my wife copped a fine posted in a mail for double parking, while she stopped for less than 10 seconds for our son to come out of the car at his school, where the council never built a drop-off zone or a school carpark... she was not blocking the traffic as no one was behind her... the f.cking parking inspector was hiding in a parked car taking photos (taking a parking spot that a parent could use)... all this was organized by council (Maribyrnong council to be specific)... so if anyone still claims that some of our laws and some things that government does are fair and justified, you are out of your mind.
AUSTRALIA = Land of Cotton Wool , you've got my vote...
Hey echostorm, you stole my uncle chopper idea from my earlier post
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44615 but I do agree with ya.
Drove on the freeway in Queensland the other day after getting back from the UK and have to say Australians are the worst freeway drivers... Leave the right hand lane for those wanting to go fast! And least give us 130km/hr speed limits on dual carriageway! We have long distances to drive here!
Harry Potter: nothing makes you look like an imbecile more than spelling imbecile incorrectly ya numpty!
im·be·cile (mb-sl, -sl)
n.
1. A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
2. A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
3. A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
To "superlizard",.... if your wifes double parking had caused another lazy parent to run over a kid you might think differently. If you have ever had to see people dead on the road you would have a different view. That is why highway patrol police don't flinch when they write you a ticket.... because they have seen to many "good drivers" bleeding on the bitumen.
I agree that some rules and regulations are over the top and they are often enforced without reasonable discretion, but road rules are there for a reason.... think about the people who have to clean up the mess and tell your families that you took your wool off for the afternoon.
There are times and places to push your limits.... namely when a mistake will only kill yourself and not others around you.
Stop whining.
Some thieving piece of work is riding around on my bike illegally at the moment.
Stolen from in front of a client's office on Friday afternoon, it's more likely that it's in pieces and slowly being sold off the back of a truck somewhere than actually being ridden.
The guys in the office over the road saw someone hammering at the steering lock, so they took a photo with a mobile phone.
this whole thread is exposing the holes in our laws, and you are still not able to see it:
- high spead limits on dangerous and narrow roads, and low limits on big wide freeways
- 1 year restrictions on bike capacity, instead of providing adequate training and testing to ensure people are skilled enough to upgrade to bigger bikes (didn't you read what i said, what is there to stop someone getting a license, and after 1 year without any experience getting a fast bike... nothing... where is the safety in that - and i've seen people do this)
The thing is in normal circumstances, where a law is in place and it's not about to be changed, i'm all for authorities making sure that the laws are upheld. But this time cop knew that the amended new law is about to take place in two weeks... the authorities already decided that 600cc is now adequate for beginners... how the hell was he contributing to the safety of anyone on this planet, apart from making extra profit?? If he wanted to uphold the law, i'm sure he would have found much more useful places to spend his time. (such as stopping the thiefs from steeling GreenPat's bike)
Are you a cop perhaps?
Cops should never give fines!!!!
Unfortunately, enforcing the laws is necessary and government are relying on revenue making.
However,there could be a private company monitered by the justice department in charge of administrating fines.
Police should be here to help and protect the community and not revenue making.
Imagine the respect they would get and deserve from us all if they would actually fulfill their duty.
I have zero respect for the police, they are unable to attend when contacted for an emergency yet they are always standing in some dodgy spot (slight downhill, 200 meters before an inrease in the speed limit) keeping our roads safe (yeah,right!!!).
If their true purpose is to slow down traffic, why are they going to sooo much effort to hide behind trees
Sorry. I was responding to what I saw as yet another repeat of the claim that there is a 10% error allowed in the speedometers therefore it is impossible to drive on the speed limit because speedos not accurate enough. It's not true and I can prove it easily.
I'm sure you are not personally a **** but drivers who habitually speed and try to justify their behaviour certainly are.
BTW. People are not perfect and with all the care in the world people will exceed the speed limit, either accidentally or even deliberately. Being unlucky enough to get a speeding fine is just part of driving. Statistically there are so few cops and so few speed cameras that the chances of getting a ticket are very slim.
If you are getting booked on a regular basis it is because you are not even trying to observe the speed limits and you deserve everything you get ... including being locked in a cell with Ivan Milat.
Hmm..
Maybe if drivers learned that the correct action when faced with a 'situation' isn't always to stamp on that middle pedal and close their eyes? All those nice stopping distance statistics would be irrelevant: How many accidents do you see where the black lines lead straight to the scene of the accident, yet simply letting off that pedal and twirling the big wheel in front of the driver could have avoided a mess?
Sure speed kills - if we never went anywhere, we'd never have accidents, but get real. P1ss poor driving kills. That includes inappropriate speed, but doesn't mean the world will end if I exceed 110kph.
As for australian speed limits, they mean I'm far more likely to fall asleep at the wheel than anything. Seriously, the speed myopia in vic particularly makes for some of the most incredibly unaware, unpredictable drivers I've had the displeasure to mix with. I'd rather drive round milan in rush hour. Nutters for sure, but at least they know what's going on around them.
As for the hypothetical 7 year old mentioned earlier, the kid shouldn't be ****ing around by the road unsupervised. About time people (parents too) took responsibility for their own actions, and consequences thereof, rather than making it everyone else (and particularly the motorist's) fault.
No shyte we are being wrapped up. Can grown up people be responsible for their own actions by any chance? As for motorcycle riders, i dont think lane splitting at the lights is a big deal, in fact it may encourage people sitting in cars at lights in city to get on a bike or smaller greener transport if it can be quicker to get around. I do think however, that motorcyclists who want to be seen and treated like any other road user, should obey the same rules.
Speed limits are there because inexperienced drivers are getting in powerfull cars with crap brakes, bald tyres, no seatbelts, driving like dkheads and wondering why there is a lightpole imbedded in their head. These dkheads are the ones that are likely to wipeout other drivers doing the right thing, and therefore have the speedlimit dropped again. No turbos, and no V8,s for p platers, unless theyre on the track.
Harden the **** up australia.............and get out on the water