Ticket for going too slow

[Maha]

Should happen more.
We were in a line of about maybe 15 cars heading out of Paeroa.
A six meter camper bus was in charge that day. An H/P car was also part of the line.
There are long straigh bits on the road between Paeroa and SH27 but you can pass, there is nowhere to slot in. You are governed by a non caring and oblivious road user up fron doing 70kph.
The Cop finally got the chance to leap frog his way to the front and haul said cock breath over. By the time we had got to the Bus/Cop, the cop was standing along the bus waving his arms around at the driver...thats how long the line behind him was.

[racefactory]

Yes absolutely. There are an unbelievable amount of Asians driving dangerously slow, all the time oblivious to the near accidents they are causing around them.

Thanks for ticketing him. That's quality, good revenue for our country.

[Scuba_Steve]

Poor widdle Fokky, upset by the big bad Popo wuz we?

No your taxes pay me to enforce the law, not to put up with trash talk like we do. We put up with the trash for free. I'd come in on my days off if I was allowed to dish some back, but apparently we have to take it, and not give some back.

One of my troops just processed a drink driver in North Canterbury, the tosser spent the whole time banging on about how much of an injustice it was, how he's a better driver after a few drinks, the usual bollocks. My soldier just sat there, did what was necessary, handed him his court documents and saw him off the premises. One day we'll be allowed to dish some back, just not now.

I actually don't expect my troops to be automatons. If they dish some back now and again I can understand why. I can't (officially) agree to it, but I can sure understand it.

Please email the hugs via Heidi Klum, I'll accept hugs from her anytime.

hey if I'm ever round your ways feel free to dish some back, I'd appreciate it & hey it might make some of those PIGs/cops out there in the force seem a little human. You & scummy seem alright as far as cops go but by god is there some uptight "drongos" in the cop shop, some PIGs/cops just need to calm da fuck down

[Berries]

The solution, of course, is to get a motorbike.

[bsasuper]

Its more cost effective to have 3 cops parked up playing with radar guns than actually patrol the roads, stopping slow drivers and expaining without tickets what they are causing.Its all about $$$.

[MSTRS:Me]

Totally correct. The offence is "Slow vehicle or inconsiderate driving impeded traffic"

I called it a ticket for going too slow coz that's what it was.

My bad.

Just being pedantic. "Too slow" or "impeding traffic" amounts to the same thing.
Tis a revenue area that needs more attention...but in the right circumstances.
My old man got one of those between Blenheim and Kaikoura. He was in a VW combi, it was at night and it was blowing a gale - the only other car on the road was the cop behind him.

[Kickaha]

if you a pig you get shit...part of the job

They should be allowed to taser any cunt who gives them any, if you're fucking dumb enough to get caught suck it up cause you're the one that fucked up

some PIGs/cops just need to calm da fuck down

So do the some members of the public

Its all about $$$.

I din't realise there were still people stupid enough to think that

Can you explain the reduction in dollars given for fines if it's all about $$$

[Jack Miller]

Hi Y'All
...I radared a car travelling south on SH1 out of Waikuku at 70 km/h. He was coming out of the Waikuku 80 kmh area. Behind him were 11 vehicles, the drivers of 3 of them waved frantically for me to do something about the dude holding them all up.

I whipped around behind the last of the 11, then used the blues n twos to force each of the 11 aside while I went after the car still travelling at 70 kmh, now in a 100 zone.

After creating mayhem to get to him, he eventually stopped, and I got a big mouthful about how I had driven dangerously to catch and stop him, and that I should go catch some burglars or rapists. Yes, pretty much all the shite that I get most days.

After he drove off, $150 poorer, I pondered why I bother, given the criticism I get for doing it, added to the criticism I get for not doing it.

So, should we do it or not?

Harumph.

Absolutely YES! The illegal, disingenuous, expensive and ineffective war on speed has had an additional nasty side effect, albeit perhaps unintended: Slow drivers, impressed by the "faster you go bigger the mess" bullshit, over the top speed camera deployment and the rest of this stupid war have come to believe that they can go as slow as they like. Furthermore, they believe that they are doing a good thing by making others slow down! They need to learn that this is illegal and they have to stop impeding other people.

