Thread: Police Blitz in the Bush

Originally Posted by Duke4

Good to see Batman is still working in law and order

Batman is just his alter ego!

At least he's given up acting

Originally Posted by bacicat

Are you, or aren't you from SA? you say you are, but i wouldn't know personally so you're the only one who knows if you are wrong or not... The blitz was in Vic, so I was just pointing out the rules here. (Give or take 0.8mm)


Now your just being pedantic... I love it..

Vic laws are pretty similar to SA laws.
I'm from SA so forgive me if I get a vic law wrong.

Need to be pedantic, the police and dept of transport are.

Originally Posted by R Miller

if you were to take it that far id be wanting to see calibration paperwork on the item used to measure my 50.8mm lift!

also if they are using a tape measure to check the amount of total lift they have a tolerance greater then .8mm, in fact its nearly double that.

In SA the cop doesn't need to prove your outside the limit. Just suspect it.
It's then up for you to prove its legal.

Just like Qld, guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Just like Qld, guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Actually I thought qld,was different. Police must prove on the spot what's wrong. Not just suspect

They state "X" you have to prove it is "Y"

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

If they were targetting mostly dirt bikes, they can be defected for broken or missing blinkers but a lot of dirt bikes you see on trailers going to these places have no rego plates so its an easy score for police to watch the access roads.

I think the differences in the requirements for rego is between public/crown land and private land rather than differences between states. You don't need to be registered on private or leasehold land.

It wont do the cops any good if the bikes are on trailers, as there's nothing they can do whilst the bikes not in use on a road.

Years ago, the cops used to ride bikes themselves to catch other bikes,,, these were riding along the railway line down at Mornington. They busted heaps of my mates for doing this, although generally speaking, they were usually just reprimanded, unless they were caught a second time.

What would be more to their benefit would be to do road blocks and get all the out coming vehicles. Maybe they could spend a night camping, it might deter some of the night time behaviour by some of the bogans around.
I guess with any of this, they'd be fighting a losing battle seeing as we all have UHF, and no doubt, word would soon be spread of the cops presence.

Tourism also poses an interesting point, as a vehicle quite legally modified in the State it is registered in may run foul of another States rules and get pulled up.

The convention is that the vehicle must meet the home State's rules, but how is a copper involved in a blitz like this to know all the other State's rules? If he issues an infringement, your only recourse is a court appearance in that State to dispute it and show your vehicle is legit by your home rules.

So book another holiday in another couple of months, or just cough up!