police checking cars?

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Originally Posted by colossus

And there you have it - they dont pick on little crap like that consistently unless you are a constant troublemaker they are targeting. I find the whole poor me routine pretty hard to believe.

In 20 years of driving performance cars fast on the road I have been pulled over once for speeding. Its an attiude thing - you blokes bring it on yourself.

Dont they? I beg to differ. Ive only ever been pulled over by 2 other cops - one was a random breatho stop.

I fail to see how those things mentioned should be classified as a "trouble maker". none of them came while speeding, doing burnouts, or driving a performance vehicle by any means. it has more to do with the p plate in the window.

The day I registered my car in the company name - no more problems for 2 years. I buy a new car, register it my own name - and 2 days later is when the lights/no ps happens. could be coincidencem then again maybe not.

and I despise the comment that we bring it on ourselves.

Originally Posted by Redrum

If I had a dollar for every time I hear these excuses............. Your car was not road worthy. You can word it any way you like, but if your vehicle fail to meet the requirements of your states relevant legislation then you can and did receive a fine.

If you felt so strongly about all the points you mention then why not fight it out in court, especially if you believe you were wrongly penalized for that scooter. The problem is, when people are caught committing traffic offences quite a few of them come up with your excuses and the line that they did nothing wrong.

and theres plenty dangerously unworthy cars getting around the place. when a cop does you for the door lock cap missing, a wobbly mirror, and a no good spare just to find 3 reasons for regency - then thats just being a pain for the sake of it - dont you think if he could have found a real reason to defect me he would have???

FYI, I have taken him to court on several occassions (especialy the scooter - my case resulted in the laws being changed). the first few when I was mor naive I didnt, but after the 3rd and 4th pullover by the same cop and 2nd loss of liscence, I protested everything that came from him, and havnt lost a case yet. a few got dropped before they even got to court.

when it comes down to it, you cannot be fined for a mechanical failure - you can be defected, but its not something you did wrong, things break, thats expected. theres a big difference though between pulling a motorist over and politeley informing them of a blown tail light so they can get it fixed, instead of pulling them over, accusung them of stealing the car, driving unregistered, and doing a thourough search on the roadside to see if you can find enough reasons to keep thier car off the road just because you hold a grudge.

If you truly cant see the difference here, then its attitudes like yours that these cops obviously have, and the exact reason were all paranoid on the road when we see them.

Its true that when it comes cops that thier not all bad, and theres the good the bad and the ugly, but in my experiance the bad and the ugly outman the good 2:1 so it pays to be on the lookout.

Think what you will, theres obviously no way I can change your oppinion, and all p platers are obviously hoons and trouble makers with no experiance. (on that note, Ive spent 6 years on my ps and did roughly 1 1/2 to 2 tanks of fuel a day doing upwards of 150,000 - 200,000km a year. so I would dare say I have more driving experiance than an 80 year old whos driven all his life, and have survived the majority of that on 1 point)