Screw peaceful non-disruptive protest: Let's Cause Mayhem!

[Mr Merde]

A few years back when living in the UK they decided that bikes were to pay a toll on one of the tunnels on the M25.

Bikers objected and thousands of them turned up at the toll booths. All dressed in wet weather gear, all with 10 pound notes. They dutifuly queued at the said toll booths. Each biker pulled up, got off their bike, took off their wet weather gear, took out their money from an pants pocket and dutifully waited for their change. They then counted the change, got back into their wet weather gear, back on the bike and rode off. This process was repeated by the next bike rider.

The M25 came to a standstill and London choked. They ran out of change at the toll botths and had to get more delivered by armoured car and the bike rider wouldnt leave till they had their change.

The next day there were no tolls for motorcycles.

They tried again on the Servern bridge and the same thing happened there. Again the next day there were no tolls for bikes.

The police and the authorities couldnt do anything as every biker was following the letter of the law.

If you have ever seen a city od 10 million gridlocked then you would realise how much a little bit of

CIVIL OBEDIENCE

can be a very powerful tool.

[Laxi]

dont ytou blow your own horn enough as it is?

haha and thought it was only you that was that flexible

[CookMySock]

no one said ya had to EAT the Pies and Quiches .. i understand the NZ pie has decent aerodynamics..

Hell yes!

Well we can throw the quiche and eat the pies, and use up all their worcester sauce too..

Steve

[SARGE]

Hell yes!

Well we can throw the quiche and eat the pies, and use up all their worcester sauce too..

Steve

and then take a big Mince Pie shit right on the floor on the way out ...

[Pixie]

Sounds like I'm going to need to get a louder horn! I wonder if Str8 Jacket still has the airhorn she used to have on her bike? Maybe I could borrow it.

Get one of Klingon's hooters and hold it in your mouth as you ride.
(I mean the plastic ones she was selling at the domain,you dirty bastards)

[Pixie]

A few years back when living in the UK they decided that bikes were to pay a toll on one of the tunnels on the M25.

Bikers objected and thousands of them turned up at the toll booths. All dressed in wet weather gear, all with 10 pound notes. They dutifuly queued at the said toll booths. Each biker pulled up, got off their bike, took off their wet weather gear, took out their money from an pants pocket and dutifully waited for their change. They then counted the change, got back into their wet weather gear, back on the bike and rode off. This process was repeated by the next bike rider.

The M25 came to a standstill and London choked. They ran out of change at the toll botths and had to get more delivered by armoured car and the bike rider wouldnt leave till they had their change.

The next day there were no tolls for motorcycles.

They tried again on the Servern bridge and the same thing happened there. Again the next day there were no tolls for bikes.

The police and the authorities couldnt do anything as every biker was following the letter of the law.

If you have ever seen a city od 10 million gridlocked then you would realise how much a little bit of

CIVIL OBEDIENCE

can be a very powerful tool.

This is the kind of action we need to take.

[Cr1MiNaL]

Get one of Klingon's hooters and hold it in your mouth as you ride.
(I mean the plastic ones she was selling at the domain,you dirty bastards)

I'll hold a hooter in my mouth and ride.

Oh and keen for other sorts of protests too...

[Molly]

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I reckon we should start preparing for maximum disruption within the law right now.

Just my 2c and it's not meant as a personal attack:

I don't know why anybody would think they had the right to disrupt / delay and generally piss-off other road users. You'll just do what 1% of every interest group does - f'k things up for the other 99%.

That's my feeling on the subject.

As an aside, I just checked and the plate: FKACC 'cannot be released for sale'... Bugger.

[idleidolidyll]

No offence taken; it's a perfctly valid question:


If the Govt won't talk about it in public and the media leads with a "motorcycle accident" story on headfline news instead of focusing on the protest (Saturday in the Auck Domain); we have to make the public ask the questions with us.

Without mass media, mass disruption is sometimes the only way forward in such a short time frame.

[caseye]

That is the simple truth of the matter we've been screwed for time and we'll be standing around with our fingers up our collective arseholes while the Govt takes our cash.
Molly are you just a little bit pissed off at the govt for getting the ACC to propose these changes?
Well, what are you doing about it?
I know you've ridden with the rest of us and you've sent in your submissions.
Now what?
if we are not listened to at all, if these changes are to go ahead, what would you do next?
I know what I'm doing.
I'm geting my wet weather gear out and my big old ten dollar note and going to a toll road!
Then I'm going to ride my motorcycle into town in the early morning and park in quite legally in a car @#$$%% Park.And leave it there all day, Quite legal, long as i fill the meter.
These things don't hurt people, it does make em ask why? and once that question is asked we have a chance to calmly and rationally explain ourselves.
Do it often enough and a huge ground swell of pissed off but enlightened general publics will front Govt on our behalf and tell em to sort this shit out.
That of course is the long version, short one, we start this sort of action outside Parliament and every other govt agency we can find, we make it target specific and we do it all the time and the Govt will quickly back off.
But first we must all be united in our own minds and be prepared to cause some shit, that will be noticed and that will be listened to.

