ALYSSA BETTS
March 11th, 2010

A SECURITY video camera has captured the shocking moment when a young woman driver intentionally mowed down a man - flipping him over the bonnet and roof into the air.

Natasha Anne Carra, 19, was facing up to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to recklessly endangering life and aggravated assault over the incident at Katherine's BP service station in June last year.

During her ram-rage, Carra hit one man in the legs before driving off and skittling a second man over her bonnet.
The NT Supreme Court heard a drunk Carra had left a nightclub and drove to the servo about 1.25am.

Chief Justice Brian Martin said she parked behind a car in a bay closest to the entrance doors, beeped the horn, and yelled "move your f**king car".

She and the driver had an argument, and she then shunted the man's car forward with her own, denting her vehicle in the process.

Justice Martin said in her "drunken state" she saw the dent and became convinced the other car had reversed into her vehicle.

A "heated argument" followed - in which Carra was called a "peg leg" - and the 19-year-old exploded.

She drove at two of the men - hitting one in the legs.

Footage then shows Carra reversing 10m, stepping on the accelerator and hitting the second man, causing him to hit her bonnet and roof before being flung into the air.

"You were overheard by one of your passengers to say: 'Don't think I won't hit you,' before revving the vehicle and accelerating heavily," Justice Martin said.

He said it was "very surprising" the victim suffered only minor grazes and bruising.

"You did not apply your brakes or swerve or make any attempt to avoid striking that victim."

In sentencing the judge said he took into account Carra suffered a rare and painful condition that affected her limbs, for which she had been taunted and teased at school.

He said it was to Carra's credit she was a person of good character - and that this was a difficult and "exceptional" case.

She was given a three-year jail sentence, fully suspended for three years, and had her licence disqualified for that same period.

Source: NT News

Hahaha "let it beep". That's gold.

STOP BEEPING!!! IT READS FUCK!

Had to stop watching. "Fuck" is plastered all over the video, but I have to sit through constant annoying beeps? Beep that.

But jokes aside, I've had one event burn the realization into me that (airport) security is a people problem, not a technical problem (until we get real AIs with a creativity chip). San Francisco Airport, February 2002. Me a non US citizen, dressed all in black, longish hair and the infamous "ZZZ" on the ticket.

First, standard screening: the security people (mexican) are bitching at their supervisor (thai) in a strange mix of english, spanish and something I didn't get and I got the overall impression that they had to use hands and feet just to be able to communicate in broad terms. The guy giving me a rub-down with the wand didn't notice that the wands battery fell out until I pointed it out to him. He did the wand-to-wrist-watch test and failed to notice the missing beep. Just going through the motions, not really caring about the rest and seemed pretty harassed by just about everything

Second screening at the gate: I put my jacket to one side and my carry-on to the other. While I was more or less enthusastically frisked by another minimum wage security person, another was puzzeling if the math books he found in my carry on were a threat to national security. Here's the kicker: my jacket was pretty much worn out with holes in the pocket so you could reach all the way around inside. Perfect hiding spot of just about anything nasty and would warrant a closer look, right? Except noone even bothered to look at the jacket. Not once.

I can tell you, I felt very safe getting into my seat after boarding.

Ever since then I'm a fully paid up subscriber to Bruce Schneiers message that making people feel secure by doing blatant things with their rights isn't the same as making people secure by actually doing your job. So please, dear politicos and airport owners, pay the security people at the airport more than minimum wage. Give them job satisfaction and an incentive to do their job right. And quit wanking over cool tech stuff you saw in early 90s Schwarzenegger movies that just doesn't work in real life.

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I wish they'd used an actual Prius in their "what to do" segment. You can't shift them into neutral while they're at speed. The car just beeps at you if you try it. Ditto for park and reverse.

The e-brake in a Prius is very much set up as a parking brake. You push the pedal in, and it locks in place. I wouldn't recommend that you try to use it to slow down at highway speeds (or hardly any speed at all).

I haven't tried it, but I don't think you can even shut off the ignition at speed, either.

I'm not sure why people act like the Prius is an especially slow car. It's the same as a normal 4-cylinder mid-size sedan. Not a rocket, but easily capable of hitting 100mph, getting up to speed on highway ramps, overtaking dickheads who're only going 75 in the left-hand lane...I can vouch for all those personally.

