Had a dodgy ticket?

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4435218a24035.html

fascinating.

I concur entirely with His Honour, and my learned friend Mr Kipling (or Keating): no speedometer is necessary, drive to the conditions. the corollary is that enforcement of the existing offences (careless, dangerous, reckless) then become all that is required.

Discuss.*






* without turning to a cop bashing thread (baiting is OK though......)

[Disco Dan]

Thats what we do best in life... find that hole and dive straight in...

[Patrick]

Ahhhh.... so a play in words on the back of the ticket has every thing to do with the fact he was speeding/illegally parked in the first place... I get it...

[SixPackBack]

Ahhhh.... so a play in words on the back of the ticket has every thing to do with the fact he was speeding/illegally parked in the first place... I get it...

Patrick the Police are just as likely to gain a conviction using under hand means. Right and wrong are neither the court nor the Police forces strong points-gaining convictions is.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Ahhhh.... so a play in words on the back of the ticket has every thing to do with the fact he was speeding/illegally parked in the first place... I get it...

Well, no.

The Judge's point was that the statute said "the person accused of the offence has 28 days to do X" but the wording on the ticket didnt reflect that, leading to confusion.

Hardly a "play in words", more a "fuckup", yes?

[idleidolidyll]

Patrick the Police are just as likely to gain a conviction using under hand means. Right and wrong are neither the court nor the Police forces strong points-gaining convictions is.

yep

i was once booked for going too slow on my motorbike.
strange thing was that i was at the BACK of a queue of cars when the cop pulled up behind me.

The asswipe cop when challenged on that point just said "your word against mine"

[Finn]

I was once booked for going too slow on my motorbike.

[idleidolidyll]

oh look, my stalker's back

[Finn]

oh look, my stalker's back

Sniper more like it.

[idleidolidyll]

perhaps you should use live ammo instead of bb pellets then

i'm unimpressed as hell

[Finn]

perhaps you should use live ammo instead of bb pellets then

i'm unimpressed as hell

Oh it's live ammo, I'm just having trouble sighting you through all the bullshit.

[marty]

it's dickheads like kipping that have made the legislation for all types of trivial matters so tight - even though the Summary Proceedings Act states that the offence will not be nullified for 'want of form'.

[idleidolidyll]

Oh it's live ammo, I'm just having trouble sighting you through all the bullshit.

suckered again, ask yer missus; you're firing blanks

it's totally laughable

[Macstar]

I got let off a speeding ticket recently!! Just as the cop was about to begin writing it out another motorist drove past on the wrong side of a residential road speeding. The cop looked at me and handed me back my license and then took off after the other motorist. Phew!

Sometimes, just sometimes, it can go the other way.

[MaxB]

I got let off a speeding ticket recently!! Just as the cop was about to begin writing it out another motorist drove past on the wrong side of a residential road speeding. The cop looked at me and handed me back my license and then took off after the other motorist. Phew!

Sometimes, just sometimes, it can go the other way.

Miracles can happen!