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I have a stupid 40K school zone that I have to drive through on the way to my daughters school. Its normally a 3 lane 80 zone. I dont reckon it should
be a school zone cos it is a snotty private school along some religious or ethnic line, and I have NEVER seen a kid on foot near there, but rules are
rules.
And rules, especially stupid ones, are meant to be broken, so I just cruised through at 80. Pulled up at my daughters school... and so did a cop car
behind me. 75 in a 40 zone. I got a lecture, told I was good and did 40 in this school zone and should have done so in the other one. Asked a few
questions about my driving record (clean for 10 years) and I was let off with a warning.
Cool huh. Glad I dont live in Victoria else I would be facing firing squad by now.
Most people would be amazed that there are police out there that do use their discretion.
What about the 40km/h zone on the pacific highway between Kempsey and Macksville. For 1.5 hrs in the morning, and 1.5hrs in the arvo, all the highway
traffic (including 40 + tonne semi trailers) have to slow down from 100 to 40 for about 400m. AND NOT ONE SCHOOL STUDENT EVER CROSSES THE HIGHWAY AT
THE SCHOOL!!!!!
THERE ARE NO PEDESTRIAN STUDENTS AROUND THE HIGHWAY, BUT EVERY VEHICLE STILL HAS TO SLOW DOWN.
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The Coppers can be bad around my way. They will pull you over for doing 3 ks over the limit but they will ignore people who can't drive in a straight line, hog the right hand lane, talk on their mobile phone, don't give way and run red lights ..... although I must admit I did get let off one morning after driving home from Night Duty ( I am a Nurse ) doing 75 in a 60 zone. It seems that Coppers like Nurses !!!!!!!
Just slow down for the school zones no matter what. picture your kid walking out in front of a car doing 60 in a 40 zone. Being a private school should make no difference. One of my best friends when I was in grade 3 was hit by a speeding car and run over. I still remember him going under the front and out the back. These zones are there for a reason. The cop should have thrown the book at ya.:cussing
Well Chris, that explains how you have a clean driving record; they keep letting you off!!! :P
As a ex teacher of ten years I say run them down!!!!!
SPEED DOESNT KILL, STUPIDITY DOES. LET THE STUPID DIE.
Went to Sydney recently.. big town! but speed changes every few hundred metres on highway 1 really suck... Are they for road safety or just to confuse drivers, hence raise revenue?
Went to Sydney recently.. big town! but speed changes every few hundred metres on highway 1 really suck... Are they for road safety or just to confuse drivers, hence raise revenue?
My wife wasnt so lucky this morning down here in Melbourne. Got done for doing 48 in a 40 zone at 9:30 in the morning after all the kids were in
class.
$200. Bummer.
Speed zones around schools save lives, cops wont book you if you're not a criminal and dont break the law, amazer should have been booked, infact I think he's full of shit, cops wouldnt let someone off doing 35 ks over, either that or the cops down wollongong way are bloody corrupt and should be exposed, amazer wouldnt be laughing if i ran his precious little daughter down doing 35 over the limit...so grow up and obey the law, stop teaching you're daughter to grow up as a selfish little lawbreaker!!!
im with judy and mick.........school zones are there for a reason....dont abuse them.....ive never seen a kid be run over but imagine being run over at 10 years old and being killed.......not a great life........dont be an idiot do the speed limit...expescially in school zones...and u are hypacritical......u slowed down for your daughters school but not the private school......dont be stupid they are all children...it doesnt matter whether some are well off and go to a private school and some go to public schools.......i bet u would change your tune if a student walked out in front of you tomorow and u killed them:cussing
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Mabye you shoudl move up, here at least with common sense when it comes to this sort of thing, my local school is on a major road with 70km/hr limit, there is no school zone and minimal aprking so as to limit the amount of kids inj this area. Traffic lighst are in place to allow kids to cross the 5 lanes. Parents are advised (an almost all do) pick there kids up from the otehr side of the school which does have school zones.
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am not! im a tree hugging hippy kinda guy, who totally supports australian native fauna and fauna, and who grows nothing but australian natives on my block, and like to watch the crimson rosellas eating my grevillias even if they do make a horrible mess, and actively recycle paper by going round and collecting peoples stuff ups from uni computers and.....
go amazer.......
must have been your good karma day....
