Movie Piracy

Please take the time to view this very important message about Movie Piracy, bought to you by the good folk at the IT Crowd..

Remember kiddies… Piracy funds terrorism… it really does… see……

 

 

Thanks for watching…. G

 

 

 

A perception of truth.

I had a very strange experience in court yesterday…. ( I can’t make too many comments right now as the matter is part heard) … I faced a very hostile cross-examination regarding an incident that happened over a year ago. Events which have cost me a great deal of time, money and consternation.

A year ago last June I was assaulted and my vehicle damaged…. yesterday I was shown photos, taken by my assailant after the event, that had clearly been constructed to look like the incident happened in a different place. Certain debris was removed from its original position and placed in a different position to try and exculpate the assailant, or to minimise his effort and reduce his appearance of guilt.

To be faced with clearly doctored “evidence” was freightening and tantamount to defending ones-self against perjury.

The counsel for the assailant also attepted to enter into evidence certain things that the assailant had found about me on the internet…. even down to comments that I have made in motorcycle forums. It was bizarre to say the least. Te unrelenting attack took a great toll on me. To be subjected to that kind of scrutiny is harrowing and uncomfortable to say the least.

On the positive side of the coin… The protestations of the assailant when his barrister didn’t ask certain questions or use his phrasiology were quite comical. He was told at one stage, “shut up and let me run this cross-examination - do you want to do it all yourself?”

I can only hope that the arrogance of this man leads him into the witness box…. the Police should have a great case for perjury if that happens.

PS: Be very careful what you say in forums and in websites / blogs etc….. if you work in an area such as I do…. it can all come back to bite you on the bum!

Cheers, Tex

Bad habits passed on from teacher to student…

Recently I was conducting some surveillance in East St Kilda – a predominantly Jewish suburb of Melbourne. Now, I used to work as Security Manager and body guard to the Rabbi Joseph (Yossel) Gutnick and have no prejudices for or against the people of Hebrew faith. That period of my working life gave me a rich insight into the internal workings of both Jewish family life and business.I was maintaining surveillance in the back of my van, completely unseen to the outside world. In the space of one hour, no less than three different women in large vehicles (dropping children off at the nearby school) hit my van.I was reminded by the bumping and grinding of plastic on plastic of a similar thing I had witnessed at the Gutnick household.Chaya Gutnick a teenager of driving age was being given lessons by a friendly older lady. Chaya was learning in the family Toyota Tarago (people mover). As she reversed out of the driveway she hit the neighbor’s car parked across the street. The two bumper bars became entangled and the tarago was stuck… both Chaya and the lady ‘instructor’ got out, looked, shrugged and got back in…. and drove away… tearing the corner off the neighor’s bumper…Neither person even thought about the damage they had caused or witnessed….. and years later it happened to me three times in a day…. Teach, your children well…. as the song goes. 

A sickening thud!

Not unlike a YouTube video… in real life.. thats how I would describe it…I was waiting to turn from little Bourke St into Queen Street to run south… when a bloke on a Gixxer with a Yoshi system at full noise pops a wheelie going south on Queen… I look… as you do… and as he dissapears behind a parked van… I hear the engine cut off and the thud of bike against …. well it was a sickening sound.He stepped off the back of the wheelie (prolly doing about 100- 120 in Queen St on a Monday arvo…. squid) … by the time I got to the scene of the prang, there he was laying there with one foot facing the wrong way and 3 knees in the other leg… witnesses say he was cut off by a driver and stepped off the back…PS: Squid = Sometimes Quick, Usually Injured or Dead