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NEWS: Block Shock

Kid_Cisco

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Originally posted on news.com.au
A CONTESTANT in The Block who once helped set up an illegal drug manufacturing plant has quit the TV series together with his wife.

In a tearful interview, Dani and Monique Bacha said they were leaving to save their families further embarrassment.

The announcement came after the revelation that Mr Bacha spent six months in custody accused of manufacturing illegal drugs.

The couple said they deeply regretted having to leave the apartment at Manly in Sydney they had been renovating for the past two weeks as part of Channel 9's reality TV series.

"It's difficult, because we don't want to leave, but our families come first," Mrs Bacha, 26, said.

Mr Bacha was cleared of manufacturing amphetamines in 2002 but was found guilty of being an accessory.

"We've been labelled as drug manufacturers and we are supposed to be on The Block, renovating," Mr Bacha said.

Channel 9 yesterday declined to comment on the couple's abrupt departure, but said it was aware of the conviction.

The Bachas described last week as the worst of their lives. After attending a funeral for Monique's grandfather on Thursday, the couple decided the controversy would only worsen if they remained in the public spotlight.

"It's not fair on all the other couples in The Block. It's not fair on our families," Mr Bacha said.

The Bachas said the publicity they had received in the past seven days was far worse than the experience of 14 months ago, when Mr Bacha stood before a judge at Parramatta District Court and was convicted of being an accessory.

Mr Bacha, who turned 30 yesterday, was arrested after police raided a Grey-stanes home and found a tablet machine, 208g of tablets in an ice cream container and a further 768g of tablets in a resealable bag.

According to the police charge sheet, the tablets contained about 4 per cent of methamphetamine, also known as speed.

Mrs Bacha has been in tears for much of the past week, since first newspaper reports of her husband's past. It was the first many members of their family and social circle had heard of Mr Bacha's jail time.

"For the first four months, I was living on my own and I kept it from my family. I told them he was away for six months," she said.

"I was embarrassed."

Mrs Bacha, a Star City Casino VIP co-ordinator, said she felt her world had caved in when they saw the headlines. "It was like someone had just punched me in the guts," she said.

Knowing the show was likely to catapult them into the spotlight, the couple said they now regret not speaking out sooner.

"We didn't know what was the best course of action. Should we let it go and let it blow over?" Mrs Bacha said.

Winning a place on the TV show had seemed like a new beginning for the newlyweds.

The couple was comforted by crew members when news of the departure was revealed. One hugged Mrs Bacha, saying "everything will be all right".

"They're our favourite couple," another member of the crew said.


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Speed bombs eh? Such a shame...

Maybe Channel 9 should rename it "The Lab"...

Kid_Cisco.
 
4% Methamphetamine?!

Average pill is about 250mg.. a whole 10mg of speed in each pill?!

Oh, what a loss.
 
Mr Bacha, who turned 30 yesterday, was arrested after police raided a Grey-stanes home and found a tablet machine, 208g of tablets in an ice cream container and a further 768g of tablets in a resealable bag.

Even this statement doesn't clarify exactly if this was his place or not. If it wasn't, it doesn't mention any details of exactly what led him to be charged and found guilty of being an accessory. One would like to think it involved something more than being just a casual visitor, a person in a photo, or a phone number in some cook's pocketbook 8(

If the said property was closely connected to him and such equipment was in his possession, then it's a different story altogether and would be expected to upset his future, right or wrong. But there seems a lot between the possible extremes, with that article doing little to clarify details of said association :\

Reasonable discrimination? I'm yet to be convinced either way. But when the cards are down, just how many people out there in prominent positions have had some association, even inadvertently, with a person close to a production operation? I'll bet there's a few. It does nothing more than illustrate just how widespread manufacturing has become. From School Kids to Grannies, it's everywhere, with the personal reasons for involvement beng equally diverse.

With any policy intent on limiting availability of illicit drugs, there must remain a strong deterrent applied to manufacturing by classifying that as the principle act of propagation, and so be viewed as the most severe crime. Therefore, it is reasonable which ever way you look at it, that under such a policy, manufactures should face the harshest penalties.

However, when laws have failed to stem the growth of amphetamine production in Australia, it is imperative that innocent people aren't dragged down with those who are directly responsible. Desperation by law enforcement should never extend boundaries of association in attempt to frighten. It does nothing to those already committed to risking all, but it does swallow up innocents in the witch hunt.

Watch closely the discrimination amendment currently under discussion. It would make situations such as this far more common IMO. Think carefully about whether being up front is always within your best interests. Dirt seems much dirtier when it's dug up by those with noses for such shit 8)
 
This sort of thing was bound to happen sooner or later with all these "reality" TV shows that draw their contestants form the general public. Didn't you ever wonder about those guys on Big Brother? How many of them have or take pills regularly?

I don't watch a lot of television but the few times I saw some Big Brother, quite a few of the people seemed like they would party it up in their real lives.

