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18-01-2015, 12:34 PM | #1 | |||
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18-01-2015, 12:35 PM | #2 | ||
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Just because you're on the sidewalk doesn't mean you are impervious to police.
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18-01-2015, 12:52 PM | #3 | ||
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Then why aren't they pinging all the fat, old and lazy for driving gophers up and down footpaths, often with reckless disregard for anyone elso in their path?
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18-01-2015, 01:14 PM | #4 | |||
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Last time I checked it wasn't legal to ride a 49cc bike or in this case motorised esky on the sidewalk, its also illegal for a kid over 12 years old to ride their pushbike on the sidewalk as well. |
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18-01-2015, 01:20 PM | #5 | |||
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Seriously most are electric & exempt! |
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18-01-2015, 02:03 PM | #6 | ||
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That's a big fine.................did the driver/rider blow over the limit also.
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18-01-2015, 02:31 PM | #7 | |||
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Generally speaking, building line to building line is a road related area under the legislation. Otherwise you'd have drunken clowns thinking it was clever to drive their cars along the footpath on their way home from the pub. Cheers, Russ |
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18-01-2015, 02:39 PM | #8 | ||
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Sidewalk ??
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18-01-2015, 02:47 PM | #9 | ||
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I was using my rc car on the road and footpath and cops were called,came out and were about to shoot me with tazers after i told them they were wasting taxpayers dollars and had a go at them,its a toy ffs.
They also refused to step into range of my security cameras... I am a bigger than average guy so i had my hands clasped behind my back the whole time... I reported the incident to police,apparently they were called out for a noise complaint and also threatned to charge me for driving an unlicensed vehicle on the road(another charge) and you cant do that so the coppers at the station told me. I can enjoy my hobby of choice for up to 2 hours per day by council law(mainly for musical instrumante etc) My neighbours are bastards. The nitro car is not even as loud as a whipper snipper. I abused the coppers for being so crap at their job so they drove over the wooden edging i had along my driveway and broke it all(on purpose of course) Ive had someone trying to kick my door down and the cops refused to come out... Priorities ffs Im not in any way saying gosnells coppers are crap,just the 2 guys that day,most ive dealt with have been awesome. |
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18-01-2015, 02:49 PM | #10 | ||
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.. and unfortunately driving such vehicles often goes with excess drinking and other behaviour that impairs judgement and safety. At least the cops can usually catch the esky drivers unlike the unhelmeted underage and sometimes seemingly drunk offroad motorcyclist that sometimes terrorise the neighbourhood.
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18-01-2015, 03:35 PM | #11 | ||
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Scooters are speed limited for footpath safety, these small motorised bikes, quads, eskies are ILLEGAL to operate on public roads I live adjacent a park, and these clowns often do speeds of up to 50pkh, tell me what that impact will do to a child, the infirm or even an able bodied person. When its YOUR loved one at risk you would cry for blood from the drunken esky rider rather than blame the over bearing police.
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18-01-2015, 05:45 PM | #12 | ||
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18-01-2015, 05:46 PM | #13 | |||
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So you're bigger than the average bloke, kept your hands hidden behind your back and was aggressive/abusive in your speech towards them? Yeah, I wonder why that didn't really go your way? Also, when you say they were going to taser you - were they drawn and pointing at you? If they were holstered then they probably weren't going to taser you. And another thing - when they 'refused' to come to your house when someone was kicking your door in; what was the reason provided? Or did they just arrive later than you'd hope/needed? I know you say that most cops you deal with are awesome, but I think this post was a solid, 1 sided cop bashing post.
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18-01-2015, 05:56 PM | #14 | ||
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I was speaking to a police officer in Perth few years back in Armidale Perth
a number of local kids put small motors on there push bikes and were wizzing around on them I asked how legal is that he relied yes things like that are but many grind the engine information off of them and then it costs a fortune to get it tested and worked out what cc so we just let it go so many be that is the way to go grind all information away so they cannot say what engine size what about the guy in Alice springs lost his license for DD and came into town on a camel and got done for DD again or these guys who put a motor into a lounge chair and tear down the road that looks like a lot of fun till you hit some thing
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18-01-2015, 06:17 PM | #15 | |||
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But since when is it the cops job to enforce council by-laws? If the engine was over 200w, (which it probably was) then you go for unreg/uninsured vehicle + driving unlicenced, as he was unlicenced anyway, so I can see the fine being a big one if he was suspended. Fine him, yep, no problem. Cart him off for DUI, if that's the case, yep, no problem there, but impounding the esky citing a council by-law seems a bit much to me.
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18-01-2015, 06:36 PM | #16 | ||
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I found the fact they called a flat bed to tow it rather entertaining.. Hahahaha.. Surely it would have fit in the back of the divvy..
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18-01-2015, 06:43 PM | #17 | ||
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So often in these cases you don't get the full story. How fast was he actually going? Was there traffic in the vicinity? Was he intoxicated? Was he scooting around in an unsafe manner? Did he have a helmet on? What was his attitude like towards the police when stopped? If any of the above were a factor alongside the lack of licence (quite likely) then I think a decent fine is warranted. Mini bikes were a scourge late at night around our area waking people up until one ended up having a head on with a bf ute! They are fun things, but like everything there is a time and a place for them and public roads isn't really it!
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18-01-2015, 06:52 PM | #18 | ||
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well down here in the good ol U.S.a..straylia
yeah iv read some post that cant spell colour (color) and I'm crap for spelling.. and that's saying something... "FOOTPATH"
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18-01-2015, 06:55 PM | #20 | |||
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Usually made of concrete between a nature strip and someones driveway where people walk on.
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18-01-2015, 07:01 PM | #21 | |||
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and unregistered; so no 3rd party insurance to cover the medical costs of the innocent victims.
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18-01-2015, 07:06 PM | #22 | ||
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Wrong, we speak English, they speak 'murrican
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18-01-2015, 07:37 PM | #23 | |||
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In terms of remote control cars on footpaths and in parks they are usually covered by council bylaws along the lines of:
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Admittedly neither the Gosnells http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/About_...aws/Local_Laws or Armadale Council http://www.armadale.wa.gov.au/Home/P...blic_Documents. appear to have such bylaws. But the police always have that all covering "causing public nuisance" and "disturbing the peace" out.
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18-01-2015, 07:57 PM | #24 | ||
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Also happened in Adelaide two weeks ago.
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18-01-2015, 08:27 PM | #25 | |||
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18-01-2015, 08:45 PM | #26 | ||
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They also had it taken away on a tilt tray.And they wonder why people don't respect the police any more....
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18-01-2015, 08:51 PM | #27 | ||
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18-01-2015, 09:04 PM | #28 | ||
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At all costs we must resist the relentless Americanisation (see how I used an 's' and not a 'z') of our culture.
There is no 'junk time' in AFL. Free drinks as a result of poor service or delay are not 'comped'. Cakes do not have 'frosting'. Floor mounted manual transmission mechanisms are never 'stick shift'. There is no 'fat side' of a footy oval. I'm not sure driving motorised eskyies is a good idea, but.
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18-01-2015, 09:09 PM | #29 | |||
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18-01-2015, 09:38 PM | #30 | |||
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Motorised eskyies are just the tip of the ice burg
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