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Old 26-03-2008, 04:32 PM   #37
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The problem in Queensland is the State Laws. Not the Police. I have experience this first hand. I had a brand new Subaru WRX parked in Carport, with my friends Holden Gemini parked across the driveway behihnd it.

A drunk driver coming up the street, swerved and to avoid a median strip and lost control, hitting our cars. The driver then reversed out of my carport, as we ran outside. I saw the driver, even got to yell profanity at him as he drove off. We got the rego, so we thought we were ok.

Called the police, to be informed that it was shift change time. We then a called a good friend who worked at the local Police station. She told us she was next on duty and would arrive straight after clocking on. She actually stopped in on her way to work.

As she was the attending officer, it was her case. The problems associated with happened most officers would have stopped soon after they started, but as we friends, she continued past what she should have.

She found that the car in question was taken from the owner in Melbourne by
his ex. The car was being driven around by her and the new deadbeat she had shacked up with. The driver, upon being questioned said he was too drunk to remember anything from the night. The woman went to hospital that night with injuries from the accident, and couldn't remember how she got them, because of being too drunk and stoned.

Because they couldn't remember driving drunk, under Queensland (Alleged) Law nothing could be done. These a-holes got away with it, and I lost my no claim bonus. And I had someone doing everything possible under the law on my behalf, and I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even get an opportunity to identify the people responsible.

However, if I had been able to get these people physically out of the car, I probably would have been charged with assault. In Queensland, if your a victim, and you see the person responsible, take the law into your own hands. Its the only justice you will get. Even then, you should only get a warning.
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