The fact is, reality TV gets it's contestants from "real" people, and the majority of drug users are "real", everyday, normal, sometimes even rather unremarkable people... this might surprise the general public but I'm sure it's a misconception that most Bluelighters understand.
 
The footage of the very dodgy looking pill "press" was/is on A Current Affair tonight.
As i'm 3 hours behind the majority of you I have yet to see it but for that alone it should be interesting.

Bright green pills of dubious quality.

This guy could well have directly been involved in the manufacturing but the Prosecution could only prove accessory. Or at least the jury was only prepared to convict on accessory; these things happen often enough especially if the jury sympathises with one co-offender and they already have their man. Other than that Phase_dancer's points are all too true.

Drug manufacturing is a serious business and I'd hazard a guess that to the everyday citizen its one of the most "infamous" crimes on the statute books because it would be seen as something very mysterious, dangerous, sophisticated and a crime only the most professional of criminals would be involved in.
Actually this is not entirely the case at all - the large number of people convicted of manufacturing heroin would surprise you even though the scale and sophistication of the operation is laughable - it is only for their own use and even then lasts at best a few days.

However in this case we are talking about producing "ecstasy" pills for the "youngsters" in the community, many of whom would be avid fans of the Block. Even though this guy did his time there was no way that he could continue to be on the show; a conviction for this type of offence is just so completely unacceptable to the wider community.

4% Methamphetamine?!

Average pill is about 250mg.. a whole 10mg of speed in each pill?!
Actually an acquaintance has found that to be about the percentage content of most speed-based pills. Whilst not enough pills are quantitatively known to make that claim categorically, a definite trend is clear.
Certainly never over 10%, and generally around 5%. Although thats is coming from pills that are almost always K/meth combos, so perhaps a straight meth pill would be a little higher.
 
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This sort of thing was bound to happen sooner or later with all these "reality" TV shows that draw their contestants form the general public. Didn't you ever wonder about those guys on Big Brother? How many of them have or take pills regularly?

I don't watch a lot of television but the few times I saw some Big Brother, quite a few of the people seemed like they would party it up in their real lives.

big brother?;) HAHAHA

i have seen 2 different people from big brother off chops on more than one occasion at a certain Brisbane nightclub. yes they are all real people too.
 
First of all, i'd just like to say that I have no problem with a convicted criminal appearing on National TV. Let alone this poor fella. Sure he was the guy I hated 2 weeks ago when I bought a crummy speed pill that was supposedly X, but who cares if a drug dealer is on TV. Why dig it up? Why hype it up? And why care? We all embrace Chopper and Co. I love the good old crim who decides theres more to life and becomes a TV personality. Mr Bacha will be so devastated, he will never be able to get a job again, now that the nation knows about this. He will go back to selling me shitty speed bombs. Fuck, I say I'd rather have him on some tv show that I don't watch, than selling kids dodgy pills. Good one Kerry and Rupert!~lookin' out for the nations interests as usual =D

Mrs Bacha, a Star City Casino VIP co-ordinator, said she felt her world had caved in when they saw the headlines. "It was like someone had just punched me in the guts," she said.

Between her Husbands drug charge and the recent bust at Star City, I think this lady is a drug KingPin. ;)
 
No one said what happened to him was fair but it certainly was always going to happen.
Thats the world we live in and it is not going to change.


His explanation on ACA was laughable at best.
He moved the pill press to his brother's house after being asked to. He understood that tablets would be pressed containing a small amount of methamphetamine for their own personal use and he found this out only on arriving with the press. (what else would a pill press be doing in someone's garage?)

Thus the accessory before the fact charge was for his involvement in moving the pill press. This press was certainly not state of the art but it was not a total hack job either. The pills certainly did not look as good as some of the professional imports we get but i'm sure many people would not think twice about eating them if they did not test them first.
Incidentally the forensic officer in the police video of the raid tested the powder with a reagent and it turned orange. Proof that even forensic officers use Marquis. All the more reason for BLs to use it; and they arent eating them just investigating them!!

After claiming that the pills were not to be sold and only for the persons' involved personal use, my immediate thought was what speed user would choose pills over powder for consumption.

Then he went on to say that they were to be appetite style suppressents; he may have even used the word "dietary supplements". As the people who would be taking them were all body builders.
Hilarious - why would they go to the trouble of making BRIGHT GREEN appetite suppressents! And knowing a thing or two about going to the gym I can guarantee you that the last thing body builders would take to improve their physiques is methamphetamine.


Whether he has been hard done by or not, people this stupid do not deserve to be on the Block. Actually I feel he was just blatantly lying but then why attempt to explain anything.

I feel sorry for his wife though - she seemed very intelligent and nice and clearly is the person who suffered the most from this circus.
 
If you ever apply to go on anything like the block, or anything that involves coming into the public spotlight - be prepared to have your past laid infront of everyone to laugh at.

If you're not comfortable with that, then don't do it.
 
