Man in restored tank goes on an anti-mobile-phone-tower "rampage".

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_asia_afp/
australiacrimeoffbeat;_ylt=AoDWZswWPchoeM19VV7ZSt9 vaA8F>

or

<http://tinyurl.com/38q6fw>

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man allegedly used a restored army tank
to destroy mobile phone towers on a rampage through Sydney early
Saturday, police said.

Police said officers patrolling the western suburbs of Australian's
largest city came across the privately-owned tank being used to
destroy an electricity sub-station in the early hours of Saturday
morning.

They followed the vehicle through several suburbs for 90 minutes as it
smashed into mobile phone towers.

The low-speed pursuit, which police said averaged 30 kilometres (19
miles) an hour, finally arresting the driver after it stalled.

"The tank left a path of destruction in its wake, bringing down a
number of mobile phone towers and relay sheds," New South Wales police
said in a statement.

The 45-year-old driver was charged with a number of offices, including
predatory driving, possessing a prohibited drug and using a weapon to
avoid apprehension.

He will face a bail hearing later Saturday.

Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.

[Ext User(philby)]

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:1184404171.048340.19130@i38g2000prf.googlegro ups.com...
> The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)
>
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_asia_afp/
> australiacrimeoffbeat;_ylt=AoDWZswWPchoeM19VV7ZSt9 vaA8F>
>
> or
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/38q6fw>
>
> SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man allegedly used a restored army tank
> to destroy mobile phone towers on a rampage through Sydney early
> Saturday, police said.
>
> Police said officers patrolling the western suburbs of Australian's
> largest city came across the privately-owned tank being used to
> destroy an electricity sub-station in the early hours of Saturday
> morning.
>
> They followed the vehicle through several suburbs for 90 minutes as it
> smashed into mobile phone towers.
>
> The low-speed pursuit, which police said averaged 30 kilometres (19
> miles) an hour, finally arresting the driver after it stalled.
>
> "The tank left a path of destruction in its wake, bringing down a
> number of mobile phone towers and relay sheds," New South Wales police
> said in a statement.
>
> The 45-year-old driver was charged with a number of offices, including
> predatory driving, possessing a prohibited drug and using a weapon to
> avoid apprehension.
>
> He will face a bail hearing later Saturday.
>
> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>
It looks like an APC not a tank?

[Ext User(kcoj)]

BBC UK report them to be Telstra base stations
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6898667.stm
oh dear

Diesel Damo wrote:

> The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)
>
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_asia_afp/
> australiacrimeoffbeat;_ylt=AoDWZswWPchoeM19VV7ZSt9 vaA8F>
>
> or
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/38q6fw>
>
> SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man allegedly used a restored army tank
> to destroy mobile phone towers on a rampage through Sydney early
> Saturday, police said.
>
> Police said officers patrolling the western suburbs of Australian's
> largest city came across the privately-owned tank being used to
> destroy an electricity sub-station in the early hours of Saturday
> morning.
>
> They followed the vehicle through several suburbs for 90 minutes as it
> smashed into mobile phone towers.
>
> The low-speed pursuit, which police said averaged 30 kilometres (19
> miles) an hour, finally arresting the driver after it stalled.
>
> "The tank left a path of destruction in its wake, bringing down a
> number of mobile phone towers and relay sheds," New South Wales police
> said in a statement.
>
> The 45-year-old driver was charged with a number of offices, including
> predatory driving, possessing a prohibited drug and using a weapon to
> avoid apprehension.
>
> He will face a bail hearing later Saturday.
>
> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>

[Ext User(kcoj)]

Any idea which network towers he got and where?

