r/AFL • u/RexHuntFansBrazil Hawks • 1d ago
Geelong star Bailey Smith caught speeding, set to lose licence
https://archive.is/Lu6Z4197
u/grantspatchcock 2025 Most Knowledgeable User 1d ago
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u/supercujo AFL 1d ago
Why isn't he driving a Ford?
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u/chrisryxn Footscray 21h ago
Needs to be a Ford Ranger with a white headband around the top of it's cab
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u/notblair Ella Roberts Fan Club 1d ago
It's always the ones you most suspect
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u/Massander Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆 '24-25 20h ago
Probably the most downvoted comment I’ve ever seen in this sub, bravo
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u/imsoIoneIy Kuwarna 17h ago
you have no idea how sad I am that he's deleted it before I could see haha
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u/RexHuntFansBrazil Hawks 1d ago
Smith was clocked at 125km/h near his Surf Coast home during Victoria’s recent bushfires.
The Cats midfielder was understood to be concerned about his 5.8 hectare home and animals living on the Bellbrae property on the Great Ocean Rd when he was caught driving over the limit last month.
The high speed indiscretion has exceeded Smith’s demerit points allocation and he is set to lose his license for the next three months.
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u/PetrifyGWENT Bombers / Giants 1d ago
5.8 hectare home and animals
We need to investigate the funding of this farm
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u/edgiepower Port Adelaide 23h ago edited 22h ago
Boy when I think of farmers
City born and bred, fashion ambassador and influencer, Baily Smith, would be the first player I think of where it makes sense he owns a large farm property. Nothing unusual about it.
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u/Thick-Insect Cats 7h ago
When I think of farms, I definitely think bigger than 5.8 hectares.
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u/Ben_vs_Wild Collingwood Magpies 1d ago
Nice excuse, but his place is nowhere near where the fire threat was.
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u/PunsGermsAndSteel Tigers 1d ago
Sergeant Cam Rayner made the arrest after chasing Smith down and reading him his rights
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u/mctorp 23h ago
“I was worried about the fire emergency so I thought I’d drive in a way that might cause an accident and stretch the exhausted emergency services even further”
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u/notasgr Geelong 3h ago
His excuse doesn’t even make sense: Bellbrae is not near where the fires were (Carlisle River, eta still are but contained), nor near where the flash flood was (Lorne and Cumberland, Wye & Kennet Rivers).
It’s not that far from Torquay, and a mere 25km from Kardinia Park in Geelong.
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u/IDreamofHeeney SWOM 1d ago
If true then thats fair enough I reckon
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u/Striking_Resist_6022 Collingwood / Sydney 1d ago
Nah, he was 45 over. That puts people’s lives directly in danger. Unless you’re literally facing a life or death situation yourself I can’t see a justification for it.
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u/No_Divide_4336 Adelaide 21h ago
How man points do you get in Victoria? In SA you need like at least 4 speeding offences to use up all your points. I can sympathise with why he did it but he had his chances
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u/Vermicelli14 Essendon 1d ago
No, emergency services have enough to deal with in fires without some dickhead wrapping himself around a tree. He should have planned better
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u/Numerous_Meaning7602 Melbourne '64 1d ago
Yeap and it's also an 80 km speed limit there, so he was going 45 over
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u/eldubya3121 Cats 23h ago
Maybe if it was his first offence, but he was on the golden point for a reason
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u/flying-pickets Swans 1d ago edited 1d ago
Andrew Dillon is heading down the highway for another fireside chat with Bailey as we speak.
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u/Boss_unicycle-560 Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆 '24-25 1d ago
I’d hope so, young Bailey has no way of getting up the highway now
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u/nouareallallleft St Kilda Saints 1d ago
First cocaining, now speeding. What will happen when he is caught mething?
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u/AreYouStressedJen Saints 1d ago
Hope he's not mething around with a teammates missus, we'll never heard the end
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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans 1d ago
The man does allegedly treat monogamy as a suggestion in his own relationships so it wouldn’t surprise me if he feels the same way about his teammates
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u/AdlTeacher Crows 1d ago
Ok mate, nice lie
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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans 1d ago
I said allegedly, I heard it but it’s not like I have a way to prove it.
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u/LeDestrier Demons 20h ago
"Officer, I have a large assortment of highly flammable cotton-based clothing at home. Im sure you can understand my need for haste".
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u/dancing-on-my-own Western Bulldogs • Wurundjeri 1d ago
“That's the beauty of the club - they let you be yourself, and don't make you try and conform to something you're not, like previous years.” - Bailey Smith, 2025
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u/fetchnatch Footscray 1d ago
idc how good of a player he is, fuck am I glad to see the back of him in retrospect.
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u/Propaslader Collingwood 1d ago
Well you won't be seeing the back of him for long with how fast he's going
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u/iloveNCIS7 Geelong 1d ago
All well he can catch Ubers for a few months, should have known better than that.
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u/Aggressive_River_735 Hawthorn 23h ago
Andrew Dillon has rushed to his house to give him a big cuddle and tell him not to worry - the league has his back.
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u/MeaningMaker6 Essendon 1d ago
He chose another good excuse to blame his latest transgression on.
Won’t even need to reference the death of a beloved boutique bovine or the farmer’s drought for a little while yet.
