STILL A LOSER RIDER (Pointless Rant)

[Ixion]

I'd be standing on the bloody tickets too... and challenging them all the way up to the highest bod in the Police Complaints Authority.

Even if the law (after coming into effect) is retrospective... it's only at THAT point they can ping you. Right now there is NO law existing, therefore you can't be held to it.

nu uh... that's just DUMB. Don't pay them, challenge them... all the way. No lwayers needed. No law = no ticket = no fine.

Perhaps it is not so much a law as a "rule of thumb". It is difficult to determine "stopped". In theory stopped could be a fraction of a second. I could brake very hard, stop instantaneously and accelerate hard. It would be very difficult indeed for an observer to determine if I had actually stopped.

So maybe they are using a "watch and count to three - if the driver stays apparently stationery that long it's good, otherwise we'll assume he didn't stop, just slowed right down".

I think if you came up to the stop sign , stopped, THEN looked both ways and got under way again, you would be stopped for at least three seconds ?

But if it's not law, then I quite agree, they are on shakey ground. Law just says you have to "stop" not how long for. Trouble is, as ever, it's your word against theirs, and the court will believe them if they say you didn't stop. Even if you did.

[Toast]

[thinx]Hmmmmm.... maybe I should become one of these arsehats.... [/thinx]
At least I would appreciate a bit of inventive hooliganism. Except from those knob-ends that drive BoiRaceR cars with drony zorsts and no suspension travel. I'd fail them just for my own amusement.

You sound more like my kinda tester Viff, you'd have my support

But aren't you already going for Mayor of Whangaparoa or something? Where will you find the time for all this?

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I think if you came up to the stop sign , stopped, THEN looked both ways and got under way again, you would be stopped for at least three seconds ?

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Thats a good point Ixion, I started doing that today and it works quite well.