Self posting video gets him Nine months inside

Self posting video gets him Nine months inside

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SteRB5138

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172 posts

213 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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If you're going to put this kind of video on You Tube blur out the speedo reading!

http://www.morebikes.co.uk/video-biker-self-posts-...

drophead

1,056 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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F***** idiot for doing those speeds and for not investing in video editing software to blur out the speedo.

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rohrl

8,711 posts

144 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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A variation on this story is posted every month on PH and yet still people film themselves speeding and upload it to Youtube. At this point I'm starting to think they deserve banning purely for idiocy if not the speeding.

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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Most of it you can't actually tell how fast he's going and aside from a few junctions which were a bit cringe. I didn't think he was too bad. He certainly could have gone faster, and I've definitely seen worse.

I don't feel sympathy, he is a retard, but at the same time 9 months inside is a bit of a piss take for speeding given more serious crimes get far more lenient punishments. How long would you typically serve for killing a biker through negligence for example?

The no hands at the end was probably not a good idea though... I can just imagine the reaction in court to that one. biglaugh




zarjaz1991

3,470 posts

122 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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The guy is a complete idiot in several ways, but he does not deserve nine months in prison.

His life is now ruined, he's lost his job and frankly he won't get another one for at least five years, prison will be a terrible experience for him, completely disproportionate. He should have been banned for a couple of years or something, not sent down. Yes I get that he shouldn't have been such a prick but how many prisons would we need if we imprisoned every prick?

How come you can mug an old lady leaving her hospitalised and covered in cuts and bruises and NOT go down, yet then we get this?

s3fella

10,524 posts

186 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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Is it Mastdoon2? Lol


I agree, the worst of that vid was the beginning around them junctions and he likes to hog the white line a bit too much, but I have seen a lot worse. He appeared to be "actively riding the bike" at least, but it made it look like he was going quicker than he was.

Not the smoothest rider i've seen, and he is an eejut for posting it online, not least as the bike shop wouldn't be too impressed I don't think.

9 months does seem a bit mad for that, tbh.

Esceptico

7,334 posts

108 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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I think that 9 months is counterproductive. He will lose his job and could easily end up on benefits (or becoming a career criminal).

On the other hand the riding was pretty appalling. Doing 100 when safe is okay. Doing 100 over a bridge with a junction just over the bridge? Just plain fking stupid. Yes he got away with it but trusting to luck is not really a survival tactic.

Easy to see how the magistrate got carried away. If you get caught in a speed trap you can blag that it was one off. Posting a video where 90% of the time you are over or well over the limit means they have to throw the book at you.

10penceparalyzed

229 posts

123 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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Boys will be boys and all that, 9 months in clink? I don't really think that is in the public interest, I think there simply has to be a more fitting penalty than imprisonment, that could actually be of benefit to society, I would like to think there was more to it and that the lad had some previous, justifying his sentence, but of the face of it, it seems like a farce imo.

zarjaz1991

3,470 posts

122 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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The authorities have to keep showing us who's boss. "Speed" is the new "drink driving" and so there'll be more of this sort of thing.

Mug someone? leave them on the street in a pool of blood? No problem, a community sentence, just as long as you didn't jump on a motorbike afterwards and speed off, if you did it's the slammer.

Esceptico

7,334 posts

108 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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SteRB5138 said:
If you're going to put this kind of video on You Tube blur out the speedo reading!

http://www.morebikes.co.uk/video-biker-self-posts-...
What surprises me is that just blurring out the speedo works. I would expect that you could work out with reasonable accuracy how fast someone was going just from the video (science and scientists achieve much more difficult and spectacular feats eg finding exo-planets around stars that are light years away from us and even potentially working out whether the planets have atmospheres indicative of life).

dean100yz

4,276 posts

183 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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This has made me very nervous about my video's on YouTube. However my road ones are blurred. Can anyone advise if it would be better to just remove?

rohrl

8,711 posts

144 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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dean100yz said:
This has made me very nervous about my video's on YouTube. However my road ones are blurred. Can anyone advise if it would be better to just remove?
Of course it would be better to remove them.

What do you stand to gain by leaving them up and what do you stand to lose?

Edited by rohrl on Tuesday 25th August 14:25

dean100yz

4,276 posts

183 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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They have the speed blurred though?

