Not disagreeing. But if I was an HP officer on a quota or some other form of incentivisation, I would be looking for barrels in which to shoot fish, rather than being *fair* or *reasonable* in my enforcement endeavours.
Deus ex ukulele
Not disagreeing. But if I was an HP officer on a quota or some other form of incentivisation, I would be looking for barrels in which to shoot fish, rather than being *fair* or *reasonable* in my enforcement endeavours.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
It is actually the "cylinder".Originally Posted by Mikkel
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
Ah, one of my favorite little gripes. Well, there are a lot more cyclists than motorcyclists on the roads. Of course they're likely to receive more injured bicycles...Actually it is...When I was in hospital for my last accident cause by someone doing exactly the opposite of speed...parked on the road, I said to the nurse that they must get a lot of motorcyclist's there - she said "We get a lot more cyclists actually!"
Like when we bought our Legacy someone said that the Legacy was the most stolen car in the country. No fucking wonder Sherlock - about 10-25% of ALL cars on the NZ roads are Legacies it seems. Unless they were hard to steal and drove like shit (they are neither btw) they would of course get stolen all the time.
Size of population: N
Probability that X is gonna happen every Y seconds: P
Rate at which X is going to happen per Y seconds: F = P*N
Statistics 101. :rolleys:
Not at all, not at all - just less of a gun nerd
Just thought that it was hilarious that you were using it as an argument against the 100 is ok - 101 will kill you. When indeed, with an automatic - unless your aim is terrible - you'd kill yourself at 101.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
I stand corrected. A drum is what's on a Tommy gun - 100 rounds IIRC.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
Here for the arcade.
Better not let my friends know that and just keep on going 'aha, yep, sure, awesome'.Not at all, not at all - just less of a gun nerd
Just thought that it was hilarious that you were using it as an argument against the 100 is ok - 101 will kill you. When indeed, with an automatic - unless your aim is terrible - you'd kill yourself at 101.
Well, if that's the case, I was right in the first place. 101k will kill unlike 100
Forum whore
[QUOTE=Biggles08;1431844]Actually it is...When I was in hospital for my last accident cause by someone doing exactly the opposite of speed...parked on the road
I'm a cyclist as well, rode this morning before work, got a few really stupid close calls (normally motorists cutting it too fine). Ive been knocked of a few times. Motorcycling is safe in comparison. Plus, Bruce Lee wearing lycra would still pushed around. When you're wearing leathers and armour, drivers are suddenly intimidated. I'm cycling much less, and riding my Gixer much more. I haven't broken a bone since I gave up cycling seriously.
It’s diametrically opposed to the sanitised existence of the Lemmings around me in the Dilbert Cartoon hell I live in; it’s life at full volume, perfect colour with high resolution and 10,000 watts of amplification.
L-Plate Rider
i had a cop pull me up last week ,with no rego on my bike , who let me go them proceded to tell me he didnt rego his bike ether , Shock
he said the regos in Nz are too high and he couldnt blame people for not bothering to rego there bikes , bloody amazing i thought , need more like him .
Forum whore
Or you could just not speed.
Ive followed a KB ride back from coromandel...pulled into kopu and you lot were there.
Next thing you were all riding like mad pricks at speeds of 160+ passing cars down the coro straights.
Made bikers look like pricks...50 bikes all doing it.
And we wonder why cops crack down on us.
We have created this image for ourselves.
The instructions are simple...
Piss off. This is not about speed. It is about inappropriate targetting methods. Read the thread properly.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
Working hard at earning that nomination are we?
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
Forum whore
Speeding is speeding, it's illegal.
The police officers job is to enforce it.
Just because it's a passing lane it doesn't mean you can break the speed limit even momunterally
Forum whore
Strictly speaking, it is not.
The Constable's Oath reads :
“I, [name], do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen in the Police, without favour or affection, malice or ill will, until I am legally discharged; that I will see and cause Her Majesty’s peace to be kept and preserved; that I will prevent to the best of my power all offences against the peace; and that while I continue to hold the said office I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge all the duties thereof faithfully according to law. So help me God”
To prevent offences against the (Her Majesty's) peace. Part of which is maintaining the Rule of Law, without which the Queen's Peace cannot be. But that does not imply that a constable must take action against all and every technical offence. A distinction relied on most heavily by the government at various times . I particularly remember the debates about the "smacking bill"; and an occasion when Dear Leader was probably technically guilty of forgery.
Bogeyman
Y'know, I remember the indignant uproar caused by a new enforcement tactic years ago. The one involving parking 100m down the road from the pub at closing time and "randomly" testing passing motorists.
The righteous outrage, faithfully magnified by a diligent press, was immediately successful in curbing this unethical and cynical entrapment of the drinking public.
Maybe the press is less magnanimously faithful wrt the reporting of officers feeling the collar of those involved in semi-ballistic vehicular passing manoeuvres.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
fükengrüven
[QUOTE=madbikeboy;1431940]Actually it is...When I was in hospital for my last accident cause by someone doing exactly the opposite of speed...parked on the roadDead right, An Australian study found that on a per kilometer travelled basis, the good ol' treadly is something like 17 times more dangerous than a motorcycle. By the same criteria walking is far worse than the pushbike, & most hazardous of all is going by horse!
Cheers
Clint
Highway Biker
I live with a copper and he hates the guys that are out to be BASTARDS, pulling over people that are simply frustrated!
He says: "I would rather pull over the guy for traveling under 70kms then the guy doing under 120km, a lot of crashes are caused by driver frustration."
So they are not all bad, agree with him that anything over 120 is excessive, and it isn't illegal to travel over 70km in a 100km zone, but you can still pull'em over and warn them.
HOWEVER I have been pulled over by the copper in Ngatea and he not a nice man - Very arrogant! must need a pintor a root
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