Licence Fraud

[c4.]

hear, here

[Stevo]

Funny... does this sound like the CBTA course? *ducks*

lets list the points
Private driving school... check
Don't have to sit the full license test ... Check
Costs a couple of hundred dollars ... Check

Right I better post my letter off before the govt checks out that too!

I sat the CBTA course and I think this is kind of unfair. I picked up a lot of good stuff out of it. THOUGH I do think two out of the four people doing it were lucky to pass.

I feel kinda sorry for Asians though. I (like many of us I would believe) am quick to bag them for their driving abilities. I curse them when I pass them cos often they drive like they are so shit scared when all they have to do is pull over in a considerate fashion but lack the confidence to do so safely. Unlike us they have not learnt to drive on their parents', cousins', mates' farms before they learn to ride or drive on the road like many NZers have.

Then in Mafia or Triad style these recently exposed Asians BUY licenses and give the "good" Asians (not all of them are illegal immigrants who buy licenses) a bad name yet again, so that next time "we" see an Asian we put them all in this same basket. "Where did ya buy your license from?". Therefore why I kinda feel sorry for some of them.

Are there any Asians on KB website? There must be, so anyway, hang in there fella or fellass, and remain positive. At least people cannot tell what race you are under your helmet, and you are a fellow biker!

Stevo

[scumdog]

Funny... does this sound like the CBTA course? *ducks*

lets list the points
Private driving school... check
Don't have to sit the full license test ... Check
Costs a couple of hundred dollars ... Check

Right I better post my letter off before the govt checks out that too!

You could add to that list:

"Find one of Lous' old workmates...check".

[Lou Girardin]

You could add to that list:

"Find one of Lous' old workmates...check".

Yeah, another ex-MOT guy selling licences, 1 or 2 even did it while they were cops.
But it is a few levels below gang banging teenage girls, rape, assault, stealing evidential drugs, drink driving or trying to get your girlfriend off a drink driving charge.
Were any of these guys your workmates?

PS I just heard that the guy's ex-MOT AND ex-Police.

[scumdog]

Yeah, another ex-MOT guy selling licences, 1 or 2 even did it while they were cops.
But it is a few levels below gang banging teenage girls, rape, assault, stealing evidential drugs, drink driving or trying to get your girlfriend off a drink driving charge.
Were any of these guys your workmates?

PS I just heard that the guy's ex-MOT AND ex-Police.

Ooooh! touch-eeee!!!!

Good points but those guys haven't handed out a "Licence to Kill" to any incompetent that wanted one.

I guess the offending party was an "ernie" from your comments?

[Blakamin]

Then in Mafia or Triad style these recently exposed Asians BUY licenses and give the "good" Asians (not all of them are illegal immigrants who buy licenses) a bad name yet again, so that next time "we" see an Asian we put them all in this same basket. "Where did ya buy your license from?". Therefore why I kinda feel sorry for some of them.

Stevo

shit... they coulda just got one from a weet-bix packet like me

[Aitch]

Is that generally speaking NZ is pretty free of corruption and graft.
But a small number of (mainly) asian immigrants is bringing the asian custom of backhanders and bukshee here, and that annoys me enormously! Send the buggers back I say!

[SPman]

Good points but those guys haven't handed out a "Licence to Kill" to any incompetent that wanted one.

What! They're getting licences to go faster than 100 kph now! Where can I buy 1?

[Stevo]

PS I just heard that the guy's ex-MOT AND ex-Police.

That's only cos they combined the two about twelve years ago and MOT officers became cops overnight. Is that not correct?

[thehollowmen]

I sat the CBTA course and I think this is kind of unfair. I picked up a lot of good stuff out of it. THOUGH I do think two out of the four people doing it were lucky to pass.

Stevo

I sat it too, learnt a lot.. but when it came to my ride I wondered at the end of it how I'd passed.

Kinda felt bad because I felt like I'd payed my way to a quick full...

[saiko]

Surely no worse than the fraud the gummint pulled when they cancelled our 'lifetime' licences a few years back.

Yeah I'm still pissed off about that

[Redstar]

Is that generally speaking NZ is pretty free of corruption and graft.
But a small number of (mainly) asian immigrants is bringing the asian custom of backhanders and bukshee here, and that annoys me enormously! Send the buggers back I say!

Umm its a natural reaction and we all have some kind of prejudice I'm no exception but I did live in Japan for two years and mixed with every asian culture through our company and I have to say that we in corporate life are just as corrupt but more under cover about it.
have you ever offered cash to a builder? cashie jobs? if a bike mechanic offered to do some moonlighting for you would you stand on your principles? we have some good asian immigrants on this site met two last week how do they feel right now? but I understand what you say and you are free to say it.I'm an immigrant a pom and I dont think Im better than an asian would you like me to go too?

[Sniper]

Hmmmm, sort of gets you a bit annoyed when you have taken your car in for its warrent and they tell you to get it fixed for the total amount of $X and then you learnt you could have saved time and money handing over $30 at your local dairy

[Wolf]

Hmmmm, sort of gets you a bit annoyed when you have taken your car in for its warrent and they tell you to get it fixed for the total amount of $X and then you learnt you could have saved time and money handing over $30 at your local dairy

"I'll have a pack of Winfield 25's, a Bic Flic and a Warrant of Fitness, please. Oh and could you book me in for a full licence, I suppose I should have one."

When I was younger you had to get to know which service stations were lax testers if you had a dodgy vehicle - it's not just the "Asians" that are into dodgy dealings, judging by the number of NZ Euro service station staff that passed seriously unwarrantable cars over the years.

[Motu]

"I'll have a pack of Winfield 25's, a Bic Flic and a Warrant of Fitness, please. Oh and could you book me in for a full licence, I suppose I should have one."

When I was younger you had to get to know which service stations were lax testers if you had a dodgy vehicle - it's not just the "Asians" that are into dodgy dealings, judging by the number of NZ Euro service station staff that passed seriously unwarrantable cars over the years.

Back in the good old days it was often the lube bay attendant who did the WoFs,the lube bay attendant was hardly ever a mechanic,and if he was then he was the one who couldn't earn his keep in the workshop.One garage I used to go to the the owner sent his wife out to do the WoFs because he was too busy doing real work.The ''WoF book'' was about the size of the TV Guide and was only read in times of extreme boredom.

Back when I was running a workshop sole charge it was hard to get 8 hrs booked out for my days work,booking in work,answering phones,ordering parts,going out to pick up parts,making up accounts,the countless interuptions in my day.So I would stack up some WoFs and tyres,then at some stage power into them,in this way I was able to charge out 9 hrs of labour for my day...that's bloody good going for one guy.Couldn't of done it without the WoFs.