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Thread ID: 78476	2007-04-17 02:58:00	Wife got another speeding ticket	Strommer (42)	PC World Chat

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541724	2007-04-19 12:32:00	Just shows you the types of buyers on Trademe. Of course the purchaser may reneg on the deal and then he has to get his success fees back. There are currently 1,341,589 items for auction on Trademe... 1.3M are absolutely useless, but bidders be in :rolleyes: and atleast 50% of those are sellers competing with themselves by listing hundreds of the same item at once. and who says the buyer would have to pay the ticket? it's the name/licence on the paper that gets chased up for it	motorbyclist (188)
541725	2007-04-20 08:18:00	OK, I have just seen the worst driving I have seen for a fair while... Coming home this morning and I was going round Browns Bay (Whitby) and there was a guy, doing 50-60kph (limit of 80kph) and he was right over into the wrong side around BLIND corners :horrified his car was more than half way over the wrong side of the road I pulled back a safe distance so as not to get caught in an accident cause I thought there was going to be one... amazingly and luckily there wasn't... And again... coming home from tea there was someone doing 60-80kph from the Haywards hill to Whitby and was braking at every corner... even though there was no need to brake for the corners... and then goes to pull off into Whitby and then decides to continue on... and pulls out infront of another car... but does not accelerate fast... just casually speeds up as if the car behind wasn't even in sight, where in fact he had locked his brakes to avoid going up his rear... People I tells ya :groan: Well that is the end of my rant :) for NOW :D	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
541726	2007-04-20 08:42:00	If the driver appears to be what officialdom calls "alcohol impaired" & we call drunk or sozzled or sloshed or bombed or plastered, you should be taking the reg. no. & calling (Is it 555?) in case the driver causes an accident - rather than telling us. Or even for just really bad driving? That's what the police are asking us to do.	Laura (43)
541727	2007-04-21 09:09:00	OK, I have just seen the worst driving I have seen for a fair while... Coming home this morning and I was going round Browns Bay (Whitby) and there was a guy, doing 50-60kph (limit of 80kph) and he was right over into the wrong side around BLIND corners :horrified his car was more than half way over the wrong side of the road I pulled back a safe distance so as not to get caught in an accident cause I thought there was going to be one... amazingly and luckily there wasn't... And again... coming home from tea there was someone doing 60-80kph from the Haywards hill to Whitby and was braking at every corner... even though there was no need to brake for the corners... and then goes to pull off into Whitby and then decides to continue on... and pulls out infront of another car... but does not accelerate fast... just casually speeds up as if the car behind wasn't even in sight, where in fact he had locked his brakes to avoid going up his rear... People I tells ya :groan: Well that is the end of my rant :) for NOW :D Maybe you should just stay at home and watch telly :waughh:	dolby digital (5073)
541728	2007-04-21 10:06:00	on friday morning i nearly wrote off my road bike. a woman driver, with all her windows covered in dew, turned right out of her side street without even looking. she moves across the right hand line (from my view) and then proceeds to slowly turn in the left hand lane getting very close to the curb. by now i am next to her rear left wheel deciding whether to mount the curb (which would cause me to dismount the bike) or bounce off her doors and hope to make it into a driveway. thankfully my brakes and her pathetic accelerating saved me by about an inch. the abuse i dished out was quite impressive, dunno how much she heard though. had i hit the curb i doubt she would have even known honestly, drivers, PLEASE look twice. ironically if i was in my car it would have been an instant write-off and i would have bad whiplash at the very least. yet again being on a motorbike saved me from injury:rolleyes:, but man it scares the **** out of you an no i wasn't speeding (for once), and seeing as i use high beams in the day i'm sure her frosted window would have lit up brilliantly.	motorbyclist (188)
541729	2007-04-21 22:53:00	Rob appears to be unmarried. Im not into torture.:horrified	rob_on_guitar (4196)
541730	2007-04-21 23:15:00	You can run, but you can't hide forever.	R2x1 (4628)
541731	2007-04-21 23:15:00	Rob appears to be unmarried. Or maybe he understands a womans proper place.	Cicero (40)
541732	2007-04-22 02:01:00	SPEED CAMERAS, like on poles or vans cannot get you for less that 10kph over (afaik). also they can't fine you if there's another car in the photo, and cannot result in demerit points I'm afraid they can get you for doing 10kph or less over the limit. I've had it more than once.:(	redfrost (12152)
541733	2007-04-22 07:31:00	so thay CAN ping you for being 10km\h over the limit? ill have to tell my dad this as he always drives at either 60km\h or 110km\h - and insists they cant get you for that :eek: then again a good friend of mine got a $70 fine for doing 51km\ in a 50km\h zone :horrified EDIT: and no it was not outside a school - just a generic street with a 50km\h limit Doing 51k in a 50k zone? The facts are that no speedo can be calibrated to beyond + or -10% accuracy (try having a look at the AA site for this, It can have an effect if you are running smaller or larger tyres or worn tyres). That in effect could mean that you could well be doing +55k or -45k. The instrument they use for pinging you appears to have an accuracy of 2%-plus or minus what? Work out the math on that little scenario. In my experience there is no photo/electronic device that can be as accurate as this unless it is calibrated frequently and in all conditions of temperature, light,humidity and many other variable factors which affect these devices. It's worthy of note that the police, even when asked by a lawyer (or judge for that matter) will never divulge when the instrument was calibrated or under what conditions. You cannot get a print out of the device as to it's accuracy and how it was tested or under what conditions. This has been tested in court and from memory the judge simply accepted that the device was accurate according to the police report at the time of this particular speeding offence. When the device was last calibrated was (again from memory) never divulged to the court as it was considered a sensitive internal police matter! Smell some burning bullsh** smouldering somewhere? Drop, leave in the heat or cold extremes for a short time and these sort of instruments can never be trusted to be accurate. I worked in a laboratory for many years and every but every sensitive instrument was tested either at 21c or 25c depending on the device daily or twice daily. How many cops would you know who could calibrate these devices for all and every condition they meet every day? There would be some but not many would even bother I would bet. My advice would be if a cop (nasty word in some cases nowadays) clocks you at 1k over would be to front up to the court and ask some very pointed questions, I know I would-but then I have a tendency to be a tad bolshie. Regards Gordon	Gordon62 (11771)
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