Collected some revenue today

[willytheekid]

Love is in the air.

I have GOT to stop drinking coffee AND reading your post's ...apparently this is NOT a water proof laptop!

EVERYONE...SING ALONG!! (Its the disco version!!..Tom freakin Jones!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-VGDF4y18

[unstuck]

I would love to throw my underwear at Tom, after being in the bush for a week or so.

[Banditbandit]

Fuck ... after being a week in the bush I'd just love to throw it ...

[willytheekid]

I would love to throw my underwear at Tom, after being in the bush for a week or so.

He was impressed with mine!

...even with the foot wide skid mark (mans a true professional!...ya just dont see THAT sort of commitment to fans nowdays)

ps:Tom..if your reading this...stop calling!...No means NO!

[swbarnett]

The theory of democracy (yes - I accept "theory") is that the politicians are our elected representatives .. and if enough people dislike the laws they pass they vote the bastards out ... The fact that they do not get voted out means the majority of the people support the laws they pass .. or at least don't give a toss ... and don't vote them out ...

If only. The trouble is that you may like most of the laws a particular party enacted. You're not going to necessarily vote them out on the strength of the one you don't like.

No - I'm saying in their own minds they were justified ... they may be wrong .. but they believed in their own justification

...

I'm sorry - I do not want to live in a society where the police officers have that power . That is way to much power for individuals to have an exercise ... a police officer who is opposed to abortion may take it into his own head not to arrest a person who has murdered an abortion doctor (because in his or her mind that murder was a justified killing) ... not a position we can be in ... when individual police get to decide the law ... That;s JUdge Dread territory ..

A very good point you make here. I also don't want to live in the society you describe. However, I also don't want to live in a society where all the cops are midless automatons. What we need is a happy medium where the cops are able to exercise discretion in an attempt to achieve the intent of a law, not just follow the letter .

Cops don't get to decide which laws to enforce or not ...

And yet they do every day. They're instructed by their station cheif (or whatever the correct term is) that "today we're targeting xyz". Also, they don't stop every speeding motorist.

Huh ???? ... So if they believe in EVERY law on our books enforcing those laws will not be wrong? Isn't that a complete reversal of your position???

What I mean to say is that at least they're acting in accordance with their own principles. This at least means that they not acting hypocritically.

I know that one well ... and get the quote right!!!

Not that it really matters as the intent is still clear but what is the exact wording?

[Banditbandit]

If only. The trouble is that you may like most of the laws a particular party enacted. You're not going to necessarily vote them out on the strength of the one you don't like.

Yeah . theory is nice .. reality is different .. people rarely vote on one issue ..

A very good point you make here. I also don't want to live in the society you describe. However, I also don't want to live in a society where all the cops are midless automatons. What we need is a happy medium where the cops are able to exercise discretion in an attempt to achieve the intent of a law, not just follow the letter .

Yes .. a happy medium is OK ...

Not that it really matters as the intent is still clear but what is the exact wording?

You're right .. I was being pedantic (problem with working in Academia .. it makes you pedantic ..

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. " - Edmund Burke

[scumdog]

And yet they do every day. They're instructed by their station cheif (or whatever the correct term is) that "today we're targeting xyz". Also, they don't stop every speeding motorist.

I'll let you know the first time that happens to me...

Now and then there's special ops - like checking for drink drivers after a particular event and checking speeds etc near school when the new term starts (A waste of time but meh, them's the orders...)

[FJRider]

And yet they do every day. They're instructed by their station cheif (or whatever the correct term is) that "today we're targeting xyz". Also, they don't stop every speeding motorist.

Yep ... I think I've got it right ...

Monday: Those not wearing Seatbelts.

Tuesday: Those using a Cell phone while driving.

Wednesday: Those failing to indicate.

Thursday: Those failing to keep left.

Friday: Those impeding the flow of traffic.

Saturday/Sunday: ALL MOTORCYCLISTS.

[unstuck]

Yep ... I think I've got it right ...

Monday: Those not wearing Seatbelts.

Tuesday: Those using a Cell phone while driving.

Wednesday: Those failing to indicate.

Thursday: Those failing to keep left.

Friday: Those impeding the flow of traffic.

Saturday/Sunday: ALL MOTORCYCLISTS.

Must be true, I got done on my bike on a saturday morning.

[kevie]

In the road code on the list of places you can not stop.

1. on a marked bus stop or taxi stand

2. closer than 6 metres to a bus stop marked only by a sign

Maybe worth laying a PCA complaint about the CVIU then for making lotsa revenue stopping and inspecting trucks on the 2 bus stops at Te-rapa

In my opinion all the fines they have dished out hased to be ILLEGALLY done !?!?!?!? Would that not be true??

[FJRider]

Maybe worth laying a PCA complaint about the CVIU then for making lotsa revenue stopping and inspecting trucks on the 2 bus stops at Te-rapa

In my opinion all the fines they have dished out hased to be ILLEGALLY done !?!?!?!? Would that not be true??

You are obviously unaware ... that Legally they CAN.

If it's in the course of, and in the execution of, their duties. As they can (for the above) park anywhere us common people are not allowed to as well.

[kevie]

You are obviously unaware ... that Legally they CAN.

If it's in the course of, and in the execution of, their duties. As they can (for the above) park anywhere us common people are not allowed to as well.

oooohhhhh yeh Keep forgetting about the "Rules for us and the rules for them" clause

[Asher]

I was driving south out of chch this morning and spotted a marked police camera van parked up on the left about 200m before a passing lane (the one just after a left corner and short down hill several kms past the synlait factory). What's the deal? I thought they weren't meant to patrol passing lanes.

[pzkpfw]

200m before? What's the problem?

(The real issue is having one at the end of the lanes.)


See: http://www.police.govt.nz/resources/...rcement-guide/

•When speed camera enforcement is taking place in the area of passing lanes, vehicles should not be targeted within 250 (two hundred and fifty) metres of the finish of any passing lane.

[red mermaid]

Go for it then

Maybe worth laying a PCA complaint about the CVIU then for making lotsa revenue stopping and inspecting trucks on the 2 bus stops at Te-rapa

In my opinion all the fines they have dished out hased to be ILLEGALLY done !?!?!?!? Would that not be true??