Don't get me wrong I love Australia - but who is making all the rules ?
Wear a helmet on your bike or get fined- I have been cautioned 3 times
No skateboarding pretty much everywhere- cautioned twice
No rigging of kite gear on a public reserve ?
All these rules and regulations are starting to make me feel sick- and the people who enforce them are tool bags- had a few polite words to some cops one night and was told to p@#$ off or be arrested- complained about their behaviour the next day and was continuously fobbed off.
We are getting to the stage in SA that if it is fun you can't do it !!!!!!
Instead of whinging and whining about it what positive steps can be taken to change it ?
The laws regarding public liability and the potential to be sued are creating a state of fear where councils and governments are too scared to endorse anything cos it may come back and bite them.....
Can it be changed ??? Or are we destined to continue down the path of idiot america ?
head up to the NT. like australia was 20 - 30 years ago. serious time warp. not many rules. police are freindly. sweet place for the rule adverse.
rules or no rules it's still an awesome country, Australia has got everything. Hot, cold, reef, rainforest, desert, lakes, inlets, islands, its got it all
But Doood!!
The dog psychology was good.. but probably illegal.
Throw the kid on the ground in a vulnerable position. An unmistakeable message even for a 14 year old.
I thought cop was well composed. No kid gloves or cotton wool there. Perhaps a little over the top but..
I don't reckon those kids will be back skating there ever again, and they've learned something.
Ballsy to film it though..
What are they doing wrong ? Nothing- if they weren't skating they would be out tagging walls and breaking windows. This is what I am talking about... let them be.
The sad fact is we need lots of rules because of this shocking culture of 0 consideration for anyone or anything.
lol. I wonder if that bloke has had a heart attack yet.
There's your answer loverboy - publicity. Tape it and post it on Youtube.
haha Thats Great I love the bit at the end when he asks if the video Camera was on and said not to post in on Youtube.
haha Thats Great I love the bit at the end when he asks if the video Camera was on and said not to post in on Youtube.
Based on my zero knowledge of any form of psychology I reckon that having more rules actually makes people less considerate to their fellow human beings 'cos it takes away your intuitive sense of what's right and basically says "well, I'm not breaking any rules so I can't be doing anything wrong."
If i had witnessed what that copper in the youtube clip was doin to that young skate boarder,i would not have been able to walk by without getting involved,guns and all.Bad day and all that copper seriously needs help.
Thanks 'Bargearse'
Your dead right about the grub percentage per population and the more people the more grubs.
Even the Gold Coast was once a laid back town.
NOW!!! Gee don't even get me started.
Barge Asse you hit the nail on the head mate. Australia Day right now, what the
hell does that mean, polictal correct bullcrap, is this what we are meant to celebrate?
nice one bargearse.
so being australian means having a chat to a doctor while he feels you nuts..
i guess we see things differently.
all countries have their good and bad.
at least our cops don't carry machine guns.
we don't have to join the army.
the sky's blue.
our humour is a crack
we don't have 5000 years of waring religeuos history
our government isn't hated around the globe
our passport gets us into almost any country without issue
yes i grew up in a rural town where you could do anything, ride without helmets, skate on the street, shoot stuff, blow stuff up, etc etc only to have the cop tell the old man when he saw him next.
times have changed, after 2 years seeing the world i'd still pick australia anyday.
Fortunately the freak depicted in this video is not representative of the men and women in our police force. The problem is when you encounter the odd freak (minority) and he/she has a Taser Gun. Freak plus taser results in disater. Do our services really need these things.....
And it still astounds me how immature some people can be. They are only doing their job, feeding their families like the rest of the population. They do not make the rules, but if they dont enforce them they get disciplined. This country loves shifting the blame- so councils or government make laws/by-laws everyone bends over and takes it then blames the people who have to enforce the stupid law in the first place even though they may not agree with it themselves.
Take skateboarding in a public square of daytime for instance, skater knocks down old granny who breaks her hip and has to spend 6 months in hospital. Skater doing the typical thing pisses off, but people skate there all the time- who is grannies family going to seek compensation for medical bills etc from- The non-existant skater? or the property owners/council who didn't do anything about people engaging in a potentially dangerous activity in a public place. I'm all for the rights of the skateboarder to enjoy his activity but he also needs to consider others and the damage he might be doing. The number of times i've seen $x000 pieces of glass damaged by wayward skateboards, just walk on nothing happened until the next day when property owner goes wtf happened to my window. Although there are not many most councils around here have installed skateparks that we would have killed to have access to as a kid, I don't see the sense in deciding you will go grind on some 100+yo dressed sandstone block instead.
There are right ways to go about things for sure, yes that cop is a tool but that doesnt make all cops tools. What happens alot is authorities start polite, person they are talking to snaps back and authority does what people do- react (even though they are trained to not). I wish it was almost compulsory that everyone gets to live what police or security who work in busy area like city cbd do. Those that have been on the street a bit may think they know what it is like but they still don't, it is very easy to lose faith in society.
Regarding tasers, no they don't need them it's easier to shoot a mentally ill person wielding a hiv/hepatitis filled syringe