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

[Berries]

Briscoes had a sale on as well. That would have meant less people travelling out of town.

[Hinny]

I can tell you - it was shit.
More shit than this year by quite a margin.
We had a very poor turnout, in terms of numbers, for the KB rally.
Got to ride through snowstorms for our ride-out.
That's snow-storms, not snow-showers by the way.
Big windscreens are so good!

[Hinny]

Briscoes had a sale on as well. That would have meant less people travelling out of town.

I traveled out of town.
Does that mean I am less of a person than those that went to Briscoes sale?

[Berries]

Quite possibly. Don't you need a waffle maker ?

[ukusa]

Quite possibly. Don't you need a waffle maker ?

they make good hand warmers, but you need two, one for each hand.

[Hinny]

Quite possibly. Don't you need a waffle maker ?

Waffles are a specialty of this house.

[Katman]

I can tell you - it was shit.
More shit than this year by quite a margin.
We had a very poor turnout, in terms of numbers, for the KB rally.
Got to ride through snowstorms for our ride-out.
That's snow-storms, not snow-showers by the way.
Big windscreens are so good!

Oh nos. Looks like everyones theories done got busted.

[MSTRS:Me]

Oh nos. Looks like everyones theories done got busted.

And theories are all that ANYONE has, as to why the toll was so low.

The reality is that simple, dumb luck caused the pendulum to be at that end of it's swing...

[MarkH]

And theories are all that ANYONE has, as to why the toll was so low.

The reality is that simple, dumb luck caused the pendulum to be at that end of it's swing...

Well, you've described my theory pretty well.

The evidence that the vagaries of dumb luck are at play in available too. Take several weekends when nothing has changed from one to another and notice that the toll varies - that is because sometimes someone doesn't get away with something stupid, sometimes there is a car is coming the other way when you cross the centre line and sometimes there isn't. Sometimes you are lucky and live through a car accident and sometimes you are not.

What happens on one particular weekend does NOT make a trend! Only an idiot would think otherwise!

[MSTRS:Me]

What happens on one particular weekend does NOT make a trend! Only an idiot would think otherwise!

Nor does what happens be solely because of what HP do or don't do...

[scumdog]

I can tell you - it was shit.
More shit than this year by quite a margin.
We had a very poor turnout, in terms of numbers, for the KB rally.
Got to ride through snowstorms for our ride-out.
That's snow-storms, not snow-showers by the way.
Big windscreens are so good!

So why weren't there MORE crashes due to flood, heavy rain, ice, snow?? (And generally snow etc draws out the idiots why want to 'see what it's like')

I thought those adverse conditions would have balanced the claim there were less people on the roads

[MarkH]

So why weren't there MORE crashes due to flood, heavy rain, ice, snow??

Random luck?

[Spearfish]

Waffles are a specialty of this house.

What is a waffle? a relation to a pancake?

[ukusa]

Random luck?

sure is.
There are idiots on the road also, maybe there were just less driving that weekend? The idiots on the road make bad decisions.
I believe a good proportion of death on our roads is just a way of weeding out the idiots who probably should never be on the roads anyway, but some dumb-ass somewhere in NZ gave that person a license after they managed to drive around the block a couple of times without crashing. Unfortunately for every one of these idiots killed on our roads, there are new idiots given licences every day to replace them.
Also unfortunate is the fact that sometimes these idiots kill people other than themselves, this is the main problem. It is also the hardest part to fix, because no speed limit will stop the idiot from overtaking on a blind bend/hill into the path of another car.

[scumdog]

sure is.
There are idiots on the road also, maybe there were just less driving that weekend? The idiots on the road make bad decisions.
I believe a good proportion of death on our roads is just a way of weeding out the idiots who probably should never be on the roads anyway,

I bet the rellies of those innocents killed by fuckwittery on the part of the driver of the other vehicle will be impressed!