Christmas Carnage

[scumdog]

As would most of us.

Right up until we fail the test.

Then the bastards are restricting your freedom.

Now ain't THAT the truth...bloody humans...

[FJRider]

i ignore half of what cops try and enforce too.

Handcuffs and long batons ARE hard to ignore ...

[caspernz]

As would most of us.

Right up until we fail the test.

Then the bastards are restricting your freedom.

Ouch! That's quite a cynical point of view innit?

Maybe I can be smug in the sense that I basically resit my licence annually as part of in-house refresher training...the joys of trucking I suppose.

The restriction of freedom might come about from overly enthusiastic use of the throttle on two wheels, in the wrong place and time

Heck, show me a politician with the intestinal fortitude to foist regular license recertification upon a voting public...

[Ocean1]

Ouch! That's quite a cynical point of view innit?

Call it a tangential reference to the fact that every one of us thinks we're better than average.

And nice as it feels to unload on the great unwashed about percieved transgressions it don't ammount to sound policy advice.

[pritch]

...Roger Whittaker, who sometimes whistled with his mouth open, had a big hit alluding to, 'If", being the biggest word...

He was only ripping off Rudyard Kipling.

[RDJ]

Handcuffs and long batons ARE hard to ignore ...

And three police people with bulletproof vests, sunglasses, folded arms, guns on hip, are always going to be able to physically enforce - and to mutually alibi their desire to enforce - their authority. The only defense these days is to wear and always run a citizen cam.

I'd assume the reason the sunglassed woman in the video was babbling on about needing a copy of the video for her safety (her words) is because she wanted to confiscate / wipe the citizen's video record of her and her colleagues interrogating a citizen without any probable cause.

The issues of being detained without reasonable cause and being told to "explain ourselves" to the bully-boys and -girls is only half of the problem. The other half is the resource allocation. When police will not attend burglaries and will not interview physically injured assault victims (in a recent case I am directly aware of through work, the officer did a phone interview only of the hospitalized victim…) the average taxpaying motorcyclist is well aware that the specific representatives of law and order who pull us over under this type of legislation are neither protecting nor serving the public. What they think they are achieving is, shall we just say, obscure.

[Scuba_Steve]

those things fuck me right off and i completely ignore them.

Those things shouldn't ever exist. The fact someone who obviously knows nothing about roading put them in just shows what a sad state NZ roads/driving is in