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2:31AM Sunday 05 July, 2009

What a tosser

A drug runner who filmed himself masturbating while driving at 150kph has been sentenced to two months jail.

Brendon Alan Erhardt, 39, was pulled over by police on July 16 last year, 25km south of Daly Waters.

He was returning to the Northern Territory from Adelaide, where he had used an inheritance from his dead mother to buy a Holden SV6 and 5kg of cannabis.

Inside the car, police discovered 10 packages of cannabis hidden in a blue Esky in the boot, two cannabis plants on the back seat, two drug pipes and a loaded.22 rifle.

Erhardt told the officers he had been masturbating shortly before being stopped for speeding on the 130kph stretch of the Stuart Highway.

He had filmed himself travelling at a speed of 150kph.

"(It is) conduct one might expect of a much younger immature person to engage in," Magistrate Sue Oliver told Darwin Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Erhardt pleaded guilty to six charges, including carrying an unregistered and loaded firearm, driving dangerously and driving unlicensed.

Sentencing him to two months in prison, Magistrate Oliver said his behaviour was strange and humiliating.

"The circumstances of the driving are bizarre to say the least," she said.

"And I would have thought it would cause him some embarrassment to have it aired in a public forum."

Erhardt was also fined $2,000 and disqualified from driving for six months.

The father of two is already serving time in prison over the same incident, after he pleaded guilty in the NT Supreme Court to supplying a schedule two drug and possessing two cannabis plants.

He was sentenced last month to three years in prison with a non parole period of 12 months.

The Supreme Court heard Erhardt "panicked" when he was stopped by police and told them that he found the drugs at a rest stop about north of Coober Pedy.

He said he planned to take them home and smoke them himself.

"The offending is serious. Such crimes are prevalent," said Justice Stephen Southwood.

"The offender imported almost 10 times the commercial quantity of cannabis into the Northern Territory from South Australia."

The two prison sentences are to be served concurrently.

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on 7 January, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
What a charmer. I'm sure his Mother is so pleased that the money she'd no doubt worked hard for was spent so unwisely.
on 7 January, 2009 at 3:33 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
i've always thought people who speed were w*nkers
on 7 January, 2009 at 3:46 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
coastalbrad... I'm so glad I was not eating or drinking when I read that ... Well said!!!!!
In tech speak - I'm LMAO :)
on 7 January, 2009 at 4:17 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
lets see,one hand on the camera,one hand on the penis, 150 kph, genious !!!
on 7 January, 2009 at 4:48 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Talk about jerks! Maybe the police got it wrong and he actually said he was 'driving a 6 stroke'....or perhaps he was just playing with them...

ok, my wife said 'that's enough'. Hope he gets onto the straight and narrow after gaol. It's in his hands now....
on 7 January, 2009 at 5 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
he was taking dope TO the terrotiry?

didn't he know the outskirts of darwin is one of the most productive dope gardens in the world?

really is a wanker
on 7 January, 2009 at 6:24 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Obviously no brainer this one, obviously his hand
rules his ???? not his head

Only a mother could love that one
on 7 January, 2009 at 8:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Thanks for the laughs everyone.

I wonder if he went to private school or public.
on 7 January, 2009 at 9:27 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Should have got 2 years not 2 months shows what a joke the legal system is.
on 7 January, 2009 at 9:43 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
LMAO i think that is the definition of tosser actually!
on 8 January, 2009 at 5:34 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Love the comment coastalbrad,well done.
on 8 January, 2009 at 6:27 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
A real johnny come lately type huh? Great I needed a good giggle this morning.
on 8 January, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Buderimgal....not sure about that one re his school....could have been privates or pubic.
on 15 January, 2009 at 4:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
the judge also ordered him to only drive automatic vehicles.wants him to keep away from all sticks.
on 15 January, 2009 at 9:26 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
well said coastalbrad.
on 16 January, 2009 at 4:51 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
This was just one of the many funny stories that makes it onto the front page of the NT News. its a crack up, you should all subscribe.

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