I wish I'd done a runner

**vifferman** · 17th October 2007, 20:04

Originally Posted by Swoop

PARADISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Almost.
There's cops y'know!

Our neighbour (he's a goodun) is largely responsible for the cop presence. He phones 'em if there's naughtiness, and they Do a Blitz.
He usually lets me know.

Perhaps he fergot...

**iwilde** · 17th October 2007, 20:08

If your gonna do it, do it! Best not to debate these things as to much as over thinking a problem can cause you to hesitate which could lead to a bigger fuck up than paying up for a ticket. At the end of the day, did you speed? Then it is the cops business to sort you out, thats his job weather you like it or not.

**Mom** · 17th October 2007, 20:16

Originally Posted by vifferman

Our neighbour (he's a goodun) is largely responsible for the cop presence. He phones 'em if there's naughtiness, and they Do a Blitz.
He usually lets me know.

Perhaps he fergot...

Dont read too much into it mate..........you were speeding, you got pinged.

I have had it pointed out tonight, i should not cast stones, so....

I'm admitting (is this a bit like AA) to having exceeded the speed limit more than once, a brief check on my license will show you that. Currently I have a no point history

**jafar** · 17th October 2007, 20:28

Originally Posted by Mom

Dont read too much into it mate..........you were speeding, you got pinged.

I have had it pointed out tonight, i should not cast stones, so....

I'm admitting (is this a bit like AA) to having exceeded the speed limit more than once, a brief check on my license will show you that. Currently I have a no point history

But they don't give the 'triumph accessory 'points when the rider gets pinged

**mitchilin** · 17th October 2007, 20:47

its a bloody mufti car.You didn't "see him" is a valid excuse.If you made it home safe,whats he gonna do?Ticket in the post at the worst.

**rphenix** · 17th October 2007, 21:53

Originally Posted by vifferman

Fuck it!
Only two blocks from home, and I spot a mufti cop going the other way, and he looks too interested in me. So, I slow down, and meander along, hoping I wasn't speeding and/or he didn't clock me if I was. Eventually, I see the flashy light thingoes in my mirrors and pull over, a mere 50m from my house. $170 and 35 demerits later and I'm REALLY pissed off - at him, at me, and at not going for it. By the time the car had performed a safe u-turn and caught up (coz it wasn't motoring), I could've ben safe in my gargre. Or down the neighbour's driveway.
Although I'm normally an advocate of "do the crime, pay the fine", in this case I wish I'd been more naughty. That's 70 points in the last coupla munce, and $340. I can't afford either.

Sucks ey! I had one do similar to me a week or so back except I did flick the gas on and did disappear up the drive way so nothing happened, I also wasn't doing anything bad at the time, license on me and bike all legal but I guess something could have been invented... My main reason for doing it was it was wet and I didnt feel like standing around in the rain watching the bike seat get wet when im soo close to home...

I never would try it though if I had the whole lights flashing thing i.e. "failing to stop" but I figure till the lights/sirens are going theres no harm trying to disappear.

**pritch** · 17th October 2007, 22:31

Condolences re the fine but more so for the points.
It seems you have reached the point where you have just two options:
A) Buy a radar detector and learn how to use it, or
B) Buy a Harley

**vifferman** · 17th October 2007, 22:34

I was thinking about inflation and shit.
Just now.
I got my first ticket in 1974 - 41mph in a 30. That's like 72km/h in a 50 like today.

I wrote in to the judge, and got fined $10, plus I had to do a Defensive Gardening Course. No bonus points, because the MOT couldn't afford such fancy things.

My next ticket (when I was doing around 75mph in a 30 zone), was $16 for 8 mph over, instant fine, lucky the microwave was being used to cook the cop's pie, so it was on manual.
Now, in 1974, my bike cost $600 secondhand. It was a mighty red CB175. I was working after school / in holidays for $0.80/hour. Gas cost $0.80/tankful, and got me exactly 85 miles. (For you flash modern metric blokes and blokesses, that's around $0.11/litre or summat.)
Fast forward to my next ticket (kinda irrelevant, coz it was for no mirror) in 1977. $13, and I 'earned' $27/week as a student.
Fast forward to my next speeding ticket, in 2004 or whenever the fook it was.
Basically the same bike: a red Honda, still a twin cylinder, still two wheels, still has crappy camchains. Has now evolved up the alphabetic chain into a VTR. Cost me $8k, my salary 30 years laters is now around $0.80 a millisecond, but lets call it $25.00/hour.

