A man and woman from the New South Wales South Coast who filmed themselves refusing a COVID-19 compliance check after returning from Victoria have been fined and ordered to attend court for breaching quarantine for a third time.Police take action against a couple for refusing to comply with mandatory COVID-19 checks
Officers allege the couple, who recently returned from Victoria, breached a public health order by leaving their home several times while in self-isolationThe video, which was widely shared on Facebook before being removed, showed Lake Illawarra officers attending the Kiama Heights home, south of Wollongong, to check its occupants were self-isolating.
The occupants, a 36-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, refused to open the door for the officer or answer his questions. The couple repeatedly asked the Leading Constable to provide his name, badge number, and personal liability insurance. They then accused the officer of trespassing on their property and said they planned to "go after" him personally.Lake Illawarra Police said it was the third time the couple had refused to comply with officers since they returned from Victoria with their two children earlier this month.Police alleged the couple breached the public health order by leaving their home on several occasions during the mandatory self-isolation period.
police and government found new ways to earn money in a COVID strapped economy.
“They then accused the officer of trespassing on their property” These Facebook legal degrees really are working out for people.
Bad luck
It’s only money !
Why not ‘detain and pepper spray’ like Black Lives Matter protesters doing nothing wrong? Tear Gas the Double Bay Children and bash their Psychopathic dads until they are dead?
Good job
Amazing how the government worked out how to monetize a pandemic to make money off the people that pay the taxes that pay the wages to those that are telling us what we can and can’t do. They work for us, don’t forget it.
WTF- 1000 x 2 = $2000 Who is doing your Maths 🤔
ahh, fascism and tyranny all to protect us from a virus with a 99+survival rate which is less deadly to healthy people under 60 than influenza...makes sense
OUTSTANDING
'the law' and comments quoting it appear to forget that unless an attending police officer is in possession of a duly authorised warrant, the occupants are in no legal obligation to open their door and failure to leave the property when so instructed is trespassing.
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Selfish people made the situation become worse and worse.
sending cops checking on quarantine is over the topo
Unless penalties are more severe and actually enforced, these idiots will continue to brazenly ignore the law and put themselves and others at risk. COVIDIOTS
Will be interesting to see how their Google law degree holds up in court.
Aaaaaaaahaaahaaaahahahaha. Please keep us updated on their plight through the courts and how their business card collection goes.
And what about the No Lives Matter mongrels?
Hallelujah!!