A&Q about 350Z
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Yeah well I got my lisence suspension notice in the mail today, so I officially have 21 days left on my lisence before I have to hand it in for 3 months! The charges are mickey mouse bs like 62kmph/38mph in a 50kmph/30mph zone and another ticket equally as pathetic, so that makes it 4 points lost in one year which equals a suspension for 3 months over retarded tickets that arent even really worth it.
The way I look at it is that Ive had my Z off the clock before, blasted past a few setup speed cameras going well over the limit and never getting anything in the mail so Im not pushing my luck right now lol. Just going to take 3 months off, and it'll give me an excuse to start modding my 86T even further.
Just thought I'd vent here, the Transport Authority sucks! They rob you every which way here in Australia, wether its speeding tickers or $600 registration costs for the year or $200 ownership transfer fees, the list goes on! And to make matters worse our roads totally suck ass so where's this money going? lol
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Dude..just stop speeding
...that seems to work
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Yeah true, but that's not much fun is it? If I didn't speed I'd never get over 60mph because the limit everywhere is 100kmph. Also owning a Z doesn't help either :)
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I should also add that the police here are notorious for issuing either bogus tickets, or tickets which aren't accurate or faslely bumped up to get more money out of you. There was a big story on the news the other day about it and you cant really defend yourself either because 99% of the time you honestly cant remember and you have to take their word for it.
That's a bs excuse tho, I personally was speeding but there's still a big conspiracy here about speeding tickets lol
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I have to say in 85zx's defence that in Auzzie the speed enforcement is privatized, and so they get paid by the ticket, a company there got cought for setting the max speed 10 KM/H under the limit.. it is like in holland, a way for an extra buck for the government to spend on a social welfare system that sucks!
You can sleep in your car, but cant drive in your house
if you are fully in control, you are not driving fast enough!
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yes I'am with 85zx
Cause it sucks monkey balls out here
where does the money go???
i got a $210 ticket and 2 points off for making a right hand turn after 3.30pm.the cops were hiding in the bushes.........I should buy them some monkey suits amd put them in the zoo a$$hole$.
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Haha! Glad some of you guys know how terrible it is here, if they dont meet their quotas they start giving out complete bs tickets!
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same here !
You can sleep in your car, but cant drive in your house
if you are fully in control, you are not driving fast enough!
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To give people a better idea of how dodgy the police are here, I was once pulled up in my white 85 NA. The dumbass female SENIOR officer who I swear didn't look a day over 20, didn't take down my lisence plate number at the scene. So she looked up my name, saw my girlfriend's information associated with mine because shes a registered driver for that car. Anyway on her record there was a white honda prelude, her old car which was unregistered. This retard cop just "assumed" that it was the same car because it was white aswell, and tried to sting me for driving an unregistered motor vehicle on top of the ticket!
Anyway to cut a long story short, it went to court and I forgot to go and it was thrown out anyway and I only had to pay the speeding fine because her car was wrecked some 2 years ago and it was all on police record.
Dumb idiots I tell you...
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Now I know why the Aussie Government took all of your guns away.
Last I heard they were confiscating swords too.
Do you guys feel safer that your government is protecting you - from you?
Ed and Jeanne's
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Now I know why gas is so expensive in the U.S, and why you all live in a cloud of smog. Look at your gas guzzlers! lol And you name them too, cmon... You're too easy to make fun of, dont start :)
And the reason we have strict gun laws here is because of the Port Arthur massacre when one guy shot up like 38 people with automatic military grade firearms. Besides being totally off topic your point (if there even is one) is stupid...
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Post Edited (Jun 6, 3:26am)
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hmm..didnt know you were not from the U.S.
ive been pulled over for racing my g/f with my RED 944-got a warning.
pulled over in my mr2 for speeding..no license and no insurance-just told me to get my speedometer fixed..
In arizona i did a right turn in a wrx along with a little burn out and got pulled over...when he asked why i got pulled over i was like "cuz i did a burn out and i was going too fast?" he was like No, you made an illegal right turn..i was like..."OH"...wow...i could have gotten in a lot more trouble
ran through a red light *thought i could make it* got flashed..never go the ticket..
so i guess we a bit easier over here :)
David
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I hear that zspeed260, my list goes like this (This is all in an '88 SC MR2):
4:00am ~ doing 135 km in a 50 ~ got a ticket for doing 70 in a 50
3:30am ~ going 100+ in 70 ~ got told to fix my exhaust (no cats, too loud)
1:00am ~ racing an Integra, hit 130km in a 50 ~ got read the riot act by the cop (this one I was really lucky as it was a check stop cop that gave us sh!t, he had no idea how fast we were going. He could just hear us)
Also, keep in mind (before the flaming) all these stories are when I was a lot younger and dumber.
