Thread: candy store

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Unity Spotlights are the solution

The Bull lights didn't impress them.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

The Bull lights didn't impress them.

I thought you were referring to high beam lights behind you. Unity spotlights are steerable and can be pointed right into the eyes of the offending driver.

I bought a pair whilst in the USA this year to go on the County

They I have got to see!! I will be down your way next month too.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

They I have got to see!! I will be down your way next month too.

Have a look at Welcome to Unity Manufacturing Company. Extensive range. The HID ones are hideously expensive. Mine are 100w QH. These gadgets are virtually standard fitment on USA police cars.

By the way, the Ho House has been sold again as has the one next door on the corner of Hall Avenue.

Aah! Fred Smith's old place,bet it will be for a 6pack unit block good hard ground that,would take multi story no problems, they would make good removals both hardwood,ours 1948 built and Fred's about 51,they had 6 girls he gave up trying for a boy.

“if you want lollies, go to a candy store”.

It's not that different to the cops attending a dance party with sniffer dogs.

It's the pettiness that annoys more than anything. The jobsworth attitude. The lack of empathy. The lack of consultation. Fascists.

If it were not for the fact that this happened in Qld, I would suggest that there might be another side to this story.

Years ago, when RBT was fairly new, I heard someone ask a policeman in Yass why they set up the RBT check on the Hume Highway when they could catch a lot more drivers over the limit if they set up on the low level crossing that was the back way home from the RSL Club to North Yass.

His answer was that the object of the exercise was not to catch a handful of locals. The reason they set up on the highway was that there they would be seen by hundreds of drivers rather than a dozen or so.

They were more interested in being seen so that drivers would refrain from drinking in the belief that they would be likely to be caught because RBTs seemed to be everywhere. It becomes a form of crime prevention.

Preventing thousands of drivers from drink driving was seen as a higher priority than catching half a dozen drivers who had done the wrong thing.

The same principle might have applied here. It might be that the object of the exercise was not to book a few drivers for defects but to get the message to a huge number of people in a short time, that cars are checked for defects. In that situation, it might be that the only drivers actually given a ticket are the ones with blatant defects or the drivers who don't understand that the police don't make the laws, but they are required to enforce them to contribute to safety on our roads. I can understand that the police might be less inclined to be lenient towards drivers with attitude.

The original letter obviously presents things from one perspective. There might be another side to the story. However, given that this incident happened in Qld, maybe not.