🚀 go-pugleaf

kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) wrote:

>Michael HART (mhart@solar.csd.unsw.OZ.AU) wrote:
>> 
>> In fact the police can charge you with "interferring with a police
>> operation" if they can prove, or the judge is lead to believe, that you
>> flashed your lights to warn others of the police operation.
>> 
>> The fact that police say they are just trying to slow people down and are
>> not on a money making venture, which will be the effect of flashing your
>> lights, is beside the point.

>So are you saying that if police were set up to catch a bank robber that
>they had been tipped off about, and you noticed the guy get out of his car
>with a balaclava on, and you somehow stopped him from robbing the bank and
>possibly shooting people, possibly himself (or the other way around in
>Victoria), then you've committed a crime?

>Surely interfering in a police operation means causing the operation to
>fail [to catch the bad guys] as opposed to preventing the crime.

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So what are you going to do when speed cameras come into use?

I personally believe no one has the right to speed for anything other
than a real emergency wherein Police help to speed to a destination
can be called.

I get really peeved when people abuse me for wearing a hat and driving
a Volvo whilst I'm the only one travelling at the speed limit....
Bugger warning other motorists... 

If they're speeding let them get booked for it. After paying out a few
hundred bucks a month for their impatience the roads will soon be safe
enough to walk across without first qualifing for the 100 metre sprint
titles.

The police are far to leinent with potential murderers who think they
will never be responsible for an accident or that their car can go for
another few months without those new tyres or that brake job.

If you get caught (a rare event in Queensland) just learn your lesson,
let others learn the hard way too and worry about becomming a better
person yourself without warning others who seem to think they are
imortal.

Phew,
Doug Smith.