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It's not our fault that the car companies makes cars that drive faster than the speed limits ;) - I don't encourage speeding/racing, but I do both when the roads are straight and clear. Sucks about your situation!
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Same, I'm not someone who will do stupid speeds thru a school zone or other crazy things like that. I only give her a good run when it's open like you do, gotta have a little bit of fun every now and then after all. :)
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85zx - I'm sorry if I touched a sensitive nerve there -
the vieled point was about gas prices and freedom of choice.
The reference to guns in Australia (being completely banned) is "no" freedom of choice about what rights or freedom your government can take away.
And you have far higher gas prices than we do.
We have a freedom of choice on using gas at the same rate of consumption or not and gripping like H--- about it.
When it gets to the point that Joe Average American is fed up and he has the means to defend himself - then government and businees step back and look for ways to "meet the needs" of the people.
We all so (so far) have the means to protect from and protest over price gouging by either private companies or government.
I'm oversimplifying a very complex and over here too controversial subject.
Also - I wanted to hear from Aussies who know why the government took (to American gun owners) the unthinkable step of banning and confiscating all guns in the country.
We do have an intolerable high crime rate here - but as the Katrina Hurricane showed - the police and government can't protect us when we need it - sooo -
I've always thought Aussies were very independant minded - but then I'm not an Aussie and I don't know your culture. So I am stymied as to how a free country can let it's government take away a most basic civil right of self defense.
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We dont need guns, simple as that really... And yes it did touch a nerve, I was at the very place it happend just a week before and i was supposed to be there the week it actually did happend but couldn't get that week off work. I was at the exact cafe' it happend literally 5 days earlier at lunch time, same time the shooting happend the following week.
Since then, some 5 years ago now there hasn't been a single inccident even similar. Why? Strict gun laws that's why, you can get them it's just very difficult to. I stayed in Baltimore for 6 months with friends when I lived in the USA for little over a year, I know what it's like there. If you're proud of that and consider that freedom then you have a very wrong idea of what freedom really is. Freedom is to be able to walk down a street at anytime without "needing" a gun to protect yourself from some crazy drug dealer etc That's the complete opposite of being free, some of you live in fairy land believing that.
Aussies are very independant minded, that's why we talk sh!t on the dodgy things the police do here. I dont see that happening in the U.S without getting a serious beat down lol
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Post Edited (Jun 6, 5:59pm)
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The Aussie government has banned Automatic and Semi Automatic guns. You can still have Manual guns, but you need to have a reason to have it and the only reason is your apart of a gun club (and I think if you live on a farm). Then if you have a gun licence and have a gun it needs to be locked away in a steel case bolted to the wall or floor.
But on topic, the ammount of money the government gets off road users is bs. High Car rego, fines, over taxed fuel (something high like 50c a litre or something), stamp duty to get a car transfered (I had to pay 500 dollars to get a car changed into my name, which took them 1 minute on a computer) and none of the money goes back into the roads.
Where I live, I have to travel on what I believe is the worst highway in Australia. The Ipwsich motorway. Everyday without fail its a traffic jam streatching for kilometres and accidents. Then what does the government do to try and stop the crashes, drops the speed limit down from 100kph (60mph) to 90kph (mph). Hate to tell you this you thick headed morons, the accident rate hasn't gone down and the traffic jams are just as bad. Now we just had a budget and Ipswich road got piss all if any of the allocated money for road upgrades. Some highway between melboune and sydney is getting and upgrade when its not so bad and some other road in the Northen Territory has got a few mill to upgrade it when the NT has a small population.
Fk I hate our governments way of thinking.
End rant haha.
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Erzelda, your first response was a little easy to misinterpret, and I can see how 85zx would take it the wrong way and respond the way he did.
I grew up in Belgium - I'm sure the gun laws there are similar to what they have in Australie, only for hunting or whatever. So I share most of 85zx's opinions about guns in America.
I do like living in the states, especially Oklahoma without inspection and the cops are pretty lax, it seems. But I'm not sure the question of Katrina and whether or not the government can protect it's people is vaild. I mean, it was a frikkin hurrican, two of em. Not much the gov't can do about it.... sure the levies should have been built better or whatever, but...
I'm sure banning guns would be difficult to accomplish in the US, and I know it would never eliminate crime, but my best guess says it would reduce crime and while it is fun shooting guns, I don't really see the need and would not mind if nobody had them.
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in australia you can still get whatever guns you need....the point is that you have to NEED them to get them
if you are a member of a gun club, you can have rifles, shotguns, even handguns
if you are a primary producer (farmer) and prove the need, you can have semi-automatic weapons and pump action shotguns (class c and d weapons or something i forget)
the point is...if you need to have a gun, whether it be for hunting, pest irradication, or just pleasure (gun clubs) then you can get them
sorry to any gun owners in america, but i can't see the NEED for anyone to have automatic weapons...i know it's your constitutional right and all....i just feel that you should have to demonstrate a need to have a weapon before your allowed to just have one
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I love the U.S, I had a blast there but the gun laws are insane... So is having a chemist and a liquor store combined together lol Basically setting up people to go nuts...
