*BUSTED* your experiences

[Lou Girardin]

Mufti cars are easy to spot.
Icing sugar on the door handles.

[sAsLEX]

lack of tow bar is the easiest these days!

[scumdog]

lack of tow bar is the easiest these days!

Nobody has taken them off down here yet - and anyway I'm sure the fact a car has no tow-bar must be comforting as it approaches you while you're doing 125kph

[scumdog]

Spud/Scum/Bykey, etc: Question for you guys.
I accelerated on a motorway onramp to 100km/h, then had to slow down because the cockboat in front of me wanted to join the motorway at 65km/h (this was about 11pm).He said I came screaming down the onramp then had to slam on my brakes to avoid the car (wow, what a precise evaluation considering he would have been 150m away).

Fuck I hate people who dont know how to use onramps and offramps.

Can't really comment 'cos i was not there but MAYBE to the cop it looked like you were deliberately leaving a gap between the car on front and yourself so's you could have a bit of a 'hammer-down' and then slow down again?
Just a wild guess.

[spudchucka]

Spud/Scum/Bykey, etc: Question for you guys.
The first (and only) time ive ever been pulled over, was in my car not too long ago (have been driving for about 8 years or so). I didnt get a ticket, but he basically pulled me over because I accelerated on a motorway onramp to 100km/h, then had to slow down because the cockboat in front of me wanted to join the motorway at 65km/h (this was about 11pm).

He said I came screaming down the onramp then had to slam on my brakes to avoid the car (wow, what a precise evaluation considering he would have been 150m away). Whats the deal here? I get up to motorway speed and have to slow down because some dork wants to join the motorway at least 30km/h slower than the motorway traffic, yet I get pulled over??? (fyi, that was sarcasm earlier, I didnt have to slam my brakes on, but I did have to slow down, this was right at the end of the onramp).

Fuck I hate people who dont know how to use onramps and offramps.

I guess that maybe it looked to the cop that you weren't paying full attention.

IE: Speeding up then hitting the brakes to avoid hitting a slower vehicle, whose speed you had mis-judged.

Perhaps he just wanted to check that you actually have a drivers licence, the best way to do that is still to pull someone over and ask for their licence. Theres no harm done but some people still see it as being an afront against their dignity, human rights etc.

[Devil]

I guess that maybe it looked to the cop that you weren't paying full attention.

IE: Speeding up then hitting the brakes to avoid hitting a slower vehicle, whose speed you had mis-judged.

Perhaps he just wanted to check that you actually have a drivers licence, the best way to do that is still to pull someone over and ask for their licence. Theres no harm done but some people still see it as being an afront against their dignity, human rights etc.

Yer, I guess. I just didnt like the part when I get told what I was doing (ie. slamming on my brakes when I clearly didnt, rah rah). But yeah, I was completely polite with him and disagreed, so he just checked my licence and saw the blue learners colour and immediately looked to my friend (it was learner motorcycle, full car). Did the usual checks then let me go.
That was the only time ive ever been pulled over. Kinda uneventful really heh.

Glad it was a HE. The one run-in ive had with a female cop made me want to hang her up by the flaps. What a bitch.

[vifferman]

I was at my sisters uni graduation and I parked on Queen st in Auckland CBD... If you wait a couple of weeks until my stuff gets down here I will scan both tickets...

I'm not a bullshiter THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Maybe Spudchucker can back me up on parking laws n' such???

Sorry, NC - I didn't mean to imply that you weren't telling the truth.

What I meant was that giving you a ticket for these things was pretty pathetic. And my bit about "I park on footpaths all the time so it must be alright" was tongue-in-cheek (although I do park on the footpath a lot, and have even ridden on it a time or two when the road was full of non-moving vehicles. )

[spudchucka]

Yer, I guess. I just didnt like the part when I get told what I was doing (ie. slamming on my brakes when I clearly didnt, rah rah). But yeah, I was completely polite with him and disagreed, so he just checked my licence and saw the blue learners colour and immediately looked to my friend (it was learner motorcycle, full car). Did the usual checks then let me go.
That was the only time ive ever been pulled over. Kinda uneventful really heh.

Glad it was a HE. The one run-in ive had with a female cop made me want to hang her up by the flaps. What a bitch.

