Ladies Who Do have nothing on this clean up job....
A SYDNEY cleaner was jailed today for up to eight years after being found with enough pseudoephedrine to make $41 million worth of speed.Milan Uzelac, 44, was working for a cleaning company contracted to Pfizer in Sydney's south when he began smuggling out cold and flu tablets with a 21-year-old accomplice between June 2001 and January 2002.
Uzelac was arrested on January 16 last year after a six-month undercover police investigation.
Officers discovered 26kg of pure pseudoephedrine, and a further 657kg of cold and flu tablets containing the same drug, stashed in a drum in his car boot.
NSW District Court judge Ken Taylor said he took into account Uzelac's gambling addiction and cocaine use when sentencing.
"The defendant was motivated by greed," Judge Taylor said.
Uzelac was sentenced to a maximum of eight years jail with a non-parole period of five years.
Would Uzelac have been released if he was also caught with 657kg of tissues?
Clearly he had one hell of a cold and/or flu. Why must police harass innocent people like this when they should be catching real criminals.
Posted by: Adam | 24 November 2003 at 19:41
Curse you Adam. You stole my smartarse comment out from under me.
Meanwhile kids, take a word of advice from Aunty Caz and DONT take Codril/Sudafed and drink redbull just so you can stay up all night to guard your election posters from the dirty Nats. Those fuckers are probably too busy fiddling their sheep to come steal your posters and you'll end up with heart palpatations/needless panic for no good reason.
Not that I'd have first hand experience in these matters.
Posted by: Caz | 24 November 2003 at 20:15
You are one strange woman, Caz.
657kg in his car boot? Must be some car...
Posted by: Scott | 25 November 2003 at 00:50
"Would Uzelac have been released if he was also caught with 657kg of tissues?"
P'haps, but his collection of "Hustler" and "Australian Naturist" would have been confiscated.
Posted by: Sedgwick | 25 November 2003 at 18:15
... and marginally off topic on what I sincerely hope is pre-emptively on topic. (Don't disappoint me young fella-me-edumacator. Of course I can't openly complain or utter the word "unconscionable!" ... solidarity forever and all that ... and of course there's Comrade Domican's power of persuasion.)
What's the use of that $41 mill. of speed when The Bachelor Boy (©Sir Cliff) won't let us have short trips?
A short trip to the shopping paradise that is Airport West Shopping Centre on the bus (thereby avoiding a drive through "The Roundabout from Hell", a monument to the power of the panel-beaters' lobby) is now to cost 80% more.
That bloody fascist Jeff Kennett! It's all his fault! (Pardon my non-sequitur, but I'm not a happy garcon.)
Posted by: Sedgwick | 25 November 2003 at 18:42
Now now, Adam & Caz. Speeding is a crime and should not be condoned. And I took No Doze and Coke (A Cola) on a night shift about 20 years ago. Never again.
Good point, Scott. I hadn't thought of that, but that's more that half a tonne. That's some car boot. The exhaust must have been dragging on the ground.
Sedge, you're the only person I know who would remember Australian Naturist. And me.
And Bernie Finn has a session on radio every afternoon on 1116 where he plays Batchelor Boy as an intro to a "What's/Where's Peter Batchelor Up To?" session. I know that round-a-bout. Very creative roadery. I used to have lunch every day at the chinese eatery in the mall. Best ever brussell sprouts.
Posted by: Tony.T | 26 November 2003 at 11:13
I'm a brussell sprouts heretic within our circle. I love the bejesus cooked out of them. 2 hours of vigorous boiling at Mach 10.
Lovely mustardy blobs of mush. Manna!
Oh yes, since you've asked. We're onto meal 5 from the Strathmore broad bean forest.
Double-manna-plus!
Posted by: Sedgwick | 27 November 2003 at 19:29