Police FORCED to withdraw first Covid fine today in Melbourne

BREAKING: Police FORCED to withdraw first Covid fine today in Melbourne

Tony Paolini took his family on a COVID-safe bush-walk in the first Melbourne lockdown. Police stopped the law-abiding family on their way home and sent them a $1,652 ticket in the mail.

Mr Paolini asked for his fine to be heard in court to give him more time to save money so that he could pay the outrageous fine.

"It's hard enough to support a family of four", he told me.

Victoria Police then stopped Tony from renewing his security licence until the matter was resolved.

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This incident occurred with the first lock down in Melbourne. As expected, the legal system does move slow. It is good news to see some common sense finally surfacing. With a precedent now set, the avalanche of these fines is looking to be going against the state.

a reply to: kwakakev
Good on them! A small bit of justice, is welcome.

originally posted by: kwakakev
BREAKING: Police FORCED to withdraw first Covid fine today in Melbourne

Tony Paolini took his family on a COVID-safe bush-walk in the first Melbourne lockdown. Police stopped the law-abiding family on their way home and sent them a $1,652 ticket in the mail.

Mr Paolini asked for his fine to be heard in court to give him more time to save money so that he could pay the outrageous fine.

"It's hard enough to support a family of four", he told me.

Victoria Police then stopped Tony from renewing his security licence until the matter was resolved.
This incident occurred with the first lock down in Melbourne. As expected, the legal system does move slow. It is good news to see some common sense finally surfacing. With a precedent now set, the avalanche of these fines is looking to be going against the state.

What a waste of police, court appearance time and resources. The police should go back to preventing crime.

My thoughts,

Bally

Good! There never should have been such a law to begin with. Covid 19 is the biggest heaping steamy pile of horse s@#% that I've seen in my entire life time.

a reply to: Trucker1

Covid 19 is the biggest heaping steamy pile of horse s@#% that I've seen in my entire life time.

"Lifetime" is one word (or you can just say 'life').

What, you have _SEEN_ Covid-19????

You must have SUPERvision! Have you checked that you are not actually from Krypton?