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Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 days ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/australia@aussie.zone

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A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time

The court heard Danby sent a series of "disgusting" text messages to his friends in the hours after the crash, in which he labelled the crash victims as "dogs" and "n***ers".

No jail ? Lucky he didn't run Charke Kirk down I guess.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago

Not a federal thing. I was specifically thinking of the Brisbane City Council local government which was repeatedly removing "white ghost" memorials to Philip Pawsey...until the memorialists put a white ghost bike on a trailer parked in the bike lane (which is a legal place to park a car here...), which because it's legally parked on the road, it would be illegal for them to remove. It ended up highlighting the irony of their failure to build proper infrastructure (i.e., separated bike paths where a car can't park and thereby endanger cyclists) far more than a normal memorial would have.