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This is why I have a dash cam
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+ my ouiji board said he was guilty.
I come back on to find five new pages of replies. And, are... are people seriously considering reconstructing the accident just to satisfy one person on a forum?
He also admitted to the media being distracted so would that be a careless charge? His 26 HTA tickets some of which are license plate related could work against him. And I don't see blue neon underlights but if they admissed that one witness who claimed he pulled this scam before he could be screwed.
But I'm no law expert but when someone calmly demands cash for some scratches that can be fixed with touch up paint and has 26 HTA offenses, 3 registered addresses on his MTO in Brampton, Markham and Ajax the circumstancial evidence itself leads me to believe it's a scam. Nevermind the brake lights not working and if one of those 26 tickets is for non functioning brake lights he'll have a hard time weasling out of this case.
But I'm no law expert but when someone calmly demands cash for some scratches that can be fixed with touch up paint and has 26 HTA offenses, 3 registered addresses on his MTO in Brampton, Markham and Ajax the circumstancial evidence itself leads me to believe it's a scam. Nevermind the brake lights not working and if one of those 26 tickets is for non functioning brake lights he'll have a hard time weasling out of this case.
Now that is dedication.
Don't forget to submit your gas receipt to paul so he can put it on the GTAM expense account. :lmao:
Seriously, you didn't even need to do that test, it was obvious he took advantage of the slope when the opportunity presented itself. (no pun intended)
The whole thing was planned long ago, a good scammer just waits for the right time and place to pull it off.
There was even a comment below the original youtube video from another person in Toronto that got taken for 300$ by the same guy. It's not his first time, i bet someone else even comes forward after all the news coverage.
He'll say whatever he can to try and cover his tracks now, but he got pwnd hard, end of story.
:happy10: Brian had it precisely right in his first post. Ragumadouche is a guilty liar, period.
That's still pretty skimpy evidence to support an accusation of staging a crash. The 4 second roll back can easily be explained by distraction or inattention. The lack of brake lights may or may not be true given the quality of the recording camera and/or the mounting height of the camera. I didn't notice any brake lights on the cars in the lane to the left even when they appeared to be obviously slowing at a rate that would call for brakes to be on.
And the main visual cue other than traffic to his left and right would be the tall green sound barrier wall, which is a uniform height and painted a uniform light green colour along its length, and as such would not really give any useful location reference at a casual glance. Maybe the wall provided YOU with a visual cue, but you had the benefit of being right beside that wall and in a place where you could easily see even the imperfections in the paint on that wall. At least I hope that is the case and that you were testing roll on the shoulder right next to that green wall, and not a full two lanes (right lane and shoulder lane) away from it in the live traffic lane where the collision occurred.
So what we really have is little more than evidence of a distracted driver perhaps with defective brake lights. HTA infractions at best. And a no-sound video uploaded and commentated on by Sham with his interpretation that he was being criminally scammed.
And the outcome is a bunch of thugs stalking the other driver at home and work, accusing him of criminal intent, making life difficult for him, his family, maybe his employer, and all this based on a minor collision dispute caught on low quality video without any backing sound.
If I was Sham, I would be worried. I think he realizes it too by his recent public comments back-pedalling away from his initial accusations. He has potentially set himself up for one hell of a libel and defamation of character law suit. All it would take is one contingency-paid lawyer to pick up on this and convince the other driver to launch a law suit against Sham and all of the web sites that "participated" in the libel and defamation by permitting the defamatory comments to remain in public view, and particularly the specific personal work and home information so as to make him a target for others.
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Lol you guys are juts nuts.
I did however notice that the rate Brian's car rolled back seemed lesser than the rate the Ragu's sauce car rolled back (compare both videos)
If you notice the distance between the 2 cars was tops one car length, if the car had rolled back at he same rate Bryan's did, I doubt any damage would have happened,
I also see that Ragu's sauce car did stop abruptly for no reason (turbo theory that this would be the preferred scam way) then started rolling back immediately, I'm assuming since the car behind failed to crash into him slightly.
We also have to take into consideration that according to the pics I have seen, that guy likes his car, so he had to balance scamming someone with making the minimum damage possible, hence his tamed approach.
Yea can not prove it, but the only way to prove it would be to get a confession, guess what that ain't gonna happen, so I am glad some people are putting his info out there.
I did however notice that the rate Brian's car rolled back seemed lesser than the rate the Ragu's sauce car rolled back (compare both videos)
If you notice the distance between the 2 cars was tops one car length, if the car had rolled back at he same rate Bryan's did, I doubt any damage would have happened,
I also see that Ragu's sauce car did stop abruptly for no reason (turbo theory that this would be the preferred scam way) then started rolling back immediately, I'm assuming since the car behind failed to crash into him slightly.
We also have to take into consideration that according to the pics I have seen, that guy likes his car, so he had to balance scamming someone with making the minimum damage possible, hence his tamed approach.
Yea can not prove it, but the only way to prove it would be to get a confession, guess what that ain't gonna happen, so I am glad some people are putting his info out there.
And the pavement markings right next to the car, and the posts for the guardrail along the base of the wall, and the signs beside the road, etc.
Besides, he had just come to a stop at a rate that would have required the brakes to be used (but no lights ...) the normal thing to do is simply to stay on the brake pedal!
In 25+ years of operating things with manual transmissions I've never encountered an issue of failing to detect that the car was rolling back.
Anyway, it does appear that some people on the internet are taking the reaction to this way too far, and could quite likely get in trouble for it. No argument from ME on THAT point. Still ... the way I see the balance of probabilities, taking into account some of the other things that other people have dug up about that particular person, it all suggests scammer!
CBC... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXuEcfLl698&feature=player_embedded#!
now the people on 4chan are befuddled at where that version of the picture came from that they show in the report. it's not from their efforts (knives with death threat). being that i think ragu is a scammer i wouldn't put it past him to either do that pic himself or have a friend do it... to garner more sympathy.
now the people on 4chan are befuddled at where that version of the picture came from that they show in the report. it's not from their efforts (knives with death threat). being that i think ragu is a scammer i wouldn't put it past him to either do that pic himself or have a friend do it... to garner more sympathy.
Where has he back-peddled on his initial comments? I've heard him lamenting that things have gone so far but, before he pulled the video off Youtube, he posted there to counter the ridiculously biased second story in The Star. Quite far from back-peddling.
are the police allowed to copy any of these threads and use the info ? or does all content belong to the owner of this site ?
Yes he sounded pretty ticked off but i think that was because The Toronto Star made Ragu look like the victim.
A discussion board is a discussion board. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt. I doubt you can use a thread as evidence or anything of that sort.
Can't believe the media is falling for Ragu's schtick. He's deflecting his criminal activity by refocusing on the cyber attacks, guerrilla postings and playing the race card. People like him know that the liberal media likes to point the finger at any hint of hate crimes and take full advantage of this. No wonder the TV news never describes criminals at large by their visible ethnicity. All we get these days are, "Suspect is approximately 6 ft. tall, short hair, clean shaven, thin build".
Kenzie seems annoyed that they pulled the story and, from what he says, is working on a larger one about insurance fraud, in general.
I've played the video over and over again and it seems Ragu's car stopped at :38 seconds. At :41 seconds Sham car fully stops than a second later Ragu's car starts to roll back. At :45 seconds Sham's horn blares away. At :46 seconds impact is made.
So he had 4 seconds of rollback and 8 seconds of presumably stopping on a busy 401. hmmm...
So he had 4 seconds of rollback and 8 seconds of presumably stopping on a busy 401. hmmm...
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