Highway Cops

[Dave Lobster]

You don't get too many fatals at lower speeds... hence the "slow down" bit...

Maybe if the standard of driving was a bit higher, there wouldn't be so many crashes to start with. But the public money is spent on heaps of adverts for the social engineering box in everyone's living room, rather than raising the standard of ability.
Going fast isn't inherently dangerous. Being a dick while going fast is.

While the police are signed up to the 'speed kills' rather than 'inappropriate speed kills', beeeep.. repetition..

[Ixion]

Let me see; wooden-wheeled cart, donkey, speeding.

In Medieval times which would be the odd one out?

I'm picking 'c'.

Strange as it may seem, speeding and careless driving were a big problem in 18th century London. Taxi drivers were the worst culprits! The watch were always taking them up for it.

You could still be hung drawn and quartered in the 19th century. Not so long ago

[Patrick]

She is an old argument, but yeah, you are right... but al the speeders are keeping the snakes too busy for them to deal with other stuff...

[peasea]

Maybe if the standard of driving was a bit higher, there wouldn't be so many crashes to start with. But the public money is spent on heaps of adverts for the social engineering box in everyone's living room, rather than raising the standard of ability.
Going fast isn't inherently dangerous. Being a dick while going fast is.

While the police are signed up to the 'speed kills' rather than 'inappropriate speed kills', beeeep.. repetition..

True words.

[Patrick]

You could still be hung drawn and quartered in the 91th century. Not so long ago

The 91th century...?

Mutht have blinked and mithed that one then....

[scumdog]

Maybe if the standard of driving was a bit higher, there wouldn't be so many crashes to start with. But the public money is spent on heaps of adverts for the social engineering box in everyone's living room, rather than raising the standard of ability.
Going fast isn't inherently dangerous. Being a dick while going fast is.

While the police are signed up to the 'speed kills' rather than 'inappropriate speed kills', beeeep.. repetition..

The ol' public is pretty thick when it comes to their driving - screaming obvious shit like not overtaking on blind bends, running red lights etc seem not to be noticed by them unless 'somebody else' (or a cop?) is doing it.

And if the 'standard of ability' is that of a turd in the first place you haven't a shit-show of raising it...

Oh, and common sense ain't when it comes to driving.

[Ixion]

The 91th century...?

Mutht have blinked and mithed that one then....

Oh. Hang on. Only one moon up there. It's Christian era calendar here isn't it, still ? For a few more years. I got to put some signs on those doors.

[slofox]

Oh. Hang on. Only one moon up there. It's Christian era calendar here isn't it, still ? For a few more years. I got to put some signs on those doors.

Hmmm...alternate realities huh Ixion? Bastards those eh? 's what happens when ya get old...

[Dave Lobster]

The ol' public is pretty thick when it comes to their driving - screaming obvious shit like not overtaking on blind bends, running red lights etc seem not to be noticed by them unless 'somebody else' (or a cop?) is doing it.

Yup..

And if the 'standard of ability' is that of a turd in the first place you haven't a shit-show of raising it.

I'm not convinced.. it just needs the will of the courts, etc. to get people's licences off them when they're in court for doing something dumb. It needs the government to have the will to increase the standard. Top gear next Sunday has a piece with Captain Slow in Finland with Mikka Hakkenen (sp..). It takes about three years for someone to get a licence there. That seems a bit extreme to me, and the piece didn't go into too much detail. However, the standard of ability there is higher as a consequence. I've been in the AA shop in Auckland and have seen people doing the theory multiple guess questions with the aid of a translator. That seems like a recipe for disaster from where I'm sitting.

[Ixion]

Hmmm...alternate realities huh Ixion? Bastards those eh? 's what happens when ya get old...

I don't even have one reality let alone alternates.

[scumdog]

Yup..

I've been in the AA shop in Auckland and have seen people doing the theory multiple guess questions with the aid of a translator. That seems like a recipe for disaster from where I'm sitting.

Oh, it's waay worse than that - there's dumb-arsed Kiwi pricks that only went to school to eat their lunch and who can't read or write - and get their licence by somebody else doing the reading for them.

Maybe they should also get somebody else to do their driving too??

[peasea]

Oh, it's waay worse than that - there's dumb-arsed Kiwi pricks that only went to school to eat their lunch and who can't read or write - and get their licence by somebody else doing the reading for them.

Maybe they should also get somebody else to do their driving too??

Now THERE'S an idea. Maybe get some Asians in to help out?
Fark, I just fell off my chair again.

[slofox]

Back on the topic of Highway Cops, I passed one today on Kaipaki Road, going t'other way. As usual I gave him a wave (no. NOT one fingered at all.)....then watched in the rearview as he spun a u-turn and proceeded to coming racing up behind me...all for no good reason coz as usual, as befits a venerable grampa, I was merely pootling along at or about the legal limit (specially after I spotted what he was doing...). Point of fact, there was a huge rain squall bearing down on me which I could no longer avoid since it was between me and home. Rain quickly became so hard I couldn't really see a lot so was slowed down even more. Quite soon the patrol car disappeared from behind. I felt so sorry to disappoint the gentleman. Perhaps next time I see him I can really fang it so that he feels useful after all...
To be honest it gets a little thin to be assumed to be in breach of the lor simply because one rides a motorized velocipede....but then, maybe I am just paranoid...

[Dave Lobster]

FFS.. considering how much cash the labour government steals off people to pay for the police, that there'd be more than enough cash to go round.

Wasn't it 'more policemen' that they were elected on? You'd have thought the dumb idiots would have noticed they're being lied to by now.