Cardboard Police car

[imdying]

They're not impersonating an officer, just his car. Maybe the difference is in that? I know you can't impersonate their cars either (well I assume you can't?), but maybe the bylaw or whatever is something to do with that distinction?

I bet they don't leave them out after hours though

[Beemer]

I don't have a problem with it, hopefully it may result in our car having fewer stone chips from morons who hoon past me in the opposite direction, showering said car with gravel. There have been two serious (both fatal) accidents at road works near where I live, so at least they are trying to do something about it. They're a lot more realistic than the earlier cardboard cut outs - these look actual size for a start!

[McJim]

They're not impersonating an officer, just his car. Maybe the difference is in that? I know you can't impersonate their cars either (well I assume you can't?), but maybe the bylaw or whatever is something to do with that distinction?

I bet they don't leave them out after hours though

The trick is to paint your car up like a police car and then in your defence say "I'm going to a Blues Brothers convention - we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's night and we're wearing dark glasses - hit it"

[ManDownUnder]

The trick is to paint your car up like a police car and then in your defence say "I'm going to a Blues Brothers convention - we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's night and we're wearing dark glasses - hit it"

What happened to "On a mission from God!"??

[onearmedbandit]

I'd slow down too!!

But surely you wouldn't need to?

IIRC I think the Amberely Police down here had something similar years ago. That's one town you don't want to speed through.

[Drunken Monkey]

They could just lay out chicane with barrels and/or cones at the start of the roadworks to slow people down if that was really the problem. Of course, that would just be too easy.

LOL @ the comment about them impersonating people working...

[bull]

Ive always thought that a lifesize printed version of cop car would be a cheap alternative to have on the side of a road - fulton and hogan doing it is bloody good initiative but i think next step should be the actual police incorporating it.
Its the feared look of a police car that slows people down on the roads so having them stationed all along our roads would be good, then they could slot a real car in at different times just to deter those who know that the fakes are there.

But then i guess everyone will have a cry that they are tricking us into getting speeding tickets.
They will definitely need to put a high fine or something as a deterrant to stealing them. Id love one for my house.

[Colapop]

They could just lay out chicane with barrels and/or cones at the start of the roadworks to slow people down if that was really the problem. Of course, that would just be too easy.

LOL @ the comment about them impersonating people working...

Yeah, coz cones are really hard to run over in a truck....

I've worked on the roads and some f*cks don't give a shit. You get hit with a stone in the eye or clipped by a wing mirror if you're lucky. People get killed by idiots speeding through roadworks.

Sorry, that's right we spent too much time sitting on our arses to get hurt.

[mstriumph]

Can it be construed as impersonating a police officer though..If the police had done it then fair play but Fulton Hogan? I think they've broken the law.

i don't think you can be done for impersonating a policeCAR ........

-- how could it be imPERSONation, anyway? ...

[Waylander]

They paid $1000 for it? How are they gonna make that money back? I doubt that thing will be able to fine anyone so are they gonna make up some new tax?

[Flatcap]

They could have a cardboard cut out of a car crash - that would get the rubber-neckers to slow to a crawl...

[rwh]

I've worked on the roads and some f*cks don't give a shit. You get hit with a stone in the eye or clipped by a wing mirror if you're lucky. People get killed by idiots speeding through roadworks.

From the point of view of someone who hasn't worked on the roads - I don't think I'd really thought of the flicking stones issue. Maybe that's because I don't think enough, but that's not the point. The point is that I, incorrectly, see/saw the limits as being too low, and ignored them.

Perhaps if they added some graphics showing a roadworker getting hit by a stone? And perhaps a comment about how the road needs to 'set' after resealing, as was mentioned in another thread.

Perhaps I'm odd, but I tend to take things more seriously if I can see the reasoning.

Richard

[Colapop]

Pictures? It'd be better if people watched their speedo's. Stones hurt. Have you ever tried to crack a windscreen with your knuckles? And yet stones do it pretty easily.

[McJim]

i don't think you can be done for impersonating a policeCAR ........

-- how could it be imPERSONation, anyway? ...

Hmmmm - so that's where we got the word incarceration from....

[Skyryder]

You're not supposed to waste cops - either at the side of the road or anywhere else for that matter.

Can it be construed as impersonating a police officer though..If the police had done it then fair play but Fulton Hogan? I think they've broken the law.

No I don't think so. No one is impersonating the police. It's not dissimular to the card board cut outs of police man at the entrance of shopping malls. Have not seen one in ages but this worked to deter shoplifters.


Skyryder