Thread: How to lose your DRIVERS licence for a fine you've never been issued. - In WA

Originally Posted by V8Ian

There must be a lot of ineligible people on the roll. Back-packers, international students et al, all qualify for drivers' licences, car rego and phones etc., but not a vote in Australian elections.

They would not be Australian citizens so they couldn't be enrolled to vote.

I used to live in a flat above a fellow from NZ. Nice chap. Liked a drink.
He never had a licence. "Why should I get one? They'd only take it off me." Wise words, hey.
He only drove old unregistered cars. Every time the police took one from him, he'd buy another one at the pub for $50.

And here's me. I pay a fortune each year on licences and registration so they can fine me.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I used to live in a flat above a fellow from NZ. Nice chap. Liked a drink.
He never had a licence. "Why should I get one? They'd only take it off me." Wise words, hey.
He only drove old unregistered cars. Every time the police took one from him, he'd buy another one at the pub for $50.

And here's me. I pay a fortune each year on licences and registration so they can fine me.

Exactly, I have often said, that if I wasn't so inclined to do the right thing, I would be much better off saving on the rego...and copping the occasional fine....although the age of number plate recognition cameras has sort of blown that theory.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

NSW has recently introduced automatic "correction" of the electoral roll for changes of address, as noted from Council records, drivers licence, registration etc. A few months ago they transferred me (on the electoral roll) to a different local government area, as the address assigned to me by the council showed I was in the adjoining area (its on the other side of my fence!). I now have an address that states I am in a town 90km away by road, a notice from council that this will be changed to a village 75km away, and a letter from the state government saying I will be returned to the address I had earlier in the year, by changing the boundary. No word of how the electoral commission's software will deal with this!

So what is my address? There is no mail delivery anyway, so I pick up my mail from the community mail centre in a village 6km away (40km by public road).

I wanna come live with you John.

On another note, as the OP was saying, i got caught in Bunbury with my old mans HK Brougham one night after speedway laying a broggie in a gravel car park. Local in a tonner was laying huge burnouts and others cheering him on. Copper took my name etc. I asked him why i got charged for "excessive noise" when it was just a tiny skid in a gravel carpark when the other guy was smoking it up on the road. Answer was "He's a local, i can get him any time, you're not." So i get a summons to go to Bunbury Court. Didnt go coz it was 3+ hours drive away and so i signed the summons and, being very nieve, waited for them to contact me. Didn't happen. About a year later i was pulled over by local copper (who had a grudge with me (over another matter)), he told me i was driving while under suspension. I said i didn't know i was suspended. He told me about the Bunbury Court results and booked me. I had received a 1 month suspension for excessive noise. I didn't know that i was responsible for finding out the result. But ignorance of the law is no defence. 9 month suspension on top of the 1 month. Wife heavily pregnant with 3rd kid. Not happy but took my punishment. Nasty copper. Another copper would have let me get home but not that *****. I had to walk almost 9 miles home with 2 kids in tow. No taxi in Narrogin at that time. The copper that pulled me over didn't like me beating him at speedway in street stocks division in my totally stock HR holden. He drove a xy 250 falcon. I had a mate in Williams who was a copper and he said he would have let me drive home and given me a warning as it was only 1 day after the court result. But yes you can lose you're licence over an unrelated matter in WA.

Cheers Rod

In this area a couple of years back a serial offending recalcitrant was caught driving whilst disqualified, in an unregistered vehicle, and "possibly" drug and or alcohol affected as well. The vehicle number plates were removed and the offender charged. The following day he drove again and at very, very, high speed, leaving a built up area with a speed restriction zone, he wrapped the vehicle around a power pole out the front of a school, just twenty minutes before school ended. Fortunately he was the only person involved in the accident and did not survive. Twenty minutes later and the scenario may have been far worse.
There are some people who will always have total disregard for the law and never have consideration for the safety of others.

Here is another example that occurred locally in the same area.
A 21 year old female with 10 disqualified driving offences has copped a 44 year driving ban and will be aged 65 in 2061 before she can apply for a drivers licence.
Do you reckon she will wait that long before she gets behind the wheel again

Driver cops 44-year ban | Sunraysia Daily

Cheers, Mick.

Nope

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

I wanna come live with you John.

If JDNSW Could post hishow to get to my house directions, you will see why the govt is confused and why we all want to move there finding his house should be a rite of passage for all Aulroans