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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)
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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.

#EDIT: an update for those interested#

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/family-of-man-killed-in-darwin-hit-and-run-speak-out/105787700

The family of an Aboriginal man run down and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Darwin last year have voiced their "disgust and dismay" at the lack of a prison sentence for the offender.

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down

I was just thinking in another thread, how easy it would have been to kill Kirk with a car and just get away with it. Because I don't agree with your comment here. Using a car is the best way to get away with murder. You have to be extremely unlucky to get any significant penalty when you kill someone with your car. Just ask the killers of Michael Hall, Carolyn Lister, Philip Pawsey, Richard Pollett, Richard Burden, and countless others around the country. Most of those were never charged. The one that was charged was never convicted. And our government spends more effort removing memorials than it does on actually addressing the problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Which memorials has Albo been removing?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Your nazis don't think it's a problem, they think it's a perk.

    Deal with your nazi problem, Australia.

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