Red light experience - venting

[Ixion]

Just complaints about everything else....

But the feline gentleman is a BIKEY cop. No radar on the bike (well, they were experimenting a while ago, but I haven't heard of any going live with bike mounted radar. Correct me if I'm wrong). No radar = good guy. AND he catches red light runners. A worthy replacement to our original , now mutated Bikeycop, who also used to stalk the red light fraternity.

[MSTRS:Me]

Denial is an ugly thing.

Ummm...no, it isn't...

[Katman]

Come, come Steve, you know no-one else can do it quite like you here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHe-iwAI9BE

[McJim]

Denial is an ugly thing.

Nah, it's just a huge African river where Moses was found.

[Skyryder]

And I'll write the same ticket every time I see that offence, as people who crash red lights hit people sometimes.

Just venting.

Yep my thoughts too. That why I potted the cop on the bike who ran the red light on Moorhouse house Ave. when they were doing the bike trials here in Christchurch awhile back. Filled out all the forms with the appropiate dates time location etc. Never head anymore about it.


Skyryder

[Swoop]

No radar on the bike (well, they were experimenting a while ago, but I haven't heard of any going live with bike mounted radar. Correct me if I'm wrong). No radar = good guy.

Laser, though.
Pretty sure that the object being held up to a bike-mounted cop's eye and connected to the bike with a cable (whilst stationary) was a laser unit.

[Ixion]

Yep. Laser they have. Standing orders forbid them using it while moving.

I'm not too worried about laser. The old Mk II eyeball (if you're still using the MK I , I recomemnd an upgrade), copes well with them.

[PrincessBandit]

Ummm...no, it isn't...

Ace Ventura and I beg to differ.
(refer post 77)

[1 Free Man]

Oh good. Can you have a busman's holiday up here? The local plod don't seem all that interested in this sort of dodgy shit. Do you 'do' roundabouts as well?

When Ya done with Napier pop up to Tauranga and have a clean up here to.
Go for it Rastuscat. Nail the buggers to the wall. Red light runners need there asses kicked big time.

[pzkpfw]

Orange light means slow & prepare to stop. If you are too close to do that then you can go through !!

I have never understood this, and I really really hate the idea of it.

If you can stop, then just freakin' do it.

If you can't, then get on with it (no, I don't mean speed up for an
orange).

But what's with the slow thing? Is that just to really make sure you are still in the middle of the intersection when it goes red? I don't see the point of it.

To me:
Green means go (but watch for red light runners!).
Orange means stop (unless you can't).
Red means stop.

Simple.

(I admit to going through some oranges that I probably could have stopped for).

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Recently realised another good thing about indicating left when you exit a roundabout ...even where your left indicator isn't really going to be seen by anyone improtant: it does guarantee that your right indicator (if you did an actual "right-turn" so used it when you entered) is turned off to let the next person around know you are not continuing.

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In 22 years I've had exactly two tickets (one for not indicating a full 3 seconds for a lane change, and one for 116 in a 100). Both in my car. Both from a bike cop.

I grumbled, and still do, but can't argue the law - I broke it.

[Banesto John]

Yep my thoughts too. That why I potted the cop on the bike who ran the red light on Moorhouse house Ave. when they were doing the bike trials here in Christchurch awhile back. Filled out all the forms with the appropiate dates time location etc. Never head anymore about it.


Skyryder

The trial was in 2005. Maybe the response is just taking a while to get through.........

[Irontusk]

I have never 'ever' seen a cop indicate out of a roundabout.

I don't know what is going through people's minds when they run reds.. But the 'car behind me' thing is always something I try to watch for.. Commodores are supposed to be known for being heavy and opposed to stopping, but if my 20 year old VLs can then I don't see how so many other people seem to be so incapable.

And the post about parents letting their kids drive their 'large' cars.. people need to ask themselves this, who (generally) park better and have a better judgement of how much space they're taking up? Drivers of small cars or large cars?.. I learnt in my Commdore and I never had any problem (a complicated ignition problem may have sent me into a tree though )

[Skyryder]

I trust you pointed out to him that running an orange light is also an offence. And the penalty's the same.

Not exactly.

A yellow signal means stop, unless you are so close to the intersection that you can't stop safely.

There is no obligation on the part of the driver to explain the reason that it was unsafe to stop. In other words you are not giving evidence. In fact it would be wise to give no explanation and point out in the cross that you are entitled to proceed.

The law states explicity that you can proceed if you believe that it is 'unsafe' for you to stop. However you must be clear of the intersection by the time that the light turns red. If you have not cleared the intersection then you have run a red light and get ticketed and rightly so.

One other thing that many do not know' it is 'unlawfull' to enter an intersection even on a green light 'untlil' that intersection is clear. In effect both vehicles are at fault if there is a crash on a controlled intersection.


Skyryder.


PS Welcom on board 'cat. Hope you have fun on here. Most of us do.

[normajeane]

We are hanging out for traffic lights and roundamobouts in the riveriera in the south for scumdog to get ansy about all this.
Meanwhile while in Surfers a few days ago we had no trouble with the law and the lights and roundamobouts worked just fine. Very hospitable were the commuters and let us in when pulling out and changing lanes (of course when blinkers on)
Pity the TV is affected by snow at present and SD is struggling with all the remotes.. No Olympics even onpoor mans TV - snowing!!!!!

[rustycharm]

After many years of ticket free driving and riding, i got pinged the other day doing slightly over the posted 50 down a fairly main road in Albany. Had the RD turned off (yeah good one eh) and was just not paying attention.... said as much to Mr plain clothes police man and called it a 'fair cop' - said I'd take my punishment and go quietly and the guy almost fell over backwards.
It seems owning up to the offence is not a common thing thesedays ...

nice bloke dropped a km off so it meant 20 demerits instead of 35

Can't be an easy job at times!