Diesel Damo wrote:
> The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)
>
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_asia_afp/
> australiacrimeoffbeat;_ylt=AoDWZswWPchoeM19VV7ZSt9 vaA8F>
>
> or
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/38q6fw>
>
> SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man allegedly used a restored army tank
> to destroy mobile phone towers on a rampage through Sydney early
> Saturday, police said.
>
> Police said officers patrolling the western suburbs of Australian's
> largest city came across the privately-owned tank being used to
> destroy an electricity sub-station in the early hours of Saturday
> morning.
>
> They followed the vehicle through several suburbs for 90 minutes as it
> smashed into mobile phone towers.
>
> The low-speed pursuit, which police said averaged 30 kilometres (19
> miles) an hour, finally arresting the driver after it stalled.
>
> "The tank left a path of destruction in its wake, bringing down a
> number of mobile phone towers and relay sheds," New South Wales police
> said in a statement.
>
> The 45-year-old driver was charged with a number of offices, including
> predatory driving, possessing a prohibited drug and using a weapon to
> avoid apprehension.
>
> He will face a bail hearing later Saturday.
>
> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>

[Ext User(a t e c 7 7)]

Diesel Damo wrote:
> The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)


I hope the apc wasn't dmaged

[Ext User(a t e c 7 7)]

kcoj wrote:
> BBC UK report them to be Telstra base stations
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6898667.stm
> oh dear
>
Helstra?
altogether
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :)

[Ext User(Albm&ctd)]

In article <1184404171.048340.19130@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au says...
>
> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>
Maybe he was acting as a vigilante antiterrorist.

Al
--
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We, the public should therefore demand a similar study be carried out on
our leaders.
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[Ext User(reg-john)]

id love to know the actual story, it was being report early this morning as
a tank stolen from an army depot, but it could have just as likely been a
bren gun carrier or similar that someone owned, whcih seems to be the case
from this latest story.


"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:1184404171.048340.19130@i38g2000prf.googlegro ups.com...
> The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)
>
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_asia_afp/
> australiacrimeoffbeat;_ylt=AoDWZswWPchoeM19VV7ZSt9 vaA8F>
>
> or
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/38q6fw>
>
> SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man allegedly used a restored army tank
> to destroy mobile phone towers on a rampage through Sydney early
> Saturday, police said.
>
> Police said officers patrolling the western suburbs of Australian's
> largest city came across the privately-owned tank being used to
> destroy an electricity sub-station in the early hours of Saturday
> morning.
>
> They followed the vehicle through several suburbs for 90 minutes as it
> smashed into mobile phone towers.
>
> The low-speed pursuit, which police said averaged 30 kilometres (19
> miles) an hour, finally arresting the driver after it stalled.
>
> "The tank left a path of destruction in its wake, bringing down a
> number of mobile phone towers and relay sheds," New South Wales police
> said in a statement.
>
> The 45-year-old driver was charged with a number of offices, including
> predatory driving, possessing a prohibited drug and using a weapon to
> avoid apprehension.
>
> He will face a bail hearing later Saturday.
>
> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>

[Ext User(a t e c 7 7)]

Albm&ctd wrote:
> In article <1184404171.048340.19130@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
> Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au says...
>> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>>
> Maybe he was acting as a vigilante antiterrorist.
>
> Al
I expect he was the unhappy recipient of the wetbacks over chrging
policy , I remember the first time I got a $2200.00 bill for a month on
a mobile .

[Ext User()]

> id love to know the actual story, it was being report early this morning
> as a tank stolen from an army depot, but it could have just as likely been
> a bren gun carrier or similar that someone owned, whcih seems to be the
> case from this latest story.

well the biggest local rumour is an APC from a collector, stored in a
factory unit.

when the newsies latch on we'll know :)

-mark

[Ext User(ant)]

Diesel Damo wrote:
> The effort would have been better aimed at fixed speed cameras :-)

Yeah! Now that would be fun. a jury would never convict.

--
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[Ext User(ant)]

Albm&ctd wrote:
> In article <1184404171.048340.19130@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
> Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au says...
>>
>> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>>
> Maybe he was acting as a vigilante antiterrorist.

those towers had gone rogue and their emissions were penetrating his
strongest tinfoil hat. It was WAR.