[idleidolidyll]

I have most of a roll of outdoor polypropylene at home and will print up some A3 banners for your bikes.

This is my own cost so only the remains of this roll please.

I'm a photographer but not a graphic artist. Can someone give me a design using these themes:

Remember, A3 only please or fit as many inside an A3 format as you can (ie: bumper sticker size).

--National and ACT Policy: Destroy then privatise ACC
--Justify increases with manipulated policy and statistics
--Target Motorcycles FIRST, then cars, bicycles, rugby, horse riding, climbing etc etc

Use this text (or paraphrase it) for a poster when you take up a car park bay:

"If levies rise, I'll have to drive my car and use this space EVERY day".

Use this one for your car window when you drive slowly holding up traffic:

"If ACC rates were fair; I'd be riding my motorcycle instead of blocking your way"

More ideas please and i'll post these to regional organisers to distribute.

[Voltaire]

That is the simple truth of the matter we've been screwed for time and we'll be standing around with our fingers up our collective arseholes while the Govt takes our cash.
Molly are you just a little bit pissed off at the govt for getting the ACC to propose these changes?
Well, what are you doing about it?
I know you've ridden with the rest of us and you've sent in your submissions.
Now what?
if we are not listened to at all, if these changes are to go ahead, what would you do next?
I know what I'm doing.
I'm geting my wet weather gear out and my big old ten dollar note and going to a toll road!
Then I'm going to ride my motorcycle into town in the early morning and park in quite legally in a car @#$$%% Park.And leave it there all day, Quite legal, long as i fill the meter.
These things don't hurt people, it does make em ask why? and once that question is asked we have a chance to calmly and rationally explain ourselves.
Do it often enough and a huge ground swell of pissed off but enlightened general publics will front Govt on our behalf and tell em to sort this shit out.
That of course is the long version, short one, we start this sort of action outside Parliament and every other govt agency we can find, we make it target specific and we do it all the time and the Govt will quickly back off.
But first we must all be united in our own minds and be prepared to cause some shit, that will be noticed and that will be listened to.

You can park a bike in a metered space in Welly....but they have a by-law saying motorcycles can't park in Pay and Display as there is nowhere to put the receipt/ticket.....
I would imagine the WCC Traffic Wardens are standing by with fresh ticket books...I mean PDA'a.

[idleidolidyll]

Lets see then;

Wellington might take a bit more but its also worth fighting THAT nasty regualtion at the same time:

It might take a while but instead of parking and getting off your scooters and bikes, you could stop in the space to "read a map", "answer the phone", "adjust your underwear", put on or take off a piece of clothing etc, any excuse to STOP, not park, in those spaces.
When a parking nazi asks you to move on, you WILL move on: to that space up ahead where the other bike is stopped and if a bunch of you do this when people are trying to park, you'll achieve the aims.

This would work best if there are more bikes than spaces in a selected area; that way the extra bikes could leap into the space quickly.


Remember though: There is no point doing this if people don't know why. Have a sign on your back or stuck to your bike.
If media asks questions; tell them this is because THEY, the media and Govt, are not giving us a fair voice.

[idleidolidyll]

Here's another I just thought of:

"I'm driving this slow because I need to use as little fuel in my car as my motorbike used before ACC levies priced it off the road"

"Sorry to hold you up, I've sold my motorbike to avoid the rush after National raises ACC levies and bikers can't afford them"

Motorbike: 4.5 litres per 100km
Car: 10 litres per 100km

I can't drive faster: I'm saving fuel and National / ACT made my motorbike too expensive to keep

[Azi Dahaka]

That is the simple truth of the matter we've been screwed for time and we'll be standing around with our fingers up our collective arseholes while the Govt takes our cash.
Molly are you just a little bit pissed off at the govt for getting the ACC to propose these changes?
Well, what are you doing about it?
I know you've ridden with the rest of us and you've sent in your submissions.
Now what?
if we are not listened to at all, if these changes are to go ahead, what would you do next?
I know what I'm doing.
I'm geting my wet weather gear out and my big old ten dollar note and going to a toll road!
Then I'm going to ride my motorcycle into town in the early morning and park in quite legally in a car @#$$%% Park.And leave it there all day, Quite legal, long as i fill the meter.
These things don't hurt people, it does make em ask why? and once that question is asked we have a chance to calmly and rationally explain ourselves.
Do it often enough and a huge ground swell of pissed off but enlightened general publics will front Govt on our behalf and tell em to sort this shit out.
That of course is the long version, short one, we start this sort of action outside Parliament and every other govt agency we can find, we make it target specific and we do it all the time and the Govt will quickly back off.
But first we must all be united in our own minds and be prepared to cause some shit, that will be noticed and that will be listened to.

read your citys bylaws i noted in wellignton city it is actually against the law to park your motorbike in a car parking spot in a metered area

wellington traffic bylaw
http://www.wellington.govt.nz/plans/bylaws/traffic.html
6.5 No person shall park a motorcycle in any parking meter area controlled by a multiple parking meter, other than in any part specifically set aside for motorcycles.