Getting my holiday head on. Are Hawaiin shirts still legal?
AAAARRRRRRRGghhhhhhhhhhh Wank! Parking ticket. Stupid stupid stupid... narrow two way road (to allow cars to leave a secure underground park)leading into a one way street, last parking space on the opposite side of the road free. I reversed out of the opening of the one way street into the space, at no time was I even reversing on the oposite side of the road well maybe a tiny bit. Done for having my car the wrong way round. WTF? how would you do a 3 point turn and parrallel park in that situation. What I did seemed logical at the time but I guess is an offence. F*cking licence to print money.
The envelope they left with my bill isn't even postage paid, and is addressed to the "Director" I can just imagine the fat prick counting the cash of idiots like me.
Even though you have partially accepted it
...you have partially accepted it
Not entirely.
...speeding cameras are strategically placed to make money.
So you haven't entirely partially accepted it?
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Good thing too - it keeps down the taxes for the rest of us.
Seriously though... I got a speeding ticket about 10 years ago. 62 in a 50 limit on a 3-lane (each way) dual carriageway section of the A2 at half-two in the morning - I was the only car on the road and the normal 70 limit had been suspended because there had been road-works and a narrowing of the lanes there about a fortnight earlier. I vowed that the bastards will never catch me again and now deliberately drive within the limits. I do get some queues of not-very-pleased drivers behind me.
Not entirely. It annoys me immensly because I am a tight git and I didn't think I was causing an offence. To my knowledge It is not illegal to reverse park on a one way street in Australia, which is essentially what I thought I was doing. It also annoys me as I had a class cancelled so it should have been moved by the time the warden would have been about. Then my GF even came back and told me to move the car as there is a sign up saying the drains are to be cleared, I laughed as the date is for tomorrow. Had I moved the car the warden would have been none the wiser and I wouldn't have been imposing on anyone. This evening when I was parking correctly a car came the wrong way down the one way with no lights on FFS.
We all speed, but it is possible to leave your house and return safely having not caused any accidents and then you have your licence revoked due to being flashed a few times. It annoys me that speeding cameras are strategically placed to make money. Yes speeding results in accidents and I don't condone it as deaths occur due to dangerous speeding. In my view there are everyday dangerous offenses going unpunished compared to driving slightly over the speed limit.
camera revenue is pennies compared to the cost of cleaning up even one reasonably sized accident
Maybe, but many of these reasonably sized accidents may not caused by speeding. Often causes are people not driving with due care and attention such as aggressive lane changing on multiple carraigeways. Speed cameras or traps certainly reduce accidents in some areas, in others they are strategically placed as a revenue maker.
I'm sorry to hear you attended a speed awareness course and learned some probably chilling facts. I was in an accident a few years back caused by someone who was speeding. My stationary car was written off and I was hospitalised but I don't hold any grudge against this person as it could easily have been me causing an accident, it is your choice to get in a vehicle and take the risk.
My views on speeding are similar to my views on illegal downloading, mainly because people take the similar viewpoint in general that it's a harmless crime.
I have never heard of anyone I know being punished for illegal downloading. Due to it being so widespread now it appears to be hard to track or the authorities are more concerned about other internet crime. Is this me being naive?
I appreciate that isn't to say that it could in the future become something that is cracked down upon.
After researching this, they appear to be after people downloading films with De Niro or Edward Naughton in.
There happens to be one or two Turkish and Romanian Dvd rental stores in my neighbourhood, due to the lower rental charges I always choose them ahead of Video Easy.
It is very rare to be punished for it at the minute I believe.
After researching this, they appear to be after people downloading films with De Niro or Edward Naughton in.
I'm sure he'd spelt it right the first time I read it.What about the films with De Nero and Edward Norton in?
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