Ticket-dodging Oz boy racer boasts of exploits online : Chat room crowing ends in court / The Register, 21 Feb 2007
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/21/oz_boy_racer/
Lester Haines
"A 22-year-old Aussie driver who decided to ignore a "major defect notice" on his Nissan 200 SX was busted after rather brilliantly boasting of his escape from cops in an internet chat room.
He was pulled at a roadblock in Melbourne's South Yarra district at 11pm on 12 August 2006. Police issued said major defect notice - known locally as a "canary" due to its distictive yellow colour - for two bald tyres. An Acting Sergeant stuck the notice to the driver's windscreen, but then rather generously gave the perp an hour to take his wheels home rather than cop a tow.
document. He, however, decided to use the opportunity to "party on", as The Age puts it. Two days later, he described his escape to a nissansilvia.com chat room."