Idiot revenue raising cops

[DiscoTDI]

Apparently the police in Gympie are writing out tickets to 4WD owners who have a spare wheel on the back of their vehicle. Get this, for obstructed view of the number plate. Of course its a crock of **** and seeing as there is a little item called a compliance plate installed on all of these vehicles they dont have a leg to stand on. But think of all the toyota drivers that will pay this fine.

All I can say is "Cops, you have sunk to an all time low, Dickheads"

Hope you have given all of your 4wd's tickets.

[incisor]

there was a story about a similar incident two or three weeks ago.

number plates on new utes being to far under the tray

one guy got done and went to the police station to chat about and low and behold out the back in the staff carpark was a member of the forces 4wd, exactly same model, colour, tray etc etc etc

he wasnt impressed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

dont put them all on the same plate mate...

there are police and there are Police!

[drivesafe]

Why can’t the A’holes concentrate on things like booking ******* that use the fog lights when not needed. This would probably win the cops points with the rest of us.
Cheers

[PeteH]

So whats new [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] The pigs are hitting us over here too :x
Its been going on for a while ..

[Mick-Kelly]

Sheeesh arnt all four wheel driver owners ******* and those with bull bars are just out to kill innocent pedestrians. Generalisations are great arnt they. You might also find a few of those generalisations own landys and post here aswell
Long story short if youve got a ticket and you think your in the right take it to court and contest it. The coppers dont make the law they just see an infringement and issue a ticket. Dont be fooled by compliance plates either. Seevral vehicles slip through compliance with items that contradict "STATE" law.
cheers
Mick

[rmp]

Got to agree with Mick-Kelly, don't assume all officers of the law are nit-picking idiots. Far from it in my experience. The guys in the Vic Police 4WD Club are a top bunch, for example.

But if your car isn't compliant for whatever reason, that's your own fault. Oversize tyres, protrustions from the bullbar, obscured lights...you can't complain about that.

Then again, if you buy a new vehicle unmodified, you've got every right to expect it to be compliant.

cheers

[Moses]

Just the clowns in Gympie seem to be on some sort of ego trip.

[drivesafe]

Sorry Mick-Kelly, I could not disagree with more.
Yes the police have a job to do, the question is when are they going to start doing it.

In NSW and Vic, they have speed cameras everywhere and in Victoria, they only allow 2 or 3 KPH over before you can expect to get a fine.
I drive a $125,000 vehicle and there is no way that my speedo is that accurate so how on earth can the authorities expect a $15,000 Hyundai to have anything better and remember, it is the same authorities that approved these same vehicles for use on the respective state roads.

Now to further this point, the lying augment put forward by these 2 states is that these cameras will reduce the road toll.

First question is how can these cameras reduce the road toll when the vast majority of these cameras are NOT installed at black spots.
Second, only people who either forget that the camera is in a specific location or don’t know it’s there in the first place, are the ones who get booked. But they don’t get pulled over and toll to slow down while an officer writes them a speeding ticket. No they find out about it at least two weeks after the event. How is this reducing the road toll.

In Canada, they have removed the cameras because they found that people were spending so much time looking at their speedos and not at the road ahead, that they were actually causing accidents. In Canada, they now get the police to do the job the police use to do and this is what these cops in Gympie SHOULD be doing.

Just have a look at the accidents that make the news. It’s not the 4by or ute with the hard to see number plate thats involved in an accident. It’s the newbie driver in his WRX or what ever, who was doing double the speed limit when he managed to turn a light post into tooth pick while at the same time killing his girl friend and two mates.

Yes the actions of these cops will go a long way towards stopping this sort of carnage NOT.

I just read a posting on another forum where a guy got booked for doing 12 KPH in an 8 KPH zone in a caravan park, how is this either constructive or HONEST.

No Mick-Kelly, these are not the actions that the public expects honest cops to be doing state laws or not. If they were out pulling vehicles over for speeding or other reckless actions then I doubt there would be much argument about that sort of action by the police.

That’s my bitch.

[drivesafe]

BTW, I forgot to mention why I brought up about the speeding.
In the case of the cops in Gympie, what they were doing was not only morally wrong, and its not like they had nothing else to do. They should have been out policing the Pacific Highway in their area, because that section of the Pacific Highway is now the most dangerous section of National Highway 1 in all of Australia. So in their specific case, their actions were totally irresponsible and doing anything to protect the public.
Again, my bi*ch.

[rmp]

A couple of points to make:

Firstly, anyone that is booked for "2-3kmph over" is likely to be more like 7-10kmph over. This is because every car speedo I've checked with a GPS receiver indicates the speedo over-reads. So if it says 100, you're probably doing 95. There could be exceptions, but the cost of the vehicle has nothing to do with it. The logic is simple, no manufacturer wants to be sued for a speeding fine.

I agree with most of the post above but we need to differentiate between the policymakers and the implementors. The police on the street have a policy to comply with. If you have a problem with the policy, the people to see are the pollies and the senior police management.

If you're at a supermarket and think something is overpriced, no point taking it out on the shop assistant, see the manager who made the call.

Now that's not an exact analogy as the police obviously have discrentionary powers, but the principle does still apply.

So I for one do not support any derogatry remarks about policemen, nor do I blame them for the laws which they merely uphold. If there are incidents of power abuse or whatever, sure, let them have it then, but not in generalisations.