him a qualification in that line of work. He's just finished his first week (had to have a bit of a giggle when he said he just wanted to veg out on his first day off):). All he's known is us working full time and buying what we want with our hard earned, which he will go on to replicate for his kids in the future,

[korg20000bc]

True, and I am. I do actually have a lot of compassion for people, but crime rates in my area are going up dramatically and everyone has a cut off point. Mines been reached with this sort of thing.

Some might say it's because of the way the economy is at the moment, and the high youth unemployment - which may have some bearing on it, but there are also just a lot of turds out there that think the world owes them a living and seem to have no internal 'right or wrong' indicator inside them and think it is just ok to steal.

You're absolutely right.
That kind of attitude gets right up my nose.

[Mick_Marsh]

Say your son has gone off the rails, fallen in with the wrong crowd and, despite your best efforts to help him, has started thieving to support his drug habit. You're walking home one night and see a motorcycle rider trying to flee the police. He comes off and then tries to leg it. With horror you realise it's your precious boy right as he gets hit by a car and then the car stops and backs over him over him. His leg is smashed and he'll never walk properly again.

Is anyone trying to tell be they'd stand there and say something like "Piece of **** got what he deserved...", "Would have been better if that turd was killed.." or, would have a good guffaw with the rest of the blokes who told you that the nurse pulled his catheter out to cause him some more pain?

No.
At least I wouldn't like to think so. You'd act as his advocate, defender or would be pleading for mercy in the hope that he might get help and come right. I don't think you'd just stand by if the crowd of onlookers tried to get their justice either. I can't imagine anyone would not do their darnedest to protect him from that justice.
You're asking the wrong person this question.

[Ancient Mariner]

x2

AM

[korg20000bc]

You're asking the wrong person this question.
I had meant it as a general question, not necessarily to you in particular.

Sorry if I didn't communicate this.

[goingbush]

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[jerryd]

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[Sandgroper]

I wonder how long it would have been before this worthless piece of crap had hit an innocent person and destroyed their lives had he not been stopped? We see it reported on the news all the time. I am extremely pleased that this piece of garbage may never be in a position to walk, let alone ride a bike or drive again, makes me feel that little bit safer for my family, this is a good news story to me, I just hope the blokes bike wasn't too badly damaged, we all know the moron that caused all of this won't have saved any of his dole cheque money to be able to pay the owners repair bills or insurance excess.

[Meken]

When I was in my late teens a good mate's dad was killed when a criminal in a stolen car being chased by police ran into the back of their car sitting at a red light (early morning). His mum was badly injured. Took the family many many years to come to grips with it all, and I think my mate has never been the same. Because of this tragedy my mate didn't continue his tertiary studies (he was damn smart too) he has had an average life where I believe he was destined for great things...

[worane]

X2 on your thoughts Bacicat.
Korg20000bc seems to have a very Buddhist attitude on life.

[303gunner]

Some might say ...... there are also just a lot of turds out there that think the world owes them a living and seem to have no internal 'right or wrong' indicator inside them and think it is just ok to steal.

I also think that work ethic is something that is passed from generation to generation. If a kid sees Mum or Dad sitting on their arse all day, only doing enough to get buy, and blaming the world for their problems, then they will grow up the same way.
Well, Karma has certainly done it for this bloke. No doubt, all his medical bills are being paid for by either Medicare or the CTP insurance your mate paid for (ie the bike he was riding), and once he recovers from the savage wrist slapping he's about to receive, he will have a lifelong ticket to the DSP. I'm sure there will be a lawyer somewhere or other who will clearly demonstrate the culpable negligence of the driver at the roundabout, and happily take on the claim for a cut of the compensation.

[Homestar]

Well, Karma has certainly done it for this bloke. No doubt, all his medical bills are being paid for by either Medicare or the CTP insurance your mate paid for (ie the bike he was riding), and once he recovers from the savage wrist slapping he's about to receive, he will have a lifelong ticket to the DSP. I'm sure there will be a lawyer somewhere or other who will clearly demonstrate the culpable negligence of the driver at the roundabout, and happily take on the claim for a cut of the compensation.

A bit more than a wrist slapping thankfully. Our exuberant young thief has been remanded in custody awaiting trial on multiple counts of theft - plenty more stolen goods were found at his place. Not sure what sentence he will get if/when he is found guilty, but hopefully big bubba will teach him a life lesson while he is awaiting trial.;)

The Police video clearly shows no negligence on the drivers side - but I do understand the point your making, all too often these things turn out very differently from what they should.

[korg20000bc]

X2 on your thoughts Bacicat.
Korg20000bc seems to have a very Buddhist attitude on life.

I don't know much of Buddhist philosophy.
There seems to be a lot of good stuff.

I'm a Jesus disciple.

[worane]

Good on ya Korg there are a few of you left then.

[worane]

buddhism is all about loving every one regardless of what a pig they may be.