Oz man cracks one off while speeding in drug-packed car An Australian man unsurprisingly faces a spell in jail after cops pulled him for driving at 147km/h (91 mph) in a Holden SV6 packed with 5kg of cannabis, two dope plants, a couple of drug pipes and a loaded .22 rifle. Brendon Alan Erhardt, 39, was pulled on 16 July on the Northern Territory's Stuart Highway roughly 500km (310 …
...'drawing' attention to yourself - in great, white arcs all over the dashboard and windscreen.
yes, i have bad taste. so sue me.
imagine if he had an accident while 'working' himself and driving through Darwin. would that finally prove the existence of 'darwinism' conclusively?
no coat..it is summer.
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?
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.
In particular, a .22 rifle has a calibre of about 5.6 mm and is apparently good for shooting small mammals, not kangaroos, though if he can manage to hit a rat shooting from a vehicle travelling at 94 mph, while masturbating, then he's rather a good shot.
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.
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..
Firstly, I don't think people who have only ever driven in the UK can relate to the experience of driving in rural Oz - you can drive for hours in pretty much a straight line without seeing another car, let alone any sign of life. It is flat, hot and so incredibly boring you just can't fathom it until you've done it.
Secondly, you would be more likely to get a reaction out of a kangaroo by insulting its ethnic heritage than shooting it with a .22, particularly at any real distance. As for being the standard NATO round, yes, it does wonderful jobs against the soft fleshy bodies of humans. But the difference between a roo and a human body is pretty conclusive - you hit a human in a car doing 90mph, there isn't going to be much left of the human. You hit a roo at that speed without a bullbar, and you won't be driving that car again. Ever. And it's likely the roo will be getting up, shaking itself off, pissing on your child's head and then bounding off to nibble on some grass.
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
"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...
Driving dope to Darwin sounds like taking coal to Newcastle. Surely NT is ideal for growing dope?
I don't smoke dope, but friends do. The last transaction I saw was some years ago in South Africa in an area formerly called Transkei. City boy asked for approx 10 quid of dope, expecting a few joints, and the local guy bought him two plastic shopping bags full and promised to drop the rest off the next day.
And for the unit fanatics: 1 hand = 4 inches = 101.6 mm
.22 is an excellent plinking round good for rabbits and foxes
22/250 is the same caliber projectile but a much heavier slug and with a much much more powerful propellant charge. It is excellent for large, soft, game like Kangaroos and "the most dangerous game of all".
Someone shooting (at) kangaroos with a .22 is probably doing it out of ignorant cruelty which doesn't necessarily rule out the sort of person who films themselves tackle-handed shipping drugs interstate. In fact it all sort of comes together as a pretty good literal and metaphorical definition of a wanker. Can we lock him up for that, at least?
Oh good. i sound like a pedantic gun nut's Presbyterian father-in-law.
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.
Just moved down under from Ireland. While most things are cheaper, there are some things which are far more expensive. Drugs, for example are f**king expensive here. Probably because it's so difficult to get things across the border, so the cheap supplies from columbia etc aren't so cheap. They have actually made it so that you have to show id and sign a register to buy a box of sudofed - in case you try to turn it into speed.
Also telecoms charges are rediculously high here. But there are some benefits - anyone who tries to charge more then $3.50 for a cafe late goes bust - bye bye starbucks!!!
@ Anon Koward: NT's roads all now have limits. 120km/h on previously unlimited roads as of last year some time.
@ bob_blah: Hit a roo at more than 100 even WITH a bullbar and the car will be written off. The impact will smash the bullbar deep into the bonnet, and probably twist the chassis... And all that's assuming you can even get a strong bullbar for a Commodore. All I've seen is crappy plastic "pedestrian safe" rubbish on government cars.
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.
Unless it has changed recently, the Stuart Highway is one of the few remaining roads in the world that has no speed limit (because of the immense distances between places in the Northern Territory) hence he wasnt actually breaking any speed laws just drug laws and laws of good taste which dictate you generally dont film yourself while jerking off...
As the holder of a gun license and owner of a .22 and frequent vistor to a mates farm in WA, I can confirm unequovicably that a 22 is sufficient for killing one of our national emblems...and allegedly capable of killing the other one. The key is to a) get close enough or b) be accurate enough. Of course shooting one from a moving vehicle whilst stoned and tossing off a bunch of orphans...the guys a better shot than Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
