3 news now - biker caught at 300k???

**scumdog** · 19th January 2006, 21:13

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Now I personally don't give a shit if it's forty K's over or ten k's over when you lose your licence. I am concerned that the law has not allowed the driver time enough to get home. Instead it leaves a road user stranded at the side of the road that may be in a city or town but could equally be some place out in the wop wops.
Skyryder

Yeah, well ya shoulda thought about that before ya decided to haul-ass with both hands cowboy!!

I get that all the time with drunk drivers:
What about my car while you take me back to the station"?

"Well sir, if things go O.K. it will still be there for one of your sober mates to pick up when you let them know the situation".

"Oh, that's o.k. - but what if things don't go O.K.?

"Well, you could return to a missing car - or one that's a smouldering wreck at the side of the road"

"Shee-it! that's no good! Man I'm in the shit if that happens!"

"Yeah, well I guess you forgot about THAT bit when you decided to drive off home drunk, bad luck!!

F'rkn loser - always SOMEBODY elses fault.

**WINJA** · 19th January 2006, 21:18

Originally Posted by scumdog

Yeah, well ya shoulda thought about that before ya decided to haul-ass with both hands cowboy!!

I get that all the time with drunk drivers:
What about my car while you take me back to the station"?

"Well sir, if things go O.K. it will still be there for one of your sober mates to pick up when you let them know the situation".

"Oh, that's o.k. - but what if things don't go O.K.?

"Well, you could return to a missing car - or one that's a smouldering wreck at the side of the road"

"Shee-it! that's no good! Man I'm in the shit if that happens!"

"Yeah, well I guess you forgot about THAT bit when you decided to drive off home drunk, bad luck!!

F'rkn loser - always SOMEBODY elses fault.

IT IS YOUR FAULT IF HIS CAR IS LEFT IN A SITUATION WHERE IT MAY BE INTERFERED WITH ,WHO CARES IF HE BROKE THE LAW , DOESNT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO HELP OUT OTHER CRIMINALS , ARE YOU TO STUPID TO SEE THAT

**Gremlin** · 19th January 2006, 21:19

Originally Posted by scumdog

F'rkn loser - always SOMEBODY elses fault.

isn't it obvious?? Tis your fault. He wouldn't have had a problem if you hadn't pulled him over...

[p/t]

**number33** · 19th January 2006, 22:05

These nerdy cunts who dreamt up this 40kph shit - who the fuck are they really? I can picture the strange fuckers now - gormless toadies with horn rimmed glasses, and wearing starched white shirts with crusty yellow sweat stains under their arms. They'll be sitting in their cubicles, jerking and twisting their clammy necks back and forth - robot like. Approving and rubber-stamping all types of new bullshit rules for 2006 and beyond. Ah yes the toadies continue their greasy fucken shit. Looks like it'll be suicidle full-throttle runners for a lot of us sooner or later.

**Marmoot** · 19th January 2006, 22:36

Originally Posted by marty

i've made a complaint to the broadcasting standards authority about this 'news' item, as it has obviously been staged, and it was poorly reported, poorly researched, and the information contained in it was not substantiated, or even backed up by any charges being laid.

Good on ya Marty.
Hearsay is definitely not news, and definitely not supposed to be on a 6 o'clock, unless it is backed by properly-researched facts.

If I have an address and know what a complaint letter looks like, I might modify it here and there and pop one into the authority as well.

Media is getting more and more madness everyday.

**skidMark** · 19th January 2006, 23:12

i recall a video of ghost rider in which you have an in bike cam showing a speedo at about 298 clicks then comes ghosty flying past in a wheelie prob doing well over 350 ....explain that one to me...

lol

good on the bugger but how does a cop

a)read a plate at that speed

b)catch him

i mean honestly

**Skyryder** · 19th January 2006, 23:29

Originally Posted by scumdog

Yeah, well ya shoulda thought about that before ya decided to haul-ass with both hands cowboy!!

I get that all the time with drunk drivers:
What about my car while you take me back to the station"?

"Well sir, if things go O.K. it will still be there for one of your sober mates to pick up when you let them know the situation".

"Oh, that's o.k. - but what if things don't go O.K.?

"Well, you could return to a missing car - or one that's a smouldering wreck at the side of the road"

"Shee-it! that's no good! Man I'm in the shit if that happens!"

"Yeah, well I guess you forgot about THAT bit when you decided to drive off home drunk, bad luck!!

F'rkn loser - always SOMEBODY elses fault.

The analogy of the drunk driver is not applicable for the following reason. The drunk driver leaves his car/bike on the side of the road because they are a danger not only to themselves but also to other road users. The same applies if a vehicle is deemed unsafe.

The instant loss of licence is another story. It is enforced as a punishment with the result that the law enforcment officer now places the driver in a situation that may result in injury. There is no reason as to why the driver can not proceed safely. THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH DRUNK DRIVERS OR UNSAFE VEHICLES. Why can you not see this SD.

