Sydney's Occupied Territories:"...accidents are being staged,baseball bats used to add damage to vehicles,assessors threatened or bashed,"

Violence in smash repair rort racket

Mark Morri
The Daily Telegraph
August 27, 2012 12:00AM

INSURANCE workers are being intimidated into inflating quotes, accidents are being staged and baseball bats used to add damage to vehicles in a car repair racket costing the industry millions.

Assessors who refuse to co-operate are being threatened or bashed, and damaged vehicles are being "held hostage" at repair yards.

The situation has become so violent that a private security company is guarding the home of one worker who recently refused to inflate a quote at an inner-city repair shop.

In another case a worker from a different company was beaten by four men at his home in the western suburbs.

Others have reported tow trucks driving past their homes or parking nearby for hours at a time.

The men and the companies involved have asked their names not be identified because of possible reprisals.

A highly-placed insurance industry source said yesterday: "It is extortion. Not only are people getting hurt but it is going to cost customers millions of dollars.

"Inflated quotes is a problem but the much wider and growing concern is 'captured cars'," a senior insurance executive said.

By law, the owner of a smash repair shop that tows a car is restricted to charging only $17.50 a day in storage fees. But if the vehicle is towed by another tow truck the owner can charge what he likes. For that reason owner operators don't really exist any more, especially on paper.

"The criminal tow truck operators and smash repair yards work together to make life for insurance companies a pain," he said. "It has always been that way. Now it is getting dangerous."

The companies want clients' cars taken to an approved shop or their own centre where the job can be done at a fair price.

But often the smash repair shop will refuse access to the car or won't let insurers on the premises to take away vehicles to approved workshops without exorbitant payment.

"Some shops will charge you $300 a day storage, and $100 every time they move it. Then there will be 'administration costs' as well," another executive said. "It's not uncommon for a shop to ask for $5000 to release a car."

I know an ex assessor,over 30 years in the job,who was subjected to this criminal extortion and threats years ago, and yes it was the usual suspects aka. "men of middle eastern appearance" who were responsible the "Harmony Day" and "Cultural Enrichment" .Why hasthis story has taken years to surface in the MSM ? maybe a Labor Green media useful idiot has been stung by these swine.

Sydney's Angela Chon : She's a psychiatric nurse, holds a law degree with honours, and she's a Pole Dancer .

Sydney's own pole dancing nurse

By James Gorman
The Daily Telegraph
August 25, 20121:19PM

POLE dancers from around Australia are being invited to showcase their best moves as nominations open for Miss Pole Dance Australia.

Every August, heats are held around the country before the finals in November. The champion will then go to Europe to compete in the World Finals, where Australia has won three times in the past five years.

Among the entrants this year is Newtown resident Angela Chon, who has been pole dancing for four years, reports the Inner West Courier.

The psychiatric nurse, who also holds a law degree with honours, said there was nothing else like the Miss Pole Dance Australia contest.

"The competition is one of a kind in that it involves just a pole dance rather than others which are more fitness based," Ms Chon said.

"It really is the first of its kind in the pole dancing industry. If you win, you hold the title of Miss Pole Dance Australia for a year and it opens up all types of competitions and opportunities. The pole dancing world is a niche one but once you get into it, it's a great world to be apart of."

Ms Chon said that audiences would be in for an exciting show during the November finals.

"I think the audience can expect to be dazzled.

"Last year, contestants were using smoke machines and firecrackers because everyone tries to outdo each other - it is really about who stands out because all the tricks start looking the same after a while. So it's about how much we can wow the audience."

Please support in anyway you can these,wonderfully talented girls,and also demand that the IOC immediately acknowledge Pole Dancing as an Olympic Sport starting in Rio 2016