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It was an age ago, but I mocked up an "Air Zephaniah" logo and posted it to WOOF (from one of his images in the style of Jordan Jumpman) because there was a story that his party trick was to jump over people.
Somebody on here cleaned it up and it was available on hoodies through one of those online stores where you upload your own designs. Buried somewhere in my wardrobe is an Air Zephaniah hoodie.Comment
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Statewide manhunt leads to arrest, jail term for ex-Magpie Aaron James
Ex-AFL player Aaron James has again traded footy fields for a prison cell after a drug-fuelled crime rampage ended in a statewide manhunt for the disgraced footballer.
Ex-AFL footballer Aaron James went from kicking goals at the ‘G to sparking a statewide manhunt, landing the fugitive behind bars after a spectacular fall from grace.
The former Collingwood, Richmond and Western Bulldogs player, 48, will spend the next five months in custody after he pleaded guilty and was sentenced for dozens of drug, driving and theft charges in the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
His month-long drug-fuelled crime spree began in November 2024 and included multiple store thefts, stealing number plates, a car crash in an Eastland carpark and two dramatic car chases with police.
It ended when James was arrested on May 26 after a statewide manhunt, which began after he failed to show up to court for other criminal matters.
Last week, James also pleaded guilty to cavorting with a naked woman behind beach boxes on the Mornington Peninsula.
Police caught James in his black jocks behind the beach boxes at Dromana on March 8.
The court heard a beachgoer spotted the former footballer rubbing a liquid from a green bottle onto a naked woman, who was on all fours in the sand.
He was later seen thrusting his hips at the woman while exposing his penis.
James was previously busted sleeping in another Dromana beach box with a woman on February 16.
James — who played 54 games for Collingwood, Richmond and the Western Bulldogs after being drafted by the Magpies in 1993 — was regarded as a real talent in his AFL days.
But his career was tainted by injuries and legal woes.
When sidelined with a knee injury during his days as a Magpie in 1996, James was involved in a nightclub fight with security and charged with affray.
In 1997, he faced the courts again after he urinated on two women at the Saloon Bar in South Yarra.
Retiring in 2002 after 54 AFL games, the full-forward went on to dominate country and suburban football leagues.
He played in a premiership at Gisborne then booted a century of goals for Doutta Stars in the Essendon District Football League in 2003.
After a move to Lalor, he again topped the ton a year later.
James racked up another 100-plus season at Albion in Melbourne’s west the next season and went on to kick another century of goals for North Bendigo in 2009.
But his on-field antics often landed him in trouble.
In 2006, while playing during the RDFL finals series with the Sunbury Kangaroos, he was suspended for 15 weeks for threatening an umpire.
Then in 2011, after he received an 18-week ban for an altercation with a spectator, AFL Victoria deregistered him, forbidding him from playing on any footy field.
It marked the end of his career.
In June 2017, James was accused of threatening to kill his wife during a bitter marriage break-up.
A month later he fronted the Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on drug and traffic charges, after he was caught driving in a Rebel bikie’s car with up to $12,000 of methamphetamine.
By September that year, he had been jailed after pleading guilty to a swag of driving and domestic violence charges, as well as a charge of trafficking meth.
Eight years later and arrest warrants were issued for James and his mugshot released after police in the state’s north went public in searching for him over his failure to appear on a number of matters.
Those included failing to answer bail, theft and drug charges.
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Good grief. What do you reckon was in the green bottle, Pino aftershave? This detail is sublime:
Police caught James in his black jocks behind the beach boxes at Dromana on March 8.
The court heard a beachgoer spotted the former footballer rubbing a liquid from a green bottle onto a naked woman, who was on all fours in the sand.
He was later seen thrusting his hips at the woman while exposing his penis.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Cavorting hahhaaaaa.
Good Melton lad.BT COME BACK!
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Zaine Cordy won't be offered a new contract at St.Kilda.More of an In Bruges guy?Comment
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