Mongrels who check others Crab Pots

[wilson79]

For all the Townsvillians got sent this by a mate today, it was posted on Facebook..

If its true they should have used him for Crab pot bait!!!!!

[MarkGU]

some well placed barbed wire in the rope of a crab pot usually speaks volumes. 

[Clouty]

some well placed barbed wire in the rope of a crab pot usually speaks volumes. 

Or nicely placed hooks works as well..

[krisandkev]

Raiding other peoples crab pots is a low act, no doubt about it, but I hope the person who has defamed the bloke in the boat and his business can back his claims according to law.  Just be careful how you guys add to this thread, hate to see anyone open to litigation. 
But like I said anyone who does it is a low life.     Kevin

[achjimmy]

That's why we should carry guns on our boats. Total low act. Hopefully the law gets involved.

[Tractor88]

Surprised he got away with a straight nose. 

[smokescreen]

You better tell your mate to go down and see if he can get a really really great deal on a new camper tell him to take the photo evidence with him 

[DropBearRacing]

That's why we should carry guns on our boats. Total low act. Hopefully the law gets involved.

Really??  what would you do if you came upon someone pulling you pots and you had a gun in your boat?  If your answer is shoot him or threaten him with it then go hand your licence and firearms in now.  Us gun owners have a hard enough time in this country without these type of comments and attitudes on a public forum.   I know you will find that the crab thief would not be getting fined or charged but you would be in a fair bit of strife.

[Swogjb]

Really??  what would you do if you came upon someone pulling you pots and you had a gun in your boat?  If your answer is shoot him or threaten him with it then go hand your licence and firearms in now.  Us gun owners have a hard enough time in this country without these type of comments and attitudes on a public forum.   I know you will find that the crab thief would not be getting fined or charged but you would be in a fair bit of strife.

But a dead man tells no lies

[MarkGU]

But a dead man tells no lies

and no one hears you scream in a crab pot either 

[DropBearRacing]

I hear you and I've been very p#&#ed when I've gone to check my pots and found that they have been moved or even missing and I'm not advocating this nob stealing from other peoples pots but to imply that a firearm would be handy in a situation like that I believe is reckless and dangerous.

[Swogjb]

I hear you and I've been very p#&#ed when I've gone to check my pots and found that they have been moved or even missing and I'm not advocating this nob stealing from other peoples pots but to imply that a firearm would be handy in a situation like that I believe is reckless and dangerous.

I think he was applying that he would go spotlighting for crab rather than using his pots!

[MarkGU]

I think he was applying that he would go spotlighting for crab rather than using his pots!

maybe he has very big crabs 

[Bird]

[ozstickman]

My mate in Mackay was telling me they just cut the pots open when they raid them up there so te pots are also useless then


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[achjimmy]

Really??  what would you do if you came upon someone pulling you pots and you had a gun in your boat?  If your answer is shoot him or threaten him with it then go hand your licence and firearms in now.  Us gun owners have a hard enough time in this country without these type of comments and attitudes on a public forum.   I know you will find that the crab thief would not be getting fined or charged but you would be in a fair bit of strife.

settle down mate. Sadly it was said in jest.

on another note the thought police would be please to see there efforts sinking through, getting any thoughts on gun ownership other than the sanitised ones stifled. 

tell me its OT but if we firearms owners aren't allowed firearms for personal and property protection why do the politician and wealthy people have armed guards and why do banks and others get guns to protect there property?

[wilson79]

My mate in Mackay was telling me they just cut the pots open when they raid them up there so te pots are also useless then


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You are correct my In laws live in Mackay and have a beach side property with a couple of healthy crabbing creeks nearby.. We often go there fishing and crabbing and while we use the steel mesh pots others using the collapsible pots are often complaining that someone has just knifed the pot to retrieve the crabs..It has even got that serious down there that people have installed remote hunting cameras in the mangroves to catch people raiding their pots and on a couple of occasions taken the footage to police who have charged the offenders identifying them from the rego on the boat..

The other sad thing is it is starting to happen here in Townsville as well..

[themissus]

There is a response from the alleged pot raider but I can't get it to load from my phone.

[ozstickman]

This was his response.

What's that?  Nothing?


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[wilson79]

There is a response from the alleged pot raider but I can't get it to load from my phone.

I am not on stalk book can you give us a idea of what his response was?

[Myst]

tell me its OT but if we firearms owners aren't allowed firearms for personal and property protection why do the politician and wealthy people have armed guards and why do banks and others get guns to protect there property?

OP, its off topic but the question has been asked.

There's no provision in the firearms acts around the country for the use of firearms for the protection of personal property. Police, police-like agencies and security companies have specific provisions in acts of parliament that allow for the carriage and use of firearms and other personal defensive equipment for the protection of human life only.

What that means is that if someone steals the money without threatening life there is no justification for the use of a firearm. If someone steals the money and in doing so threatens the life of the guard or any other person, and that threat is imminent, they can use a firearm in defence of themselves or the other person until the threat stops.

On the topic of share farming crab pots, its a low act, and its also illegal (unlawfully interfere with a lawful fishing operation), so its worth passing on to the Police or local Fisheries. No doubt if numbnuts has done it to these pots he's done it to loads of others without being caught.

[Aaron Schubert]

Dodgy as - his unlucky day

Aaron

[dazzler]

maybe he was putting crabs in the pot.  Like Robin Hood maybe?


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[dazzler]

OP, its off topic but the question has been asked.

There's no provision in the firearms acts around the country for the use of firearms for the protection of personal property. Police, police-like agencies and security companies have specific provisions in acts of parliament that allow for the carriage and use of firearms and other personal defensive equipment for the protection of human life only.

What that means is that if someone steals the money without threatening life there is no justification for the use of a firearm. If someone steals the money and in doing so threatens the life of the guard or any other person, and that threat is imminent, they can use a firearm in defence of themselves or the other person until the threat stops.

On the topic of share farming crab pots, its a low act, and its also illegal (unlawfully interfere with a lawful fishing operation), so its worth passing on to the Police or local Fisheries. No doubt if numbnuts has done it to these pots he's done it to loads of others without being caught.

Heres an interesting one for ya. 

Just before the Olympics we run some counter terrorism training for bodyguards that looked after OS dignatories.  So the scenario goes you are visiting a building, there are four body guards and a VIP.  They get ambushed by 'terrorists' using simunitions (plastic projectiles in glock 19's - they hurt like hell) and the VIP gets rushed out of the room by two of the guards.


One guard gets shot and is down injured and the other engages with the two terrorists who then surrender and lay on the ground.  The guard stands over them and then....

Shots are heard outside and the the two guards scream contact and help.  The guard on his own hears this and has to decide what to do.  He is yet to cuff the terrorists or search them. 

So he shoots them both in the back to 'disable' them and runs off to help his mates.

He gets outside and its all over with the other terrorists down and the scenario ends.  One of the two terrorists he shot in the back comes running out and a full on punch up ensures over him getting shot in the back point blank with an egg sized lump near his spine - that was funny.

Anyways.  Justified or not to shoot them?


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[Paul (SA)]

My dad has his pots pinched quite often in Bundaberg. They just cut the float and take the lot. Thieving mongrels