Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
The lone Bandito against the massed forces of law and order.poor me. i'm such a fucking martyr
The lone Bandito against the massed forces of law and order.
Hardcore Biker
yes the roads up north are shocking. I came down from kaikohe down thru dargaville about 2 months ago and some of the drop aways in the road had me bottoming out my forks. owch. And i love they way the councils never completly clear the road of loose road chip after a re-seal. Hit some of that on a corner and .....oh ive done that. it hurts.
Hardcore Biker
sorry guys. you can get back to locating bandito. Im put off buying one now incase i ever go thru the waikato. Sounds like you guys will be pulling every single bandit over. Be nice to old vfr's tho
one of the HP guys has a VFR, so he will be. another has a ZZR, another an ST1100, another a harley, none have a bandit though........
Immature and proud of it.
Gee Spud, it looks like the area Commander for Northland isn't listening to you and is pushing for 80 km/h limits on some 'high risk' roads up there.
Apparently, shortly after the multiple fatal at Waipapa, they stopped a guy doing 135 in an 80 zone. It seems that putting in more 80 zones will fix this.
Police logic, the outfit is run by oxymorons.
Salted Pork
Gee Lou, the area commander is bound to get what he wants regardless of what anyone else wants. If all the interested parties / stake holders agree to a change then it may well happen. It wont however happen simply because a police area commander says so. You know that, I'm sure but you continue to flog your pony anywhere that someone might listen. Your final comment sums up your motivation for all your letter writing and forum posting, simply to have a crack at the police whenever and where ever you can.
Immature and proud of it.
Aah yes, consultation. I didn't think of that.
Police Manager person: Minister we need an 80km/h limit on Centenial Highway to show the public that we're serious about road safety.
Minister: Will it reduce deaths?
Police Manager person: Weeelll, no. But it will bring in an extra kazillion in fines.
Minister: (Rubbing his claws in his best Monty Burns impression) Excellent.
Things must be lurvely in Planet Spudtopia. Walking the beat with a shiny badge on your helmet. Tousled haired urchins call you Sir while their Mothers look adoringly up at you. Strong men wish they were you. Miscreants thank you for leading them from a life of road crime.
(POP! Bubble bursts, back to flogging three tickets an hour to people who hate you for it)
Easy Biker
To me the proof that speed camera fines are definitely revenue collecting is the Police don't care who gets billed. We run a number of cars in joint names and when my wife got snapped some time ago they sent it in my name. I drop into the station to tell them it wasn't me and it should be in her name. They didn't care about that and looked at me like I was some sort of dork even mentioning it. Same thing happened when it was my turn and my wife got the ticket. You have to actually have it signed off in front of a sworn officer and then they resend the bill to the guilty party - all a big pain in the arse to them. I said to them but surely if this is in the interest of safety you would want the right person to pay the fine and have it registered against their name, but no they don't care as long as it gets paid. Imagine if the same principle applied to criminal offences resulting in prison. Doesn't matter who serves the time as long as someone does. (Mind you I guess that's happened with a few cases with tampered evidence etc as long as Plod closes the case and it saves the hassle looking any further.)
So there is no safety lesson at all with speed cameras as far as I can see, you get the bill long after the event and you may not even remember the event that well, and chances are the wrong person can be billed anyway. The attitude is "just pay the bloody fine, that's what we are here for is to collect the money".
Cheers
Merv
Salted Pork
You are a missguided sad little man.
WALKING THE BEAT?????? hahahahahahahahah
why would one walk when one can drive a shiny new 's' commode.....none of this walking crap
Salted Pork
Its because his mind is stuck in the past, I'm surprised he doesn't think cops still ride bicycles or horses.WALKING THE BEAT?????? hahahahahahahahah
why would one walk when one can drive a shiny new 's' commode.....none of this walking crap
Immature and proud of it.
Satire! S A T I R E! I know it's hard to recognise when your entire day is one long irony.
OK, so who's next?
I think proof of speed camera revenue collecting is where they're placed.....
Drew for Prime Minister!
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e mare libertas
Well, no, it probably doesn't matter, a lot of the time, but that's different. Because, unlike camera fines, it doesn't apply to you and me as nice upstanding middle-class types.
You see, whoever gets put away most likely did *something*. Or would have done, if they'd been left to it.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
e mare libertas
Some overseas jurisdictions still use horse-mounted cops for crowd control and the like, don't they?
And there's nothing that humanises a police officer to the law-abiding public more than looking ridiculous on a bicycle.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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