the court heard the drugs had a value of "AU$136,000 if sold by the gram in Darwin - or double that in indigenous communities".

Nice to see that even after all the government apologies, the drug dealers are still happy to continue the tradition of ripping of the abbos

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that gives recreational drug users a bad name.

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...he wasn't very professional about it, was he?

I would bet he was celebrating his haul in true idiot style!

Presumably the technology involved was his camera... or his car, or whatever the rozzers used to rouse their suspicions!

... and like who's never done that before? Oh.

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A shame he doesn't qualify for a Darwin Award.

Kilograms of drugs, plants on the back seats, loaded gun (in both ways! however one slightly less loaded afterwards) and excessive speed

now THATS a man with balls, when he's caught, "hey! np guys! look at all the cracked out shit I've been up to!!! oh btw, cracking one off at 150kph is a blast!!"

you've got to hand it to him (although metaphorically and with YOUR hand, not mine) he took being arrested and put in prison on the chin, am impressed

(icon: The hand, because well, y'know)

chris

Hang on lets do the maths here.

1/8 = 3.5g

According to the news report these drugs were valued at AU$27 per gram.

That means for a standard eighth by this figure the Auzzies have to pay around AU$96 or £45 - a lot more than the £15-20 (according to Google) the average user in the UK pays.

Can any Aussie readers let us know if this is right or are the Aussie police massaging their drug seizure figures?

Looks like he packed an ounce or so into one of those bongs before setting off.

"Are you going to come quietly, sir ? "

"I already have officer !"

Was he caught white-handed ?

Can never remember whether an Esky is the Oz word and Chilly Bin is the Kiwi one or vice-versa... either way, does it really need the bootnote to describe?

Oh, and the IT angle, please?

Oh come on. 5 Kg is hardly "packed". That's not even 1/4 of a suitcase full.

It says 4.96 Kg, but I bet it was 5Kg and the cops had to sample it, just to check it wasn't cake or something.

And 91 Mph? I get regularly overtaken in the UK when doing 90 mph. What's the speed limit over there anyway?

I bet the police where glad they didn't get shot in the face after they pulled him off.... oh, I'm not going to send this it's just too lame..... no, can't resist hitting "Post comment" now.

Give the man a cation and some counselling. And an honorary Darwin award. Made me laugh though.

It sounds to me like he lost a bet.

Not sure this particular scenario is covered by the highway code :)

Sex - check

Drugs - check

Rock & Roll - ?

Paris because

Sex - check ....

I'm convinced that most of the drivers here are wankers. This item also fits in with Aus supposedly having the highest rate of single vehicle accidents on the planet. Still, if you're driving alone on an empty bush road for 12 hours with nothing but tarmac ahead of you and sheep either side then a bloke's mind is bound to wander.

5.56 mm is the NATO rifle round. I think that around the world you'd find plenty of people that could testify to its effectiveness against more than small mammals.

Mines the one with the Kevlar lining

The speed limit in NT is 130 kph (80 Mph)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_Australia

So the guy was going a bit fast, but not as crazy as the article makes it sound... and there is a *LOT* of space in the NT. In fact, there is so much space they never used to have a speed limit until a few years back. Point you car into the desert and go as fast as you want... alas, that all changed when two Japanese Businessmen in a Ferrari F-40 killed a couple of workers in the Cannonball Race:

http://www.arcadegames.net/rumours.htm

Do you people have to suck the poetry out of everything? Your world may be a bleak monotone of "insulated plastic cool boxes" but ours is a wondrous, richly textured, spiritually enriching, one - resplendent in "Eskis" and, in the quirky off-beat way of our cousins across The Ditch, "Chilly Bins".

Maybe, in the grey, grey, gloom of midsummer, with the nostalgic stupor of the French, the passionless precision of the Swiss and the Teutonic "Vorsprung durch Technik" just a one-armed dog paddle and a quick jog away, your heart is an insulated plastic cool box within which lies the sogged leftover meat paste sandwiches of regret, but down here, where even the deepest winter is a glory of sunshine and blue skies from horizon to horizon, our Eskis are packed solid with frosty bottles of home-brewed opportunity. Slightly hoppy with an afternote of malt and new hope. Have one. Theres plenty to go around.

