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   smiteq@powerup.com.au (Doug Sm... Well, James Kirk actually.) wrote:
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>From: smiteq@powerup.com.au (Doug Sm... Well, James Kirk actually.)
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>Subject: Re: My speeding ticket hearing of 5/12/1995
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 18:45:41 GMT
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>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.
>
Well put, Doug.  I agree 100% with you.  I don't wonder why the Queensland 
road toll is so high this year, seeing some of the disgraceful driving around 
the place.  I don't know what is the matter with everyone, but it seems that 
everyone *must* drive flat out and with agro to try and be seen as a good 
driver.  Not to mention having to be infront of everyone *all* the time.  The 
last few weeks, some of the overtaking practices have been incredible.  I 
drove to Kingaroy the other day, I was doing 100km/h, and someone decided to 
start overtaking me at the base of a hill.  Yes, on the base of a hill, 
double white lines coming up and a car coming the other way!!  They got a 
quarter the way along my side and suddenly braked and pulled back in behind 
me.  How the vehicle behind them didn't run into them I don't know.  Then 
they tail gated me for a kilometer.  That's another thing that gets me 
fuming.  One of these days I can see something could happen infront of me 
causing me to brake hard.  Well you know what the consequences will be, but 
what can you do?  But this is only barely scratching the surface, and as far 
as I'm concerned, there needs to be some good bookings.

I enjoy driving, and it's a pity that it has to be interfered with by these 
so called 'good' drivers.

Regards,

Mark Ansell