A point easily forgotten is that the cops that are out there pulling people over are watching out for Joe Public through checking motorists are legit. They don't need a specific reason to stop someone, (as in an offence) but sometimes you see things that give you concern enough to stop and check the driver.

[cycosis]

i got pulled ova once and got done for,wrong class,no reg or wof and breaching my license.$1200,CUNTS they are!

[Sniper]

Never heard of that one before. Can you post the exact words that the cop wrote on the ticket?

Which accident, the "accelerating through a roundabout " or the riding a motor cycle greater than 250cc ticket??

Oh well,

[Blakamin]

Which accident, the "accelerating through a roundabout "

thats the one I wanna see... I'd be off to court!!!

[Devil]

A point easily forgotten is that the cops that are out there pulling people over are watching out for Joe Public through checking motorists are legit. They don't need a specific reason to stop someone, (as in an offence) but sometimes you see things that give you concern enough to stop and check the driver.

Yeah, guess. Actually I would have been happier if he pulled me over just to check me/licence/car out.

[Sniper]

thats the one I wanna see... I'd be off to court!!!

I wouldnt mind but Im not gonna waste my time in court paying heaps to get off a $200 fine. I have sent it away to the police comissioner (HQ??) and told them I think its a crock full of shit!!!

The actual wording on the fine says, and I quote "Fined for accellerating through a roundabout" I wasnt endangering anyone, there was no cars and I was speeding up from 20kms as I had slowed down to check it was clear. I wasnt trying to get it on the back wheel or anything, just cruising to a friends place nice and quietly.

Ill just sit back and wait, I dont get demerits for it so Ill see what happens, Ill keep you all up to date.

Hey Bykie Cop, can you explain what the fines about?

[spudchucka]

Which accident, the "accelerating through a roundabout " or the riding a motor cycle greater than 250cc ticket??

Oh well,

The accelerating through a roundabout ticket, what are the exact words written on the ticket?

Edit: SniperCBR, just read your last post, sounds like a ticket that could be hard for them to prove in court, maybe you should defend it?

[crashe]

Seriously I would....

I got stopped by a police officer and given a ticket fine $150 .
Guess what it was for: For not wearing my seatbelt in a vehicle which requires the said vehicle to have one....
Well I was wearing it.... when the officer stopped me I got out of the vehicle and walked to the back of my car..... 1st and only mistake.

I looked at the back of my car as I thought something must have fallen off... but nope the car intact.

The police officer said that he came up beside me. at that point I said when? as it was a single lane and he was always behind me the whole time...
"OH OK so I made a mistake ok so I made a mistake I was behind you OK..." he said.
I tried to explain that being short the seatbelt cuts into my neck....
Nope not interested..... also offered to show him how I wear it....
Nope not interested...... He took my license and went back to the car.... to check my details he said.

Well he came back and tried to hand me a ticket...
I said WHAT, what for?
He said for not wearing a seatbelt.
I refused to take the ticket as far as I was concerned he got it wrong.
He walked around to my drivers side and chucked the ticket inside.

Oh yeah he didnt even see if the car had a recent WOF or even registered.
(which BTW was both two days old)

This cop was in a foul mood and he was a motorway cop... given out tickets in the suburbs. I said that I would see him in court...

I spoke to my neighbour at the time who is a cop and he laughed at the ticket.... he cop had got all my details wrong.... so I sent a letter to Wellington HQ and they replied saying they they arent accepting my reasons...
Oh yeah the letter back from Wellington had something totally different for my charge.... so I had two charges.... for the same offence!!!!!

I asked many police officers and they all said that I shouldnt have gotten a ticket just a warning.

I arrived at court... with photos of me wearing the seatbelt... and how the seatbelt lies when not in use.... Mine shows clearly if its not worn from behind.

As the JPs were reading out my charge I stoood there and told them thats not what my tickets says.. they were reading out the Wellington charge... so I had to go back in a month..as I pleady NOT GUILTY

When I went back in the months time, the JPs started to read it out again.. the cop stood up and chucked it out..said We are not going ahead with this. The JPs said can we at least read it out....lol

So I walked away from the court with no convictions.... and the cop in question got his hands smacked.

So if some police officers come up with silly charges then fight them all the way... take pic of the roundabout.... from all angles... even from where they said they spotted you.... why pay $200 when it a wrongful charge....