Chief of police gets busted

**Bonez** · 21st October 2005, 20:14

Originally Posted by Indoo

A whole 30 bucks? might have to cut back on a pack of smokes or dozen beers which so many seem to be able to afford.

Don't forget it can be paid on tick when it hasn't been paid and reach the court system............

**nicmotors** · 21st October 2005, 20:41

yep $10 a week shud do it

**sels1** · 21st October 2005, 20:53

The fine will be nothing to a bloke on his salary, what hurts the most is the "name and shame" on national TV. Oldrider makes a good point - how the heck did the media find out? (considering where he got the ticket)

**Brian d marge** · 21st October 2005, 22:58

Originally Posted by Indoo

A whole 30 bucks? might have to cut back on a pack of smokes or dozen beers which so many seem to be able to afford.

I thought speeding fines were expensive in NZ ,,,they expotential ??? Anyway its sort of missing the point of me thread ,,,but ,,there you go ..
But I do love those replys ..YES there ARE one or two rat bags who have kids and do jack all ...dumb breeding dumb ..( we all know one or 2 ) .BUT a lot of ( not Just solo mums either ) people are in the boat of having jack all comming in ,,,For example when I did my engineering ,,,I had to take extra lessons ..cos I aint that smart ,,,.....During the school term ,,You had NO time to work as.,... I dont know about anyone else ,,, most nites I was up into the wee hours trying to understand what I had been given earlier in the day !
So you HAD to live on what you recieved ,,,and if anything untoward happened ....You were shafted ,,,,financially ....( I sold my house to clear the debts I occured ,)
SO ,,,30 dollars to someone who hasnt 30 dollars is a lot of money ...10 bucks a week is Still a pain in the arse ...

At least he came clean ,,,but as was pointed out ,,HOW did the press find out ???

A carefully released leak to show how Human / fair the police are ???

I dont know but ,,,as was said some thing fishy is going on ....

Stephen

**Karma** · 21st October 2005, 23:03

Originally Posted by oldrider

Why would Robson receiving an offence notice be instant media notification?

How would the media know this? Was a member of the media traveling with him? Who's advantage was it that they knew? Something stinks here.

The offence took place at Maheno, North Otago and he was driving a rental car! So who told the bloody Media.? Suspicious John.

Wouldn't surprise me if Robson himself (or at least someone in the cop shop) told the media.

May be slightly embarassing for Robson, but at least the police can point to it next time they're accused of being unfair.

**spudchucka** · 22nd October 2005, 07:00

Originally Posted by Zapf

careless driving? because he wasn't careful enought to see the sign.

Would you wear that charge for the same offence?

**spudchucka** · 22nd October 2005, 07:01

Originally Posted by pritch008

I agree and he didn't try to intimidate the constable, an improvement on his predessesor's performance.

So far it has been handled well but I would like to see a follow-up story in a few months to see how the ticket-writer's career is going...

Like the cop that effectively got Doone out of the job, he'll never have to buy his own beer in the canteen ever again.

**spudchucka** · 22nd October 2005, 07:07

Originally Posted by oldrider

Why would Robson receiving an offence notice be instant media notification?

How would the media know this? Was a member of the media traveling with him? Who's advantage was it that they knew? Something stinks here.

The offence took place at Maheno, North Otago and he was driving a rental car! So who told the bloody Media.? Suspicious John.

Robs own office would have released the info to the media. They see it as being better to be up front with information rather than having the media find out through other means only to have a minor incident blow up into a media scandal.

The same logic was applied to the e-mail thing, they lost heaps of respect from within but the media attention only lasted a couple of days.

**TLDV8** · 22nd October 2005, 08:58

Originally Posted by spudchucka

The same logic was applied to the e-mail thing, they lost heaps of respect from within but the media attention only lasted a couple of days.

What is that all about?, pic's being sent through the system?...I am sure this subject goes back many month's,if the material was that bad to the extent that it was deemed a criminal act something would have been done immediately..or is this a case of tree huggers now running your system

**Bonez** · 22nd October 2005, 09:22

Originally Posted by sels1

The fine will be nothing to a bloke on his salary, what hurts the most is the "name and shame" on national TV. Oldrider makes a good point - how the heck did the media find out? (considering where he got the ticket)

Would'nt be surprised if it was a cunning ploy by the Police. You know along the lines of- " ooh looky everyone we do book our own". So cunning infact you can pin a tail on it and call it a weasel..................