Thread: Can the police hide whilst doing speed checks (NSW)?

Bit of a drift.


I noticed last time I was in Adelaide that the evening news warned where all the speed cameras were to be located the next day. (Listed in the newspaper too) How nice. Perhaps, unlike Vic (and elsewhere?), SA speed cams are being used as a deterent rather than a cash cow.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Thanks, Mick.

However, I do get peeved with 40km/h work zone signs left in place over long weekends when there is no working going on and no reason to keep the speed that low. Another pet hate is the mowing contractor on the (Sydney) M4 who closes a lane off for several km when it could be done in smaller sections, e.g., 1km.

I'm the same Ron. Anyone who says that don't exceed the speed limit is telling porkies...totally agree with the work zones...they can go for kilometres with no work being done.

Originally Posted by Tombie2

Sorry but I think your thinking is misaligned a little here...

114km/h in a 100 is obvious exceeding the limit...

118km/h in a 110 I could understand, but your 14km over...

Even using 10% +3km/h that Ron mentioned your still outside the 'tolerance'


Nothing to do with making a name for themselves.... If I was a HWP you'd be gone too....

i've found from working around the police and discussing the matter with them, that the more experienced ones have learnt to use discretion..... there are times and places where 114 is safe, and times and places where it isnt

and more than a couple have straight out said "by the time i hit the lights, turn around, pull you over and start wqriting out the ticket, some smartarse will blow past at 130+"

i've only ever been booked twice for speeding
6 years ago, ticketed for 119 in a 100 zone by the local traffic sargent, said he picked me up doing 125, locked on at 119..... i got to keep my licence, he wrote the ticket out, told me to go home and he cleared off
6 months ago, ticketed for 114 in a 100 zone (funnily enough, about 500m from the 1st time) by a probie, gave me a ticket and a full on lecture about how much of a "life endangering offence" it was..... pull the other one mate, its got bells on it.....

speeding tickets i dont mind, the lectures and morality lessons i do.....

all thats got me ****ed is that in the last 10 years, theres been 3 people killed on the road into town, a teenage girl who lost control at ~180+ in an illegally modified vehicle and collected a tree, a guy who hit a horse that hadnt been tied up at a drovers camp around 8-9pm, and a truckie who fell asleep and drove into a creek.....

but suddenly 114km/h is sooooo dangerous in broad daylight with visibility to the horizon on a good road? what about a few hours further west where up untill a couple of years ago you could do whatever speed you wanted on the highway quite legally, all untill some braindead bleating heart politician twisted the statistics to introduce a speed limit of 130km/h?

oh hang on..... even today 130km/h is legal and apparently quite safe on several thousand kilometers of highway in Australia! but travel across the border out of the territory, and all of a sudden, 130km/h is just about enough to see you lose your licence, nevermind getting a write up in the media about your "life endangering" actions....

besides...... given the 110km/h zones around here, i see no difference safety wise between doing 118 in a 110 zone, and 114 in a 100 zone

edit:

dont get me wrong, i know they're there to do a job, but i draw the line at when they want to have an attitude.... especially the probies, i've had very little respect for them ever since we had 2 probies come to my town a fortnight apart, first one pulled me over, introduced himself, and his very next words were "now you can tell all your mates, i'm gonna show them what the copper from hell is like", couple of weeks later, i had one follow me halfway across town and pull into the bottle shop behind me, no lights or anything, no introduction, demands i show him my licence, then asks me 3 times wether i'd had anything to drink that night...... and god did he look ****ed when the breathyliser told him i was sober

Originally Posted by MickS

I'm the same Ron. Anyone who says that don't exceed the speed limit is telling porkies...

I disagree, Mick.

No Toyota Camry driver has been known to even reach the speed limit, let alone exceed it!

Originally Posted by p38arover

I disagree, Mick.

No Toyota Camry driver has been known to even reach the speed limit, let alone exceed it!

Boom boom...

Originally Posted by Tombie2

Wrong!!!! In SA they can be anywhere but must place a sign afterwards stating you just went through a speed camera...

They can park in lanes, on verges, behind bushes etc...

Often seen doing just that on many of SAs arterial roads and highways...

when i was livin in dubblin (near port wakie) i got pinged a few times so i did a u turn and took a photo of the hiway at a few points till their patrol car was visible (did the same in kal wa in me work truck) then contested the fine i have won every time due to a occ helth and safety issue
its the same ifthey pull infront of a semi to book him it aint parking in a defencive driveing position

Originally Posted by hillbilliywheelchair

when i was livin in dubblin (near port wakie) i got pinged a few times so i did a u turn and took a photo of the hiway at a few points till their patrol car was visible (did the same in kal wa in me work truck) then contested the fine i have won every time due to a occ helth and safety issue
its the same ifthey pull infront of a semi to book him it aint parking in a defencive driveing position

Hey Hillbilly, can I git you to do ma lawyerin' if I git booked...

I had a similar experience in qld coming south, a copper had his paddy wagon off the road in the bushes with a leg out the window resting the hand held on his shin, i saw him in time so all good, dont like entrapment think its low and bad policing if you can't get to nick people in an honest manner i think it questionable.
Working in the dept of corrective services i note that some people are not so moralistic as i am, i guess that is the same with the old bill.
maybe i am wrong but i think people in that job should be beyond reproach