I wish I'd done a runner

[MSTRS:Me]

Sanx - the double-standard in action. You'd be best taking video and getting 20/20 involved.

[vifferman]

I made a suggestion that if speed was such a problem down this road ... they should stick a marked car there. People slow down automatically when they see one, which achieves the goal of reducing speed far more effectively than issuing tickets. The Sgt disagreed with me, which indicated his primary aim was revenue generating, not road safety.

I think there's a time and place for it.
Our road is popular for racers to... uh... race around. it has a t-intersection at each end, several roads going off it, and some very nice curves with nice smooth asphalt. Since we've been there, there have been lots of accidents at times, with summat like 15 in one year at one stage. Thanks to our neighbour (who's lived in the area for over 60 years), we now have "speed calming measures" in the form of pedestrian islands, one of which is right outside our house, meaning no on-street parking for us (and we've no driveway, so that suckses.)

Anyway, periodically, we have an invasion of Boi RacRs, and urban terrorists who like to wheelie up lawns and stuff. It works very well for the to quietly move in at night with unmarked cars and catch a few miscreants now and again. Word gets out, and then it's quiet again for a while. Usually they () tell our neighbour about it, and he tells us, probably because he knows I'm a loon, and my son (#2) is a hoon.



BTW - this circuit is where BlackPorscheDrivingWanker was racing around last night, sans unmarked police cop car presence.

Hmmm... looking at the foter, maybe I should barricade the street off, and set up a private racetrack. There's several Porsches, a Lambo, some VFRs, a De Tomaso Pantera, and the usual Boi RacR cars in the area. Much better use for it than driving semi-empty buses around or raising money for the next round of ridiculous (un)civil servant pay rises...

[pritch]

Of course there's the minor inconvenience of having the car towed away from under your arse and the comensurate costs - not just to the Govt but there's payment to be arranged with the tow company - and nowadays the likelihood of loss of said vehicle.

i.e. 1st & 2nd time for DIC the fine CAN be as high as $4,500, - when was the last time anybody heard of a 1st or 2nd time offender getting even a ONE thousand doller fine?

One Guy I know was an indefinitely disqualified driver.
He drank beer for breakfast if he had it, and routinely drove pissed and disqualified.

He hadn't worked in twenty years or more and I'm bloody sure he didn't pay any fines. He may have done some PD but in the end he got a "short custodial sentence" (either one week or one month I can't recall) and the slate was clean for him to start again.

If his car was confiscated it would cost more to tow than it was worth and he'd have another one the same in a week or two.

The politicians make the mistake of believing their own publicity, the real recidivists are substantially unaffected by any of the sanctions.

How many millions are owed in unpaid fines?

[vifferman]

The politicians make the mistake of believing their own publicity,

That's because they take themselves seriously.

the real recidivists are substantially unaffected by any of the sanctions.

Indeed not.
I suspect laws and punishment are really intended for more or less law-abiding people, who break them only accidentally or in exceptional circumstances, and therefore don't actually need to be punished anyway.
It's kind of ironic (and fargin annoying) that those people such as gang members who choose to live almost continuously outside of the law and society expect to have all the benefits of society when it suits them, and are accorded them as if they are as worthy as a law-abiding citizen!
It would make more sense to say, "Well, you've proven that you have no intention of living according to our rules, so fuck you!"
That's kind of what happened when England shipped people off to the penal colony, I guess, except it seems those who were "criminals" were often just poor and hungry, and often guilty of no real crime, and those doing the "off to the colony with you" bit were the real criminals.

How many millions are owed in unpaid fines?

It's OK - they're only owed until such time as they're deemed to be too large and unpayable, then they are wiped.
So they'll never get really REALLY big.

[Toaster]

But ticketing speeding is still only a poor substitute for simply not refusing to give common idiot incompetent fucktards licenses, valid for well over half a century without any retesting, in the first place.

So are you saying that if you had proper training to begin with you would speed like a fucktard?

[Sollyboy]

Fuck it!
Only two blo...... That's 70 points in the last coupla munce, and $340. I can't afford either.