Back on topic though, yeah our car registration costs here is insane! Cost me $280 for 6 months! It includes something like $170 for medical insurance which is manditory and you have to pay it wether you have your own private cover or not. And even if you are injuried you have to pay for everything yourself up front and then just prey that they'll reimburse you.
And yeah I've heard about the Ipswich motorway, gaunlet of misery especially in that heat lol
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Now we've had a good discussion and I learned things I didn't know. I was led to belive that no guns were allowed in Australia.
I will be the first to admit and said that guns are a very controversial topic here. Anyone who knows my previous posts knows I'm in Security work but that is not why I have had a gun collection of at one time over 200 rifles, pistols and shotguns. Swords and knives too.
Our argument here (in the U.S.) is does Gun Control work (no) and would Criminal Control work better (it would if we did).
Freedom is constantly compromised. Many Totalitarian countries are much safer for citizens ( not at odds with the current regime - usually) than ours.
Well us jaded Americans need to learn that what we think works for us is not what the rest of the world wants. A country with nothing but Mc.Donald's and Wal-Marts makes for dull living.
The gasoline question and taxation issue - I was making a lame joke about " if you can't fight back then you gotta take what they give you" was my point.
In the U.S. we could easily fight back without guns - in the voting booth we can topple governments and make sweeping changes, but we don't.
Katarina: New Orleans residents were warned for 40 years that they were in danger - they are below sea level. The Mayor and other elected officals wasted, squandered and otherwise took billions in Federal aid money to fix and maintain those levees (dams) but the money went elsewhere.
Historically Louisianna politics is the long (Huey Long - get it) way of saying corruption. Only state that uses old French Law - Code de Napoleon as a basis of government.
The Katrina flooding may not have been preventable - but the lack of leadership Governor and N.O. Mayor and Police Chief inactions and incompetence to rescue citizens was criminal negligence.
Police in the flooded streets were too often given no back up and many said to hell with this. Many more stayed and did the best they could.
Citizehs (that shouldn't have stayed0 had to fend for themselves. Total breakdown of law and order for almost a week.
Many - way too many New Orleans refugees flooded into Houston and expect a constant handout (disaster relief is one thing) beyond reason.
Our crime rate was seadilly going down for over decade - has now gone up more than 25% for violent crime.
Oh btw - those New Orleans idiots re-elected that incompetent corrupt Mayor. The next hurricane - our police need to escort La. residents on through and out of Texas. We've done and had enough.
I believe that government's first and foremost duty is to protect it's citizens and if it can't or won't then the citizens have the foremost civil right of self defense. Then get a new government.
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Absolutely nothing to do with gun laws...but,
I used to do 135 in my 260z on a regular basis in idaho, but the only tickets I got there were 3 no insurance ($103 per+suspension), 1 driving on a suspended license(2 days in jail, ~$500 fines), 1 insufficient mirrors ($46), 1 no seatbelt ($5). Never been pulled over for speeding though ;) . Las vegas is a little different from Idaho, everyone is going 5-10mph over the speed limit, but the cops have a lot of good hiding places. So basically speeding is no big deal, but if you get busted going 15-20 over (or 27mph in a 25mph school zone) you pay BIG time. I think a ticket for 15 over is like $200.
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jeez when yeah a gun will help for not getting a ticket .. you just shoot them right ?
*shakes head*
You can sleep in your car, but cant drive in your house
if you are fully in control, you are not driving fast enough!
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I dont even know how guns came up haha, way off topic. We were bitching about the scamming police here in AU lol
Jeez linluv84, 2 days jail just for that? Man I bet that was a bit scarey :(
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No BS
my brother rang me today and said he also has his license suspended for 3 months so startin from tomorro morning 5.30am I will have to drop him off work before starting my job at 7.00am(3 months).
Talk about bad vibes man................................bad bad karma
How about your transportation 85zx??
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Yeah Im kinda screwed lol I have 21 days or when I pay for the ticket, whichever comes first before my lisence is actually suspended. Here you can goto court and request a limited lisence to get to and from work etc but courts scare me so I dont think i'll bother lol
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Wow, that was lively.
I've been pulled over for over a 100 mph in the mid-west and given a warning.
I've beat the CHP twice in traffic court over the last 11 years, but I've also lost 5 times...
I regularly drive 80+ mph on 101/280/680/880/580/85/82 in the Bay Area of SanFrancisco.
72 WooHoo!! In good shape too...
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