Yes, I own a Prius. I'm sure everyone's shocked.

A UPS is generally a battery designed to keep your computer running in the event of an environmental power failure. It has to cool itself, since the charging up generates a lot of heat (feel your cellphone battery while it's charging once . The fans usually make the noise.

Any UPS the size of a surge protector won't give you much. The most valuable feature you can have on them is the shutdown-command that they can give the computer if there's a power-outage.

If you're worried about your motherboard / PSU failing due to a power surge, all you need is a surge protector as far as I'm concerned. The only component of the computer that might suffer damage from an instant shutdown is the hard-drive, and in the case of desktop computers, the damage is unlikly.

Make sure you buy a quality surge protector. $20-30 more isn't a lot to pay, and you don't want the cheap ones

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Demon_IX, Thanks for the advice on the UPS thread.

When you say UPS are loud, are you referring to the beeping when the power goes out, or to normal noise that they make?

Are you referring to the big box ones that have their own LCD screens, or to the smaller ones that look basically like normal surge protectors?

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.

Demon_IX, Thanks for the advice on the UPS thread.

When you say UPS are loud, are you referring to the beeping when the power goes out, or to normal noise that they make?

Are you referring to the big box ones that have their own LCD screens, or to the smaller ones that look basically like normal surge protectors?

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.

Yo, I'm smokin herbals till it hurts you
I keep your daughter way out past her curfew
Hard far from commercial
(So what cha mean nigga)
We don't give a fuck when we smoked out
In the land that's doped out [it's like that?] no doubt
From this bomb weed, I cock from the streets
Get you open like buttcheeks, from girls who be freaks
Aiyyo, can I be SWV?
You the One nigga
Rap Shogun, yes E the one
Yo, I'm rollin with a forty pack of niggaz
Get my weed from Branson cause his sack's bigger
Yo give me dap nigga
What I clap lyrically tap call back
Ferocious causin comatoses to collapse
So chinky eyed I see people wavin on a map
I make it hotter than your thermostats (beep beep beep beep)
Bomb MC's with rough megahertz so call me
Funk Doctor verbal starburst, lyrical expert
Your boombox better form a union
Cause I leave your circus overworked, word bond
Niggaz front like they want it
But I be in the five hundred with E steadily gettin blunted
Damn nigga you cool at what you spittin
So why you holdin the blunt so long politickin
Huh, I ace them blunts with the technician
of electrician, I don't got a pot to piss in
But still spend my last on hyrdroglycerin
I keep it live no jive rollin Dutches
that's Masters like the Furious Five
I, keep your crew chinky eyed, for bitches actin dog
(Can you hit it from the back?) Why not, while we toke on this

I smoked with a lot of college, students
Most of em, wasn't graduatin and they knew it
You know the weed slang? Yeah boy I speak it fluent
I light your college dorm with my entourage from Newark
Bigger they come, harder they fall
That goes for, knuckleheads, MC's, pussy walls and all
I lit my first L before I started to crawl
I got my ass whupped when I had my first brawl
But things changed since I was twelve years old
I specialize in wreckin mics and area codes
Now, PPP the kinda niggaz that'll bug witcha
Smoke bud witcha, later on stick a sluginya
Everything that's like green ain't the bomb bitch
I got different forms to make you lose your calm bitch
Read my lips, you ain't hittin unless you got
Ten on it, get on it, or get the fuck out my cypher

No vote from me, because the (beep)wad didn't select "I want to hear every nasty syllable". It would have been a lot (beep)in' funnier if that (beep)hole had selected it.

I hope this game gets ported to the PC. Would love to play it but won't buy a console just to do so.

*Click here to allow nasty words* Fucking Epic
*Click here to disable nasty words* Beeping Epic

You know me too well Alan! This is fun! Reminds me of the "Beep Beep Yr ass" T-shirt I saw as a kid at an auto show.

Believe it or not, George isn't at home.
Please leave a message at the beep.
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone.
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I'm not home!

Every transition beep in the video sounded like somebody said fuck, I LOLed.