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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    what a dimwit.

    His life has now changed forever, lucky he didn't change someone else's life forever.

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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Why? He made a mistake, a bad one. Let’s use it as a force for positive teaching/change.
    Good lord. How many times are we going to accept this idiotic behaviour and hide behind the "let's turn it into a teaching moment"?

    If this were the first player for it to happen to then that's maybe understandable, but I'm sure Lachie has heard and read about all the other exact same teaching moments, and still gone and done it.

    He's and idiot and deserves real punishment.
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Luke Hodge was one sip over the limit, and didn't lose his licence, yet he copped more shot than most...

    Lachie:

    - .123% (which would be much higher, having reduced over 3-4 hours. He could've been over .15% - 3 times legal limit)
    - Accident with 4 cars while drunk
    - Leave the scene of an accident
    - Breaching COVID 19 laws, while the rest of are doing the right thing


    This to me is much worse than Libba being unconscious with a pill in his pocket. He needs to receive the largest sanction and get dropped from the leadership group. This is about the worst news our club could have right now. The saving grace is he didn't kill anyone, but that was luck.
    What is the likely penalty at a legal/policing level? Is fleeing the scene a jail time offence, or will it be a significant fine?

    The fleeing the scene part is interesting to me, reports say that he gave his details to at least a couple of the car owners before he left. So it's not like he was completely hiding from responsibility.

    I think lengthy xlub suspension (rest of 2020, maybe some 2021 depending on what this season ends up like) with lots of support and training is the go - and increase the amount of support to our players who have lived in a bubble for most of their lives, which has just burst. I'd imagine the mental impact of the current lockdown is larger on those who have had privileged lives than us 'normal' people. I don't think axing him is the right call.

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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Luke Hodge was one sip over the limit, and didn't lose his licence, yet he copped more shot than most...

    Lachie:

    - .123% (which would be much higher, having reduced over 3-4 hours. He could've been over .15% - 3 times legal limit)
    - Accident with 4 cars while drunk
    - Leave the scene of an accident
    - Breaching COVID 19 laws, while the rest of are doing the right thing


    This to me is much worse than Libba being unconscious with a pill in his pocket. He needs to receive the largest sanction and get dropped from the leadership group. This is about the worst news our club could have right now. The saving grace is he didn't kill anyone, but that was luck.
    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    Good lord. How many times are we going to accept this idiotic behaviour and hide behind the "let's turn it into a teaching moment"?

    If this were the first player for it to happen to then that's maybe understandable, but I'm sure Lachie has heard and read about all the other exact same teaching moments, and still gone and done it.

    He's and idiot and deserves real punishment.
    I prefer to separate the act from the individual. Good people can do stupid things, no one is perfect. What he did was idiotic, and he deserves punishment of course. But he also deserves some compassion and understanding as we have no idea about his particular circumstances.
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Out of the leadership group for sure. Fine + alcohol awareness course. Make him front the media.

    What exactly are we going to "stand him down" from though? We're not playing and not training, and unlike Libba we can hardly ship him off to a real job for four weeks.
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    Out of the leadership group for sure. Fine + alcohol awareness course. Make him front the media.

    What exactly are we going to "stand him down" from though? We're not playing and not training, and unlike Libba we can hardly ship him off to a real job for four weeks.
    we actually can, there's still homelessness and alcoholism issues rampant in our community, there plenty he can be doing to learn from his mistake.

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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    I prefer to separate the act from the individual. Good people can do stupid things, no one is perfect. What he did was idiotic, and he deserves punishment of course. But he also deserves some compassion and understanding as we have no idea about his particular circumstances.
    If what he did was to impact only himself, sure. But drunk drivers deserve no compassion.
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Have we confirmed it was him driving, not someone else using his car? Innocent until proven guilty
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    I prefer to separate the act from the individual. Good people can do stupid things, no one is perfect. What he did was idiotic, and he deserves punishment of course. But he also deserves some compassion and understanding as we have no idea about his particular circumstances.
    I respect the reasons why your opinion is such but I just can't accept it myself.

    I feel like the only way to settle this is pistols at twenty paces.
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by boydogs View Post
    Have we confirmed it was him driving, not someone else using his car? Innocent until proven guilty
    Why would they breath test a passenger?
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    Out of the leadership group for sure. Fine + alcohol awareness course. Make him front the media.

    What exactly are we going to "stand him down" from though? We're not playing and not training, and unlike Libba we can hardly ship him off to a real job for four weeks.
    It's just so hard to gauge without all the facts but I suspect it will be a combination of what you are suggesting and some other more harsh measures.
    I wonder where he went when he left the accident and where the police tested him? Could he have possibly involved others including our own players in this?
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    I respect the reasons why your opinion is such but I just can't accept it myself.

    I feel like the only way to settle this is pistols at twenty paces.
    Public stoning may also work
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    Why would they breath test a passenger?
    And why would a passenger do a runner?
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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    The stupidity gets worse if this is true from The Age.

    "Sources close to Hunter have told The Age he knocked on the door of two of the neighbours' houses to tell them of the damage, before being driven by the friend to another friend's house.

    It was at this South Yarra address that Hunter allegedly continued to drink, before police knocked on the door later in the night."


    https://www.theage.com.au/national/v...17-p54knx.html
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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    Re: Lachie Hunter charged with Dink Driving

    Very disappointed in Lachie, and seems like an unlikely character to do such thing. It is one thing to drink and drive, but to flee the scene is not good.
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