Everyone's Favourite...speeding tickets.

[scumdog]

yeah scumdog. you've got a BAD attitude...you're badder than a bad thing at a bad boy party

Yeah, all you sorry-arsed cheese-dick mofos, just remember that when I pull you up and rip your poorly earned licence from your clammy paw - I am the MAN!!!



Oops, thats right, I'm BAD!!

[scumdog]

O.k. folks, where in this thread did I say something deserving of a slur on my attitude such as is mentioned on post #48 from Phurrball on this thread??

Ooh, that cut to the quick

Don't all rush, my delicate feeling could be crushed by too much neg. info.

(Once again I note a couple of things: the 'fire-iest' post is from (a) a newby with (b) less than 20 posts)

[250learna]

I really want to make a witty retort to this, but I'm only 15 and I need to be a bit older to have the privileged of doing such a thing

OK, I'm gonna take back what I said as I am obviously wrong, after all, I'm only a youth and have no place in this society until I am 25, and the actual cops on the street aren't the bad guys, only everyone who has voted for a right wing government that privatises everything and is so money grasping, they'll send a whole police task force to gather money or a 'left wing' government that looks good on the surface, but then is caught raping you in your sleep
Oh yeah, I also got my mummy to check my post, being to young to understand in all, just to make sure it wasn't offensive, hopefully I don't catch one of ya fucking her

Oh yeah, if you bad rep me, I"LL GIVE YA GOOD REP!!!! Since you are all so desperate to get some of this rep shit, I'll soon be down to a red box in the short space of 3 days!!! Of course, you will have just made a total arse of yourself, much like I have after making this very post!



This post will be deleted tomorrow, don't worry

I gota say thats a top marks for creativity with white text... keeps me on my toes at this early hour

[loosebruce]

hey, here's one to chew on...

my bike is one of three in the country bought out by Suzuki NZ a couple of years back for some show and i bought it from a dealer a few weeks back...


my bike is in mph, and i had the dealer put a 'white line' at 60 (around 98kmh) but i argued the fact that the guy actually put it on 65, he was taller than me, so angle of sight also contributed, and the angle of the speedo did exacerbated the problem

Just outta curoiusty (sp) since when did a GSXR600K2 have an analouge speedo to put a mark on it? Aint they all digital?
What type of Gixxer6 was it, wasn't a Telefornica rep by any chance as they brought 15 into NZ and i destroyed one of them.

Anyhow, if i get caught i pay it, no questions asked and i've been pinged for um well more than 116kph, infact most of the time i'd be happy for a ticket of 16kph over, if by some miracle i can talk my way out of it, i take it.
But yeah at the end of the day, you get caught, pay for it and move on.

Got any pics of ya Gixxer?

Cheers

[Da Bird]

but some consistency sure would be appreciated...we have heard in this thread some guys doing greater speeds and being let off...where's the f__ken consistency there?

If it helps at all, I think I am pretty consistent... I don't do warnings (unless you are dying and on the way to the hospital but then you better have a good excuse for not calling Speed Medic and his mates).

I do know where you are coming from though... by introducing a 10km/hr tolerance on speed offences, it was supposed to make everything consistent - at 11km/hr or over, you get ticketed, however, as has been pointed out, not everyone is getting ticketed over this tolerance.

So there you have it... we get criticised for using discretion and not being consistent and criticised for trying to be consistent and ticketing everyone over the tolerance level.

BC

[Da Bird]

i then admitted that i exceeded the limit, as every kiwi rider and biker does, by what i figured to be 5-odd kms, being a quiet road so early in the morning. i did not dispute the fact i was doing 116...

"Your Honour... the charge is Exceeding 100km/hr... I rest my case"

Don't bother taking it to court mate, you have just dug your own hole.

BC.

[Ixion]

WTF - duplicate post. How did that happen. Move along folks, nothing to see here

[Ixion]

If it helps at all, I think I am pretty consistent... I don't do warnings (unless you are dying and on the way to the hospital but then you better have a good excuse for not calling Speed Medic and his mates).

I do know where you are coming from though... by introducing a 10km/hr tolerance on speed offences, it was supposed to make everything consistent - at 11km/hr or over, you get ticketed, however, as has been pointed out, not everyone is getting ticketed over this tolerance.

So there you have it... we get criticised for using discretion and not being consistent and criticised for trying to be consistent and ticketing everyone over the tolerance level.

BC

Not so sure about the logic of that. I think (based on the words of wisdom from our esteemed masters) that the 10kph was to allow for speedo error and such like. I seem to remember that the police wanted no tolerance, and accepted 10kph because speedometers on new vehicles (or used ones for that matter though they don't test them) have a +/- 10% tolerence. In reality they are always fast (over read) but legally it can be the other way.

