3000km ticket-free, THEN...

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

I had been back in Wellington 2 days!! On the Friday I woke (that's the first problem) and thought shit my one day a month of hormonal upheaval (usually just the Thursday) had carried on to the Friday, so stayed in bed until 1pm when I thought the world would be safe now! if I got up. Was going along the Petone Esplanade and this cop pulls me over - he was on foot!! I wondered what the heck? So I dutifully pulled over.

He tried talking to me while my helmet was on - I advised him I was deaf, so what does the halfwit do! walks away from me talking - I get off the bike - take my helmet off and caught up to him and said I could not hear what you were saying, would you please face me when you speak to me thank you. He said "You were doing 68 kph" I was?? well I'm under the limit then of 70! "It's a 50k area" anyway he got quite anal and sarcastic (which was uncalled for as I had been very polite and civil).

He chose the wrong day and the wrong person - once I knew the short prick wouldn't let me off I thought stuff it - yet another insecure male cop that can't handle a woman riding a big bike - (and probably the fact he had to look up to me) so when he said "You're riding a big bike" I just opened mouth and both feet fell out "Yeah satisfies me better than a male babe" (I'm definitely coming back as a man in my next life - no hormones!!)

Also my T-shirt didn't help - No Rules - Rules are made to be Broken - cos it was so hot - I had unzipped my jacket!!

"Is this registered and warranted??" to my reply Yes he had to ask where they were - actually in clear view as legally required. I told him I hoped he had a really nice day.

I have never backchatted like that before!! Actually I added a bit more too - told him to actually pick on the fkn slow drivers that do 40 kph in a 50 k area - they are the dangerous drivers, he reckoned they ticketed them if there was a long line of traffic and I replied bullshit - I told him (in a good humoured joking voice) well mate if you really want to make your quota - go to the Hawkes Bay - you'll make millions there - he was too far up his own arse to appreciate the humour!! (I have a fridge magnet "I would really like to see your point of view but I can't get my head that far up ya arse").

My query is - it was a hand held laser gun - how do I know that it was actually my bike that he had pointed it at!! As there was a bus up my rear and other cars around!! Remember, bikes don't have no. plates on the front!! Really I have no proof that it was me!! I thought maybe it was drink-driving testing. I am sure the Petone Esplanade - near motorway end was 70kph - industrial area, sea on the left as I was heading towards the motorway!!

I may write in as yet, cos I honestly thought it was a 70k area, but I do have an issue of this laser gun and the fact it does not record a registration no. - there is really no proof it was me. The cop was lucky I stopped really, and there being other vehicles around me (two lane area) I wasn't sure if it was me he was waving at! The other issue is the cop's anal attitude right from the beginning! No politeness etc.

I have no issue at all being pulled up for speeding (hell it's happened often enough) and 90% of the time I have laughed and joked with the cop - it can be done!! Maybe it was his time of the month too!! lol:whocares:

Hey I have gone for one whole year without a speeding ticket and for the month of February and March this year - I have zero (0) demerit points wahooooo (then ya gotta add 20 points after I pay the above fine). I then had a friend say to me "Yeah Shirl - ya dont have a car and you were without ya bike for 4 months". Irrelevant information lol!!

Happy New Year everyone.:sunny:

[ajturbo]

short man syndrom ....

[yungatart]

short man syndrom ....

Yep, what he said..

[ManDownUnder]

My contribution ('coz I can't really comment on the "how does he prove it was me" question"...)

Challenge the ticket - not the short man... err... cop. Making it personal will do just that - right back at you. Keep it professional, factual and corteous... and good luck
MDU

[MSTRS]

... well mate if you really want to make your quota - go to the Hawkes Bay - you'll make millions there ...

Too right!! Wish they would...
Bad luck for you on that day tho, BMW.

[Pwalo]

So were you doing 68ks?

I got a lovely letter requesting a donation for travelling along at 56ks in a 50k area at 7.20am. Oh how I chortled to myself.

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

I actually didn't think I was doing 68K thought it was slower, however I had passed (further down the road) a car doing 35 k and a bus doing 40 k and I remember doing 60-65 k then and certainly did not speed up!! after I finished the manouever.

Either which way, if it is certainly a 50 k area (Obviously it is duh) I was still over the limit. As I said, it is the uncertainty of those laser guns and who they are really pointed at! On that basis alone, is why I will write in about the ticket.

I can be very diplomatic and professional when I want to be!! lol




So were you doing 68ks? It's certainly caught me out before.

[KLOWN]

wahooooo (then ya gotta add 20 points after I pay the above fine). I then had a friend say to me "Yeah Shirl - ya dont have a car and you were without ya bike for 4 months". Irrelevant information lol!!

