Everyone's Favourite...speeding tickets.

**Lou Girardin** · 12th May 2005, 09:46

Originally Posted by Phurrball

Impossible to cheat a laser, even if you can detect it
.

Yes it is!

**chickenfunkstar** · 12th May 2005, 11:26

Originally Posted by Wolf

So saying that every cop on this forum is guilty of storing porn on their computers is "within reason" according to you?

If that is the case, then my wild-arsed assumption that you spend way too much time playing computer games should be totally reasonable - on the grounds that while your assumption was based on the "objective statements" in the popular press (who have no political axe to grind and are not at all motivated by gathering revenue - I feel a new Tui ad coming on...), my assumption was based on observation of your posts.

You do not appear to have learned that the other "players" in these on-line forums are real people with real jobs - you seem to behave as if they were merely computer-generated images in a computer game - hence my assumption of your computer experience.

You have a self confessed attitude of "fuck 'em all if they get offended, I have every right to treat them as I please" - the "bravery" that comes from knowing that they can't smack you in the gob. You trade on the relative anonymity of your profile to say things that you would not have the balls to say to the faces of the likes of Spud, SD, Marty &c if you met them in a pub.

The same applies to your sweeping comments about kiwis and poms. If you tried that crap in a pub you'd get hammered and you know it - which is why you say it here where you feel "safe".

"Free speech" is not defined as "feeling free to say what you'd be too scared to say under other circumstances".

The term you were looking for is "Gutless coward".

FYI "Free speech" is the right to speak out against the policies of the government without being summarily arrested and jailed, not the right to behave like a total arse in public.

Most of the blubbering here has come from you - "I got a ticket and they wouldn't let me off, boo hoo, advise me what to do you porno-reading pigs" and then you got all teary-eyed and "I'm allowed to treat you like shit, it's called free speech" when you got jumped on about it. Save your tissues for yourself - you seem like you have the greater need.

Better yet, revert to lurk mode until you learn something about the humans on this site - then you can slag them off for what they are really like, not what you think they're like, based on a stupid fucking newspaper story.

To everyone else: Yes I know, "arguing with a fool" etc and "Don't feed the Trolls" blah blah but WTF, I felt the need to taste blood today...

Great post mate,
I fully agree.

meister - You must have some respect for the guys / girls who have been on the site for a long time???

**spudchucka** · 12th May 2005, 12:37

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Then they need to promote more taxmen to detective.

Many either aren't interested or aren't capable of completing the extensive study that is required to become a qualified detective. Joining the CIB is a career choice made by the individual, it isn't something that is decided for you by promoting a person to that position regardless of whether they want the job or not.

**spudchucka** · 12th May 2005, 12:43

Originally Posted by meister

i pay your wages,

Say that to the next cop that pulls you over.......... I dare ya!

**spudchucka** · 12th May 2005, 12:48

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Yes it is!

Just fix a heap of laser disks across the front of your vehicle, it looks cool and it totally screws the laser device.

**Lou Girardin** · 12th May 2005, 12:58

Originally Posted by spudchucka

Just fix a heap of laser disks across the front of your vehicle, it looks cool and it totally screws the laser device.

And I just happen to have some extra special laser deflecting Cd's for sale. At a price you wouldn't believe.

**spudchucka** · 12th May 2005, 13:23

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

And I just happen to have some extra special laser deflecting Cd's for sale. At a price you wouldn't believe.

If you can find a market for them then go hard I reckon.

**Wolf** · 12th May 2005, 13:38

Originally Posted by spudchucka

Say that to the next cop that pulls you over.......... I dare ya!

Wot? Where he can be identified? And get a direct (most likely terse) answer? 'e aint got the bleedin' bottle, guv.

I've been nabbed for speeding in the past, done all the "sure fire" things to get off - stopped quickly and safely, got off the bike, removed helmet and walked part of the way to the cop's bike. Was polite, apologetic, explained the situation - still got the ticket despite all that so I paid it. Why? Because I was speeding and I got caught. Simple, really.

I don't get speeding tickets any more - anyone want to hazard a guess why?

And as to tarring all cops, or anyone else (except lawyers, bankers, accountants, doctors, dentists, marketroids and politicians

), with the same brush - most the cops I've encountered when pulling me over for speeding or random breath checks or stopping me for questioning whilst I'm on my midnight perambulations though this fair(ly shitty) town, have been polite, professional and well mannered. Once a friend and I were picked up by a couple of cops who did their best to get us to swear in public so they could hold us on that but they weren't too much of a hassle and once a cop was rude and abusive to me whilst asking me questions and then asked "fuckin' goody-good, are ya?" when I told him I had never been in trouble with the law - but he was a rookie fresh out of training and needed the rough edges knocked off him (which I suspect happened once he and his senior partner were out of my earshot). Even the cop who came to take me to the police station for questioning regarding allegations of me discharging a firearm at someone was polite and easy to get on with.

Yeah, so it's annoying getting ticketed, it cost money, can cost your licence, and writing letters doesn't always get you off the hook (despite it being a popular topic for threads) c'est la vie. The alternative is to stick to the limits (ensure your speedo is properly calibrated and legible. I've been sitting at "80" km/h behind a mate's car and they've sworn they were at 100 - we both can't be right, hope theirs was wrong...)

**Wolf** · 12th May 2005, 13:40

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

And I just happen to have some extra special laser deflecting Cd's for sale. At a price you wouldn't believe.

And a couple of bridges going cheap as well...

**crazylittleshit** · 12th May 2005, 13:44

My favourite ticket was for Driving with intent to cause alarm.........

I was drifting And it was a good one........

**spudchucka** · 12th May 2005, 13:53

Originally Posted by crazylittleshit

My favourite ticket was for Driving with intent to cause alarm.........

I was drifting And it was a good one........

You obviously didn't enjoy the job you had with the police.

**scumdog** · 12th May 2005, 18:54

Originally Posted by spudchucka

If you can find a market for them then go hard I reckon.

Yes, but don't forget they have to be new ones, pre-recorded ones won't work as the recording ruins their ability to deflect the laser.

PM me if you want to know more.

**meister** · 12th May 2005, 19:38

sorry, obviously not in the right site...take care all, if i said it was fun i would be lying.

but for wolf, who beleives i am hiding...

my name is alf eleftheriou (pronounce that correctly and i will buy you a beer), married with 18yr old daughter, lost THE love of my life to a drunk driver, represented NZ in rugby and the Navy, got called a spik by a cop, born in australia (so you dont think i've heard every damned dig in the book), and find kiwis to be level headed - they have a chip on both shoulders.

i havent got anything to hide, spud will give you the rest of my details (BTW, i have told cops that, i told the cop that got me years ago - see below- me, he was quick as a flash and replyed "of course you do, its the only way i can afford to get taxis round to your house to see your missus!!" and that my friends is a good cop, although he did call me a wog, and i had to correct him, i am a spik!), and if you want to come round and smash me, as you so eloquently put it, maybe i deserved it. the site was to talk all things two-wheeled (three if thats your thing) and i had a view and needed somewhere to put it. i never really had a problem or attitude about it, just chanced my arm, but as text based communications cannot portray sarcasm, humour, or any other emotion, if you take it wrong, hey. take it as it was intended, a place to get something out. i dont beat people up, i dont murder, i dont rape, and apart from one incident in a car, and the speeding ticket, have not broken the law. as i said, i was accepted into the force some time back, and would hope to have another crack at it now, although the mind is willing, the body is to fat!!

if i offended, i apologise, but i wont for what i have said.

tkae care guys, remember it will be those on four wheels which will ultimately spell our doom.