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    not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere but...seriously 🤦🏻♂

    ABs star 'apologetic and embarrassed', admits dangerous driving and evading police
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    Have to wonder why he evaded, speeding is one thing but evading seems strange for someone of his character.

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    Oh dear....

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    @Yeetyaah said in Caleb Clarke:

    Have to wonder why he evaded, speeding is one thing but evading seems strange for someone of his character.

    Yep, that’s exactly what I thought. From interviews etc he’d be about the last guy I’d expect to do this.

    Came across incredibly humble and well mannered and played the piano beautifully in the piece I saw on him.

    Very surprising.

    After all the furore of top Rugby players escaping convictions in the last few years it will be really interesting to see where they go from here. I feel for him as he does come across as pretty much the most likable AB of recent times I can think of.

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    @MN5 if Frizzell can get diversion for punching a woman in a bar and the threatening people to stay quiet in the cold light of the next day...Caleb will too

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    @Kiwiwomble said in Caleb Clarke:

    @MN5 if Frizzell can get diversion for punching a woman in a bar and the threatening people to stay quiet in the cold light of the next day...Caleb will too

    Yeah more than likely.

    One would imagine his character is pretty squeaky clean

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    @MN5 i will once again admit my previous ignorance, id always assumed a diversion could only be used for something like public intoxication or taking a leak in public, maybe nicking a road sign....nothing really dangerous

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    Poor form. I wonder if it's car or bike related - he is a big fan of motorbiking

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    @KiwiMurph said in Caleb Clarke:

    Poor form. I wonder if it's car or bike related - he is a big fan of motorbiking

    It says in the article that he was on his motorbike in Auckland.

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    That's fair enough then. Trying to evade cops when on a motorcycle should be borderline-legal.
    I once had a cop thank me for pulling over, saying "I'd never have had a chance if you'd decided to run".

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    One has to assume that evading the police would likely signify intoxication? Hard to see escaping a conviction with that?

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    @handa457 not necessarily, moment of stupidity and failing to stop when signalled to. Doesn't give details about when cops caught up...10 minutes later or next day.

    Think he could still qualify for diversion either way.

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    probably thought beating police defenders would increase his Fantasy stats... oh wait

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    @taniwharugby said in Caleb Clarke:

    @handa457 not necessarily, moment of stupidity and failing to stop when signalled to. Doesn't give details about when cops caught up...10 minutes later or next day.

    Think he could still qualify for diversion either way.

    Will probably attract less blowback than diversion for an aggravated offence.....

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    @canefan yeah, frizzell (and others) have really lowered the bar

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    @handa457 He doesn't drink does he? I recall him always being sober when out and about but I could be wrong. I think it is more like he was speeding, and simply panicked not wanting to get caught and the repercussions of it. Clearly evading and getting charged is worse but we all have lapses of judgement at times. I said "I do" nearly 30 years ago and I am still paying for that 😉

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    @taniwharugby Not sure how it is in NZ but in Australia there are non conviction options or good behaviour non conviction basically meaning it does not impact your criminal record like a conviction sentence would.

    Yeah says as much in article "Defence lawyer Rowan Butler entered the pleas on his behalf before community magistrate Kaye Davies. He asked that a plea not be immediately entered so he can request a discharge without conviction on behalf of his client."

    Come to think of it I have had a few discharges without conviction in my time 🙂

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    One man's "evading police" is another man's "looking for an available safe space to pull over as quickly as possible"

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    I'd imagine a brain fart worrying about being pulled over, and reacting thinking he would get away with it. Dumb as, but people have the right, flight, freeze reaction. He took the wrong one

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    hope he didn't try to run away.good chance he would have tripped

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