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Brisbane
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February 2003
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Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Wed, 11 August 2004 02:57
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i just got a ticket for my car facing the wrong way when parked on the street - $30 bucks because it was the safest way to unload and park the car.
background: car towed home from exhaust place this morning - there's no intake attached (e.g. undrivable) and i unload facing the wrong way but means front of car is closer to house. I cannot put it in garage as i have none due to house renovations being underway.
the story from the cop: allegedly, a complaint had been made the local State Member (a Mr Bruce Flegg - what a name!) about cars in the suburb being parked across driveways, on footpath and facing wrong way. yeah, sure...
what i think: someone nearby has had enough of the building work (earth moving gear, tree removal, lotsof dust & noise for last week) so they complain about the obvious - my fuken car.
why this shits me: it's a public holiday, i've been home most of the morning, there's very little traffic in the street, there's no builders here (public holiday today), i only got the car towed home this morning...
some nearby, lazy, wanker has rung up the local liberal member to make a complain on their behalf - so gutless they can't ring the cops directly.
fark - why not just complain directly, or leave a note on my car?
oh... and this cop's got nothing better to do that cruise around leafy Kenmore looking for cars parked across driveways, on the footpath and facing the wrong way... like that's putting my tax dollars to good use...
/rant....
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Location:
Adelaide
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September 2003
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Wed, 11 August 2004 03:22
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I had a similar fine in SA...
had my celica parked backwards on the road (had just rolled it off the grass to mow and left it parked there for about an hour)
Cops 'just happened to be passing and spotted it' is what they claim (cept I live on a bloody horseshoe street where they wouldn't have seen) and since its a danger to the public (because reflectors are not facing the right way for night time - middle of the day when it happened) they gave me a fine and told me to move the car straight away.
useless cops I say - I have no problems if they bust me for something 'real' but surely they have better things to do?
I mean what about bust the little shitf*cks that tag all over the local buildings - or the dude over the skatepark that cause huge ass fights everynight?
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Location:
Brisbane
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May 2002
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Wed, 11 August 2004 11:00
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OMFG, thats soo, so freaking lame.
I'd be pissed... 
Cheers
Wilbo
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Location:
Potts Point, Sydney
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Wed, 11 August 2004 12:40
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Don't take that bullshit from him, go to the station and tell the "HEAD" cop what happened and try get it scrapped 
Find out who did it and dump alot of sh!t on their doorstep
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
June 2003
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Wed, 11 August 2004 12:47
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happened to my sister in law when she came over to pick up her son...they were just around the area and happened to notice he car parked opposite to where it was supposed to be 
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Location:
sunny coast, qld
Registered:
October 2002
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
November 2002
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Wed, 11 August 2004 13:59
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I got fined for jaywalking recently, and have also been done for not wearing a pushbike helmet, privy to many a fine for "undue noise" and know plenty of people who have been fined for endangering lives at 64km/h in a 60km/h zone
Yet, about 8 years ago we saw a police car pulling a skid (!!), made a complaint and.. no result. I've had two pushbikes reported stolen and... no result. A friend was involved in a hit & run accident recently, got a partial numberplate, full description of the driver & vehicle.. has been a week now and... no result.
I'm all for decorum, but I say we overthrow the government. 
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
April 2004
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Thu, 12 August 2004 11:55
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haha yesterday it was warm but not hot so i left my son in the car for 10 mins as we were looking at car yard after car yard....gone 10 mins come back and the pigs are there. apparently its not against the law to leave children in cars (in summer its a diffrent story)
but they still pass on your details to family dept or what ever and puts a black mark agianst ya name. its kindda funny how quick they got there when last year we got broken intop over $5000 worth of house ear (tv/stezza/video/PS2 ect) got stolen and they took 3 fucking days to come out.
then only 43 months ago when our car got broken into and stripped they came out looked at the car gave us a crime number and left i was like WTF!. THey didnt give a shit. Also my hubby had sum gierl put him up for rape and the detective said "i know you didnt do it but cause she said you did i have to arrest you" like come on.
since then i have absolutly no respect for police.
