A paranormal investigator who abused Virgin airline workers over the phone has avoided jail because of his excessive weight.
He sounds an absolute nutter from way back:
The court was told Jones, who refused to identify himself on the
calls, threatened staff with legal action, made racial slurs and refused
to believe he was talking to someone based in Brisbane.
“Ma’am,
don’t tell me in that Filipino lingo of yours, the thing is, let me tell
you what the thing is, I’ve got my legal team here, I’ve got the police
on the way,” Jones told customer service staff, the court heard.
“So you may need to get off that little Filipino backside of yours and you may want to get onto your Australian head office.
“And
they want to go into crash control because voice recordings of you and
your Filipino staff abusing me and swearing at me are about to be handed
to the Australian Federal Police.”
The court was told Jones had already been placed on a watch list with
the airline, which banned him from flying with them in 2010 after he
made a number of calls to the company.
Jones also had been convicted of similar offences on three other occasions dating back to 1998.
During those incidents he told public servants they were “going to hell” and threatened to “break kneecaps”.
In
his sentencing submissions, Jones’s barrister Rob Glenday said prison
would be too difficult for his client due to his complicated obesity.
Good to know the world of paranormal investigation attracts such well adjusted people!
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