Thread: Scarey camping

Originally Posted by waynep

Well, close , I lived in Murupara for 4 years in the mid 70's. If you lived in BOP you'll know Murupara and it's reputation. A couple of times while I was there, shotguns were discharged in the public bar. All the beer,blood and everything else was hosed out of the bar the next morning.
Like most others there I owned a rifle, and did a bit of deer hunting ( I was hopeless at it I might add ).
But for all that I had a great time there -real character building town.

I agree with you, OWW although not a documentary, is pretty close to reality as I experienced it anyway.

Sorry thread really hijacked now ...

yeppa know the place, Forestry gangs vers the bike gangs etc, i think Murupara was Hu Hu country, my old man was Filthy Few so i would change my name often and always when not on FF dirt.
but if you head down the cape way for a bit of hunting, 1st you get permission from the land owner then you go to the local shout a couple of rounds and let everyone know what you are up to. If a local says no dear \ pigs that way you just doint go there, if you do there is a good chance you doint come out.
things are a bit more organized on the cape now. rather than the cow cockies losing stock and having there houses burnt down for being a suspect nark thay are more likely to fined a scrub cutting gang working or a new fence line up. the number of people disappearing is down as well. just the way things are. not my business.

Originally Posted by MarknDeb

Mate by the sound of it, if they had of chased you they wouldnt have caught you because they would have been slipping in your poo

Glad to hear you got out safe

Since i had all my fishing kit in a woolies blue chiller bag plus landing net, in left hand, and a brand new shorty ugly stik plus penn winder, in right hand, the temptation to drop everything and run, had to be resisted. He had boots and i was in sandles, and i,m trying to sneak away quietly, on course dry gritty sand and dry leaves. Of course, ****s was trumps!!
Laurie

Originally Posted by Michael2

These are dangerous & STUPID people.

Let me tell you some precautionary tales we were told by the drug squad, when we did our paramedic training.

Story 1. A guy drives up and down the Hume HWY towing a covered trailer. In the trailer is a gas cooker, cooking his drugs. One day there's a mishap and a gas fire, in which he gets severely burned. Some months later he is out of the Alfred Hospitals burns units, still wearing his burns suit, and is caught by Police driving up & down the Hume HWY towing a trailer, but this time, with electric cookers.

Story 2. The S.O.G. raid a house in a leafy Melbourne suburb, the Drug Squad are in tow. Normally the S.O.G. secure the scene and the scientists on the Drug squad go in & shut down the operation. On this particular occasion they rush in, grab the crook and keep bolting out the back door. Perplexed as to their sudden exit, the Drug squad get on the radio and ask why. The guy had a hydrogen cylinder with tubing running to various flasks and sealed with wads of rags. He also had an open fire in the same room. The strret was evacuated, and when the fire died down, they went and shut down the process.

Story 3. The Police are surveilling a green house in the bush. There's a lab at the end of the green house. While they film, theres a disturbance at the front door. The crook (whose in the lab) gets up suddenly and knocks stuff over. The whole whing goes up like the Hindenburg. Police are glad it went up during surveillence and not a raid, as the interior had mesh and formed a cage, so there was only one entry / exit point.

Story 4. A couple of mates have an argument, so one decides to dob in his mate to the cops. The Police arrive and aren't able to find anything. As they're about to leave, the gleefully excited crook asks, "do you want me to show you where it is?" They take him up on his generous offer. He goes and removes a grille from the brick wall, behind it is a string, he pulls the string and hydraulic rams lift a concrete slab in the yard, with a brick BBQ on it!!! Under the slab are twin wells, one to a hyrdoponic room and another to a lab. He hadn't started production, but if he had, the fluro igniters from the hydroponics would have ignited the vapours of chemicals he was using and he could have taken out some of his street.

Story 5. A lot of these guys use petrol as a solvent for reducing their drugs, not knowing that they can buy industrial quantities of alcohol.

The stories sound unbelievable, but there was a slide show to corroborate them.

And as already stated, be wary of booby traps around bush plots.

You talking about people cooking amphetamines, not a dude growing weed in the dirt, I'd like to see the Mull crop explode

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

One often sees hydroponic farming gear at the Public Trustee "Police Seized Goods" auctions. The auctioneers tell me that after the sale the police get the names and addresses from the auctioneers buyer register (POI is necessary to get a bidders number) and a few months later pay the buyer a call and sometimes the gear goes back through the auction house.

Correct, but they can't Visit without a warrant

Originally Posted by clean32

even NZ compared to australia. NZ with its underlying battle couture. ( ever seen the documentary " once were warriors"

.

A Documentary

That's great, good one

So now you've been and dobbed him in, what about when he finds out it was you? bet he won;t be your friend

Originally Posted by rovercare

So now you've been and dobbed him in, what about when he finds out it was you? bet he won;t be your friend

Especially if he's a member of this forum and will know who you are!

Some of us are prepared to take the risks inherent in doing the right thing. Many people would walk away and do nothing because of unfounded fears, based on rumour and inuendo, planted in their minds by other gutless people. Many aspects of life are risky. What is a person expected to do? Stay in bed because life is risky? This stupid guy took a risk, the day he decided to break the law.