Fine for running out of gas...

**CookMySock** · 25th August 2009, 17:55

Originally Posted by gwigs

It should be an offense to run out of gas in a helicopter

Suffice to say, if you run a helicopter out of gas, your arse will go sky high, particularly on transport operations. It's not a massive catastrophe to run a helicopter out of fuel, you just glide the fucker down and land it - if you have the balls.

Steve

**Big Dave** · 25th August 2009, 17:59

Originally Posted by Ixion

If you DID run out of fuel, you had better make sure that you disabled the electrics before the Gypsy got you. "No officer, plenty of fuel, it's my electrics are gone, see, no lights , no nothing". A suitable connector in an obscure but reachable place.

I hope you wrote that in an Arthur Daley voice, my son.

**YellowDog** · 25th August 2009, 18:10

Originally Posted by gwigs

It should be an offense to run out of gas in a helicopter

Helicopter ejector seats are also a no no and should also carry a huge fine (once they find your schedded bits).

**Metalor** · 25th August 2009, 19:39

I thought there always was a fine for running out of gas on the motorway? I was watching motorway patrol maybe a year ago and a woman was fined $100 I think it was for doing just that.

**Motu** · 25th August 2009, 20:08

I think that's a bit rough - I only buy gas $2 at a time.Spend enough time on the side of the motorway and you find all sorts of interesting stuff on the verge...nuts and bolts in all sorts of hard to find sizes,fluffy animals and dice,mirrors (no glass) cans for recycling (buy more gas) tyre treads to make jandals out of.Lots of stuff to take home,just for running out of gas....I'd hate to lose that income just because of a new law....

**sunhuntin** · 25th August 2009, 20:21

Originally Posted by Motu

I think that's a bit rough - I only buy gas $2 at a time.Spend enough time on the side of the motorway and you find all sorts of interesting stuff on the verge...nuts and bolts in all sorts of hard to find sizes,fluffy animals and dice,mirrors (no glass) cans for recycling (buy more gas) tyre treads to make jandals out of.Lots of stuff to take home,just for running out of gas....I'd hate to lose that income just because of a new law....

i picked up something down south when i pulled over to take a photo. dunno what the hell it is, but it came home with me. looks like a massvie flathead screw driver. tied it up with bungy cords and strapped it to the backpack. lol.*i wonder where it is?*

**Big Dave** · 25th August 2009, 20:24

Originally Posted by Motu

.I'd hate to lose that income just because of a new law....

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25966879-2,00.html

**Ixion** · 25th August 2009, 20:27

Originally Posted by Motu

I think that's a bit rough - I only buy gas $2 at a time.Spend enough time on the side of the motorway and you find all sorts of interesting stuff on the verge...nuts and bolts in all sorts of hard to find sizes,fluffy animals and dice,mirrors (no glass) cans for recycling (buy more gas) tyre treads to make jandals out of.Lots of stuff to take home,just for running out of gas....I'd hate to lose that income just because of a new law....

True. Very true. I found one of those big ratchet things that truckies use to secure their loads today. A bit had got bent so he must have just dumped it. Brought it home unbent bit , works fine. Twice a week I walk a couple of kilometres to buy my lunch , always come back with a pocketful of nuts and bolts and bits. Good stuff some of it, too.

But you don't have to run out of gas to prospect. Just stop. The motorway verges are often very plesant places, nicely planted . I've always thought they would make good pcnic places.

**Big Dave** · 25th August 2009, 20:33

Originally Posted by Ixion

True. Very true. I found one of those big ratchet things that truckies use to secure their loads today. A bit had got bent so he must have just dumped it. Brought it home unbent bit , works fine. Twice a week I walk a couple of kilometres to buy my lunch , always come back with a pocketful of nuts and bolts and bits. Good stuff some of it, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzn3KaO2Vyk

**Motu** · 25th August 2009, 22:03

Chooks...I bet they lay their eggs somewhere.I'll have to run out of gas at Drury sometime and have a bit of a study of their habits.

**Mikkel** · 25th August 2009, 23:17

I am pretty sure that if you through gross negligence personally causes a 3rd party to suffer considerable loss you can be held accountable.

If you run out of fuel on the motorway and as a result cause considerable delays to your fellow motorists, that delay is a loss to society. Dunno if a fine is appropriate - but since it's fairly difficult to quantify the loss caused by such a delay I guess we can let the fuckwits off easy. Personally I reckon a case could be made for such people being banned from driving - if you run out of fuel you can't have been paying attention to the task at hand. Draconian... I know.

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Helicopter ejector seats are also a no no and should also carry a huge fine (once they find your schedded bits).

There's a job for Mr. Fokker's great-grand-child I suppose. I'm not going to be doing the testing though.

**ready4whatever** · 27th August 2009, 22:53

Originally Posted by Ixion

Not the AA's idea. It's the cops behind it. [URL="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10592961"].

If you DID run out of fuel, you had better make sure that you disabled the electrics before the Gypsy got you. "No officer, plenty of fuel, it's my electrics are gone, see, no lights , no nothing". A suitable connector in an obscure but reachable place.

na just a side-by-side at the side of his head should prevent this minor offence.

**Pixie** · 28th August 2009, 13:01

Originally Posted by Ixion

True. Very true. I found one of those big ratchet things that truckies use to secure their loads today. A bit had got bent so he must have just dumped it. Brought it home unbent bit , works fine. Twice a week I walk a couple of kilometres to buy my lunch , always come back with a pocketful of nuts and bolts and bits. Good stuff some of it, too.

But you don't have to run out of gas to prospect. Just stop. The motorway verges are often very plesant places, nicely planted . I've always thought they would make good pcnic places.

Bloody Hobos

Homer: W-What are you going to do to us?
Hobo: Don't worry, I'm not a stabbing hobo, I'm a singing hobo.
OFF: [sighs with relief]
Hobo: [picks up a banjo and sings]
Nothin' beats the hobo life!
Stabbin' folks with my hobo knife!
I gouge them with --
Marge: [interrupting] Um, excuse me, Hobo. Could you play
something a little less unnerving?

**Ixion** · 28th August 2009, 14:07

I scored a real find today. Just walking along the road, and I spotted about three foot of perfectly good 2 inch emery cloth. Not paper, cloth. Unused.

That's stuff's hard to find, and expensive

Score!