Happy New Year everyone.:sunny:


I have been told, not sure wheather its true or if it still works but, if you over pay the fine via cheque and when you get your refund for overpaying don't cash it in and therefore the transaction was never completed and you don't get any demerit points put on until you cash your refund.

[Beemer]

Sorry, all along Petone Esplanade, from the roundabout near the motorway, is 50kph - in fact I think there are signs as you exit the motorway at Petone, and there are definitely heaps of signs along the Esplanade. So if you were doing 68 then I'm afraid you will have not a shit's show of getting off the ticket. If you try claiming the laser may or may not have been on your bike, you will lose, because it will be his word against yours - and they ALWAYS believe the cop.

And KLOWN's myth is just that - it's all bull so don't bother trying that road either.

Unfortunately, you got done doing close to 70 in a 50kph zone so you will earn some demerits and a smallish fine. There are houses dotted in amongst those industrial buildings, plus a lot of side roads on the opposite side of the road, which is probably why it's a 50kph zone.

Oh, and next time you are riding along there, please note it is NOT two lanes - one is actually a bus lane...

[Colapop]

(A)...shit my one day a month of hormonal upheaval (usually just the Thursday) had carried on to the Friday...

(B)...He tried talking to me while my helmet was on - I advised him I was deaf, so what does the halfwit do! walks away from me talking - I get off the bike - take my helmet off and caught up to him and said I could not hear what you were saying, would you please face me when you speak to me thank you.

(C)...He said "You were doing 68 kph" I was?? well I'm under the limit then of 70! "It's a 50k area" anyway he got quite anal and sarcastic (which was uncalled for as I had been very polite and civil).

(D)... I knew the short prick wouldn't let me off I thought stuff it..

(E)...Also my T-shirt didn't help - No Rules - Rules are made to be Broken - cos it was so hot - I had unzipped my jacket!!

(F)...I have no issue at all being pulled up for speeding...
(A) Too much information!! ARRRGGGHHH! Make it stop...LA LA LA LA LA LA LA...

(B) So you chased him down the road berrating him?

(C) You were illegally speeding (It's clearly posted 50kph all the way along there) and he probably got 'anal and sarcastic' coz of (B)

(D) Once again probably coz of (B)

(E) I would have thought with your assets having your jacket undone would have helped??

(F) So you admit you were speeding..?


You had a bad day, he had a bad day - meh, build a bridge honeybunch :love: Move on, lifes too short. :dodge:

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

Lighten up colapop nice fantasy for you tho. Don't take things so seriously - I don't. It amuses me when men can't handle the words "hormones" or "that time of the month" facts of life - get over it. Life's too short. By the way, have we met? I don't think so, (E) is a pretty personal comment and has no bearing on anything whatsoever.

It is two lanes between certain times. Outside of specific times anyone can use the bus lane, I asked Mr Plod about that.

Anyway at least I can look back on it and laugh.

[mstriumph]

............ It amuses me when men can't handle the words "hormones" or "that time of the month" .........

erm - not just men actually.......... lots of gals don't think that pmt is an excuse for tearing throats, either [although it's OK to think about it :innocent: ]

[Madness]

The plod have been using the pumping station building on the Esplanade as an ambush spot for years now. It's a good thing you stopped, they probably would have declared you continuing along your way as an attempt to evade & used lethal force to stop you.

I got pinged on the stretch of Jervois Quay beside the Cake-Tin a few years ago, sting style. A copper was on the footbridge above Jervois Quay between the Port of Welly & the Stadium, his mates were pulling people into the carpark below the Stadium entrance (by the Golf shop?) as fast as they could process them. I was going with the flow of traffic, doing 65ish like everybody else. It's 50k along there too, Sucks a big fat one aye??

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

erm - not just men actually.......... lots of gals don't think that pmt is an excuse for tearing throats, either [although it's OK to think about it :innocent: ]

Thank you. I am so glad to know these days I don't have to be perfect and I am human and am allowed to make mistakes. And I'm not being sarcastic. I know myself very well and accept on a certain day I have less control over my emotions - and usually try and keep out of everybody's way. I learn from my mistakes today and I can laugh about it, life is too short to be taken so damned seriously - crikey that has just been reinforced tonite by a friend (39) dying today, a man that had made mistakes but by hell he worked hard at improving himself. And that is all we can do on a daily basis.

[Ronin]

short man syndrom ....

He probably wasn't very tall either. :yes:

[riffer]

Having met you Shirl I can just picture this,so I had a good laugh... :yes: Shit, I probably would have run away if I was the copper...

Its a real pisser how that road is 50km/hr. Makes you wonder why Fergusson Drive opposite Caltex Rimutaka is 70km/hr, doesn't it?