^^ exactly. Accountability is definitely not going to become less as time goes on. But will that ever provide the real world picture to the average class sheltered citizen?

If all the people in Aus who'd ever bought their mate a pill stood up, things would be reevaluated very quickly IMO. But that would never happen and so, much of the public continues to assume dealing is only done by dealers.

Biscuit's comments regarding manufacturing also apply here. The actual extent manufacturing is going on, including the number of small "mates" included operations, would be quite surprising to most people I believe. If things were run tightly around such a small setup, and enough raw material had been sourced, why would anyone ever hear of it? Only perhaps if they were sprung accidentally or if one of the "mates" overdid it or greed took over.

I'm sure it's more widespread then most people would imagine.


I didn't see the TV show, but I noticed the same article above, word for word, was in the Sunday (Courier) Mail (Bris). I guess the story is rather unprecedented in the sense that manufacturing was the catch cry and a "celebrity-sprouting" was the centre point. It may ruin his life, but who knows?

Don't forget the infamous past. People like Peter Foster (re: Samantha Fox) who turned dirt with drugs and sneakiness into a up/down career netting lots of money in between. In it's day, it was big stuff, and his move to England allowed this great conman to use almost every damning report to his advantage. And it still continues...



Sun brands Foster a liar

Ciar Byrne
Monday December 16, 2002

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The Sun has rubbished Peter Foster's claim that its transcripts of telephone conversations between him and his mother were strategically edited as part of a Downing Street smear campaign.

The paper said the claims were yet more "lies" from the Australian conman at the centre of the media row that has threatened to engulf the prime minister's wife.

Earlier today Mr Foster called upon the Sun to hand over the "full, unedited version" of the transcript to his lawyers.

He said telephones had been bugged illegally, implied the Sun had invented a brother called Paul, and falsely suggested Mr Foster was trying to cash in on his story for £100,000.

The Sun said in a statement issued at 5pm: "Mr Foster claims the Sun printed 'selected excerpts' of telephone conversations between himself and his mother.

"That is simply another Foster lie. There was nothing in any conversation between Mr Foster and his mother heard by the Sun last week that we have not published.

"There is no need for us to let Mr Foster's lawyers have what he calls 'the full unedited version' as it has already been printed in the Sun."

Mr Foster suggested the tapes - which appeared to reveal that he had tried to sell the story of his involvement with Cherie Blair in the purchase of two Bristol flats - had been edited to portray him in the worst possible light.

"Everything in this life is about context," he said.

He dismissed as untrue several media reports, including the specific allegation that he had touted his story for £100,000.

The Sun reported on Friday that it had listened to seven taped telephone calls involving Mr Foster, his mother Louise Pelloti in Ireland and his brother Paul in Australia.

Mr Foster today said he had been the victim of an extraordinary character assassination.

"Over the last few weeks papers have reported: I am an agent for Mossad, I am facing extradition to Australia to face criminal charges, I sold emails to the Daily Mail, I am the father of twins I've never seen, my business in Australia was founded on drugs money, I sent an email to Paul Walsh attempting to tie the Blair's into my product, I have a brother called Paul, I was touting to sell my story to tell the British media for £100,000...

"And tomorrow I now hear it will be suggested I am gay. I could go on but none of these things is true. But I had no chance to challenge these lies. Where did they come from? Could it be I had to be discredited by the establishment?"

The Sun published transcripts of the conversations that took place on Thursday in Friday and Saturday's editions.

When the transcripts first appeared, it was speculated they had been provided by the security forces.

However, this was quickly denied by both Downing Street and the Sun.

The Sun editor, David Yelland, denied they had ordered phones to be bugged.

Yelland said that the source was so unlikely that nobody would believe him if he told them where the tapes had come from.



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I reckon everything this guy does is to stick it up the establishment. Both loathed and applauded, I don't know I'd like to see too many of his type, but the world definitely needs at least one of them at any given time =D

Sensationalism is Sensationalism - Do with it what you will (desire).
 
Agreed with most said above except that I thought the press looked pretty cool. A proper small rotary press spitting out good looking pills every second. The bloke was lying like a mother fucker not even keeping his story straight after all that time of practice before court etc. I felt sorry for the embarassed wife, especially on the show having to listen to her husbands dribble. I really admire her though for standing by her man all that time.

One thing I did believe though is that wheather or not others involved were ruthless crims, the bloke on ACA might actually have been not so bad. Like the wife said, a good person in general caught up in dodgy shit, who now hopefully learned from his mistakes. I've been there done that. (not to do with what they were doing)
 
Not to mention Tim the Toolman from Home Improvement, he was busted with a few kilos of coke. He RATTED on a few people and look how he went.

Body builders? Nothing strips you of muscle like meth. Furthermore pills are for marketing and nothing else.

As for the 10mg thing, if it was pure then thats euqiv. to roughly a point of street speed. But speed has no place in pills, thats for fuckin sure.
 
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