Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. -Samuel Johnson
I know David Carter very well and lets Just say he has a tenous grasp on reality,
Try this one for size, student loans , back in the day Student loans are ok , but without a network of grants and subsidies ( given , loaned and payed back at differing rates the student loan system will fail
David said ahh yes but its only 25% ( which lets face it at that time was on an engineering course about 1200 a year ....)
I said to him 25% of a lot of course fees and text fees and incidentals WAS a lot of money More than his 1200
He could not and would not make the connection
Jobs for the boys ,,,,
Stephen
"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
Funnily enough I was thinking about bike theft today and realised it wouldnt be hard to target a particular bike or car for that matter...all a thief needs to do is to go to the post office with the reg no of the vehicle they
are after..you fill out a form ,pay 2 dollars and you can have all the details i.e. address...stake it out and ...
would pay to have a different address registered to where it is kept.
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank...
Give a man a bank he can rob the WORLD !!!
i think it works like this,
You have your standard bikes that are targeted such as harleys, old triumphs and nortons etc, targeted specifically for their parts, be it as a mostly complete bike for a plate and tag job, which is extremely easy, or a complete break down, often to order.
These bikes are targeted at times specifically for individual items such as motor, forks, wheels etc.
parts head typically to the seedy underworld of the community that 80% of KBers havent seen the likes of, gangs and associate companies, yes its business and often legitimately fronted businesses.
Dirt bikes, well thats easy, people steal them to order or for them selves, new bars here, new plastics there, and its a different bike, interchangable after market parts, no reg etc, id say an incredibly hard thing to Police considering dirt bikes are used where there is no cops and would be a pure chance meeting to locate the bikes.
Other bikes, stolen to order and wreck, bike wreckers for instance, or even some one who crashed their own bike and wants to change it all over.
buy an insurance write off,get another exact bike, swap tags over, re-reg as a repaired crashed bike.
Internet is another market shipping parts out, or even complete bikesto other countries for parts, Oz??.
What im trying to say is the market is specific, only a few parts would make it to the public to buy and be non traceableitems, of course all crims aint that smart, bet not many late model bmw road bikes get nicked...
Cars often get nicked for fun, but bikes are not something that occurs to a couple of car knockers, they often cant ride, know they will draw attention with no helmet etc and cant go pick up all their mates for a ride.
Subarus for instance, buy a shitty two wheel drive impreza, steal a wrx impreza and stick the running gear in the shit impreza turning it into a 4wd model, all the chasis holes are there etc.
This shit is nothing new people its been happening as some one else mentioned back to when horses were it, cattle stolen and rebranded etc, just like swapping a rego.
i wont go into how easy it is to steal a bike as thats been covered by others, and how its easy to find a target bike.
you always hire me, i'll catch those bike thiefing scum, then let you decide cops or not
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Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
- 'She'll be right' attitude
- False perception that NZ has low crime propagated by media to help tourist industry.
- Piss weak penalties for committing crime.
- Low insurance premiums.
- The motorcycle industry (dealers, breakers, MNZ) has no interest in implementing a data-tag system ($35 micro-dots with unique identifiers) as it will affect their sales and availability of cheap parts for racers (something cheap and useful that BRONZ could push for instead of a bloody cheesewire campaign).
- The Wof only checks the chassis number, not the engine number.
- As cops have to bring in revenue, they only check for registration and WOF. I've never actually had a cop in NZ stop me and check my license is valid, my engine and frame numbers match or even if there's tread on my tyres.
Originally Posted by Kickha
Originally Posted by Akzle
Back in the mid 70's I had my bike stolen. It was a Yamaha 125 and you could turn the ignition with anything, even a coin at a pinch. I used to leave it parked under a shelter outside the nurses home where I lived, no locks, no nothing. I went out and it was simply gone. My first thought was my boyfriend had come and borrowed it, and I was a bit ticked as I was effectively stuck at the nurses home. I went off to my shift and came back and my bike was back!
Later I rang him and gave him berries for leaving me stranded and it was not him. So, someone needed to use my bike for something and they borrowed it. Brought it back dirty with no gas in it either. Thing is I deserved to lose it, no locks etc. Back then though to be fair you could actually do that. Since then many motorcycles later it has never happened again.
GPS tracker is the way to go imo, if mine gets stolen and i know exactly where it is, either the cops are going there or i will be (with a vanload of burly blokes).
And if the cops arent keen to go, seriously, wtf, all the work has been done for them, all they have to do is go in and make some arrests.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Some times they are sold complete once running....
I recently heard of someone offering a 2004 Yamaha R1 In the Waikato area for $2,000.00 was it stolen yes....Did the person buying it care that it was stolen NO....
Also how many bikes on Trade me right now that are Updates ? ?
We all know what updating a Bike is right ? ?
Crazy Steve...
we need 240V Electric alarmsanybody touchs it and you have a free meal when you get back to ur bike from where ever you've been!
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That was probably me ! First time, the cops caught the guy.. then he did a runner and haven't heard back since (pity, i had to rewire it all up, new plastics, etc.. was out of pocket near a grand). Second time they didn't even call me back. Penalties need to be far harsher I think.
New bike will be here soon, and I plan on garaging it at a separate location and alarming + insuring. But still just ridiculous. New Zealand is not large, and there's not even that large of a biking community. If "they" ( the shops and cops) wanted to put a stop to it, they could. So why don't they ?
edit for a stolen bike plug. was a plated 2002 DR-Z400E, trailtech vapour, all yellow plastics, zeta bars, zeta hardguards, drc drz specific smoked tailight + plate holder. Reggo was 12ZBU. Keep them peepers peeled![]()
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