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| Thread ID: 120590 | 2011-09-15 21:31:00 | Do You Flash Your Headlights. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1231464 | 2011-09-16 01:48:00 | Look at the car he drives. No speed camera worries there :) :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1231465 | 2011-09-16 04:01:00 | When they first had speed camera signs years ago along the Carterton straight they didn't include the two corners where virtually all accidents happened, only the straight so it was obvious that it was purely a revenue gathering exercise. 100% and here in newplymouth on the new motor way it slows to 80km/hr before you get to countdown and the pigs sit just over the hill where you are decelerating from 100. Its no black spot so why sit there. its revenue gathering. they have admitted it years ago they have to get so many tickets a day or they answer to the boss |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1231466 | 2011-09-16 04:58:00 | There bwe have a hint of a police state, and it ain't nice. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1231467 | 2011-09-16 07:33:00 | In the UK the AA used this.... "The Automobile Association's 15 million members will be given a taste of the organisation's golden days today with the return of the AA salute. Last seen in 1961, the practice will return for one day only as the organisation marks the launch of its new livery. The salute was a tradition for 60 years, with patrolmen instructed to make the gesture if they saw a motorist sporting the AA's insignia. It originated at the start of the last century as drivers started to run foul of police speed traps in which officers used a stopwatch to calculate whether or not a car was going too fast. Even then it was illegal to warn motorists about speed traps, but the AA advised its members to stop if a patrolman failed to salute, and the driver would then be given information about "road conditions" ahead. The "crisp, sharp salute" will be used today by patrols when they attend a breakdown, rather than as a matter of course for all passing AA members." Daily Telegraph April 11 2006. I thought the "failure to salute" was an urban myth until I found a 1930's AA guide and it was printed at the bottom of every 2nd page. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1231468 | 2011-09-16 07:50:00 | I got a fine for 'not complying with an orange traffic signal' a while back. Absolute bull, I was through the intersection before the light turned red. Only time I've actually been angry at a cop. He was ready to try and do me for insecure load too cause I had a chainsaw and a few other bits just sitting on the back of the ute...calmed down though and all was good. $150 though! Bastard... :angry Yeah, I've been in that situation too. I was damned tired after a day spent on unpaid charity work, the road was empty, bar this hidden cop, and the light had only just gone amber to red. His bullsh line was that the light was full green as I went through the other way against the red. He went straight from ticketing me to immediately pulling over another driver the moment he'd sat back into his vehicle. I find it hard to believe he'd spotted a genuine infringement happening within seconds of sitting down. This swine was simply getting his quota, and as we all know, if it came to a show-down in court we'd lose to the cop and be paying costs as well. Seen the same thing happen again on another local street - straight from one pull-over to another the moment his butt hit the seat. I generally have a lot of respect for the police, but it's behaviours such as this by a few that quite justifiably gets some of them labeled as filth and pigs. I'd like to think these cases are the exception. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1231469 | 2011-09-16 08:27:00 | If the lights turn orange and you can stop safely you are meant to so I say tuff Sh!t if you are caught and it has turned red. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1231470 | 2011-09-16 10:12:00 | Flash? No. Round here the cops like to sit on the end of passing lanes. I'm sure they fill their quotas easily, but at least it's in a proper problem spot. Nowadays I just take the backroads anyway, too many morons on the highway and it only adds about five minutes. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1231471 | 2011-09-16 19:36:00 | I am sure I recall a TV ad where it encouraged us to flash our lights at people speeding when no speed cameras were present just to slow them down. The message I gleand from that is we are providing a public service slowing down speeders. I only recall seeing the ad a few times so it must have been pulled quickly after that. Or maybe I was dreaming it? | sam m (517) | ||
| 1231472 | 2011-09-16 21:53:00 | Yep, flash your lights at a speeding driver by all means.He/She slows down, passes the camera or radar without getting ticketed, speeds up again and a kilometre down the road loses control and crashed head on into your wife and family following behind you. Go for it flashers. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1231473 | 2011-09-16 22:18:00 | How often have you been flashed and gone past the cop and havent been speeding? Yet you secretly think, was nice to know the cop was there even tho you wernt speeding. Not every one one the road is a lunatic. And to see another driver traveling in the opposite direction and know they are breaking the speed limit, then they must be well over unless you have a radar detector built into your brain. Im sure if they were doing 105 in a 100 zone they would be relieved even tho they were not going to get a ticket And passing lanes are there for a reason, to pass. A fast passing manouvre is a good one |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
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