One day, three speeding fines

**LBD** · 11th May 2011, 01:42

Saturday was not the best day...I had 500 odd km to travel and several sights to see on the way before making it to that nights lodging so I was driving a little steady....

1) 55kph in a 40 km zone. Most villages are 50 kph so this one caught me unaware...buggar....200 som

2) 102 on the 90kph open road, 4 lanes wide, dry, smooth and the only car around save for the copper behind a tree with a laser. Double buggar....600 som....then he felt sorry for me and gave me 100 som change.

3) 56 in a 50 kph zone...And buggar again. 200 som

Total of 900 som and 15 minutes of humble pie munching. You don't argue to much when there is an AK47 toting cop standing next to the car. I doubt any of the fines will make it into the govt coffers.

Gun aside, you argue and they will keep your license and if you drive away without your license...you can be sure every cop in the area will be out to stop you and book you for driving with no license.

900 som = about NZD25....

That is the problem with driving a car with yellow number plates...it belongs to a rich foreigner (In this case a foreign company) which automatically makes you a target

**tigertim20** · 11th May 2011, 04:47

as a purely hypothetical question, how many NZD for a 280km/hr ticket? I assume not too many run from AK47 toting cops!!!

**YellowDog** · 11th May 2011, 05:53

That's quite a tally for the day.

I would be fairly pissed off.

I would have overpowered the cop, taking his AK47 from him, and then forced him at gun point to remove my tally of tickets from the computer before letting him go.

I'm sure he would have just put it fdown to experiece and not faced the humiliation of telling his fellow cops about me

**LBD** · 11th May 2011, 06:04

Originally Posted by tigertim20

as a purely hypothetical question, how many NZD for a 280km/hr ticket? I assume not too many run from AK47 toting cops!!!

Probably no $ cost just handcuff me to a tree and empty the clip....which would be more pleasant than the local lock up.

Originally Posted by YellowDog

and then forced him at gun point to remove my tally of tickets from the computer before letting him go.:

Computer? If he does that....then the fine would be payable to the govt....no the $ head straight to the back pocket. And if I want a reciept or official ticket...the fine just doubled....smile, grovel, haggle if you must then pay the fine and be on your way

**Berries** · 11th May 2011, 06:33

Originally Posted by LBD

900 som = about NZD25....

Hardly a disincentive to speeding is it.

**Emlyn** · 11th May 2011, 06:37

Hi LBD

Bad luck, or bad management.... either way it is your 'good/bad things in threes' up... you should be sweet for at least a year!

Good luck with that!

**sil3nt** · 11th May 2011, 09:05

Might have been one of those long way round/down docos where they said you ask what the fine is and hand over a certain % with your licence the cops pocket the money and your on your way.

**Big Dave** · 11th May 2011, 09:05

There's a name for it.

Slow learner. :-P

**LBD** · 11th May 2011, 11:33

Originally Posted by Berries

Hardly a disincentive to speeding is it.

It generally is when the national wage per head annually is US$268....

Originally Posted by Big Dave

There's a name for it.

Slow learner. :-P

Thanks....

**buellbabe** · 11th May 2011, 11:54

And there were no speed signs? So you were guessing at how fast you should be travelling???

**LBD** · 11th May 2011, 12:52

Originally Posted by buellbabe

And there were no speed signs? So you were guessing at how fast you should be travelling???

Often it is a guess....a name plaque to a town is normally understood to be a 50 kph sign as well and a name plaque with a red line through it as you leave a town generally means open road.

102 in a 90 when 90 is the national limit...yup my bad....but if you travel at 90 you get suicidal drivers overtaking on blind corners and sitting behind you on the horn etc....you have to experience it....this particular road is a 50 km straight 4 lanes of new asphalt where the usual traffic speed is 120 to 140 kph...and there was next to no traffic on this occasion.

The villages as a rule are 50kph....there will have been a faded hand painted 40kph sign somewhere within 500m of the start of the village

Remember this is a country that will nail a 50 kph sign to a tree half hidden in the bush on an open country road just as a trap.

In town you would be in a right hand lane at a traffic light on a painted road sign indicating this lane must turn right only....hanging somewhere above the lane will be a sign indicating no right turn....you turn right because to wanted to and have not seen the small overhead sign...straight into the waiting arms of the constablary.

The cops use a red iluminated batten to wave cars over...locally this is known as the "Thank you very much stick"

**Gremlin** · 11th May 2011, 17:06

Don't try that one on here aye? They don't trap you quite so much... but there is definitely a computer system...

**LBD** · 11th May 2011, 17:25

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Don't try that one on here aye? They don't trap you quite so much... but there is definitely a computer system...

Sorry officer, I don't know why that $100 bill was stuck to my license....

**Geeen** · 11th May 2011, 19:24

Originally Posted by LBD

...this particular road is a 50 km straight 4 lanes of new asphalt where the usual traffic speed is 120 to 140 kph...and there was next to no traffic on this occasion.

He was probably bored