Be careful what photos you post online

[xtfalcon]

this is a load, who really cares what you have done to your car Ben. does it hurt anyone? i don't think so. must be someone who has no idea about how to make a car look good and is jealous of your ride

[patmould93]

I hope the scumbag who reported this car gets hit hard by karma. Just making an innocent guy's life difficult for absolutely no good reason, and forcing him to take his build thread down, which for a lot of guys like me is a source of motivation and is one of the things that got me into these cars. Seriously, how can you look yourself in the mirror?

Also, Candyman, would you give the guy a break? Why would he lie about how many officers there are? Jeez...

[ByronRichesMk1]

Such bull**** man. Putting up with this crap is ridiculous, and there arn't many other words to appropriately describe it.
Bottom line is though, I hope it all works out at least a little to your favour mate. Seems it's gone downhill so it's got to come up sometime.
Karma will come to those who do things like this. Hopefully your Uncle can sort you out a decent plan of attack for this.

[ranton-inc]

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thanks for the support on hating on whoever reported it guys, I can't believe how petty some people are, no one's ever told me they had a problem with the car so I have no idea who it was.

I've deleted my build thread and won't be making a new one, I'll keep the interesting things to facebook where I can control who's watching and will take plates off at meets before people take photos

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Police have 100% access to everything on facebook... friends list block list or not... if anything its more dangerous.. i have completely removed myself from social media/networking after seeing first hand how the authorities can use your information (and this is the poxy little police force in new zealand ..)

Im sorry you got done for your mods...

The car laws you guys have over there are seriously messed up and ridiculous...
We see all the aussie cops shows here in NZ... where the aussie pigs make them selves seem like they are doing a great public service, docking poor kids (car enthusiasts... with a pod filter oil catch can and a blow off valve...

Get the wankers with chopped springs and rusting peices of unsafe crap off the road....

$5.00 says candyman is the nark...

[Ben J]

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yeah I know police can access facebook, but I doubt they watch everything everyone posts, so can't see why theyd go through mine without giving them
a reason, and even on there I'll blur nameplates.

our laws here certainly are ridiculous, one day I'd love to move somewhere that car enthusiasts aren't treated like criminals and I can work on my car in peace.

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[Guest001]

IT experts looking for things on the net dont have to look at individual pages.

They have search engines that will throw up selected words or phrases on ANY SITE so if you put "spacers" for example on your

facebook page and they are looking for that it will show all the pages with that word on it.

The word may relate to something totally different but will still show up.


Tell them nothing take them nowhere is a good philosophy as far as the internet is concerned especially if you are doing something illegal.


Do as you want but dont tell everyone about it.

The law isnt always sensible or logical but it is the law and should be adhered to.

[Candyman]

Be careful what photos you post online

Candyman, would you give the guy a break? Why would he lie about how many officers there are? Jeez...

Mate, I am very very interested to know the exact details. I never called the guy a liar and if you actually read my posts, I said I hope it all works out.

Four officers to this sort of thing is nuts, in fact the whole thing is nuts. I'd rather four officers were out on the road, not this sort of thing.

I'm not nailing the guy but I have to say those that are suggesting baseball bats and other rubbish need to sort their **** out.

That sort of attitude just makes things worse and focuses even more attention on all of us, including this forum.

I don't need four officers out here checking my car over !

[Candyman]

Be careful what photos you post online

Police have 100% access to everything on facebook... friends list block list or not... if anything its more dangerous.. i have completely removed myself from social media/networking after seeing first hand how the authorities can use your information (and this is the poxy little police force in new zealand ..)

Im sorry you got done for your mods...

The car laws you guys have over there are seriously messed up and ridiculous...
We see all the aussie cops shows here in NZ... where the aussie pigs make them selves seem like they are doing a great public service, docking poor kids (car enthusiasts... with a pod filter oil catch can and a blow off valve...

Get the wankers with chopped springs and rusting peices of unsafe crap off the road....

$5.00 says candyman is the nark...

You can send me your $5 then

FFS, some of you people need to grow the fark up

[ranton-inc]

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You can send me your $5 then

FFS, some of you people need to grow the fark up

Nark having a cry..?

Hahaha man some people get riled up sitting in their mankinis on the other side of a keyboard and CRT/LcD

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[Candyman]

Be careful what photos you post online

That's the response I expected

Ben - as per my pm, all the best mate

[ranton-inc]

Re: Be careful what photos you post online

That's the response I expected

Ben - as per my pm, all the best mate

Candyman, I was being sarcastic btw

Posting things online is becoming further incriminating and laws are being ammended everyday to make internet related things punishable by law etc etc..

Moral of the story dont post anything illegal... or pictures etc etc...

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[Ben J]

Exactly the point I was trying to make in this thread. If you guys are running illegal mods (which lets face it, the majority of us are) then make sure you don't post them up, or atleast hide your plates and such so there isn't anyway they can be linked to your car.

Let's not start accusing people, if someone wants to come forward and own up to reporting me then please do, I would love to hear your side of the story and know why you have potentially taken my car off the road for good and costed me every spare cent I will probably make for the next few months, when I don't seem to have done anything to anyone to piss anyone off, and have never put anyone in danger when driving my car. If you want to pm me I'll even keep your identity secret so you don't have the entire forum hating on you.

[Wolfgang]

Good luck with this Ben, I think you are going to need it.

I guess someone (with too much spare time) has disapproved of your car and made note of the VWW sticker and went from there.

[Tom87]

Exactly the point I was trying to make in this thread. If you guys are running illegal mods (which lets face it, the majority of us are) then make sure you don't post them up, or atleast hide your plates and such so there isn't anyway they can be linked to your car.

Let's not start accusing people, if someone wants to come forward and own up to reporting me then please do, I would love to hear your side of the story and know why you have potentially taken my car off the road for good and costed me every spare cent I will probably make for the next few months, when I don't seem to have done anything to anyone to piss anyone off, and have never put anyone in danger when driving my car. If you want to pm me I'll even keep your identity secret so you don't have the entire forum hating on you.

I think their claim of someone reporting you is a cover story to hide the simple reality that they have people sitting behind computers monitoring known internet car forums for people with questionable modifications/illegal activity and consequently tracking them down.

So it is more than likely you were flagged a while ago and they just had other things to do before giving you a personalised visit.

Sadly for you I think your forecast of your immediate future with this vehicle is accurate. Many vehicles never make it back onto the road even after being "restored" to their original, unmodified condition.

[Ben J]

Thanks guys. Yeah you could be very right Tom, that wouldn't surprise me. Wolfgang could be right too, some disapproving **** could have seen the car parked at work and saw the VWW sticker, got on the site, found it and reported it. The police said that it had just been reported and as the car had already been flagged as a possible hoon vehicle (thanks to my old grumpy neighbour in Toowoomba, who has had it out for me ever since I owned my old VR6, which was a bit noisy, reporting me a while ago for some other bull**** I definintely didn't even do) they came to take a look. 2 hits on the hoonline must equal a visit.

I'm going to try and get the car back on the road, but we'll see, I've already started looking at potential replacement cars. Might go away from VW's from a bit and get a quick little e30. If I'm going to keep getting fined for stuff regardless of how slow my car is and how slow I drive it, I may as well get something fun since I get cop attention either way.