{"id":23661,"date":"2011-06-07T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23661"},"modified":"2011-06-07T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:15:09","slug":"skater-fined-1000-for-burnley-tunnel-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23661","title":{"rendered":"Skater Fined $1,000 For Burnley Tunnel Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dominic-emmenegger-729-420x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dominic-emmenegger-729-420x0.jpg','popup','width=420,height=310,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dominic-emmenegger-729-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"147\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dominic-Emmenegger-729-420X0\" \/><\/a>Swiss &#8220;backpacker&#8221; <strong>Dominic Emmenegger<\/strong>, 21, has become somewhat of a <em>skatelebrity<\/em> in Australia after attempting to<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/skateboarder-rides-through-the-burnley-tunnel-during-peak-hour\/story-fn7x8me2-1226067634724\" target=\"_blank\"> ride his skateboard through<\/a><\/strong> Melbourne&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burnley_Tunnel\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley Tunnel<\/a><\/strong> during morning rush hour. He was nearly killed by several trucks and caused a huge traffic jam. <\/p>\n<p>After his arrest Emmenegger then spent two nights in jail for &#8220;breaching his bail conditions.&#8221; Now he&#8217;s been fined $1,000 and had his skateboard taken away, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/victoria\/swiss-skateboarder-ordered-to-pay-for-tunnel-terror-20110607-1fq6s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dominic Emmenegger pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court today to reckless conduct endangering serious injury.<br \/>\nIn addition to the $1000 contribution to the Road Trauma Foundation, Magistrate Jelena Popovic placed the 21-year-old on a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered the forfeiture of his skateboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While staying in Melbourne Emmenegger is apparently staying with a &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/swiss-skateboarder-dominic-emmenegger-fined-1000-over-tunnel-stunt\/story-fn7x8me2-1226070921941\" target=\"_blank\">ex-Grand Prix grid girl<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; so it appears that things weren&#8217;t all bad. And yes, we&#8217;re going to guess he was riding a longboard. He was most definitely wearing a Hurley hat. .<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/victoria\/swiss-skateboarder-ordered-to-pay-for-tunnel-terror-20110607-1fq6s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss &#8220;backpacker&#8221; Dominic Emmenegger, 21, has become somewhat of a skatelebrity in Australia after attempting to ride his skateboard through Melbourne&#8217;s Burnley Tunnel during morning rush hour. He was nearly killed by several trucks and caused a huge traffic jam. After his arrest Emmenegger then spent two nights in jail for &#8220;breaching his bail conditions.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23665,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions\/23665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}