Although you can hear through the gears that its more than it should be at times

Think I might take them off quick just leave the track ones up

dean100yz

4,276 posts

183 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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This thread kinda spooked me so I just put as private on the 4 road ones

The rest is racing or track days. There were a few thousand people who had watched so at least some got to see an MV Agusta been spanked for a bit

Cheers guys

CountZero23

1,288 posts

177 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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dean100yz said:
They have the speed blurred though?

Although you can hear through the gears that its more than it should be at times

Think I might take them off quick just leave the track ones up
Got a few young boker mates putting up vids of all sorts, pulling power wheelies in 30 limits. Bloody daft.

You'll probably be alright with the speedo blurred out as it would be more expensive / harder to prove. Why risk it though?

If you have vidoes up which would land you in the slammer you might want to adjust your riding style...

SteveSteveson

3,209 posts

162 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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9 months and having his live ruined (which it will be after being in prison) is just insane. I hope someone slaps this down at appeal. Yes, what he did was monumentally dumb (the posting online as well as the riding), but ultimately he did not hurt anyone. Well worth a long ban, but 9 months in prison? Crazy.

Undinist

200 posts

138 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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Note that the judge was moaning about him not being able to afford the bikes he was test-riding...I think it's a case of punishing the chav for daring to misbehave on the judge's lovely local roads. If the guy had more money he'd have got off more lightly. And if he'd hired Mr Loophole, that solicitor who always gets the rich off on a technicality, I bet the videos would have been dismissed as inadmissible evidence.

More detailed story here in another paper which says "Dixon admitted the driving when seen by the police". That's even more moronic than posting the videos - you should ALWAYS just say 'no comment' until you've seen a solicitor. www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Lunatic-Plymouth-biker-ja...




Mad Jock

1,272 posts

261 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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He'll also never be trusted again to take a bike for a test ride, ever. It also highlights why some dealers simply won't offer test rides. Frankly, the dealer should have smelled a rat when the daft moron turned up with a camera stuck on his helmet. Are we sure that we want to buy that ex-demonstrator sir?

I don't think that he should be jailed for speeding per se, but there's a time and a place. Most of us here are guilty of stretching things a bit, and some more than others, but a road with such poor sight lines, junctions, residential areas etc, well, it wouldn't take much to have had a serious off, and the potential consequences could be quite tragic.

He is guilty of breaching some basic biker rules though. 1. Don't get caught. 2. Don't offer up evidence in public proving your crime. 3. Don't admit to it if you cannot be personally identified. Finally, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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s3fella said:
Is it Mastdoon2? Lol


I agree, the worst of that vid was the beginning around them junctions and he likes to hog the white line a bit too much, but I have seen a lot worse. He appeared to be "actively riding the bike" at least, but it made it look like he was going quicker than he was.

Not the smoothest rider i've seen, and he is an eejut for posting it online, not least as the bike shop wouldn't be too impressed I don't think.

9 months does seem a bit mad for that, tbh.
I presume you're talking about me? Would I still be fking posting if I was in jail? I don't film myself riding, I never have and I would not want to ride with someone that would film me. I don't see the wisdom in creating your own evidence to document your crime and then putting it somewhere anyone could find it, that's asking for trouble. I don't wear a fking hoody when I ride either, why do people do that?

s3fella

10,524 posts

186 months

Tuesday 25th August 2015
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Mastodon2 said:
s3fella said:
Is it Mastdoon2? Lol


I agree, the worst of that vid was the beginning around them junctions and he likes to hog the white line a bit too much, but I have seen a lot worse. He appeared to be "actively riding the bike" at least, but it made it look like he was going quicker than he was.

Not the smoothest rider i've seen, and he is an eejut for posting it online, not least as the bike shop wouldn't be too impressed I don't think.

9 months does seem a bit mad for that, tbh.
I presume you're talking about me? Would I still be fking posting if I was in jail? I don't film myself riding, I never have and I would not want to ride with someone that would film me. I don't see the wisdom in creating your own evidence to document your crime and then putting it somewhere anyone could find it, that's asking for trouble. I don't wear a fking hoody when I ride either, why do people do that?
Mate, don't give us all that!! We all know prison give you a free playstation 4, (with free wifi) and for all we know you are posting this from a mobile recently recovered from Big Jimmy the Greek's rectum.biggrin Anyone riding a Fireblade will wear a hoody, ask BN and MTB!! laugh

We need custard proof of your liberty, I reckon. And no, ACME prison blend Sauce Anglaise will not suffice! No wonder the Suzuki dealer didn't take you seriously, turning up in the Orange boiler suit on day release didn't help!! wink