Christmas patrol duties

[rastuscat]

The lads and I are going to be busy over the next few days.......

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[duckonin]

The lads and I are going to be busy over the next few days.......

Oh great !
So we are 'all' going to be safe then ?
Who on here would give a flying fuck regarding what you and your 'lads' are up too.:no:

[PrincessBandit]

Oh great !
So we are 'all' going to be safe then ?
Who on here would give a flying fuck regarding what you and your 'lads' are up too.:no:

Hey, at least we can't say we weren't warned...:laugh:

[caseye]

Oh great !
So we are 'all' going to be safe then ?
Who on here would give a flying fuck regarding what you and your 'lads' are up too.:no:

I think you'd be very bloody surprised actually.
Take care out there Rastus and pass that on to the troops, aye.

[Kickaha]

I better keep some dounuts in the car in case I get stopped

[red mermaid]

I'm on leave but all the best to you and the boys in shakey city.

Things are bad when you have to eat donuts and ride Harleys.

[pritch]

I laughed at that cartoon. The weather forecast means my Christmas travel will be by car, a car loaded with CDs in case the traffic gets bad - as well as the usual electronic driver aids.

[MIXONE]

I'm going to be doing heaps of kms over the next couple of weeks but will be trying my hardest not to have any contact with you or your workmates Rastus.
Have a safe and quiet one mate.

[Scuba_Steve]

So you have the honour of carving the traditional cop donut this year then???
Extra glaze for the holidays I hope

[Edbear]

Really hope you "only" get to write a few tickets to idiots and not have to scrape them off the road... Please be hard on ignorant's who drive 20km/h under the limit!

[Fatt Max]

Oh great !
So we are 'all' going to be safe then ?
Who on here would give a flying fuck regarding what you and your 'lads' are up too.:no:

I find your lack of cheer disturbing Luke......

[shafty]

Ive been driving a Freightliner Taupo/Palmy this week and the traffic has been OK'ish - except turkeys who drive/follow with lights on high beam at night

All the best on keeping the roads safe

Shafty

[Nova.]

FTP :Punk:

[Tink]

Really hope you "only" get to write a few tickets to idiots and not have to scrape them off the road... Please be hard on ignorant's who drive 20km/h under the limit!

here here Edbear..... 60km is just not funny, 85 - 90 km I can handle.... saw a red police car the other day on the way to Waihi Beach, scary really cause didn't realise it was police till I was right beside it, mind you I was behaving JUST... then four more in the k.gorge at a nose to tail, quite surprised not to see the donut truck there were so many police, and it wasn't even that bad... I guess we all must have been behaving and they were bored!!!

:) Merry Cheer and stay safe out there!:Police:

[Edbear]

here here Edbear..... 60km is just not funny, 85 - 90 km I can handle.... saw a red police car the other day on the way to Waihi Beach, scary really cause didn't realise it was police till I was right beside it, mind you I was behaving JUST... then four more in the k.gorge at a nose to tail, quite surprised not to see the donut truck there were so many police, and it wasn't even that bad... I guess we all must have been behaving and they were bored!!!

:) Merry Cheer and stay safe out there!:Police:

Gidday gorgeous! :msn-wink: I guess as long as you are just behaving that's okay, but they will get you if you are just misbehaving... :Police:

[p.dath]

The lads and I are going to be busy over the next few days.......

Funny photo. Hopefully everyone will be decent.

[skippa1]

Ive been driving a Freightliner Taupo/Palmy this week and the traffic has been OK'ish - except turkeys who drive/follow with lights on high beam at night

All the best on keeping the roads safe

Shafty

My pet hate that..... following with lights on full. Ignorant cunts

[carburator]

Ive been driving a Freightliner Taupo/Palmy this week and the traffic has been OK'ish - except turkeys who drive/follow with lights on high beam at night

All the best on keeping the roads safe

Shafty

Thats where you wire up two spotlights on the trailer for reversing, but have them on a separate loom..
give them a flick, and they tend to get the message..

Well all the rigs are in the yard kind of nice not being on the road for a few days
time to polish rims and do things that need to be done...

[Akzle]

...polish rims and do things that need to be done...

normally have to pay for that...

[unstuck]

Thats where you wire up two spotlights on the trailer for reversing, but have them on a separate loom..
give them a flick, and they tend to get the message.


Bloody good aint it.;)

[carburator]

Bloody good aint it.;)

even better when the dumb buggers pass you and I flick on all six lightforce's
Landing lights off a 747 have nothing on what the old KW has hanging off the front..