Good luck with the letter writing. Let us know how you get on, okay?

[xwhatsit]

...I have no issue at all being pulled up for speeding (hell it's happened often enough) and 90% of the time I have laughed and joked with the cop - it can be done!! Maybe it was his time of the month too!! lol:whocares:...

Lol, I can definitely confirm that a lot of men have a `time of the month' too :yes:! Mine's only because my girlfriend has hers -- which puts me in a shit mood haha.

Gah, well sorry to hear about that ticket. Some days you just can't be diplomatic, not even to save yourself! I know how you feel, I work in a restaurant, and some days I just can't make myself be polite to bastard customers no matter how much I try -- it doesn't usually end well.

Good luck.

[Beemer]

My query is - it was a hand held laser gun - how do I know that it was actually my bike that he had pointed it at!! As there was a bus up my rear and other cars around!!... It is two lanes between certain times. Outside of specific times anyone can use the bus lane, I asked Mr Plod about that.

Um, maybe it was one of those 'certain times' if you had a bus up your rear - he obviously thought you were in his lane...

[scracha]

The thing about sending them a cheque for too much is a load of bollox BTW.

[Colapop]

Lighten up colapop nice fantasy for you tho. Don't take things so seriously - I don't. It amuses me when men can't handle the words "hormones" or "that time of the month" facts of life - get over it. Life's too short. By the way, have we met? I don't think so, (E) is a pretty personal comment and has no bearing on anything whatsoever.
Yep we've met (at the Busa's - had a look at your chain I think?)
Not meant seriously - you sounded a bit pissed at the situation. As you and I both said, life's too short...
As for (E) it's a ruse used by most women don't take it to heart.

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

I knew you were taking the piss - I had read your profile "Tell it like it is" (I am the same - so we will always get flack from some sensitive souls) decided to respond back - in same vein. LOL I remember your bike but the face aint comin to mind!

For the record, I have never used my "so-called" assets in that way - in fact, my experience has been, it has gone against me being a female. Now a week before the cop would have got an eyeful as riding around the East Cape it was very hot so I only wore the bare necessity (PC enough? a 3 letter word that starts with b and ends in a) under my motorbike jacket.

If I was really pissed off - there would be no humour in my posts - in fact it wouldn't even get past the moderators!! LOL

[Colapop]

Should just go commando under your protective gear - I do!

[Beemer]

Should just go commando under your protective gear - I do!

NOW who's giving us too much information?

[Patrick]

Hey BMW... next time you see a cop with a laser, stop for a chat and, while tossing your hair backward (like those model types do...) and unzipping your jacket:innocent: ask "how do these things work?" (The laser I mean...:innocent: )

I'm sure they will show you. It really is like shooting a duck on water though, cross hairs target what you are wanting, and if you're really flirty, he might let you have a go. Spot a motorbike and a car and "shoot" em...

Its not a camera, it does not take pikkies. Neither are eyes, you see what you see.

You can see the locked on speed and the distance you were captured at, on the laser only.

Its not a help I know, but be creative... passing cars doing 35 - 40 kmph and honestly believing it is a 70km zone / I am a tourist unfamiliar with the area sounds better than "there is no picture of it being me..." Good luck.

[Beemer]

It's not a help I know, but be creative... passing cars doing 35 - 40 kmph and honestly believing it is a 70km zone / I am a tourist unfamiliar with the area sounds better than "there is no picture of it being me..." Good luck.

Except when the cop asks where she lives and she says "such and such Street, Wellington" - kinda blows the tourist theory to bits...

[Patrick]

Except when the cop asks where she lives and she says "such and such Street, Wellington" - kinda blows the tourist theory to bits...

Fair comment - they were samples of suggestions for her to be creative, not me...

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

"Hey BMW... next time you see a cop with a laser, stop for a chat and, while tossing your hair backward (like those model types do...) and unzipping your jacket"

I'll start practising!! lol

I moved to Wellington last April after a few years away so I am now on the lookout for the many changes that have occurred in my absence. Thank God a friend had pointed out all the cameras up past Ngauranga Gorge!!!

[Beemer]

I moved to Wellington last April after a few years away so I am now on the lookout for the many changes that have occurred in my absence. Thank God a friend had pointed out all the cameras up past Ngauranga Gorge!!!

Good, I also hope your friend told you about all the one-way streets in central Wellington, otherwise you're in deep shit!

[Ixion]

I usually ignore the one way street thing in Auckland, if I'm on a bike (OBVIOUSLY does NOT apply in a a cage). If you happen to meet someone going the other way, just squeeze over, or nip up on the footpath for a bit.

Very handy down round Britomart and Parnell

[Finn]

short man syndrom ....

WHAT!!!???