Re: My speeding ticket hearing of 5/12/1995

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From: David Downie
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 00:00

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>So are you saying that if police were set up to catch a bank robber that
>they had been tipped off about, and you noticed the guy get out of his car
>with a balaclava on, and you somehow stopped him from robbing the bank and
>possibly shooting people, possibly himself (or the other way around in
>Victoria), then you've committed a crime?

>Surely interfering in a police operation means causing the operation to
>fail [to catch the bad guys] as opposed to preventing the crime.

When a person is speeding the crime *is* being committed. You are just 
enabling the bad guy to get away with it.

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From: cs323389@student.uq.edu.au (David Downie)
Subject: Re: My speeding ticket hearing of 5/12/1995
Date: 1995/12/17
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