Akzle

I built a polisher that we can bolt a rim to and let the machine
take most of the hard work out off, the young feller has been
doing a bit of a sideline of late as we don't have to demount the tire
after intital setup..

besides I think its good to make kids work for there pennies these days
I did

[Big Dave]

Cartoon! Cartoon!!!

'tis a Banksy (http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html).

[george formby]

Not too busy I hope.. I just had to take the bike out for a ride today even though it's raining Fijian's & Samoan's up here, tad breezy too, but warm. Tropical you could say. What with Christmas shopping to finish & the influx of tourettists in their campervans & hire cars, the roads are well dodgy.

Got breath tested by a lovely officer from the Western Isles of Scotland a couple of nights ago, nice to have a bit of banter from some poor bugger having to stand in the road at midnight waving a neon carrot. I was tempted to ask if I could give her a reciprocal breast test, her being Scottish & all, but common sense & a rare hint of manners prevailed. If only I had been carrying my emergency tin of haggis I could have been in. Wahey!

[FJRider]

Got breath tested by a lovely officer from the Western Isles of Scotland a couple of nights ago, nice to have a bit of banter from some poor bugger having to stand in the road at midnight waving a neon carrot. I was tempted to ask if I could give her a reciprocal breast test, her being Scottish & all, but common sense & a rare hint of manners prevailed. If only I had been carrying my emergency tin of haggis I could have been in. Wahey!

Good thing you didn't try it ... those scottish bints can knock your teeth out without breaking a nail: ... :argh:

[george formby]

Good thing you didn't try it ... those scottish bints can knock your teeth out without breaking a nail: ... :argh:

Yeah, I know. They can drink more than me too. I know from personal experience they can still get it up after 25 pints of heavy at lunchtime....:pinch:

[gijoe1313]

Reading this, just a few hours ago the boys in blue and St Johns were pulling up outside the house opposite. The stretcher came out with a sheet over it and that's never a good thing. Felt sympathy for those dealing with it, but thank gosh these professionals are there to deal with such situations.

Not a good Xmas for some ... :bye: All quiet on that front now.

[SMOKEU]

Reading this, just a few hours ago the boys in blue and St Johns were pulling up outside the house opposite. The stretcher came out with a sheet over it and that's never a good thing. Felt sympathy for those dealing with it, but thank gosh these professionals are there to deal with such situations.



Pics or it didn't happen.

[caseye]

Pics or it didn't happen.

Um, Na man that's just sick, come on smoke I give you credit for being better than this.
Perhaps I've just seen too much of that sort of shit in my time.
Perhaps you need a good dose of A&E for a night or two??? Believe me it aint pretty.

[wingnutt]

while I'm not the biggest fan of the ticketing system set up by corporate greed, I'm sure I wouldnt like our roads without the
boys and a girls in blue, cruising around, so all the best to you, have a great xmas and new year.

[scumdog]

Ironic that Victoria here (I'm in Ocker country a.t.m.) which the NZ 'road safety experts' use as a place to source Really Good Road Rules(tm) for NZ has, at this point in the holiday season, got more road deaths than the rest of the Aussie continent put together.
Fluke?
Or food for thought???

[FJRider]

Ironic that Victoria here (I'm in Ocker country a.t.m.) which the NZ 'road safety experts' use as a place to source Really Good Road Rules(tm) for NZ has, at this point in the holiday season, got more road deaths than the rest of the Aussie continent put together.
Fluke?
Or food for thought???


Good ideas and principals ... only work if they are followed in practice. Aussie's obviously need more practice.

[madandy]

As do Kiwis, it would seem...http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/road-deaths/toll.html

[scumdog]

As do Kiwis, it would seem...http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/road-deaths/toll.html

Hmm, lookin' better if you're a driver, not so good for passengers.


Given out standard of driving I'm surorised the figures are as low as they are..

[Scuba_Steve]

Hmm, lookin' better if you're a driver, not so good for passengers.


Given out standard of driving I'm surorised the figures are as low as they are..

ah thats alright my passengers are safe, purely because crashing costs... if it wasn't so expensive to have a crash, that could be a different story.
vehicles cost money, people dont! simple fact


... yea i know, im all heart

[jasonu]

Ironic that Victoria here (I'm in Ocker country a.t.m.) which the NZ 'road safety experts' use as a place to source Really Good Road Rules(tm) for NZ has, at this point in the holiday season, got more road deaths than the rest of the Aussie continent put together.
Fluke?
Or food for thought???

Maybe the NZ authorities copy only the shitty Victoria rules like the right hand giveway rule. Meantime the Vics soon see the rule is bollocks and ditch it but NZ sticks to it for 30 years...

