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That's comparable to what the cuntstabulary did me for on Wednesday. School zone, without being labelled on the road as 40, and construction (not road works) going on, so fenced off areas and signs obscuring the school zone sign. Normally a 60 zone. Pinged going 66. 3 demerit points, $300. 4 days before I'm off my P's so it's costing me an extra year's license fee on top of that (meaning that because of it I actually had to pay my renewal now). 3 demerit points for 66 km/h. That's gotta be a world's record for most exorbitant speeding penalty. It's not like they were oblivious to the construction fences obscuring anything either; they were hiding behind one of them (with their hi-vis vests).
And to put icing on the cake, he congratulated me on my emergency stop. Y'know, the emergency stop where I took my time stopping and changed down while still moving, as he waved me down to pull over. Has he never seen a car built in the last 10 years stopping or something?
Edit: Female copper with him was taking notes. I think he was teaching her how to deal with murdercyclists or something, and was thoroughly disappointed at being unable to elicit any belligerence from me.
Double edit: Don't get me started on the list of things I've been pulled up on. Half of those happened before I even got my bike.
Last edited by xanthian; 08-08-2008 at 04:41 PM.
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