It just so happens that some people hope for the opportunity to fiddle with themselves while cracking the ton with a bootload of weed and a camcorder. That is their way and we must respect that as we would expect them to respect OUR way.

In any case, lay off the Eski.

Esky is the Aussie word Chilly bin is the kiwi term

Drugs are a rip-off in Oz on average and more so in remote locations like Darwin.

Average speed on the highways in Oz are 110kph but in the NT (Nothern Territory) the dirt roads have no speed limit

Of course the cops always over-inflate the value of a drugs bust and the coppers up North (down South from the UK of course but you know what i mean), will always take a cut for themselves

Slapping the bat whilst driving is a past-time for most NT drivers, fuk all to look at except ant hills and sand anyway..

This is my rifle this is my gun, one is for fighting one is for fun....

Mine's the Full Metal Jacket......

Seriously though, this kind of behaviour even gives gun toting, cannabis crazed speeders a bad name.

was for you to write a program to convert kph to mph and kg to ounces.

You can't just convert the caliber and assume that it's the same thing. The 5.56x45mm Nato round is a whole different animal, it packs 10x the energy of the regular .22 long rifle round. Hit a kangaroo with a .22 and it'll probably return the favor by beating the crap out of you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56_mm_caliber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Long_Rifle#cite_note-0

no utube link?

"Maybe, in the grey, grey, gloom of midsummer, with the nostalgic stupor of the French, the passionless precision of the Swiss and the Teutonic "Vorsprung durch Technik" just a one-armed dog paddle and a quick jog away, your heart is an insulated plastic cool box within which lies the sogged leftover meat paste sandwiches of regret, but down here, where even the deepest winter is a glory of sunshine and blue skies from horizon to horizon, our Eskis are packed solid with frosty bottles of home-brewed opportunity. Slightly hoppy with an afternote of malt and new hope. Have one. Theres plenty to go around."

Forget FOTW - can we have a mention for the best prose? Give this guy a job on the Reg!

If stupid was made out of dynamite there'd be a 10km-wide smoking crater in the NT now.

Or maybe he figured he couldn't make things much worse than they already were by being honest about what he'd been doing?

That'll be one entertaining court appearance I reckon.

Maybe in Camden.. the rest of London (allegedly) is between £5-10/g

I also dont buy the whole drug mule aspect - why would he be taking plants from the grow op himself? Much more likely, he planted up a bunch of big sativas in the (sparsely unpopulated) NT outback, had just harvested them and got 'a little excited' on the way back home with his stash and seedlings.

Probably a bad idea having the pot on the back seat, with your gun..

Mines the coat with large, hidden, inside pockets - smells a bit of feet...

Maybe he'll wash his hands of the whole thing. >_>

But here in NZ an ounce of good stuff is between $200 and $350 NZD depending on how close you are to the grow zones (coromandel, northland and the tararua ranges in the north Island, any scarfies basement in the south island) and how long since the cops last raided the neighbourhood tinny house and carried off the stock causing a scarcity situation.

fire icon cause you gotta burn it to smoke it.

Technically, the 5.56 nato round is a .223 caliber. the difference is in the powder load and the actual size of the round, a .22 caliber round (assuming an lr or long rifle configuation) usually has around 140 to 195 joules of energy and is only good to about 150 metres. there are stories of "fluffy" men being shot with one and the round effectively bouncing off.

the 5.56 nato round on the other hand, usually packs around 1300 joules of energy. I can't testify to the effectiveness of the round on a kangaroo, but can attest to the fact that it works quite well on an alligator.

it's quite common is some parts of america to allow children as young at 12 to begin firing the .22lr cartridge under supervision. there's virtuall no kick to it. as for the 5.56 nato round, that's usually left untill 16 or so when the shooter has enough mass to absord the recoil without breaking an arm or shoulder...unless they don't lock the charging handle and get a cut under the eye when fired.

leave it to a dumb american to know gun rounds and it's effects on verminous wildlife.

it puts a whole slant on the phrase... Please blow into this bag until I say stop.

nuff said.