News of the Day

[henno]

A certain ozgolfer might be getting a bit of OT, by the sounds of things.

[mike]

Nervous times for the guards. All jokes aside, I hope it's found soon.

[TheNuclearOne]

http://www.nrl.com/newsviews/latestn...n/default.aspx

[goughy]

Rarely would I have a footy related post, but about this one, all I can say is OUCH!
http://www.nrl.com/newsviews/latestn...g/default.aspx

[Jarro]

Same thing happened to a guy at work years ago ... lost his ring finger there, then got two more fingers lopped off in an accident at work ..... all on the same hand !!

He can now only order 7 schooners at once.

[goughy]

So if he can only order 7 schooners at the one time.......



Does that leave you short Jarro?????

[Johnny Canuck]

Yossarian will not be moving to Malaysia

[just]

Ha!
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...0119-mho4.html

[ddasey]

Ha!
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...0119-mho4.html

That's quite funny.

I've had this happen a couple of times working in unmarked cars.

People flip the bird or start to abuse you, whack on the lights and siren and the look on their face is priceless

[just]

I saw an unmarked Chrysler 300, I think, pull up someone yesterday. Just goes to show you should be polite on the roads because you never know who you are going to piss off.

[henno]

I saw an unmarked VW Passat (one of the performance versions - R32?) pull someone over on the gateway bridge a few months ago.

[poidda]

I just saw a squad of about 10 police with a speed trap in the Brisbane International Airport car park. If that isn't a revenue raiser I don't know what is. i'd like to know the last time there was an accident there.

[ddasey]

I saw an unmarked Chrysler 300, I think, pull up someone yesterday. Just goes to show you should be polite on the roads because you never know who you are going to piss off.

I saw an unmarked VW Passat (one of the performance versions - R32?) pull someone over on the gateway bridge a few months ago.

The sevice are getting better as far as the range of cars in now gets access to. Gone are the days of just the plain old unmarked Commodore or Falcon.

The 300C is attached to my section, and we previously have had a Golf GTI. We just got rid of a GTP Falcon.

[chappy1970]

I saw an unmarked VW Passat (one of the performance versions - R32?) pull someone over on the gateway bridge a few months ago.

The Passat is the R36 from memory and the Golf is the R32

[BrisVegas]

I just saw a squad of about 10 police with a speed trap in the Brisbane International Airport car park. If that isn't a revenue raiser I don't know what is. i'd like to know the last time there was an accident there.

we've had a speed trap outside Brookwater golf club every other day now for 2 months. It's a brand new section of 4 lane divided road that is posted as a 60km/h zone. It was an 80km/h zone when it was a 2 lane goat track and is wedged between sections of 80 & 70km/h. There have been no accidents on that road. It shits me because it's such a blatant revenue raiser to stick a camera on a high-quality road like that when the speed zone changes every couple of hundred yards.

[goughy]

Don't speed. Revenue problem solved.

We have a silver lancer up here somewhere as an unmarked. They had someone pulled over on the highway near my place a couple of weeks ago.

[BrisVegas]

Don't speed. Revenue problem solved.

Of course. I've never had a speeding ticket (in Australia), so I'm not an habitual speeder. I just wish there was more commonsense applied to some of the speed zones. Pointless 60 zones cause aggressive and silly behaviour from tailgaters stuck behind people who stick to the limit.

[Courty]

The local constabulary have been getting around in a Golf GTI and a new Liberty.

[Johnny Canuck]

Ha!
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...0119-mho4.html

My bosses daughter flipped the bird to a lady cop in an unmarked car.

She ended up being drunk at the time and losing her license for 6 months.

She subsequently screwed up even further when she failed her drug test when attempting to get her license back.

My boss could not punish her as he had also lost his license for drink driving at the time.

[Daves]

Don't speed. Revenue problem solved.

Problem is they are not policing where it is needed.

Almost ever day you can find a camera car or a gun being operated on a stretch of dual carriage way leading into Cleveland. Always on the bottom of the down hill section where it is not hard to slip over a few ks if you don't watch it. I have never seen an accident, or heard of a fatality on this stretch of road in the years I have lived here.

Yet there is a small stretch of road only a few ks away that has claimed 3 lives in 18 months and I have never seen or heard of any policing on this strip, and everyone speeds through it! I have had enough of old grannies tailgating me because I am one of the few to actually observe the speed limit through the area!

[Yossarian]

I may be making this up but I am pretty sure in WA the number of speed cameras has been falling over the last few years as they debate the replacement model and stuff. But the amount they take in keeps rising. Granted there are more cars on the road, but I think that says something about how effective speed cameras are at reducing speeding.

Great at revenue raising though.

[Scoot]

My bosses daughter flipped the bird to a lady cop in an unmarked car.

She ended up being drunk at the time and losing her license for 6 months.

She subsequently screwed up even further when she failed her drug test when attempting to get her license back.

My boss could not punish her as he had also lost his license for drink driving at the time.

You don't work in IT do you?

[AndyP]

I just saw a squad of about 10 police with a speed trap in the Brisbane International Airport car park. If that isn't a revenue raiser I don't know what is. i'd like to know the last time there was an accident there.

I saw them breath testing at the airport last year too.

[mike]

Problem is they are not policing where it is needed.

Almost ever day you can find a camera car or a gun being operated on a stretch of dual carriage way leading into Cleveland. Always on the bottom of the down hill section where it is not hard to slip over a few ks if you don't watch it. I have never seen an accident, or heard of a fatality on this stretch of road in the years I have lived here.

Yet there is a small stretch of road only a few ks away that has claimed 3 lives in 18 months and I have never seen or heard of any policing on this strip, and everyone speeds through it! I have had enough of old grannies tailgating me because I am one of the few to actually observe the speed limit through the area!

This the way I see it too.
I'm all for catching people speeding, (I've been guilty of it myself), but far too often I see a speed camera in a spot that's 'convenient' rather than somewhere that needs to be policed. This is where the idea of a set quota originates.
Although cops have told me otherwise, I'm convinced they have a quota to fill.

[mike]

For example, the last 2 speeding tickets I've had have been on the way OUT of a small coastal town, one at Cardwell and one at Tully, both times the speed camera was WAY past the 80 kmh sign and I was caught doing 75 kmh in the 100 metres or so before the sign.
I was out of town, I saw the 80 sign and I stupidly sped up too early. Not dangerous at all.

Revenue raising at it's best.