If you'd also pulled over those of the 11 followers who were neither attempting to pass nor leaving space for others to pass, which breaches S7.17(2), I'd be nominating you for canonisation. "Saint Rastuscat", what do you think?

The abuse is part of the job. On this occasion you have my sympathies. If you'd told us you'd done nothing in response to the situation my abuse would have been far fuller, louder and condemnatory. You did the right thing. Thanks.

[Kickaha]

Slow drivers, impressed by the "faster you go bigger the mess" bullshit, over the top speed camera deployment and the rest of this stupid war have come to believe that they can go as slow as they like.

Bullshit, this crap has been happening as long as I have held a licence

[FJRider]

Can you explain the reduction in dollars given for fines if it's all about $$$

Because the people can afford to pay the speeding fines ... (if you cant don't speed ... or bitch about it)

But most can't afford to lose their licence ... due to demerits ...

Sitting on 80 or 90 demerits has a calming effect on your driving style ...

[Jack Miller]

I think you did the right thing. I got a ticket for doing a 115kph in a passing lane because i was sick of the dick in the land rover going slow until passing lanes. (I was driving a car at the time) The police officer asked why i passed when he was doing 100kph at the time. I told him and he just said "So your frustrated" i said well yea. I was going to give him the no body can drive 100kph these days speech and New Zealand roads are frustrating to drive on speech but i had places to be. Since these TV adds and radio adds have come out slower drivers are increasing they think that as soon as they hit 101kph they are going to die or kill. If i was police officer id concentrate on the slower drivers because 1 slower driver makes other drivers pass which is when accidents happen.

If you cant drive at the speed limit then take the dam bus!

In those circumstances you have a better than average chance of getting off if you fight it - I did. It is illegal to speed up when someone is trying to pass you. It is reasonable for the overtaker to assume that the overtakee won't speed up because it is illegal. It is also reasonable that an overtaker will be watching the road not the speedo at the time. If you exceeded 100 kph while overtaking someone who sped up while you're doing it your speeding was an unintended consequence of a situation on the road that was not of your making.

[Kickaha]

Because the people can afford to pay the speeding fines ... (if you cant don't speed ... or bitch about it)

If that was the case it would be better off for them to scrap demerits to keep the speeders on the roads and make even more money from them

Sitting on 80 or 90 demerits has a calming effect on your driving style ...

I wouldn't know, I haven't been dumb enough to get that many, until two years ago I hadn't even had any

In those circumstances you have a better than average chance of getting off if you fight it - I did. It is illegal to speed up when someone is trying to pass you. It is reasonable for the overtaker to assume that the overtakee won't speed up because it is illegal. It is also reasonable that an overtaker will be watching the road not the speedo at the time. If you exceeded 100 kph while overtaking someone who sped up while you're doing it your speeding was an unintended consequence of a situation on the road that was not of your making.

Nothing stopping you from slowing back down and pulling back behind them, unless of course the cars behind you have already filled the gap

In 1988 I was in court for "careless use causing injury" (case dismissed) and a guy got done for speeding up as people were trying to pass, he'd done it to a couple of vehicles down the straight heading to the Weka pass

If someone does it then bloody report it same as slow fucks holding up traffic

[Jack Miller]

+1
A steady speed can be dealt with easier than trying to get past a driver who has a weight distribution problem when one of the rocks in his head rolls down to his feet at overtaking zones.

One solution that is being put forward for the new Land Transport Safety Strategy (new because the old one didn't work) is to make the left passing lane narrower. These rock-brained drivers don't drive consciously, so they need subconscious clues. They speed up in today's passing lanes because they are wide and generally straight, which makes them feel safer. There is little conscious thought that get's into these drivers' decision-making. The alternative to such self-explaining-roads solutions is to ban every rocks-for-brains person from driving. Perhaps this is why we already provide drivers for MP's.

[scumdog]

Its slow people like that which cause people (cage drivers) to overtake dangerously.

CAUSE? cause? I don't think they 'cause' anything sunshine.

So what is so important in YOUR life that you're prepared to risk your life and that of others to get there maybe five minutes quicker than you would following the slower car??

[Kickaha]

So what is so important in YOUR life that you're prepared to risk your life and that of others to get there maybe five minutes quicker than you would following the slower car??

Everything is more important in my life than waiting to be able to pass safely, go back to persecuting innocent motorists and stop trying to talk sense