[pete376403]

Are there any theories as to why the Waikato region features so highly in the stats? Bigger area? More people? More Fonterra tankers?
Seems that region is way out of kilter with the rest of NZ? Auckland comes close but there's a shit load more people in Aucks than anywhere else.

[FJRider]

Are there any theories as to why the Waikato region features so highly in the stats? Bigger area? More people? More Fonterra tankers?
Seems that region is way out of kilter with the rest of NZ? Auckland comes close but there's a shit load more people in Aucks than anywhere else.

A shit load more of FOG on highway one through the Waikato ... anywhere near the river.

They can't see where they are going ... but the speed limit is still 100 ...

And that's the speed some will travel at.

Regardless ...

[Gremlin]

Are there any theories as to why the Waikato region features so highly in the stats? Bigger area? More people? More Fonterra tankers?
Seems that region is way out of kilter with the rest of NZ? Auckland comes close but there's a shit load more people in Aucks than anywhere else.
I've always thought the Waikato region was geographically large, including the coromandel and then down Taupo way. Lot of traffic passes through to Auckland as well as Aucklanders passing through (or staying in) for holidays, trips etc.

[scumdog]

Maybe the NZ authorities copy only the shitty Victoria rules like the right hand giveway rule. Meantime the Vics soon see the rule is bollocks and ditch it but NZ sticks to it for 30 years...

A red herring.
i doubt that rule was responsible for many (if ANY!) deaths.

OK, maybe you were just providing an example...

[FJRider]

A red herring.
i doubt that rule was responsible for many (if ANY!) deaths.

OK, maybe you were just providing an example...

The old rule was more confusing for those from overseas than it was for Kiwi's ...

I've heard a gradual change to driving on the right hand side is also planned ... :facepalm:

[ducatilover]

A shit load more of FOG on highway one through the Waikato ... anywhere near the river.

They can't see where they are going ... but the speed limit is still 100 ...

And that's the speed some will travel at.

Regardless ...
No, that's not it.
It seems to be purely down to fucking idiots, where I am has a heap of crashes (so many I'm a bit scared of driving/riding) on a perfectly acceptable road, in generally decent conditions. Yet every twat in his car decides to hit something/someone and get a little bit dead

[Edbear]

Hmm, lookin' better if you're a driver, not so good for passengers.


Given out standard of driving I'm surorised the figures are as low as they are..

I've been pondering that anomaly for years! However the general observation is that the one's who can't drive seem to be determined to "correct" that lately. :bye:

[Zamiam]

Ironic that Victoria here (I'm in Ocker country a.t.m.) which the NZ 'road safety experts' use as a place to source Really Good Road Rules(tm) for NZ has, at this point in the holiday season, got more road deaths than the rest of the Aussie continent put together.
Fluke?
Or food for thought???

IMO proof that we don't know what we are doing. We are removing common sense, us being responsible our own well being/survival etc. by having so many rules that we all blindly follow. Its so ripe in our society today that we are turning into robots and robots aren't capable of independent thought so when faced with something they haven't been programmed to handle BANG

[Tink]

As do Kiwis, it would seem...http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/road-deaths/toll.html

Interestingly sad site that!


IMO proof that we don't know what we are doing. We are removing common sense, us being responsible our own well being/survival etc. by having so many rules that we all blindly follow. Its so ripe in our society today that we are turning into robots and robots aren't capable of independent thought so when faced with something they haven't been programmed to handle BANG

Key word: Common Sense.... 2nd key word: Blindly

I have traveled thru the Waikato region quite a bit, bike and car. And the road to Cambridge from SH1 - is so quick, if you drive 100km you can almost guarantee to be overtaken on one of the long straight roads.... that still you can crash on! Courtesy I have also found in NZ is lacking... BIG TIME!

[pritch]

I drove through the Waikato yesterday. At one point there was a fifteen car tail following one of those "girlie" Mazda sports cars at all of 80kph.

Silly me. I'd have thought that someone with a sports car might have actually been interested in driving. Perhaps in this instance it was more of a fashion accessory?

Ah well, I got to listen to some nice music.

[caspernz]

The Waikato has a similar problem to the likes of the Kapiti Coast if you're heading in/out of Welly, lots of traffic using only a few roads. Slow noddies need to be overtaken by faster noddies and this merely brings to light the overestimating of vehicular control abilities.

Still, never ceases to amuse me when I'm driving a truck limited to 90 and the traffic flow can't even get to that speed over the holiday season...such is the paranoia created by the dreaded 4 click tolerance :devil2: