Police target motorcyclists in another safety campaign

[Tigadee]

Maybe cop cars should be fitted with a camera the cross references every number plate in view with the LTNZ database then throws a red flag up for said vehicle. The tech would be there already.

It is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...te_recognition

Be afraid, citizen, be very very afraid...

[Zedder]

Basically was just to tell me off for coming around a corner too fast, which was true. And then looked deeply in to my eyes (looking for contacts). Told me he was just being a flea in my ear (so just a warning) and that I chose the vehicle so I have to get the contacts (glasses fog up).

All in all, not too bad. He could have done me for $400 for not wearing my glasses + 35 demerits :\

Before you start keeping your kids at home, I can see fine. Just not street sign letters from far away.

Yeah, you should wear contacts lenses. Besides with glasses, you make a spectacle of yourself.

[5150]

Be afraid, citizen, be very very afraid...

I Love Judge Dred

[Nzpure]

there's no such thing as DIC in NZ for deadly pedley's & the speeding one, in most circumstances can be hard to achieve



Underwear is actually optional, helmet is your only legal requirement & lets keep it that way or less.

No i think you will find if your are wearing absolutely nothing it would be indecent exposure...

[oneofsix]

No i think you will find if your are wearing absolutely nothing it would be indecent exposure...

Sorry but there is no such thing as "indecent exposure". Hasn't been since last centenary. Try offensive behaviour but I think that would fail unless he was waggling his bits about. As long as he kept them tucked behind his tank he should be ok.

[Nzpure]

Sorry but there is no such thing as "indecent exposure". Hasn't been since last centenary. Try offensive behaviour but I think that would fail unless he was waggling his bits about. As long as he kept them tucked behind his tank he should be ok.

Really?
Lol you live and learn!

[BoristheBiter]

I guess thats the point.

You don't actually "sign up" to anything. You have to do as the crown decides.

The Crown has at various times made it illegal for slaves to escape, for maori to breast feed and for irish to dance. Its been illegal to be in a union, and its been illegal not to be in one.

History has shown us that if we are not breaking the law we have nothing to fear but the law itself.


The protections of mechanisms like the Bill of Rights exist because they are intended to ensure the law need not be feared, as it may not cross certain lines, even for very good reasons.

We have abandoned many of those principles in Transport Law. The right to remain silent, the presumption of innocence, the right to a trial, and the right to go about your business without search and seizure have all been abandoned to make us safer on the road.

And we have already watched police abusing the privilege, bragging for example about how they stopped the Hells Angels 6 times "randomly" on one run in Nelson a year or so back.

I for one don't approve. As soon as given the power to abuse, police took it.

Its my opinion, that the road toll would be little different if police had to have due cause to stop drivers, but we would still have a Bill of Rights thats is not eroded.

If you don't like it, don't drive.

Show me in the bill of rights where is says it is your right to drive a vehicle.
Until then your rights have not been infringed.

All the points you have raised are rubbish as you can fight it in court and you don't have to say anything so you're wrong with that as well.

[SMOKEU]

DIC

I've never heard of such a thing in NZ.

[Bassmatt]

I've never heard of such a thing in NZ.

Its not a fucken courtroom bro
have you never heard anyone refer to an EBA charge as being "done for DIC"? you need to get out more. Everyone else knows what it means.
You havent looked "colloquialism" up yet have you

[Fast Eddie]

done dic or done dui.. the only 2 terms i've heard lol

[FJRider]

I've never heard of such a thing in NZ.

Drunk In Charge ... old terminology ... Now it's EBA.

[SMOKEU]

Its not a fucken courtroom bro
have you never heard anyone refer to an EBA charge as being "done for DIC"?

Yes I have.

Drunk In Charge ... old terminology ... Now it's EBA.

Point taken.

[Tigadee]

Have a box of donuts handy, no issues then...

[Mystic13]

You think that its unreasonable to check if someone has a licence,is riding a bike thats not been stolen and the vehicle is fit to share the road with your friends and family.

You consider having these checks being detained.

I consider it a 5min inconvience every so often.
Perhaps stopping for red lights can be classed being arbitrarily detained also.

I think you've got the wrong idea. It's not being stopped so much it's the stopping of bikes only. They should stop cars and bikes. Or if it really is about safety stop bikes and let them off with a warning for warrant or ergo giving them 48 hours to remedy and show at station.

The issue is this is not a safety check but a disguised revenue thing. "Motorcycle Safety Checkpoint : Yeah Right : TUI"

[mossy1200]

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.

We assume they are targeting us.

Could it be they are trying to instow information to the riders travelling to work each day taking risks and dressing like gravel rash doesnt hurt .

To those people who want to hand out verbal if they get stoped.SHAME on you if you do...

The people that spend time trying to keep us safe dont need you spouting off.
If you havent attended a tragic road accident or notified next of kin why do you think your 20 years riding makes you more informed about whats safe and whats not.

You may think you would be better off making your own decisions in this world but would you be better off if everyone made their own decisions also.Not everyone has morals and law and order is what allows you stay safe in alot of cases.