A cage tried to kill me...

[Kickaha]

get caught by the cop who wont listen to your story, loose your license, your job and your family

great idea.

Where as assualt in this country get suspended sentances most of the time and that only if your caught!

It's a better idea than risking a conviction for assault

[justsomeguy]

get caught by the cop who wont listen to your story, loose your license, your job and your family

You writing the script for an episode of the Simpsons??

If I see a cop in those 5 seconds I would ride straight to them and report the cage.

I'm pretty sure a cop will be able to tell whether you're lying as you won't be able to hide your excitement/fear/anger in the heat of the moment.

[ZeroIndex]

did you have your 'L' plate on? if so, take it off.. i found that helped a bit (as a similar, although not as bad, thing happened to me a while back)

[Fub@r]

There was talk that they would stop selling such info at the post office.

Exactly why I refuse to give a physical address when I register a car or motorbike..........I have a nut job ex so its the only way to stop her finding where I live.

Also if you have flash wheels it would pay to do the same, hence why at car shows people remove number plates so the little crims cant case your car at show and pay you a visit later

[justsomeguy]

Exactly why I refuse to give a physical address when I register a car or motorbike

Is that legal???

[Fub@r]

Is that legal???

nope

If someone persits on wanting address I explain reason etc and pick one out of the phone book

I have never registered a vehicle to my true address in 15 years

[justsomeguy]

nope

If someone persits on wanting address I explain reason etc and pick one out of the phone book

Well that's risky - as that person will get your mail (letters saying your rego is due, etc) and since they have your rego details they can easily report you for providing false info.

[Unforgiven]

And then what??

You smash through his door with a karate kick and rough him up and teach him how it's done??

Personaly I would drop a nice little note in his letterbox, informing him of your opinion of his driveing and pointing out how easy he was to track down
Dont make threats tho - thats illegal

[Toast]

Well that's risky - as that person will get your mail (letters saying your rego is due, etc) and since they have your rego details they can easily report you for providing false info.

Pretty sure you can specify a postal address too.

[Fub@r]

I used to just provide a postal address but now they insist on a physical address.

As far as I'm concerned they are providing confidential information which goes against the privacy act. Most people can't be arsed to say they getting someone elses mail, especially a rego reminder. If there is a police reason that they need to get hold of you they will have my correct details on my license.

Also ask people that didnt take these precautions with their pride and joy and come home to find it gone. Had a woman in my office few years back that owned an original 05 Brock Commodore, had been personally signed a number of times when he would come over to host that cop show. They get home one day car is gone, they recon the guys spent 4-5 hrs getting it going. One possible reason for knowing where it was, was that the car was registered to that address.

Another example ring up a mates employer when he's not at work and ask for his home number, chances are you wont get it as it breeches the privacy act if they do. A classic one is when you are dealing with IRD they will never give you their surname to refer to in corespondance as that info could lead to someone tracking you down for being a nasty little taxman.

Examples are endless yet some crim can go to a post office and pay $2.75 and get my info

[pixc]

https://www.vir.co.nz/

Go here if you want to find out all the details about the vehicle. $25 and you have it all. Name address, phone number etc.
I used it to locate the bastard who pinched my work van. They dumped the vehicle but took the credit card and used it. It really pissed me off so I did some of my own investigating. One of the shops they used the card was suspicious of them and noted their vehicle rego.I Gave all the info to the police...I dont think they did anything about it tho. No one arrested etc :-(

I heard somewhere that you can change the ownership details of someone else vehicle quite easily too. Not sure if this true or not. You could really piss someone off doing that.

[thehollowmen]

Photo the area of the bike he hit. There is likely to be paint left along this.

Go to the copshop and file a report asap. Some cops out there are bikers, some are human and by god they get so worked up.

I had this happen to me a couple of months ago. I took down the wrong rego though, so they couldn't do anything about it.The cop who listened to me was bright red with rage and I was worried he'd break the keyboard as he filed the incident report.

What this guy did was illegal, and you could have been killed. Only your skills at staying upright and braking stopped you from being mincemeat. Tell the police and let them deal with the fucker. And if they don't, there is higher up that you can go.

[Hitcher]

Cagers out to kill bikers? Surely not...

[Brett]

Lay a complaint against the SOB. Or next time, lay a few punches down the side of the car...most biker gloves have carbon fibre knuckles so don;t hurt much. Only done it once but te focker deserved having his wing mirror smashed off.

[adam666]

Damn, idiots are everywhere. glad to hear you survived ok!
as that other fella said, never know what they might be on, P'd up to the eyeballs, or 'going to jail for life already' murderous intent

As soon as it happens, *555 them. then if any patrol cars are in the area they will pull him over

You can now file bad driving reports online, so its mandatory!
if hes driving like that, theres every chance your not the only one pissed at his lack of driving etiquette. they keep a history of complaints etc so they all add up, not sure how many it takes to get a visit from the plod?
1st complaint -he'll get a letter AFAIK ( i did lol)
2nd or 3rd complaint -maybe get a visit? maybe a bit optimistic
(they are after all very busy filling those quotas!)

if you want it investigated for pressing charges/taking them to court you must make a formal complaint at a police station.

cheers
Adam