Sydney Opera House vandals charged

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-30 11:58pm

Hey, remember those fucktards who painted "NO WAR" on the Sydney Opera House? They just got sentenced.

TWO peace activists who painted No War on the Sydney Opera House were today sentenced to nine months periodic detention.

David Burgess, 33, and Will Saunders, 42, were convicted late last year of malicious damage after painting No War on the tallest sail of the Opera House on March 18, 2003.

NSW District Court Judge Anthony Blackmore today sentenced the pair to nine months weekend jail and ordered they jointly pay $111,000 compensation to the Sydney Opera House Trust.

Earlier in today's proceedings the pair handed over a cheque for $40,000 to the trust.

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Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-31 12:00am

Wow, $110,000 for a bit of grafitti? They don't fuck around in Australia.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-31 12:10am

Joe wrote:Wow, $110,000 for a bit of grafitti? They don't fuck around in Australia.

It was on the fucking roof of the Sydney opera house!

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-01-31 12:20am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Joe wrote:Wow, $110,000 for a bit of grafitti? They don't fuck around in Australia.
It was on the fucking roof of the Sydney opera house!

Precisely. It's bad for tourism, you see.

Seriously, I had completely forgotten about these fuckheads. Just goes to show how vain their 'peace protest' was, at least to me.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-31 12:23am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Joe wrote:Wow, $110,000 for a bit of grafitti? They don't fuck around in Australia.
It was on the fucking roof of the Sydney opera house!

Oh, I'm not saying it's an unfair fee. Just seems like a lot, especially with jail time included.

Post by **weemadando** » 2004-01-31 12:28am

I don't even recall this event...

And 9 months of weekend detention and that fine is perfectly justified.

Now if only they'd do the same to the fucking greenies down here in Tassie who are constantly treesitting or abseiling with banners off ferries etc.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-01-31 12:29am

Wow, that's a hefty punishment for grafitti Right on!

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-31 12:43am

Joe wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Joe wrote:Wow, $110,000 for a bit of grafitti? They don't fuck around in Australia.
It was on the fucking roof of the Sydney opera house!
Oh, I'm not saying it's an unfair fee. Just seems like a lot, especially with jail time included.

They are only paying for the damages THEY caused! Furthermore, it is something called "weekend jail", so it's not like they are in prison all the time.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-01-31 12:45am

They should have made them clean it off.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-01-31 12:52am

The one guy's from England, IIRC.
Go fuck up your own national landmarks, idiot.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-02-01 12:11pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote: They are only paying for the damages THEY caused! Furthermore, it is something called "weekend jail", so it's not like they are in prison all the time.

Cool, they get to be the weekend "entertainment" for the guys who don't get to leave during the week.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-02-01 12:43pm

The best punishment would be to force them to clean every building where there are graffitis on.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-02-01 12:47pm

Spend their weekends cleaning off graffiti in public restrooms.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-02 12:32am

That is more than I thought they would be fined.

This should be a lesson to any who might try the same.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-02-02 12:34am

The fine could also have included the fact that what they did was also dangerous, I mean they would have had to have absailed to do that ... possibly the Crown attached a 'stupidity' fine on that as well.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2004-02-02 06:05am

From what I've read they were ordered to pay the cleanup costs, hence the large sum of money involved.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-02-02 06:17am

$110000 may seem a bit too high but I think this should deter people from defacing public monuments in the future.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-02 06:23am

evilcat4000 wrote:$110000 may seem a bit too high but I think this should deter people from defacing public monuments in the future.

Or to be better at fleeing.