It's soooooo unfair (sniffle)

[Pixie]

Interesting.

One of my troops uses his new SMART device to run checks on every motorbike that goes past when he's at a checkpoint.

More than half of them show as having no WoF, no registration, registration on hold, or the rider having no or the incorrect licence.

There was me thinking all bike riders were law abiding citizens who we cops picked on totally unfairly. Seems it's fair after all.

Troll.

Who gives a fuck?

The police are about road safety not revenue.
That is why the parasite is sitting on the side of the road checking bikers' tax status.

[Edbear]

Who gives a fuck?

The police are about road safety not revenue.
That is why the parasite is sitting on the side of the road checking bikers' tax status.

So you're of the opinion that unregistered and unwarranted bike and unlicensed riders are not a safety issue? Why don't we just dispense with licences, WoF's and rego's and let anyone ride or drive whatever they like?

[Pixie]

NO ONE has picked up on the irony of issuing the popo with a device that is SMARTer than they are? no one? c'mon you slackers, have at it.

When they get "issued" with product from the donut shop the wrapper is smarter than they are.

[scumdog]

Who gives a fuck?

The police are about road safety not revenue.
That is why the parasite is sitting on the side of the road checking bikers' tax status.

I wonder how many tickets said parasite checking number-plates wrote out for no WOF etc???

[Scuba_Steve]

Oooh, yes please. Contract Network Management, well, I'm just a Senior Network Engineer. How do I stop my clients breaking stuff?

That ones easy, Stop letting them touch it

[Gremlin]

That ones easy, Stop letting them touch it

What the hell would I charge them for then?

[bikaholic]

I wonder how many tickets said parasite checking number-plates wrote out for no WOF etc???

I guess, well.......NONE.

SMART device prints them out does it not?

[rastuscat]

I guess, well.......NONE.

SMART device prints them out does it not?

Nope. The SMART device (no, not the Popo) presents information, and the Popo makes a call on what to do with it. It's a tool, not a decision maker.

Just clarifying.

[rastuscat]

When they get "issued" with product from the donut shop the wrapper is smarter than they are.

Doh!!

Must keep tomorrows wrapper, it's SMARTer than me.

[bikaholic]

Nope. The SMART device (no, not the Popo) presents information, and the Popo makes a call on what to do with it. It's a tool, not a decision maker.

Just clarifying.

I thought it printed the ticket so SMART ticket receivers did not get off on a typo.

[scumdog]

I thought it printed the ticket so SMART ticket receivers did not get off on a typo.

I thought...

[bikaholic]

I thought...

So the PDA does not print out the computer generated ticket then ?

[warewolf]

Interesting.

One of my troops uses his new SMART device to run checks on every motorbike that goes past when he's at a checkpoint.

More than half of them show as having no WoF, no registration, registration on hold, or the rider having no or the incorrect licence.

There was me thinking all bike riders were law abiding citizens who we cops picked on totally unfairly. Seems it's fair after all.

Troll.

At the risk of adding some sensibility to this thread... I would like to know how many of them are 'conscientious objectors' to the perceived unfair gouging by ACC? That is, those that paid up when the rate was near that of a motorcar, but now haven't?

Bikes without reg/wof were over-represented in the accident stats. Question number 2; if you add the conscientious objectors to that previous group, how do stats look now for the combined group? That is, are conscientious objectors measurably safer riders than the usual unreg lot? and are they skewing the stats for the whole unreg/unwof group towards 'safer'? Yep, hard to measure I s'pose, but you could look at how long a crashed bike was unreg: only recently = objector, long term = recidivist.

We know that in the first 12(?) months ACC's take was less than normal despite a 3-4 fold increase in fees, due to non-payers. Just don't know how many of those are still in active use.

And before anyone starts ranting about "conscientious objectors" really just being cheap cahns, bear in mind NZ has a long and pround history of civil disobedience by the citizenry to enact their political will.

[warewolf]

I'll say it again. Driving is by habit, most often subconscious. One day you might subconsciously do something that becomes a big problem when there's a vehicle there that you didn't see.

And that right there is one of the big philosphical differences I have with the road policing regime. Whilst trivial speeding "offences" are pursued with vigour, gross and blatant failures to drive safely are ignored if they are below some arbitrarily-determined velocity. And then when those same lackadaisical drivers are let loose at higher speed, all those bad habits they are permitted make them a big risk... so all-too late everybody's speed is restricted in a lame attempt to reduce the carnage. Fix the problem at source, don't try to mask the symptoms!

[Sliver]

FFS, i wish the government raised the taxes on donuts.