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| Thread ID: 95816 | 2008-12-17 22:55:00 | Are the cops getting Desperate or something | wainuitech (129) | PC World Chat |
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| 730357 | 2008-12-18 12:46:00 | I just got fined $200 for driving with an expired liscence. Silly me didnt really notice. There goes the beer fund for tomorrow night :lol: I thought it would have been nice to have a warning or something, but I guess I wasnt drink driving or high or a repeat offender of any sort so they fined me. He was awfully nice about it though hahahahaha |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 730358 | 2008-12-18 17:33:00 | I thought it would have been nice to have a warning or something, What happened to the reminder letter? |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 730359 | 2008-12-18 18:42:00 | Well something is working now days on the NW motorway. A few years ago if you were doing 100kph on the motorway fast lane you would have caused a disturbance. People would be undertaking you left right and centre. Now you can drive 100kph in the fast lane with no problems. The reason is, you probaly wouldnt get from one end of the NW to the other without a ticket if you speed. The thing about tolerances are that people will push the envelope if they know they could drive at 106kph without getting a ticket they would drive at that speed. When they get caught at say 109kph they would whinge and say they were only doing 3kph over their tolerance. They want a tolerance on their tolerance but 109 kph is almost10% more than the limit. Remember the physics the faster the speed the bigger the mess. I expect other centres like Auckland have those boards which display your speed all a non numbnuts person has to do is look at sign look at speedo and check the difference. Its quite easy to opt out of traffic ticket revenue gathering and that is dont break the law and dont push the envelope |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 730360 | 2008-12-18 19:23:00 | I see on TV last nite the latest revenue gathering thing. Spy planes to report back to a fleet of cars on the ground any motorist in their opinion that they can extract revenue from. I remember the MOT tried this back in late 80s and was found to be too expensive to maintain. Remember those white line on the main hiways that they used to time between two points then radio back to a ground car?? | paulw (1826) | ||
| 730361 | 2008-12-18 19:32:00 | They cant extract revenue from you for speeding if you dont speed. I know its a real radical concept and some people will find it hard to work out. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 730362 | 2008-12-18 19:39:00 | I think along the same lines as prefect, if you got a speeding ticket you deserved it and this revenue hunting thing is a falisty. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 730363 | 2008-12-18 19:44:00 | turns out the cops down here are testing a new range of radars was travelling to work this morning and on a big stretch of road my own radar went MENTAL so naturally i went on the picks but i didint see a cop anywhere so i blew it off as a false positive 2.5km later the cop was waiting at the end of the straight waiting for me turns out at that distance he clocked me at 106kmh (i was doing 106 too) so he pulled me up and gave me a warning and had a chat about the new kit and he even showed me proof that he got me at 106kmh was awesome but "argh!" at the same time was a real cool cop too - straight to the point and not a pri*k like most ive seen A++ will pull over again :lol: |
MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 730364 | 2008-12-18 20:17:00 | I recently bought a Tomtom gps unit for my vehicle. It warns me when I am within 280 metres from a school. I note also that I mentioned that you may have been near a school. My speedometer is not perfect either as at 100kmh on the speedo the GPS tells me I am doing 96kmh |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 730365 | 2008-12-18 20:45:00 | What happened to the reminder letter? Never recieved one. And my details are up to date. All good though, fine paid etc |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 730366 | 2008-12-18 21:54:00 | Never received one. And my details are up to date. All good though, fine paid etc But no Christmas dinner and all alone to-boot. So much for the caring state. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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