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  • Anonymous
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    Steve's oft expressed opinions that traffic fines are a stupidity tax was confirmed outside Experience BMW last week:A polis man that appeared to be waiting for his bike to become available (going by the way he kept walking over to the footpath and peering down into the workshop) was prowling around the little short bit of road between Western Springs and New North Roads with his notebook in his hand, just having a field day.Turning without indicating, WOF and Reg not showing, turning through the no right turn off New North Road, he seemed to be grabbing them for all sorts of stuff. If he was waiting for a bike, the service cost to the Gummint via the Police account would have been well paid for.Gotta admire motorists' stupidity: he was wearing his uniform and a bright yellow hi-vis, in bright sunlight, he stuck out like dogsknutz, and they still couldn't work out it was not a good venue for being a bozo.Gotta admire the polis's chutzpah: good way to fill in your time.Gotta wonder about BMW Experience: not the best of advertisements for the business, right outside the shop. Couldn't they have invited him inside for coffee and bikkies?

    Dave Ross
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    Good use of time :-). How did he stop them without his little flashing lights and the siren? Somehow I can't picture him chasing them in his riding gear while holding a pen and a notebook. Most accidents seem to happen within city limits where speed is not so much an issue, more the  ignorance of the individual involved. Luckily it usually takes two to get it wrong before we have an accident. Simple things like indicating before turning, not during or after the event, stopping at red lights and stop signs and many other little things people do wrong would do a lot for traffic safety. When I took my compulsory lessons all those years ago the sequence went something like this. Check your mirrors, indicate, check again, brake, check again then turn, oh and while you are doing this you move to the left of the lane, and when you do the actual turn you are aware that you are not pulling a 20m long trailer and you therefore do not need to steer to the right first before pulling into a drive. And because you've kept checking the mirror you know that you won't have to give way to the car in front of you because there is a car behind you that has the right of way because you've given it enough room to get past you.Did I miss anything?The problem is that they have let the little things go on for so long, that it will now upset a lot of people if they start reeling them in.

    Dave Morris
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    kile shooting fush in a barrel. see it is a stopidity tax 👿

    Anonymous
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    Happy to brighten your day, Mr Bell.

    Dave Morris
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    ya lucky i did not get all huffy and throw my toys out of cots since your picking on me, like some would 👿

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