My new hobby

**motorbyclist** · 25th March 2009, 00:47

http://www.police.govt.nz/service/road/roadwatch.html

Every time I get home after work/uni/play I generally hop on KB and see what's new, check emails, and now I also dob in "that wanker who *insert breach of road rules and/or common sense here*".

ie today I watched in horror as a guy stopped very late (on the pedestrian part) at a red light, finished sending his txt, and then continued to run said red light. I get home, fill in form, in a few days they get back to me with what's happening. Heck I've even had a follow up call from an officer asking if I'd stand as a witness for one of the more insane drivers I've seen (seriously, this guy probably had the cops after him already the way he was driving)

Not only do I finally get to report these dickheads and get through to them that driving at night without headlights, failing to check blind spots, running red lights, lane splitting and doing excessive speeds through traffic is NOT ok, but I'm getting exceedingly good at remembering number plates and other short alphanumeric 'words'

there is even a way to report "A slow driver holding up traffic and not making allowance for others to pass" - so next time you get stuck for several kilometres behind some wanker towing a horse, use that time to read the plate

and to all those with personalised plate - you make this too easy

**Gremlin** · 25th March 2009, 00:56

I made a report about a week ago... haven't heard anything... my first one, not in the habit of dobbing people in, but there was real danger with THAT idiot...

**Maki** · 25th March 2009, 02:32

Whats wrong with lane splitting?

**RocKai** · 25th March 2009, 03:10

Cool idea, help get rid of wankers with or without license on the road.

**PirateJafa** · 25th March 2009, 08:13

Originally Posted by Maki

Whats wrong with lane splitting?

MotorB probably means lane-splitting AT excessive speeds. I've a biker for that once myself - generally if someone nuking it past me or MotorB splitting, they'd have to be doing well into the "excessive" speeds

**Anarkist** · 25th March 2009, 08:27

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

lane splitting and doing excessive speeds through traffic is NOT ok

Don't dob in your own kind unless they really deserve it.

**Burtha** · 25th March 2009, 08:48

When someone has tried to run me or others over, or tried to drive into me I've had a tendancy to report them, including excessive speeds around school kids etc.
*555 very handy too.

**coffeejunkie** · 25th March 2009, 09:28

*555 is programed into my phone, cuz man we have sum dumbass drivers and riders down this way......Speed kills and so do dumb moves,

My partner being a towey has seen it all and sadly i have too

**prettybillie** · 25th March 2009, 09:49

Originally Posted by coffeejunkie

......Speed kills and so do dumb moves,

Speed doesn't kill - it's the stopping that kills te he he

**Burtha** · 25th March 2009, 10:04

Personally, I love speed, on my own, and I don't care if I kill myself doing what I love - but I don't believe I should do it around others ergo; it becomes dangerous driving then ...
is me making the sense?

EDIT: this also applies to SLOW drivers (my current pet hate bieng 70kph minivans!)

**Nasty** · 25th March 2009, 10:04

Originally Posted by prettybillie

Speed doesn't kill - it's the stopping that kills te he he

Funny huh ... yup you are right .. I know of two personally who were killed due to the stop .. and not the speed. Still haven't learnt to see that and take it as a joke.

**XP@** · 25th March 2009, 10:14

Everyone who goes slower than me is a MORON
Everyone who goes faster than me is a LUNATIC

.... there sure are a lot of morons around at the moment

**vgcspares** · 25th March 2009, 10:23

Had a cage yesterday first cut up two cars and then me twice after I made the mistake of getting ahead of him .... when I pulled up alongside him at a red light he promptly jumped it. Drivers in the cars around me voiced their views: "Go thump him in the head"

So I waited for the light to go green and then broke the speed limit by an "excessive" amount in order to catch him back up again

Doesn't make a lot of sense when put like that does it ?