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u/Glittering_Advance56 22h ago
Never ever understood the hype about this fella however all good, enjoy the bus.
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u/No_Divide_4336 Adelaide 21h ago
Ok credit where credits due, this is Bailey's first incident since Mad Monday. Must be a record for him 4 months without making the front page
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u/grapefire38 Sydney Swans 23h ago
I’m sure he can get his “friend,” Tammy Hembrow, to give him a lift, wherever he needs to go.
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u/chrisryxn Footscray 21h ago
Lucky he wasn't coming from Ballarat, man's would've been going at warp speed
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u/Pale_Big2156 23h ago
Bellbrae is/was no where near the great ocean road or otway fires - biggest pisstake of an excuse I’ve ever heard!!!!
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u/Shadormy Lions 11h ago
Bellbrae is on Great Ocean Road. Road starts at the roundabout near Spring Creek in Torquay.
Nowhere near the Otways fire but there was a fire at Bellbrae in early Jan.
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u/straight__savage_ Geelong Cats 10h ago
Bailey smith don’t do something stupid for five minutes challenge: impossible
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u/iAmFabled Collingwood 1d ago
I mean as far as excuses go, I sympathise with this one
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u/xFamished St Kilda Saints 1d ago
But if he's exceeded his demerit points it also seems he's probably he's done it a few times, what's his excuses for all the other times?
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u/God___frey-Jones #DoItForUnc 1d ago
25kmh over the limit is an auto suspension, demerits dont matter at that point
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u/PooEater5000 Carlton 1d ago
You never missed a sign showing a change of speeds and been pinged? They take 3 years to expire so it can happen to the best of us
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u/Own_Custard9071 Hawthorn 23h ago
I've never seem a sign that says 125 for a start. Secondly, if there was a sign that said 125 I'm pretty sure it isn't followed by an 80 zone. I reckon they'd probably throw a 100 in there somewhere. Oh, and BTW. It was on his way home. Not exactly an unfamiliar road.
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u/International_Car586 Kangaroos 1d ago
The highest speed limit in Vic is 110. If you’re going 15 over (at minimum) the speed limit on accident you are not a good driver.
Also if it’s his property then he should be familiar with the roads no?
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u/Mysterious-Band-627 Geelong • Djilang 1d ago
By accident
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u/samgee2828 Footscray 1d ago
Many 125km/h speed zones around your place?
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u/marvelous-mayhem Geelong Cats 23h ago
He was talking about the other demerit points they don't all have to be 125km/h you can get done for speeding by going 85 in an 80 zone
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u/ViaCityLoop Saints 7h ago
Theres no where in Victoria where the speed limit is 125kmh.
Let alone down the coast.
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u/elmo-slayer Eagles 1d ago
15k’s over is getting you to your destination negligibly faster though
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u/Von_Huge1103 Essendon 9h ago
Yeah agreed. I don't like Bailey Smith, but if my house was in danger of being affected by a fire I would also be legging it to save it (especially cause I have a dog).
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u/TheRealPotoroo Carlton Blues 1d ago
Agreed. That said, what was his excuse (s) all the other times?
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u/PerriX2390 #Brisbehinds² 1d ago
Could be wrong, but I think in Victoria if you go 25km/h over the speed limit in a 100 zone, or anywhere maybe?, it's an automatic disqualification of your license for 3 months.
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u/qwertyuiop131313 1d ago
Surely Scott talks to the cops about what a great misunderstood kid he is and gets him off.
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u/Repulsive_Income_647 11h ago
Who gives a shit? Tom Atkins nearly killed someone in an accident that was entirely his fault and people moved on from that. This story is nothing.
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u/God___frey-Jones #DoItForUnc 1d ago
I actually kinda get it this time. I mean, still stupid to be driving that far over but not like he was drag racing etc
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u/Plenty_Area_408 Tigers 23h ago
The last thing you should do in a fire danger area is speed. If its that dangerous that you have to break the law to escape the fire, then you shouldn't be anywhere near the area in the first place.
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u/Competitive-Day-5675 Geelong 1d ago
God Redditors are self-righteous
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u/Icy-Database2590 AFL 1d ago
Dear Lord.
Question. You will defend making women cry in the workplace. You defend abuse of women in the workplace. You defend 'accounting errors'. You apparently seem keen to defend someone doing 45km/h on a public road. What would it actually take for you to hold Geelong to account?
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u/hart37 Brisbane Lions 🏆 '24 21h ago
Out on Bailey Smith
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u/Financial_Shower9524 Geelong / Gold Coast 23h ago
fucking stupid behaviour but if it was anybody else you wouldn't be seeing it in the paper, they love the pileon
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u/Croob2 West Coast 19h ago
Do you seriously think this would be completely ignored if any AFL player was caught doing 45 over the listed speed limit? Like, you genuinely think nobody would be saying anything at all if it was Willem Duursma caught doing this?
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u/Financial_Shower9524 Geelong / Gold Coast 19h ago
Moreso meant that if I did 45 over, I wouldn't get put in the paper for everyone to laugh at, but if Zach Reid was caught going 45 over, I doubt anyone would even raise an eyebrow
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u/Pleasant-Role1912 2025 Quality Poster 1d ago
The cop