Select to expand quotesn said..busterwa said..
I can smoke half a packet of Winny blues while eating a large ultimate whopper meal with a can of emu export in-between my legs and still stear with my knees!
I can see at least 1 charge of drink driving there for the tinnie,
and possibly another of careless driving, for the whopper and smokes,
steering with the knees is either careless driving or dangerous driving, depending on the mood of Mr Plod at the time.
Flick your winnie butt's out the window and the econazi's will have your nuts............
stephen
It wouldn't be a drink driving charge unless he blew over, unlikely on one tinnie. But it is street drinking and that's a ticket.
Multi-tasking isn't an offence either (unless it includes a phone).
The sum of all the parts should be enough to get a careless or dangerous over the line but If he maintains proper control of the vehicle it might not too. You could argue its like one of those buskers in the city that play four instruments at once, if it works it works well, if it doesn't it's pretty bad.
Probably the biggest penalty is if he was smoking in the car with kids, not that anyone has ever been charged with that in WA. I don't even know who enforces that one, police, shire rangers, parking inspectors...???
I hate driving in Sydney, that I'm not all too familiar with, navigating with the built-in GPS (life saver), trying to figure out which lane I'm supposed to be in after this 5-way intersection, so I don't accidentally drive into a tunnel that takes miles in the wrong direction, and charges me $5 for the pleasure, and $5 to come back again, all while watching the cars around me, and bicycles, and pedestrians, all of whom are hyper aggressive and looking for a fight, and making sure I'm not in a bus lane ($300 fine, yep, got one), and not speeding of course god forbid, so I'm also watching all the changing speed zones, while the kids are clowning around noisily in the back like some sort of hybrid zoo-circus, and my wife is asking me about something really important that I am supposed to deeply consider because my answer will have ramifications. Yeah, I hate driving in Sydney.
I couple of years ago I went on a road trip to Sydney in a new car with a built-in GPS. I put in the address of the hotel and the GPS took me there turn by turn, including all the tunnels. I missed a couple of turns in the heart of Sydney and the GPS took me around the block to get to the hotel.
The in-car system has an interlock so you can't press any buttons when you're driving. If you use it properly a GPS can enhance safety.
What I do have a problem with is mates and family who use the phone while driving. They're friends so you can't really lecture them about the evils of using mobile phones while driving but it's still wrong. The irony is one of the guys is a father and would slam anybody that put his kids at risk, but is happy to yarp on the phone because he's smart enough to talk and drive at the same time.
Select to expand quoteGorgo said...
What I do have a problem with is mates and family who use the phone while driving. They're friends so you can't really lecture them about the evils of using mobile phones while driving but it's still wrong. The irony is one of the guys is a father and would slam anybody that put his kids at risk, but is happy to yarp on the phone because he's smart enough to talk and drive at the same time.
mate, peer pressure is one of the best ways to change behavior!! tell him he's being a d1ck and why... you might be surprised at his response as I reckon everyone really knows how wrong it is and how inattentive they are when they do it.
Select to expand quoteGorgo said..
I couple of years ago I went on a road trip to Sydney in a new car with a built-in GPS. I put in the address of the hotel and the GPS took me there turn by turn, including all the tunnels. I missed a couple of turns in the heart of Sydney and the GPS took me around the block to get to the hotel.
The in-car system has an interlock so you can't press any buttons when you're driving. If you use it properly a GPS can enhance safety.
What I do have a problem with is mates and family who use the phone while driving. They're friends so you can't really lecture them about the evils of using mobile phones while driving but it's still wrong. The irony is one of the guys is a father and would slam anybody that put his kids at risk, but is happy to yarp on the phone because he's smart enough to talk and drive at the same time.
Just dont put the f_cking thing in the middle of the f_cking windscreen!!! 
Select to expand quoteevlPanda said...
I hate driving in Sydney, that I'm not all too familiar with, navigating with the built-in GPS (life saver), trying to figure out which lane I'm supposed to be in after this 5-way intersection, so I don't accidentally drive into a tunnel that takes miles in the wrong direction, and charges me $5 for the pleasure, and $5 to come back again, all while watching the cars around me, and bicycles, and pedestrians, all of whom are hyper aggressive and looking for a fight, and making sure I'm not in a bus lane ($300 fine, yep, got one), and not speeding of course god forbid, so I'm also watching all the changing speed zones, while the kids are clowning around noisily in the back like some sort of hybrid zoo-circus, and my wife is asking me about something really important that I am supposed to deeply consider because my answer will have ramifications. Yeah, I hate driving in Sydney.
when I used to have to drive in sydney, I'd pull over out the front of my nans' old place, next to kitepower, take the number plates off the silver bullet, and continue on my way...
used to do it dozens of times, go through the tunnels, across the bridge, bus lanes, that horrible 15 minute parking in every street in hurstville centre, once as I came back to my car from the courthouse hotel in newtown, a copper hit me up about no plates on the bullet... I told him I caught this young asian kid stealing them and took them out of the car to show him...
he said ' no worries, can you describe this fella..?'
I said ' yeah he was asian'
he laughed and told me to put them back on when I got home..
Just don't drive in queensland. Been up there a couple of times in the last few years, been run off the road at least once each time. the daughter just returned after schoolies and yep sure enough had some dill reverse into her in Noosa.
In each occasion it has been as a result of not checking behind when reversing or changing lanes, it seems the qld licencing system has a deficiency in this regard.
Sorry to hear your story Dale. Rotten to be the innocent victim of someone else's poor driving.
I'm a cyclist and one of my nearest misses was from a driver who decided to pull over and park legally to answer a call, but didn't bother to have a look in the bike lane first. Had my son in the bike seat that day, too.
Select to expand quotetheDoctor said..
that horrible 15 minute parking in every street in hurstville centre
once as I came back to my car from the courthouse hotel in newtown
Gee, you hang around all the best places in Sydney 
Select to expand quotestuk said..
it seems the qld licencing system has a deficiency in this regard.
it's one big one, along with lazy roadworks signage (where there are no roadworks) and unnecessary risk taking in general. it's really noticeable after you've spent time in other states
it probably relates back to the low number of qld police compared to other states, though that seems to be improving, albeit very very slowly
There is a rule up here that I have not been able to find in the book.
It goes something like "When it rains you must drive harder and faster."
Select to expand quoteHaircut said..stuk said..
it seems the qld licencing system has a deficiency in this regard.
it's one big one, along with lazy roadworks signage (where there are no roadworks) and unnecessary risk taking in general. it's really noticeable after you've spent time in other states
it probably relates back to the low number of qld police compared to other states, though that seems to be improving, albeit very very slowlySelect to expand quotecisco said..
There is a rule up here that I have not been able to find in the book.
It goes something like "When it rains you must drive harder and faster."
Don't you know?
Up here we don't need cops, there only there to chase bikies.
Its "$peed cameras for road $afety" they $olve everything on the road!
Driving down Leach Hwy last night in left lane,doing about 70 kms heading towards Fremantle and I see a car 50-100 metres ahead reverse or roll slowly out of a driveway with no lights on into my lane. Did not have time to apply brake so I just drove half into the middle lane around the car. Lucky I did not hit another car. I then looked in my rear view mirror and saw a bloke pushing it up his driveway. The difference between hitting the car at 70 Kms and 60 Kms is likely huge in terms of possible injury.