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a t e c 7 7" <"atec 77 at hotmail dot com wrote:
> Albm&ctd wrote:
>> In article <1184404171.048340.19130@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
>> Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au says...
>>> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>>>
>> Maybe he was acting as a vigilante antiterrorist.
>>
>> Al
> I expect he was the unhappy recipient of the wetbacks over chrging
> policy , I remember the first time I got a $2200.00 bill for a month
> on a mobile .

I'd say that would be a bargain for spending a month on a mobile.

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I'm borrowing that of the latest
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[Ext User(Alan K.)]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:30:48 GMT, "reg-john" <al@fddfd.com> wrote:

>id love to know the actual story, it was being report early this morning as
>a tank stolen from an army depot, but it could have just as likely been a
>bren gun carrier or similar that someone owned, whcih seems to be the case
>from this latest story.

This seems to be most of it...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/tank-versus-telstra-towers/2007/07/14/1183833835452.html

.... though I really would prefer that the media not automatically
refer to "anything armoured" as a "tank". (A semantic discussion on
this point will not be entered into, however.)

As you suspected it's privately owned, not from an army depot. It
appears that he had a grudge against Telstra, which puts him in the
same category as... pretty much anyone who's ever dealt with them.

I'm not too sure about hiring it out for school formals, though.

(For non-NSW types, my new sig file is a reference to the latest
patronising crap from the RTA and associated wankers, a summary of
which can be seen here:

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/advertisingcampaigns/speeding_pinkie.html?hhid=pinkie

)

Ridiculously low arbitrary speed limits - No one thinks big of the nannies who impose them.

[Ext User(Blue Heeler)]

<news> wrote:

> > id love to know the actual story, it was being report early this
> > morning as a tank stolen from an army depot, but it could have
> > just as likely been a bren gun carrier or similar that someone
> > owned, whcih seems to be the case from this latest story.
>
> well the biggest local rumour is an APC from a collector, stored in a
> factory unit.
>
> when the newsies latch on we'll know :)
>
Ex-British "Trojan" APC....

The real deal. I suppose that in the light of the police powerlessness
to stop it, all ex-military vehicles will be banned, or anti-tank
weapons will be issued.

And, whilst the perpetrator is obviously a nutjob, hats off to a well
planned and pretty well executed operation, $8M worth of mobile phone
towers and base stations, and an electricity sub-station thrown in for
good measure.

One home grown nutjob has achieved more than all of the specially
trained "terrorists" ever have in Australia.


Would this be an appropriate point to put in "Ozzie, ozzie, ozzie, -
oui, oui, oui" ?




--

[Ext User(Alan K.)]

On 14 Jul 2007 21:01:41 GMT, "Blue Heeler" <woof@bark.net> wrote:
>Ex-British "Trojan" APC....
>
>The real deal. I suppose that in the light of the police powerlessness
>to stop it, all ex-military vehicles will be banned, or anti-tank
>weapons will be issued.

Given that police have yet to learn how to use the water cannon that
they bought for the APEC meeting, then I doubt that they'll get up to
speed on TOWs any time soon.

(Sorry, I meant "bought to use on anyone who dares venture into their
own bloody city during APEC without what Da Man considers justifiable
grounds"; using it on the attendees, or at least some of them, is just
my own personal fantasy:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/take-train-smile-for-the-camera/2007/07/08/1183833344547.html

"Police have finally taken possession of a $600,000 water cannon
promised 15 months ago by the Premier for the riot squad, but officers
are yet to learn how to use it. [Snip] Mr Campbell said that he had
asked police to have the device ready for APEC. )

Besides, as any good bureucrat from the Department of Nanny Control
will tell you, banning stuff is more fun than doing anything useful.

>And, whilst the perpetrator is obviously a nutjob, hats off to a well
>planned and pretty well executed operation, $8M worth of mobile phone
>towers and base stations, and an electricity sub-station thrown in for
>good measure.