So slow down numb nuts or pick better places to speed

[vifferman]

Gee.. thanks for that helpful advice.
Oh - and thanks too for the name-calling. Do you feel better now? Bigger? Stronger? More manly?

[Swoop]

I am seriously considering selling my bike.

Enough of the crazy-man talk!!!
NURSE! Get this man a sanity injection, STAT!

Used to be I didn't have neighbours. Now I've implimented a straegic wmd treaty, they don't bitch about the ruccus and I don't ride on their garden.

Fuck, I like that idea!
I might have to start winding up the bitch that dobbed me into the council the other day.......

[Harry the Barstard]

Hey man ive been where you are, I think if a few of us are honnest alsot of us have. Just learn from it.

I was thinking of giving biking the boot after gettin $600 fine an fitty points. But instead i sold my 05 6RR an got an owe 5 900 Hornet. I have slowed down so much its not funny. The interesting thing is that i still get the same enjoyment off this bike as i did on the sexRR but im riding pretty legal. Way more than i was anyway.

[scracha]

Fuck it!
a mere 50m from my house. $170 and 35 demerits later and I'm REALLY pissed

So were you doing 80something kays in a 50 or 130something kays in a 100?

[H00dz]

Being close to home makes it worse, cause if you did run and got caught, really bad things happen... stopping is always the right thing to do.

I feel for you but I'm with ZeroIndex on this one ....though its a tuff lesson ya done the right thing.....my brotha in law lives by the creed...If ya can't do the time, don't do the crime!!..... I know this is no consolation for your fine BUT heres some some "bling for doing the right thing"

[Max Preload]

So are you saying that if you had proper training to begin with you would speed like a fucktard?

I've had proper training and I don't speed like a fucktard anyway - they speed indiscriminately. I might break the arbitrary speed limit most of the time, but rarely excessively and never beyond my ability.

If someone can't back a trailer, reverse around a corner or get into a normal parking spot first go, they really don't have the skills to be operating a motorvehicle on the road. And that is the fact of the matter.

[Ocean1]

Funny thing is, I think one of my sons has that.

It's either hereditary or subliminal early conditioning. The old man didn't know squat about music until they started "discovering" floyd, Parsons, Oldfield... All of a sudden my collection dwindled alarmingly, and they started asking about Hendrix, Clapton etc.

Clapton story. Years ago he was asked to score and play background music for a TV mini series thriller. Wasn't a bad story, can't remember the title, about corporate global environmental nasties and "Gia" and a cop, Tommy Lee Jones iirc...

Anyway, story goes that Clapton turned up at the studio on the day having written nothing, and the producer was worried. He recorded the 6 odd hours worth off-the-cuff, in one take, in one sitting, with zero preparation. Nailed it. It was fucking good too.





She's a witch of trouble in electric blue,
In her own mad mind shes in love with you.
With you.
Now what you gonna do?

Strange brew,
kill whats inside of you.

[howdamnhard]

HA,HA,HA I like it.






The question I asked myself then was should I run....him over[/QUOTE]

[vifferman]

So were you doing 80something kays in a 50 or 130something kays in a 100?

Try and pay attention. (I guess because you were late in joining this thread, you missed some salient facts.
I was doing 72km/h. Yes, that's significantly over the speed limit, and I pretty much knew I was speeding. When I started this thread, I was still shaking from the adrenaline, and still angry (like I said - at the police, myself, my bike, the neighbour, and the BikerGodz.) But it's also very easy to slip over the speed limit by that much: my bike is immensely powerful and I have a really huge knob and enormous nads, and such pathetic speeds are nothing.
Yes, I was naughty, got pinged, it's my own fault, waah waah, pay up, ride more carefully, end of story.

I'm actually sorry now I started this thread, although we've all had some laughs along the way.
I may still sell my bike, but not just yet. Still have some stuff to do to it. My new shock is being dispatched in a few days, so I may as well fit that, upgrade the front end, fit some new tyres, and sort out the latest map I've loaded on the Power Commander before I do anything too precipitous.