But I would argue for individual cops to use discretion beyond that. Where appropriate. An example. Tootling along yesterday (within the 50kph limit) on Li'l Rat Bike, when an Interchangeable Mabel decides (as they do) to pull out of the carpark directly in front of me. Never even slowed down, just shot up to the carpark exit and out. Saw her coming as she approached the exit but braking would have been touch and go on a wet road, bearing in mind the possibility of oil and muck on the road where those carpark driveways come out. But there was a gap ahead and to the right (four lane road, me and (now) Mabel in the left lane). That's fine I'll just nip in there. Standard practice , happens all the time. One problem, there's a cage right beside me on the right.(He'd closed up on me a bit when I slowed down when I saw Mabel heading toward that carpark exit ) . So I need to get ahead of him enough to slip right away from Mabel. Standard procedure again, a bit of throttle to move me ahead of the car on the right , indicator, check he hasn't speeded up (surprising how many bastiges will do that, if he has, brake and go behind him) , no, good chap, and nip right. Sail past Mabel, who never realised that anything was amiss, I think. No drama, just the usual fun and games. Only problem, in doing this I got up to 70kph odd for a few moments (then down again). And coming toward me, a police car. "Oh shit, I hope he's not going to be silly". He didn't, just carried on past.

Now I don't know if he didn't notice (damn unobservant if he didn't) or if he realised what was going on and decided to ignore the few seconds over the limit. If the latter, then I think it was the right decision.

In this case a few seconds speeding was the safest thing to do. And the cop allowing a bit of discretion was the sensible thing to do.

(And, to nip lectures in the bud, I knew the gap was there, I'd been keeping an eye on it just in case. And I still had other options: to steer left behind Mabel into the car park she came out of; or blast her with the horn, hope she braked and go past the front of her. Or hope she came out and accelerated hard, in which case I could easily brake enough to fall in behind her (would have picked that one if she'd been a boi racer - they can at least be relied to blast away hard) . Or just brake hard and hope not to hit oil. But relying on what Mabels may do is dangerous. There is no predicting them. Nipping into the gap was the safest option because it was the option that did not depend on predicting what Mabel might do)

[Lou Girardin]

Yeah, all you sorry-arsed cheese-dick mofos, just remember that when I pull you up and rip your poorly earned licence from your clammy paw - I am the MAN!!!



Oops, thats right, I'm BAD!!

OK chubby, strap those gopeds to each foot and go make the roads safe.

[Clockwork]

No front plates, pics only taken from front BUT if the camera is a mobile one the operator can write down your number and post you the ticket.
No demerits from a speed camers ticket.

Without the picture including then number plate where is the evidence?
If it's this easy, why bother with cameras at all?

[Ramius]

Without the picture including then number plate where is the evidence?
If it's this easy, why bother with cameras at all?

You have picture of bike and word of camera operator. Let me think, who is more likely to be believed, joe blow caught speeding on a nice shiney bike, or camera operator who is bank rolled by the government?

Anyway, my 2c worth.

[spudchucka]

i see a truckload of cops on our roads revenue gathering and not investigating incidents such as rape, and i would be livid if i knew cops were sitting on sh1 with a radar and my 18yr old daughter's rapist was still at large and no-one was assigned to it...

Rape is a purely indictable crime and as such is a matter for a CIB detective to investigate. Nobody expects general duties or traffic cops to investigate these offences beyond whatever initial action is required upon receipt of a complaint. Equally nobody expects a CIB detective to allocate 20% of his or her time to traffic enforcement either. If rapes aren't being investigated its because there aren't enough detectives, not because there are too many traffic cops.

Try gaining a little understanding of the matters you are critiscising.

[spudchucka]

did i hit a raw nerve there spud???? not under investigation are we???

Meister, you are just another newbie with a sad attitude. You asked for advice from a cop and in the same post slagged them off. Why should I or any other cop on this board give you the time of day? If you want advice in future don't bother asking me because I can't be stuffed anymore with idiot trolls like you.

[Clockwork]

You have picture of bike and word of camera operator. Let me think, who is more likely to be believed, joe blow caught speeding on a nice shiney bike, or camera operator who is bank rolled by the government?

Anyway, my 2c worth.

But where is the evidence that the picture and the number belong to the same vehicle?

[Biff]

its typical of a kiwi or pom to whinge their way out of it on the spot,

so there..."anyone got a handbag?"

That's right my socialy challenged friend, we whinge and get off tickets. People like you on the other hand ooze arrogance, the cops detect this, so you pay.

Try being polite for a change and lose the obvious attitude - you may be surprised how many cops may let you off. Then again maybe it's because I whinge like a spoilt child that gets me off more tickets than I pay.

karma