Today i got pulled over in "Miami Vice style" for having my arm ON the window (protruding limb law)... and tell me this beautiful country has not become a police state!

Driving at a leasurely 40km (observing the speed limit) two police officers run out onto the road, Miami Vice Style signalling me to pull over. At first i was stunned, WTF is this all about, it felt like a freakin ambush.

So I got the "license please?" to which i had to ask "What in the world are you pulling me over for?" to which the officer responded "We dont need a reason to pull you over, but today you had your arm out the window". Stunned i said to the police officer "I dont know what to say to that", which he interpreted as an admission of guilt "So you admit to having your arm out the window?". No i didnt say that, i actually cant believe that you pulled me over for that, and no my arm wasnt out the window but on the window.

So i flicked him my license and he went to do the standard checks. Nothing! He came back advising that he was letting me off because i had used up all my demerit points and if he fined me i would lose my licencse.

Seriously. WTF.

Nanny country we live in.

That law has been around for a long time.

i got done for having a rectangular gear stick handle in a manual car.... apparantly thats not alloud.... as my beetle wasnt auto!!!

i think it amazing he didnt fine u anyway regardless of what u said. from what i seen over the last few yrs they dont care innocent or not u getting a fine, a reason they could let u off or not u getting afine

WTF....
Better get the Scat Drag fast Shifter outa me bug then.
And I'm always driving with my arm on the edge of the door with the window open...
Nanny state and a broke state = revenue raising

I was pulled over in my dual cab once because I had a "Speed Limited 100kph" sticker on the back

I was once pulled over for doing a burnout around a roundabout and drifting out of it at nearly 90 degrese. Didnt notice the cop comming the opposite way!!!!!!
He did me for neg driving!!!!! WTF...... I thought it was a mighty fine bit of driving:lol:
ps That was along time ago and I dont condone this type of driving these days!!!!!

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Originally posted by whathaveidone I was once pulled over for doing a burnout around a roundabout and drifting out of it at nearly 90 degrese. Didnt notice the cop comming the opposite way!!!!!! He did me for neg driving!!!!! WTF...... I thought it was a mighty fine bit of driving ps That was along time ago and I dont condone this type of driving these days!!!!!

Hope that wasn't MY ENGINE you were thrashing, Ben.

I know this will sound like a "Good Old Days" story, But it is true. Things have changed a lot.

One night about 50 years ago, I managed to [easily] outrun a police EK Holden in my Beetle [which clocked 102 MPH at Bathurst]. After a search, they finally found me, and when the two cops got out and walked towards my car, I thought I was going to jail. There were the typical 'old' cop, and 'young' cop, and they went over my car with the torch, checking it out.

What happened next, to put it mildly, amazed me. The 'old' cop booked me for 'a noisy exhaust', and said "Keep that sort of speed for the race track in future, will ya"......I DID.

No Greg, that was my old commondore!!! I have never driven a beetle on the street.

Bogan

I even had long hair and smoked winnie blues!!!!! I was cool as

awesome!

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Originally posted by whathaveidone I was once pulled over for doing a burnout around a roundabout and drifting out of it at nearly 90 degrese. Didnt notice the cop comming the opposite way!!!!!! He did me for neg driving!!!!! WTF...... I thought it was a mighty fine bit of driving ps That was along time ago and I dont condone this type of driving these days!!!!!

I'd like to ban ipods.

I remember in the late 60s, in one year there were about 3 people had their arms cut off in collisions because they were resting on the windows. I think that was when the (good) law was introduced.

The horn law is a good law also. Why should I be annoyed by dickheads in the middle of the night.

It sounds like you are part of the me generation.

How about being fined up to $1M for growing fruit and veges in your back yard. If Monsanto gets their way this will happen. They want americans to only buy the genetically modified foods from supermarkets.