• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Used bolt cutters to open a chain link fence and crowbared open a door.

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    As the judge said ‘In any other context, this would be considered breaking and entering but the provisions under the Act do permit these actions.’

    There’s is a provision in the Telecommunications Act in Australia which says as a landowner, during an emergency you can not restrict a telecommunications tech access to their equipment. It also says a telecommunications tech can dismantle any obstical preventing access to their equipment.

    The definition of emergency is left entirely up to the telecommunications company.

  • BrightCandle@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Bribed foreign government officials and then whitewashed the dodgy deal through the bribed local government. This was all hidden by taking payment in oil barrels which the bribed local government officials then used holding of it to hike local oil prices before selling it to further increase their personal wealth.

  • Brokensilence410@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Force me back to work after having a heat stroke in the back of a Fed-Ex truck in 100+ degree weather, so it was hotter in the truck. I don’t know if it’s actually illegal or what not but it taught me to get the fuck out of there. By the time I left, it happened 3 times.