I'm deducting points for the sub-station because that pissed Ordinary
Decent Folks off needlessly. But as the main mobile phone tower victim
was Telstra, I'd otherwise have to agree with you.

>One home grown nutjob has achieved more than all of the specially
>trained "terrorists" ever have in Australia.

Odd that, isn't it?

>Would this be an appropriate point to put in "Ozzie, ozzie, ozzie, -
>oui, oui, oui" ?

Only if you don't mind your indefinite detention for "questioning"
starting from the time you hear the knock on your door...

[Ext User(the_dawggie)]

On Jul 14, 11:08 pm, "ant" <lotto_officialm...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Albm&ctd wrote:
> > In article <1184404171.048340.19...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
> > Diesel_...@yahoo.com.au says...
>
> >> Police gave no reason why the man targeted mobile phone towers.
>
> > Maybe he was acting as a vigilante antiterrorist.
>
> those towers had gone rogue and their emissions were penetrating his
> strongest tinfoil hat. It was WAR.

Thats possible. Might have been a case of hearing voices saying
stuff you know nothing about (I get that slightly myself, when in a
half awake/half asleep state, doesn't bother me) however it can
feck folks who hear voices when fully awake up totally.

I'd be interested in what the pdoc thinks.

[Ext User(Moses Lim)]

JD wrote:

> <news> wrote:
>
>>> id love to know the actual story, it was being report early this morning
>>> as a tank stolen from an army depot, but it could have just as likely
>>> been a bren gun carrier or similar that someone owned, whcih seems to be
>>> the case from this latest story.
>>
>> well the biggest local rumour is an APC from a collector, stored in a
>> factory unit.
>>
>> when the newsies latch on we'll know :)
>>
>> -mark
>
> It was a privately owned APC.
>
> According to one news report he was a former employee of Telstra

Yupe, it is a privately owned vehicle. The owner runs a forklift business
out of Minchinbury(?), NSW. Greg has a lot of toys - lots :) He is gonna be
quite pissed off at the thief and it is a bad bad idea to piss off Greg.

[Ext User(Blue Heeler)]

the_dawggie wrote:

Actually he didn't write at all, his news client stuck it in for him

X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS
Digital_AlphaPC_164_500_MHz; en-US; rv:1.7)


Open VMS?

Because I'm too lazy to hunt for myself, where might I find openVMS?

A few years back I had a Multia running dual boot NT and Linux, but it
went to the great mainframe in the sky a while back, and in any event i
don't think the Multias were capable of running VMS.

However, I do have a (once-upon-a-time) tasty Alphaserver sitting in a
cupboard.....

--

[Ext User(Toby_Ponsenby)]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:02:23 +1000, Alan K. Blathered on:

>
> (For non-NSW types, my new sig file is a reference to the latest
> patronising crap from the RTA and associated wankers, a summary of which
> can be seen here:
>
> http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/advertisingcampaigns/
speeding_pinkie.html?hhid=pinkie
>
> )
>
> Ridiculously low arbitrary speed limits - No one thinks big of the
> nannies who impose them.

Hahahahah!!!
I Love this bit:
Our aim is to make speeding socially unacceptable

"In NSW speeding is a factor in about 40 per cent of road deaths each
year. This means more than 220 people die each year in NSW because of
speeding.

In addition to those killed, more than 4000 people are injured in speed-
related crashes each year. The estimated cost to the community of speed-
related crashes is about $500 million a year.

The 'Speeding. No one thinks big of you' youth speeding campaign is one
part of our effort."

The unfortunate and truly menacing thing about all this shite - in
addition to the WRONG use of statistics and common or garden variety
GovCo lieing - is this;
GovCo is believing, or been scammed in to believing, that it's easier to
'modify' behaviour using mediamongrels than actually getting out there
teaching it's taxpayers to drive responsibly and safely.



__

Toby