Just when I thought I'd heard everthing....

[thro]

Oh awesome.

I especially like the comment that how after he has spotted all the major safety/emissions "issues" (visor not shatterproof, exhaust non-standard and likely won't pass noise testing, etc) - he decides to let you off because you have a stock fender.

Like... because that is more important than everything else.


What a fucking pelican.

[extermin8tor]

I just hope to god that the oficctard in question was secretly trolling OP, there is no way that someone could be THAT RETARDED!!!
Seriously, footpegs? there is no ADR regarding specific types, nor is there anything about exhaust hangars.

[vbroom]

by that fucked up logic it means whenever i don't have a passenger in my car, i should remove the seats and seatbelts and any other passenger associated items.

good work wapol.

[thro]

Seriously, footpegs? there is no ADR regarding specific types, nor is there anything about exhaust hangars.

Actually I believe that would come under the provision (whichever law it is) that requires a vehicle registered for X seats to carry the safety gear/accomodation for X seats.

If you remove the pegs/seat, by the letter of the law you are supposed to re-register the vehicle as a 1 seater.

Stupid? Yes.
Is the cop a fucking douche-bag for bringing it up when you have a removable/replaecable cowl on the rear? Yes.
Are there more important things he should be spending his time on? Yes.


But as we all suspect, most traffic cops may be douche-bags; this just confirms the fact that the particular one Rock dealt with actually is.

[Spock]

i had a similar dealing with the fuckwits in the 'drop 5' car.

As an aside, I notice it is 'drop 10' now.

(Sorry, back to the thread now.)

[Cam]

As an aside, I notice it is 'drop 10' now.

(Sorry, back to the thread now.)

At this rate sir, we won't only be dropping five and saving lives, surely we're statistically close to reanimating the dead.

[FRK]

haha nice going mate, gave me a good laugh

[ReCon]

out of curiousity are we allowed to record audio of whatever is being said? (telling them before hand first)

dimlight, YOU are most likely being filmed and recorded each time plod nails you anyway, but without your kowledge or consent.
It is an important tool to cove their arse in court when a 'you called me a rude name' claim is brought up.
Have personally supplied a few myself , and know of an associate who supplies more than a few to our blue hat brethren.

Have always been interested in the legalities of this being admissable without your prior consent however...

[darkfibre]

dimlight, YOU are most likely being filmed and recorded each time plod nails you anyway, but without your kowledge or consent.
It is an important tool to cove their arse in court when a 'you called me a rude name' claim is brought up.

Have you looked at what is fitted to the normal pursuit car? I have never heard of police car video evidence been used in WA.

I actually know more than one policeman, and as far as i'm aware they are still waiting for the automatic plate recognition to become widespread.

What is the source of your information?

[Phildo]

As an aside, I notice it is 'drop 10' now.

Km/h or IQ points though? Both?

[ReCon]

Personal units darkfibre , witnessed and supplied..

[dimlight]

yea they might be recording you, but i mean more for your own defence, using your own "unedited" audio/video

[Asswipe]

What a first-class, A-grade, lock stock fucking peanut.

[andymac]

Time to download a copy of the ADR onto the phone ...

[fractoid]

As an aside, I notice it is 'drop 10' now.

Sadly I predicted this when the 'drop 5' thing first came in. Yay me. In other news, studies have shown that 70% of fatalities in train crashes occur in the last carriage of the train. Based on this scientific evidence, a new policy is being drafted to remove the last carriage from every train.

(As an amusing aside - assume the average Australian spends 30 minutes a day in the car, and that 'dropping 5' will increase this time by 10%. That's 3 minutes times 20 million = 114 extra person-years spent on the roads every day. So 'dropping 5' will have the collective effect of at least one extra person being stuck in traffic while they die of old age every single day. How many lives is it saving again?)

Time to download a copy of the ADR onto the phone ...

That's actually not a bad plan at all. In fact I can see a market for a "drivers' legal quick-reference" covering road laws, ADR, etc. so that when you get dodgy cops you can actually call them on it. Of course then you'll get done for the old "window tint too dark" - you don't even have to have tinted windows to be stickered with that one, and you can't fight it in court, once you have a licky you have to just put it over the pits. What's the equivalent on a bike?

[Stoneville]

I have been racking my brain for days trying to think were I read about pillion pegs and seat cowl, I have read it, but where ??

Carn guys, do some research and find something, it is written somewhere, I have seen it and read it in print, on here, in an article?? A year ago at least

[crozzer]

I have to ask,

'drop five'?

[Mr Snail]

Sadly I predicted this when the 'drop 5' thing first came in. Yay me. In other news, studies have shown that 70% of fatalities in train crashes occur in the last carriage of the train. Based on this scientific evidence, a new policy is being drafted to remove the last carriage from every train.

(As an amusing aside - assume the average Australian spends 30 minutes a day in the car, and that 'dropping 5' will increase this time by 10%. That's 3 minutes times 20 million = 114 extra person-years spent on the roads every day. So 'dropping 5' will have the collective effect of at least one extra person being stuck in traffic while they die of old age every single day. How many lives is it saving again?)

There were 1,464 people killed on the roads in Australia in 2008. There were 52,066 people requiring 232,290 hospitalisation due to road accidents 06-07. Source

Those figures won't be particularly meaningful to you when you're on your phone, replaying what's just been said to you and trying to find any way possible to make the words not mean what you desperately don't want them to mean. Right about that time, one is the number that'll be the most meaningful to you.

But no, you've got things to do and places to be and whatever menial, trivial crap you think is so important should take complete priority over reducing the number of times the above scenario plays out. Statistics be damned. You're different. Fucking nanny's date.


(Not just aimed at you of course, but also the countless others who continue the same drivel.)

[Munkers]

Are TEG cops real cops or like the Railway cops, this is a ligit question.

[Goofy]

There were 1,464 people killed on the roads in Australia in 2008. There were 52,066 people requiring 232,290 hospitalisation due to road accidents 06-07. Source

Those figures won't be particularly meaningful to you when you're on your phone, replaying what's just been said to you and trying to find any way possible to make the words not mean what you desperately don't want them to mean. Right about that time, one is the number that'll be the most meaningful to you.

But no, you've got things to do and places to be and whatever menial, trivial crap you think is so important should take complete priority over reducing the number of times the above scenario plays out. Statistics be damned. You're different. Fucking nanny's date.


(Not just aimed at you of course, but also the countless others who continue the same drivel.)

I'm curious as to how Rocks visor or pillion pegs affect these statistics.