I have some difficulty that those who are responsible to oversee the safty of our citizens on the highways can justify a punishment that places a person at risk. That those who profess that they have the safty of road users in their interests and now justify leaving people stranded on our highways are in my opinion the worst kind of hypocrites. But when you consider that the PM and her cabinet are on record as saying that it is acceptable for ministerial convoys to travel at speed (170+)and that it is safe to do so and a judge advises in his court that one of the convicted drivers should appeal their conviction then I put it you that there is clearly a law for them (that's you SD) and another for the rest of us.

There is a simple solution to this that is equally effective. That is a given time frame (say within 48 hours from the issue of notice) where their licence must be surrended to the Police. That gives the person time to get home no matter where he/she is in New Zealand and at the same time acts as a speeding deterent.

What is it going to take before common sense rears it head on this issue? Some stranded driver killed by a hit and run, a woman raped on the side of the road even murdered.

At the moment this county is not being governed by the Government but by bureaucrats that the Government is paid, with our taxes to govern. Our politico's sit blindly in their select committees listen to advice and simply rubber stamp it so that they can get to Bellimies for Happy Hour.

What the Police, LTNZ and the Politicians in this country need is a fucken good wake up call. A mass rally on the steps of Parliment with a few thousand bikers reving their engines in protest just might be the way to do it. Might not acheive much but at least for a few hours there will be a 'real' Party in Parliment.

Skyryder

**250learna** · 20th January 2006, 00:23

That clip on one fu**s me off. My old man drives a cab, and i lost count of how many times he has told me that hes seen cops fly through intersactions at night and cause accidents, which could have been avoided if they realy put safty over hooning around in their holdens...dont get me wrong I know most of you fellas are alrite, but same can be said for bikers. Few badies give everyone the bad name, the difference is that we admit we arent perfect, but with police they pretend to be perfect while generalising on few extreme cases to justify their harsh speeding laws.

**James Deuce** · 20th January 2006, 06:14

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Blah, blah, blah, rant, rant, rant

Is this the REAL Skyryder speaking, or the virtual construct who delights in deceit and antagonism? I thought you didn't present any part of your "real" persona on Internet forums.

**James Deuce** · 20th January 2006, 06:16

Originally Posted by 250learna

...... but with police they pretend to be perfect while generalising on few extreme cases to justify their harsh speeding laws.

They aren't "their" laws. Those laws are ours. They are the direct result of decisions WE make in the polling booth.

**Skyryder** · 20th January 2006, 07:05

Originally Posted by Jim2

Is this the REAL Skyryder speaking, or the virtual construct who delights in deceit and antagonism? I thought you didn't present any part of your "real" persona on Internet forums.

Originally Posted by Skyryder
Blah, blah, blah, rant, rant, rant

Tell me J2 where did you get the above quote that you attribute to me. Oh don't tell me. You made it up. But being a moderator you have the control to do that. Unless you can show where you got my quote from I will PM Spank and ask that you be removed from this authority on the grounds that you can not be trusted to act in a responsible manner to members posts.

Seem to recall something about you accusing me of ambushing you. Guess hypocrosy is alive and well in your house.

Oh and by the way the rules changed a while back so now 'you' can expect to see the real me. Don't usually state the obvious but in your case it seems I need to.

So once again where's the quote from Jimmy.

Skyryder

**Lou Girardin** · 20th January 2006, 07:08

Originally Posted by number33

These nerdy cunts who dreamt up this 40kph shit - who the fuck are they really? I can picture the strange fuckers now - gormless toadies with horn rimmed glasses, and wearing starched white shirts with crusty yellow sweat stains under their arms. They'll be sitting in their cubicles, jerking and twisting their clammy necks back and forth - robot like. Approving and rubber-stamping all types of new bullshit rules for 2006 and beyond. Ah yes the toadies continue their greasy fucken shit. Looks like it'll be suicidle full-throttle runners for a lot of us sooner or later.

Precisely, I've met them.

**Lou Girardin** · 20th January 2006, 07:10

Originally Posted by WINJA

NOT WHEN FULTON HOGAN HAVE BEEN LAZY AND DIDNT PUT SIGNS UP ON A SIDE STREET SOMEONE LOSES THEIR LICENCE CAUSE THE PIG IS TO LAZY TO GO SEE THAT THE SIGNS ARENT THERE. THATS WHY WE NEED TO HAVE A COURT TO DECIDE B4 PUNISHMENT IS DEALT

Then the speed limit is not enforceable.

**sAsLEX** · 20th January 2006, 07:20

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Unless you can show where you got my quote from I will PM Spank and ask that my profile be changed so I am a 13 year old girl!

Its fairly simple to alter qoutes, try it.

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

Besides - you choose whether you place yourself in that situation - it's pretty hard to do 40k's over the limit "by mistake".

It would actually be very easy to creep over 40, hmmm how about the motorway? there is a lot of 80 zones on the MW and it aint hard to driveon a MW at 120 now is it.

I know family of four driving down to auckland to see dying granma, miss the 80k sign at bridge cause of screaming kiddies, roll down the far side of the bridge and inadvertantly creep over 120. Not hard to do at all!