A warning to all...

[balthazarr]

'A man has been charged more than seven months after doing a burnout - because his crime was caught on a mobile phone and posted on the video-sharing website YouTube.

Traffic management unit officers admit the capture of the Kangaroo Flat man fell into place.

It began when an anonymous resident emailed the link of the burnout on YouTube to the Prosecutions Office at Bendigo police.

Prosecutors forwarded the tip-off to traffic management unit officers downstairs.

Leading Senior Constable Richard Webster said police viewed the footage, noting the distinctive white Commodore.

Days later, Leading Senior Constable Peter Dyer was at a service station when he saw the car filling up. A bumper sticker on the car bore the same name as the YouTube video.

Following investigations, the owner of the vehicle was called in for questioning.

"He made full admissions and admitted he did in the burnout in Arblaster Street in California Gully earlier this year,’’ Senior Constable Webster said.

Senior Constable Dyer then went to the address and saw tyre marks still visible on the street.

Knocking on several doors, two residents recalled the incident, with one pinpointing the date to April 25.

Police say the vehicle cannot be impounded so long after the incident, but they will apply for the 25-year-old offender to be banned from the roads for three months.

He faces charges of careless driving, improper use of a motor vehicle and causing undue noise, and will appear at Bendigo Magistrates Court at a date to be fixed.'

http://www.theage.com.au/national/we...1203-6q85.html

I don't condone hooning. But I fail to see how charging the guy seven months down the track is a good use of police resources.

And who is spending time on YouTube, forwarding links to the police? :