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i hope you feel better now with that load of shit off your liver phew what a read
I can just start to feel the heat of all this someone is going to be 
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:cry or:cussing. my 2c? slow down, going fast might be fun and slowing down annoying, but i would rather live without the guilt. Just because you
think it is safe one day doesnt mean road conditions stay the same. What if a kid did walk out on the road, better to be doing 40k than 80k yeah?
thats why the speed limit is there, in reality we should be going 5kmh everywhere that would stop all the problems (i cant see anyone dying from that
speed, if someone wants to challenge me go for it!!) but we have the privilege of going faster, so if you abuse it cop it.
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VW is for Cruisin' -- V6 Alfa is for Fanging, but only on country roads where youcan let things really hang out! (well mostly)
Driving fast in the city is absolutely pointless, there is always some twit in the right lane slowing everybody down. I slow down for school zones.
Don't get conned into the we all must drive slow routine, speeding is a crime. Speeding isn't a crime, even if the Government tries to portray it as
one.
People who pulling in front of Trucks, Buses, Kombis and other larger vehicles in their stupid Korean or Japanese tin cans, forcing the larger vehicle
to hit the anchors ina crash stop scenario should have their licenses revoked on the spot for dangerous driving. This happens to me all the time when
I'm driving the Kombi. I need a big bar and I will go through the bloody twits.
Parking lots, the ladies drive around these like they drive the shopping trolleys inside. Beware the middle aged lady chasing a bargain with a
shopping trolley, also beware the massed female shoppers with kids in tow. You will be run down, barged into, knocked out of the way...etc.. If you
think the roads are dangerous, try the shopping Malls.
Having also had a friend killed in a school crossing incident, he ran from behind a bus. It was his own fault. but the image remains. The real problem
with school zones is the lazy parents who sit in the car on the other side of the street, who wont get out and pick their kids up or drop them off
onthe correct side of the street for the school. It isn't the kids fault, it is the parents. Appropraiate blame where it really belongs, not to the
driver but to the parent who doesn't care enough about their child to park the car, even if it is a block away and walk them to the school.
Also we should ban the big Urban 4wd being driven by Mum who can't park the vehicle, has barely any control of the car when going down narrow streets
and puts the kids downn the Bus zone or a no stopping zone. they should all be driving Kombi's anyway!
slow downnnnn i was on my way to work yesterday and a car was heading towards me in the other lane just be for she aproched me she verd head on in to my truck she broke both legs killed her mother and cant remember a thing about it she was doing 80 kays and i was doing 30 kays i see it ever day in a truck i spend 10 hours a day on the road a wankers in cars speeding and hitting each other when will yous lern eg: amazer laws are there for a reson sorry to be so blunt but this is going to efect me for a long time and it rote my truck off i hope i havent afended any won by this post but slow down
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This forum is too full of bitchy people looking out to flame people.
The fact the school is private isnt the reason I did 80. The reason is that no kid walks, they all get lifts in mum and dads merc or BMW (the poorer
ones drive hondas) and if they arent getting a lift with their parents they are on the school owned bus.
I will cop a fine for exceeding the speed limit near any other school sweet. Not that I would do that. I would have copped it this time too cos I know
it was against the law. But in THIS case it is a stupid law.
Same as the blanket 50km residential speed limit. My street is residential but it is 60km because it is a back street link between warilla and mt
warrigal. This is despite the fact that my street is narrow and windy. Others around me are almost 4 lanes and straight yet are 50 zones. Dont believe
me? come and check it out. Will give you a tour.
Latest accident here last week was when a man swerved to avoid a dog and had a head on. The woman driving the other car is in a serious condition in
hospital. Root cause not speed but stupid people letting dogs roam streets, stupid licensing system letting people without defensive driving skills
onto the road.
All I wanted to say is that some police ARE reasonable and DO use discretion. Everyone take a PROZAC and have a good day.
As i was saying, whether its stupid or not its the law, obey it and stop teaching you're daughter to do whatever she wants. Makes my job as a teacher harder and I hate having to teach students that their parents are misguided and wrong. ::thumb
If you have to justify your actions then you know you are wrong simple as that, and everyone does it so i wouldnt put the blame on one single person.
Cops let you off cause you are nice bloke and they have the same opinions of the law as you I suppose....What a load of:repuke
dubnut are u a cop?