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Title: Grub gets slap on the wrist.
Post by: Binder on April 20, 2011, 05:41:32 AM

5 weeks community service and paying the vet bills for the victim.
Hardly commensurate with what he did.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/9226229/swan-killer-fined-11-000/

Title: Re: Grub gets slap on the wrist.
Post by: aussiebasser on April 20, 2011, 06:45:33 AM

$11,000 is hardly a slap on the wrist.  It wouldn't have cost him that much if he'd hit a person swimming.  I believe his defense was that he thought it would fly away before he hit it.  He was wrong, but I can't see a jail term warranted in this case.

Title: Re: Grub gets slap on the wrist.
Post by: bushwacker on April 20, 2011, 09:22:39 AM

Looked pretty intentional to me. maybe not so to others...

Title: Re: Grub gets slap on the wrist.
Post by: johnv on April 20, 2011, 02:24:51 PM

Would've preferred to have seen him get a slap on the head by a speeding jetski. Can't believe the jetski was not confiscated. Whether it was his or not.
Cheers John.

Title: Re: Grub gets slap on the wrist.
Post by: Binder on April 20, 2011, 05:12:05 PM

Quote from: Member on April 20, 2011, 06:45:33 AM

$11,000 is hardly a slap on the wrist.  It wouldn't have cost him that much if he'd hit a person swimming.  I believe his defense was that he thought it would fly away before he hit it.  He was wrong, but I can't see a jail term warranted in this case.

The $11k is only the refund of the costs of the wildlife sanctuary, no actual fine component for what he did to the swan, no fine for behaving how he did on the jetski, no removal of licence. The last two particularly what I was thinking when I say he got off lightly.

Title: Re: Grub gets slap on the wrist.
Post by: bushwacker on April 20, 2011, 05:50:51 PM

I see on the news tonight that they are talking about bringing new laws in with regaurds to jet skii's .. didnt catch the details tho ...