Hokay. You still with me?
Speeding ticket: 32km/h over = $300, or $10 per km/h. 40 Fly Buy points.
If we ignore the value of the Frequent Flyer points (coz they expired so I didn't save enough to get a bus ticket), what do we have (apart from another obscenely large Gummint surplus)?
Lets see... (cue some dodgy maths, coz it's late and there's no calculator on #3's gaming computer, and I only scored 96% for School Cert maths):
Petrol: about 1500% increase
Wages: Hmmm... I was Minimum Wage Slave Monkey then, so that's $11.50 now? That's 1450% more.
Bike: Gee... 1333% inflation, but the bike was also 510% inflated too! In displacement and maybe power.
Fines: Hmmm... I can't Ack Shirley compare those, since it was a different price bracket, but coincidentally, today's adventure was the same speed (cue spooky Twlight Zone theme music) and cost $170, and coincidentally, the fines haven't increased since 2004, and neither has my salary!

So that's $7.72/km for the fine, which compares with $0.91/km in 1974.
That's 1700% increase.
But I got off cheap with the first one - the going rate for a Spot Prize was $1.24/km, so it's really only 622% increase.

So - guess what?

In relative terms, tickets today are cheaper than in 1974, and we now get Frequent Flyer points!
Yay!!

But we're only allowed to save up 100 points.

Against that, there are now secret quotas so it's harder to talk your way out of a ticket.

As you were.

**vifferman** · 17th October 2007, 22:40

Originally Posted by pritch008

Condolences re the fine but more so for the points.
It seems you have reached the point where you have just two options:
A) Buy a radar detector and learn how to use it, or
B) Buy a Harley

It's funny you should say that.
I was following our semi-mystery M109 rider again tonight, and I thought (again) "Man, that's a nice bike!"

**peasea** · 17th October 2007, 22:47

Mate, you have done some sums that bring tears of laughter to my eyes; good on ya.

I always thought I was hard done-by as a lowly apprentice back in the 70's, fined for having WAAAAYYYY too much fun....Now? I don't give a shit, pay the fuckers what they want and carry on. Yes, it's a bargain, it doesn't slow us down, it isn't likely that it ever will. Why? Coz it's bollocks, that's why.

If all the speeding fines I've had (and I added up to about ten grand back in the mid-nineties, gave up after that) mean that I'm a danger to myself and the community then I should be dead a thousand times over, along with half the North Island.

It's all so much b/s and to have good coppers (who are our friends, dont forget) dragged off more important shite to dish out such fines only confirms the (conspiracy) theory that it's 'all about the money'.

A thousand thank-you's for the monetary/era comparisons.

Let's all do runners, see how they like it.

**canarlee** · 17th October 2007, 22:55

i read the first page of this thread (cant be assed to read the rest) and i am thinking "why the fuck did a silly joke that i posted *and got a full infracture for* get put in pd and this lives???"

oh well

"vifferman" take it where is meant to be put and stop whinging, fuck you lot give poms stick for being "whingers".................................................. ....???

**peasea** · 17th October 2007, 23:00

Originally Posted by canarlee

i read the first page of this thread (cant be assed to read the rest) and i am thinking "why the fuck did a silly joke that i posted *and got a full infracture for* get put in pd and this lives???"

oh well

"vifferman" take it where is meant to be put and stop whinging, fuck you lot give poms stick for being "whingers".................................................. ....???

I'm a pom and I don't whinge, nor do I whinge about whingers. (New Zealand is a lovely country and the police are our friends.) However, you appear to be whinging; are you a Pom? If so, are you whinging about your 'infracture' and how did your fracture get in?

**scumdog** · 17th October 2007, 23:10

I never gave him the ticket, haven't given out one since the week before last.

And yes, I HAVE been at work lately.

Had a similar incident to Mr v's once.

Dude was known to me, DID do a runner. EDIT: HE did the runner, I never followed.

I just posted him the ticket.

I later heard his jaw just about hit the deck two days later when he got the 'mail'.

"Fuggit, I thought I'd got away with it, f'kn smart prick that bastard" were his words so I was told.

**peasea** · 17th October 2007, 23:29

Originally Posted by scumdog

I never gave him the ticket, haven't given out one since the week before last.

And yes, I HAVE been at work lately.

Had a similar incident to Mr v's once.

Dude was known to me, DID do a runner. EDIT: HE did the runner, I never followed.

I just posted him the ticket.

I later heard his jaw just about hit the deck two days later when he got the 'mail'.

"Fuggit, I thought I'd got away with it, f'kn smart prick that bastard" were his words so I was told.

You've been drinking, haven't you?