Tickets for 4km/h over the speed limit this Queens Birthday weekend

[FJRider]

Although I can understand the protest over this seemingly nit-picky activity, I don't really believe that it should be that difficult to comply with (just for one weekend).

...... just ONE weekend ... ??????

[smoky]

I'm one of the above mentioned trained monkeys.

To answer your questions;

Police don't build roads .....Refer to .......

We don't fix potholes. Refer to........

We don't ......See your..... bla bla bla bla

No but Police can influence those decisions - they can stop banging on about speed kills and ignoring the other factors involved in accidents. No one applauds blind allegiance, especially when it supports a pathetic policy of suppressing freedoms and does very little to achieve the outcomes we all desire - safer roads

We do, however, hammer shitty cars with the laws that exist. We process as many drunks as we humanly can. Few things give us more satisfaction.

We turn up at work every day to be pilloried, scorned and abused by such as yourself, and continue to go out and do the job we are told and paid to do.

Unfortunately some of you have a very warped perception of why you get scorned and abused - perhaps if some of you used a thing called common sense when exercising your authority - perhaps if you were policing areas that need policing and had a strategy that actually made some sense, that targeted the problem instead of blindly going out and revenue gathering, sorry 'filling your Quoter' for the day - you wouldn't get such abuse and scorn

[smoky]

I'm one of your small minded pratts, and yes, I enjoy my job. I work with a great bunch, and do a job that contributes to society.

Most real Police I know don't actually get on with you pretend cops, traffic cops. Contributes to society? more like contributes to the government funds

[smoky]

Fool... you haven't the truth about speeding from a cop, all you have is a cops satirical observation on what he thinks would be a more succesful message to give to an ignorant public

Cops are more ignorant than most the public I know

I guess it's because you attend accidents, see fatal accidents, on a regular occasion - and you're told often enough that it was caused by excessive speed - that common sense has been replaced with an ignorant blind crusade

I bet none of you blue knobs have ever actually tried to think about the other contributing factors, and go on a crusade to improve our roads. Nah just follow the rest of your unbalanced blue mates and rant on about speed

scrappy main roads (including 90% of state highway 1) are pathetic, trucks, camper vans, elderly ramblers, youth, motorbikes, businessmen, old cars, new cars; all sharing mainly single lanes with oncoming traffic - even trying to sit at 100klm/hr can be impossible with out having to over take some nana doing 70 or 80 - is there any wonder we have so may accidents here!
Two things would fix it
1) better roads and more dual carriage ways
2) if the police made it illegal to go any where (logical extension to current police policy)

[firefighter]

Heaven help us all if your the quality of a 'professional' driver on our roads. For Christs sake it may not be much fun but its not that hard.

it's not to be taken as completely literal moron.

[MarkH]

How about breath alcohol testing? Very few of us carry a device that informs you if you're near the 401 limit, and on top of that there is no tolerence. I don't see anyone complaining about that, yet the chances of you knowing where you are at on the scale are virtually impossible.

I am happy to ride at 0mcg of alcohol per 100mg of blood (I think I got those units right) or 50 or maybe 100, I don't think I've ever ridden with it higher than that, certainly never at half the alcohol limit. On the other hand I wouldn't want to ride down to visit my mother at 0kph or 20kph or even 40kph - it would take hours to get there (6 1/2 hours at 20kph) and I would probably fall asleep on the way.

HAHA the irony http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...-loses-licence

[I]He sped up to a overtake a car he had been following at between 85 and 95kmh.

"I put the foot down to overtake, broke the rules and got caught," he said. The car he was passing had sped up to 105kmh during the passing manoeuvre, a fact noted by the ticketing officer, he said.

Am I the only one that thinks that the cop should have pulled over the driver of the car that was being passed? Surely speeding up while being overtaken is more dangerous than quickly passing someone?

It's a sad indictment that when out on the road I often find myself weighing up between legality and safety.

I usually decide in a very short amount of time to prioritise safety over obeying the law.

[MarkH]

in Victoria, the official tolerance level is 3kph and people are regularly hit at that! Aussie Highway Patrol people are even less tolerant that NZ ones!

I think you misspelled 'intelligent'.

[MarkH]

Surely it raises questions about the speed limit. If say 104 is "that bad" how much safer really is 100?

Obviously all speed limits should be dropped to 30kph.

30kph? Are you crazy? Anything over 20kph is just reckless! Walking pace would be much safer! Haven't you heard the police message? Speed Kills!

[MarkH]

Then service station workers would get the same abuse from ignorant customers as bottle store and supermarket workers when they refuse to sell booze to people who are pissed off their heads.

I'm sure they'd appreciate your suggestion.

'Service' station workers? Do you mean petrol station workers? With self service I don't see how they would stop people from filling their unWOFed & unreged cars with petrol.

[MarkH]

http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/24091.html

Last Queen's Birthday Weekend 10 people lost their lives, and Easter's road toll this year stood at 12 - the highest toll in 18 years.

10 people last year on Queen's Birthday Weekend and 12 this year over Easter, and? Hmmm, no mention of how many were due to drivers going 105-110kph, and yet those drivers will now be targeted this weekend, why?

I notice that there is no mention of targeting the discourteous arseholes that speed up when being overtaken or when they come to a passing lane. I guess dangerous behaviour is fine as long as you don't exceed 4kph passed the speed limit.

[scumdog]

Most real Police I know don't actually get on with you pretend cops, traffic cops. Contributes to society? more like contributes to the government funds

Who caares?
Only sorry-arsed cheese-dick losers ever contribute to government fund, I don't!!

[miloking]

Am I the only one that thinks that the cop should have pulled over the driver of the car that was being passed? Surely speeding up while being overtaken is more dangerous than quickly passing someone?



I usually decide in a very short amount of time to prioritise safety over obeying the law.

No you are not the only one ..i thought the same, and if what the mayor is saying is truth...about the fucker speeding up to 105 when on passing lane, i would later find him and rip him a new one! People that speed up on passing lanes do my head in...when i see that iam definately in the "rage" mode

[miloking]

10 people last year on Queen's Birthday Weekend and 12 this year over Easter, and? Hmmm, no mention of how many were due to drivers going 105-110kph, and yet those drivers will now be targeted this weekend, why?

I notice that there is no mention of targeting the discourteous arseholes that speed up when being overtaken or when they come to a passing lane. I guess dangerous behaviour is fine as long as you don't exceed 4kph passed the speed limit.

Cannot agree more! Also what fucks me off the most is that dear Mr.Comish. telling NZ public that our "more advanced" brethren in Autraya have 5km/h discretion on top of speed limit so our 10km/h was too good for us...what the cuntface forgot to mention is that victoria has 110km/h on most open roads!!! So where is our fucking media or someone high up to question this blatant lie!!

[scumdog]

Cannot agree more! Also what fucks me off the most is that dear Mr.Comish. telling NZ public that oor "more advanced" brethren in Autraya have 5km/h discretion on top of speed limit so our 10km/h was too good for us...what the cuntface forgot toumention is that victoria has 110km/h on most open roads

WaaaWaaaWaa, cry me a river, who effin' cares??

(apart from you?)

[miloking]

WaaaWaaaWaa, cry me a river, who effin' cares??

(apart from you?)

Waawaa???? I fucking care that another rotten cop is lying on TV! And its the cop that should lie the least of you all fuckers!

And what are you doing on KB...shouldnt you be out with your fellow constables beating students while off duty or something???