Silly 5-0, $400 to $100 and lucky girl

**proseuche** · 6th March 2010, 00:26

was on my learners, pulled over at 121 km/h. silly cop gave me a $170 fine for doing > 100, plus a $400 fine for doing more than 70 km/h. He generously waived the other $400 for not wearing L-plate (then said he recommends I put it on if I have it, but knows it's a long way back to Akld and he's going to turn around and go in other direction!)

Wrote in and had a waah about the $400, because LTSA had f*cked up the dates. I was supposed to sit my restricted the day before but they didn't have my name on the sheet when I went in (have since passed restricted no points off, of course).

Anyway, turns out the penalty's been decreased to $100. There's prob been heaps of threads about this, but I didn't know and that cop didn't know (thankfully, or he would have hit me with all 3 offences I imagine - lucky).

**proseuche** · 6th March 2010, 00:28

p.s. i didn't get off the $270, but good thing i wrote in or would have coughed up with $570

**spacemonkey** · 6th March 2010, 00:45

Very lucky call that one for you.

Would have been a pretty huge demerit points haul as well!

**Gremlin** · 6th March 2010, 01:09

you only get the highest set of demerits if you get a bunch of infringements in one hit.

**kiwifruit** · 6th March 2010, 02:13

slow down rossi

**JimO** · 6th March 2010, 06:43

you do the crime you do the time, what makes you think a learner is capable of riding safely at 51ks over their limit

**Blackbird** · 6th March 2010, 06:49

Originally Posted by proseuche

silly cop

. How do you work that out then? There's only one silly person in all this....

**meteor** · 6th March 2010, 07:06

Originally Posted by proseuche

He generously waived the other $400 for not wearing L-plate.

51K over, no L plate, he did you a favour and you go public saying he's silly.... pretty ungrateful proseuche

**Pixie** · 6th March 2010, 07:29

Originally Posted by meteor

51K over, no L plate, he did you a favour and you go public saying he's silly.... pretty ungrateful proseuche

Who needs to be grateful to a tax collector?

**JimO** · 6th March 2010, 07:35

Originally Posted by Pixie

Who needs to be grateful to a tax collector?

this comment shows exactly whats wrong with some peoples attitude

**crazyhorse** · 6th March 2010, 07:35

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth............as you said, it could be worse! Good to hear you are now on your restricted -well done

**Hawkeye** · 6th March 2010, 07:56

No sympathy here. No L plate and you do stupid things to get yourself noticed. Then come on here and procede to tell everyone about it, saying the COP was 'silly'.