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Location:
Potts Point, Sydney
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Thu, 12 August 2004 12:09
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Damn...those cops sound like they dont know or wanna know shit 
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I supported Toymods
Location:
Epping, Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Thu, 12 August 2004 12:31
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hrm
I had my wreck towed to my place, dumped facing the wrong way.
had council rangers come by twice, both times *really* reasonably guys/girls (one of each), had a chat, explained to them my situation, and they said it was visible, so not really a danger, and on their way they went.
Once again, it was obviously neighbours pissed about having a wreck (albeit a registered one) parked in their pretty street
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
October 2002
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Thu, 12 August 2004 12:45
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its fucking stupid but it is illegal to park your car on the wrong side of the road, basically, u had to have driven on the wrong side of the road to get there 
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
February 2003
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Thu, 12 August 2004 13:04
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yep - is stupid that they enforce it on a quiet street... funnily... no, make that stupidly enough, the guy said because the front o the car was 'facing the wrong way'... so if someone came around the corner, say my car, the would instinctively drive to the left of it... stright into our yard/construction-site... yeah ... sure... 
i just want the local papers to pick up on the story that it was the local state member who prompted the cops to come around abd blitz the suburb - what a good job our state parliament rep was doing hey? making sure all these voters got a $30 reminder NOT to vote for him next time.
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Location:
Ballarat, Vic.
Registered:
September 2002
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Fri, 13 August 2004 11:31
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The holdup alarm went off at work recently when i was working. Within 2 min cops/security ring and say cops will be out soon (even though it was a false alarm. I had no idea it went off). Put some pies in oven then turn around and theres 3 cop cars in driveway. Mind you when I reported a breakin at my last work they took about an hour to show up and didnt' really care.
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I supported Toymods
Location:
Adelaide
Registered:
July 2004
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Fri, 13 August 2004 11:59
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Ive said it before and im sure ill be saying again after this...
FUCKDAPOLICE
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Location:
toowoomba qld
Registered:
March 2004
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Sun, 15 August 2004 05:01
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| MR 1GGTE wrote on Fri, 13 August 2004 21:59 |
Ive said it before and im sure ill be saying again after this...
FUCKDAPOLICE
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what he said
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Sun, 15 August 2004 05:29
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i dont wanna jynx myself but i park the wrong way everyday cause i gotta drive dowbn the street to go to work and my car is pretty load and couldnt be stuffed doing a U turn in the mornings.
iv had heaps of cops come down/up my street and have so far never had a problem *fingers crossed it never happens* but if anything happened i would argue and not take the fine cause you can see the car wether day or night from all the chrome on it shining at you
i also once had cops come to my house cayuse they got a report that i was stripping a stolen car!!!!!!!!!!!!!  they get there and tell me this and i laughed in his face and he got the shits hard, i said to him firstly i got a car on the road that is all rusted out and nothing in it, secondly i got the exact same car in front of your face in the driverway, thirdly im stupid to be stripping a stolen car in front of my house and thoirdly the towing is coming in an hour to tow it to the tip and im taing the diff off... and he still had the nerve to tell me to do it inside which is when i replied 'IF I DO THAT HOW AM I GONNA GET IT OUTSIDE FOR THE TOWY???'
he gave me a dumb look and took off
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
July 2002
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Sun, 15 August 2004 06:02
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cops waste so much time on BS
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I supported Toymods
Location:
Adelaide
Registered:
July 2004
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Sun, 15 August 2004 06:07
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| Jag7799 wrote on Sun, 15 August 2004 15:32 |
cops waste so much time on BS
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They are cops, what do you expect them to do, solve murders and keep us safe? 
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Location:
Brisbane, QLD
Registered:
February 2003
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Re: Cops wastin time in suburban brisbane
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Sun, 15 August 2004 07:20
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i hope you are going to contest the ticket
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