A Day in court...

Seems to me that the very fact you guys have the slang term "bombed"
indicates that claims of "I've never done it and I've never heard of
anyone else doing it!" are immediately suspect... Sounds very "old
school" as the newpaper reports of a cop trial put it the other day...

big

 

So then you'd agree that there should be some sort of requirement for police
to somehow prove the speed the driver was clocked at?

Michael

 

So there's no actual "tickets per shift" rule laid on you by your
superiors, but surely you're not trying to get us to believe that a
(probably large) part of your measured performance isnt based on the
quantity of tickets you write? I'd find it _very_ hard to believe that
if you went for an entire month without writing a speeding ticket your
boss wouldn't come down on you like a ton of bricks. "honest boss, I
explained it all to them on usenet, and they've all stopped speeding,
didn't see a _single_ one all month!"

cynical-big

 

I think he should go to his boss and say "Bloody fixed speed cameras,
I just cannot get any infringments issued - I demand you remove them
so I can get some work done!"

GovCo might have something to say about that however :-(

 

Not if it embues these institutions with a degree of gravitas fitting
the huge importance they are to our society. Even though you can't see
it yet.

You would be an anarchist, No?
You would want to be in charge though, I guess?

Sure, but what about the institution?
Can you suggest a better institution?
Far from perfect, but it is the best we humans can think of.

Yet I've described the similarities, and you have just made an empty
assertion to the contrary. Care to elaborate why it is not similar in
your opinion? You have been in the armed forces, I gather?

Not at all like shaking hands. Please read what I said again. You've
obviously missed the point.

Umm, that is a convention that is changing in Australia at least.
Sounds funny when Yanks call folks Sir and Ma'am, but they are just
conventions. when they change, others take their place, although if
you don't look carefuly, you might never notice -)

 

Like the gynecologist who when doing his practical test to become a
motor mechanic, stripped the engine and rebuilt it through the exhaust
pipe

 

Hey, I've never been nuked (email) and never nuked anyone and never
known anyone who was alledgedly nuked, but I know the term.

 

Prove to who, and in what forum?

 

Mindless silly stuff. In spades with a magistrate's court.

Nothing to 'see'

Guess again.

That silly title stuff is completely irrelevant to the institution.

Dont need to, I was JUST commenting on that stupid title wank.

Having fun thrashing that straw man ?

That silly title crap with elected pollys is nothing like that.

Like hell you did, you just asserted.

You must made an empty original assertion.

YOU made the stupid assertion, YOU get to do the elaborating.

THATS how it works.

Completely irrelevant whether I have or have not.

Wrong again.

Even you should be able to do better than that pathetically hoary old line.

Irrelevant to whether its just another silly wank.

Gone blind yet ? Dont reply if you can read this.

 

Rare moment, this.
I agree with the NetKook!!

 

My race car is a wheeled toy too. So 'wheeled toy' doesn't imply any such
thing

 

What would happen if you consistantly went out and patrolled know black
spots resulting in lower number of infringments? You could do that every day
for your career and book much less people than other officers sitting in
known speeding but safer areas with no problems?

Michael

 

Isn't that what Court is all about?

 

I imagine it would work on averages. If you were way below an average
(or way above) they would pull you aside to find out why. The boss
knows who is a slacker when not watched, and who has integrity.
I can't recall all the warnings I've been given when if there had been
quotas, I would have been a gone coon every time.
This quota bullshit has been argued for as long as I can remember
(five decades) and it started with a copper called Eric the Red who
had bright red hair and was slimness challenged. He would sit on his
Beeza with his leather nazi cap flattened over his ears, behind an
advertising hoarding and roar out to grab unsuspecting motorists.
Perhaps he was given a quota, but there was such a public uproar that
I'l bet he didn't have it long, and that was the mid/early fifties.
Public relations since, would dictate that quotas are not on, sorry.

 

Which one?

 

How many times o you want me to say it?

Hey, I'll admit that is a tool that is used in work performance
measure. However, not in the way you suggest. Read below.

Of course he would. Now think about what you just said.
Can YOU drive around for 8 hours a day, for a month, and
not see anything worth booking? Anyone who can, should
hand their licence in because they're driving with their eyes
closed. If I gave you my infringement book, my SS, and
a 5 minute run down on how to work the radar, you'd be back
in an hour wanting a new book.

Was I supposed to laugh at that?

Spooky

 

Where GovCo cheats?

 

There's more than one?

 

Classic!

Spooky

 

Yes. In fact that's exactly what happens right now.

Spooky