PilbaraPythons
Very Well-Known Member
If any body has doubts about John O?sheas mission of insuring that nobody would keep Green Pythons then think again. John O?shea told me exactly that on a few occasions.
Back then he targeted not only Big guys greens but also took Stuart Barnes greens, and if I can remember correctly Charles Atkins ones as well. John O'shea hated reptile keepers. John O'shea once charged Bob under the tainted property act ( reverse onus of proof ) with collecting Spiny tailed monitors from Mt Isa. Bob lost the case but had never actually collected these at all as I was with him in Mt Isa at the time and know this as fact.
John O?shea back then was a crooked detective who did not always follow the letter of the law and is infamous for telling lies in court. I personally have had many experiences with this mad man. He harassed many good reptile keepers and confiscated dozens of reptiles off people without having any evidence against them. Most of the seized reptiles usually died through their lack of care and I personally know some one who witnessed snakes in bags just lying on the ground for several weeks at a time. My dealings with this maniac came to a head one day at my place when he was not conducting himself in the appropriate manner and I ordered him to leave which he refused subsequently causing me to bash him and his mate in my lounge room. This turned out to be a bad idea on my behalf not because I landed six weeks in prison but because I now had a crooked policeman with a personal vendetta against me. He absolutely hated me with a passion and charged me several times over many years with made up offences sometimes involving reptiles that I had never kept or had anything to do with. The good news is that he has never won any court cases against me and was eventually removed from the Fauna task squad after he was caught with copies of documents about me that were illegally obtained from customs. The bad news is he then ended up in the organized crime section of the Queensland Police force. I for one believe that if it wasn?t for O?sheas actions against Bob?s greens and the others mentioned there would in deed be in large numbers of greens in captivity today.
Cheers Dave Mackintosh
Back then he targeted not only Big guys greens but also took Stuart Barnes greens, and if I can remember correctly Charles Atkins ones as well. John O'shea hated reptile keepers. John O'shea once charged Bob under the tainted property act ( reverse onus of proof ) with collecting Spiny tailed monitors from Mt Isa. Bob lost the case but had never actually collected these at all as I was with him in Mt Isa at the time and know this as fact.
John O?shea back then was a crooked detective who did not always follow the letter of the law and is infamous for telling lies in court. I personally have had many experiences with this mad man. He harassed many good reptile keepers and confiscated dozens of reptiles off people without having any evidence against them. Most of the seized reptiles usually died through their lack of care and I personally know some one who witnessed snakes in bags just lying on the ground for several weeks at a time. My dealings with this maniac came to a head one day at my place when he was not conducting himself in the appropriate manner and I ordered him to leave which he refused subsequently causing me to bash him and his mate in my lounge room. This turned out to be a bad idea on my behalf not because I landed six weeks in prison but because I now had a crooked policeman with a personal vendetta against me. He absolutely hated me with a passion and charged me several times over many years with made up offences sometimes involving reptiles that I had never kept or had anything to do with. The good news is that he has never won any court cases against me and was eventually removed from the Fauna task squad after he was caught with copies of documents about me that were illegally obtained from customs. The bad news is he then ended up in the organized crime section of the Queensland Police force. I for one believe that if it wasn?t for O?sheas actions against Bob?s greens and the others mentioned there would in deed be in large numbers of greens in captivity today.
Cheers Dave Mackintosh
