So I had a road cone thrown at me today...

[Ixion]

No, it just means that number is not available for reissue. Reusing "old" numbers would have all sorts of implications. Not good ones.

[crashe]

No, it just means that number is not available for reissue. Reusing "old" numbers would have all sorts of implications. Not good ones.

Cheers......
Was a tad worried when I saw it was unavailable....
But at the same time thinking.......
Great I will catch the bugger that has my rego number plate.....

[Patrick]

I reckon thats just as bad as the guys dropping rocks from motorway overbridges. It's only luck that someone is/isn't killed. If you'd come off, and there was a car coming the other way....... doesn't bear thinking about. Should be reported - but I suspect nothing will be done Glad you're OK!!

That is right... do nothing, and nothing will be done...

Report it. Simple.

[Patrick]

So where are the cops when you need dangerous people like this sorted out..? Or is it simply easier to just get the stats up with a speed camera..?

speed cameras aren't operated by a cop...

[FruitLooPs]

Last year my uncle whose been riding for years had some tossers on the highway throw a bottle at him going past the other way I think. Hit him square in the face broke teeth etc went to hospital for a night or two.

Luckily a copper went past right at the time, turned round and caught the w*nkers.

[Winter]

That is right... do nothing, and nothing will be done...

Report it. Simple.

Yes, I have done so via the online thingiemajig.

I'm waiting to hear back from them.

Last year my uncle whose been riding for years had some tossers on the highway throw a bottle at him going past the other way I think. Hit him square in the face broke teeth etc went to hospital for a night or two.

Luckily a copper went past right at the time, turned round and caught the w*nkers.

Thats bloody lucky, a) that he got off with only a few broken teeth, it could have been much worse

and b) that the cops caught the fuckers, and hopefully put them in jail where they got ass raped by big bill.

[skidMark]

You're joking right? You call some one getting a friendly letter effective?

me and my mate got those once (friend was doing donuts on my bike on a grass paddock), and other friend on a scooter, so i got a letter so did my mate he thought it was so funny it is proudly pinned up on his bedroom wall.

[Winter]

Dear Mr Winter,

Recently you posted a community roadwatch report to the police.

In order to process roadwatch reports we need accurate detail of the registration number to identifu the offending vehicle together with detail concerting the time, date and place of the incident.

Unfortunatly, your report does not provide the correct make, type or colour for the vehicle you have described, and consequently, I am unable to take the matter any further.

Thank-you for providing your report and in so doing demonstrating your commitment to the ideal of improving road safety.

Yours sincerely,

Community Roadwatch Co-ordinator.

Next time.

[terbang]

speed cameras aren't operated by a cop...

Realise that and not bagging cops, more the gummint.

[terbang]

woo hoo i was wondering how this one was going to be turned into yet another thread about cops...thanks Terbang

Hang on a minute, take a search on my posts and you will see that I easily support the police and give credit where credit is due (have been red blinged for it) but I am rather suspicious of the policy makers that drive the police. Speed cameras, that don't catch pricks who drop rocks off motorways and throw cones at cars, must take up (and earn too) some of our policing budget and are a poor replacement for a person on the job.. Cop out policing in my view.

[Sanx]

It's not cop out policing - it's easy policing. Issuing traffic tickets doesn't require much in the way of effort; the perpetrators practically ctach themselves. When the Police issue their figures, tickets,f ine revenue and everything related to it are included, so that some lying cheating barsteward in government can massage the figures and claim they're "getting tough on crime". Always a vote-winner, that one.

I believe that the figures for violent crime, theft, etc. have gone up - those are much harder to solve, especially when resources are stretched. The only way to decrease cuh figures is to provide the cops with more personnel - and for the government to direct the Police to place those personnel in certain areas, not to just drop them into traffic to make their figures look even better.

[Patrick]

Hang on a minute, take a search on my posts and you will see that I easily support the police and give credit where credit is due (have been red blinged for it) but I am rather suspicious of the policy makers that drive the police. Speed cameras, that don't catch pricks who drop rocks off motorways and throw cones at cars, must take up (and earn too) some of our policing budget and are a poor replacement for a person on the job.. Cop out policing in my view.

Give ya some green then... but... again... speed cameras aren't manned by cops, they freed up a cop to go back out on to the street to catch crooks, rock droppers, cone throwers, maybe even write out other tickets, whatever.

[terbang]

Hmm, can't argue with that.