Idiot in a 1975 Mazda

[gt4dude]

u guys all saints and angels, on a car "enthusiast" site? i call BS

[post edited due to complaints - leave your sexual predjudices at the door thanks]

[Quint]

u guys all saints and angels, on a car "enthusiast" site? i call BS

qft.

Years ago got a fine for not stopping for a ped at a crossing (nfi, they probably stepped up onto the plate after i'd gone over the diamonds or some retarded shit) through *555, ticket turned up in the post. $&#$% awesome.

[strx7]

any muppet who tailgates me for a KM or more, gets there rego recorded and reported to that site. Anyone whom i witness flying through road works 30kph or 50kph zones gets the same treatment.

The road laws are there to be obeyed, if everyone was a safe and good driver there would be far less accidents and deaths on the road.

If by me reporting a tailgater, means the tailgater gets a letter in the mail and they think, "hmm perhaps i should watch my following distances" surely that a win, and makes it safer for other road users.

I'd personally like to beat some sense into every muppet driver i see doing muppet things but the law doesn't allow me to

[Mr Ree]

Im with Shane on this one.

Driving like a $&#$% on public streets, tailgating, burnouts, hooning, all just add to the innacurate public perception that ALL car enthusiasts are the same i.e "boyracers with no respect for other road users"

But the reality is that people like the Mazda owner in this thread, will never hit the track to do it properly. Theyre too busy trying to impress their car full of mates while endangering the public, and discussing the finer points of flatpeaked caps and the stickers on their peaks

Take it to the track, plain and simple.

[GDII]

Im with Shane on this one.

Driving like a $&#$% on public streets, tailgating, burnouts, hooning, all just add to the innacurate public perception that ALL car enthusiasts are the same i.e "boyracers with no respect for other road users"

But the reality is that people like the Mazda owner in this thread, will never hit the track to do it properly. Theyre too busy trying to impress their car full of mates while endangering the public, and discussing the finer points of flatpeaked caps and the stickers on their peaks

Take it to the track, plain and simple.

Take it to the track is good. But it's people like that you don't want at the track as they ruin it for all the real car enthusiasts.

[Grrrrrrr!]

Thats why they invented drifting, to keep the bulk of the tards away from proper trackdays.. and to keep the aftermarket wheel/tyre/suspension shops in business straightening/replacing bent suspension.

[Mr Ree]

Im with Shane on this one.

Driving like a $&#$% on public streets, tailgating, burnouts, hooning, all just add to the innacurate public perception that ALL car enthusiasts are the same i.e "boyracers with no respect for other road users"

But the reality is that people like the Mazda owner in this thread, will never hit the track to do it properly. Theyre too busy trying to impress their car full of mates while endangering the public, and discussing the finer points of flatpeaked caps and the stickers on their peaks

Take it to the track, plain and simple.

Take it to the track is good. But it's people like that you don't want at the track as they ruin it for all the real car enthusiasts.

I hear your point, but the thing is, that after attending a few track days, people start to come to terms with the fact that theyre not the driver they once thought they were, and they have two choices...either swallow their pride and accept they have alot to learn, or leave with a bruised ego and go back to doing skids in public.

The way I look at that scenario, we have a somehwat increased chance of them having a better outlook on how to behave on the streets, so even if only a small percentage of them stick to the track, we, as a community have benefitted.

[Bling]

Missus got 2 of those letters for driving through an orange light.

Opened them both

One for the driver of so and so car

Also got the letter addressed to the person thanking them for reporting her for driving through an orange.

Had there name with our address so ended up at ours as well. FAIL

GOLD!

Did you go through the phone book till you found them? Driving through an orange....like you can avoid that every time.... What about spending time chasing those running the reds!

Everyday I see people drive straight through a stop sign near work. Perhaps I should just note down their plates and fire through a stack of complaints. Lucky for them i'm too lazy.

[Garreth27]

There some people who abuse the *555 to get back at someone, prob less than 1% but it happens. I was heading to work oneday and traffic was backed up on lincoln road and this clown thought he'd fly down the side/turning lane then try and push back into the correct lane just before the motorway onramp so I refused to let him in for the way he just pulled and started pushing the nose of his car in.

Next week i received a ticket in the mail for apparently speeding and weeving through traffic on lincon road and running a red light around that same time on that day. The clown thought he'd get me back by *555 and making up shit against me. I simply wrote back, disputed the ticket and basically said show me the proof of me speeding and running the red light. Got a reply, ticket cancelled.

[spoonza6]

Are we allowed to use *555 for slow ass drivers who hinder other people on the road?

Or people who drive slow with oncoming traffic only to speed up at overtaking lanes or when traffic is clear?

[S T E A L T H]

Are we allowed to use *555 for slow ass drivers who hinder other people on the road?

Or people who drive slow with oncoming traffic only to speed up at overtaking lanes or when traffic is clear?

Certainly.

I don't actually know of a single genuine case where someone got a fine from a 555 call and couldnt get off it.. Years ago, I got a fine in the mail for not wearing a seatbelt - from a cop who has seen me not wearing one (but didn't bother pulling me over). Wrote back and it was dropped. Come to think of, I think I even made a thread about it on here .

I've only used a 555 once, after witnessing a hit and run (carload of ferals in a shitheap honda did a U turn across the mt wgtn highway, slamming into stationery traffic hitting 2 cars, then hitting the side of another car while taking off through a narrow gap. I was on my way back to work after a meeting, stopped to give the people my details (as witness for insurance), headed in to work. Driving home over the panmure bridge 45 mins later and what do I see heading the other way - a rooted honda domani with a smashed up front and a gouge down the side. U-turn, *555, following. To give the cops credit they were quite good with the comms although I have to admit I was getting a tad worried pulling into a cul-de-sac (where the offenders lived as it turned out) with still not a cop in sight - fortunately 10 seconds later 4 squad cars screamed into the street. The retard driver tried to fight back when the cop tried to cuff him, bad idea - 2 more squad cars arrive, there are now about a dozen irate cops on the scene, some awesome police brutality ensued

In my opinion that sort of incident is what the *555 service is for. Calling up about someone running a stop sign or tailgating was best described by gt4dude, before his post got edited out.

Never had a 555 letter either. Few years ago though I did get a call from some creampuff on the motorway complaining I was tailgating him and almost ran him off the road. Self appointed lane monitor doing 100 in the right lane with nothing in front of him for miles (and traffic doing 100 in both left lanes). Finally got past the prick, brake check, finger, on our way. I was in a work ute with my phone number on the back. He thought he was calling my boss to complain Boy did he get an earful....

[rolla_fxgt]

Are we allowed to use *555 for slow ass drivers who hinder other people on the road?

Or people who drive slow with oncoming traffic only to speed up at overtaking lanes or when traffic is clear?

Yes

I've used it for an old ass house truck towing a boat on the desert road who was doing 30-40k. More for the fact I almost piled into the back of him due to his rediculously slow speed than the fact he held me up.

But I've also done it on 2 trucks who were playing games passing each other in the passing lanes, and who of course took up the whole lane each time to pass. Needless to say there was a cop waiting at the start of the next passing lane who pulled both trucks over, and I imagine they got tickets.
About the only time I've ever cheered on a cop handing out tickets on the side of the road. Everyone behind me tooted their appreciation too.

[rollaholic]

writing out tickets from *555 calls is total BS and frankly i would never have believed it to be true if not for all the reports in this thread.

people get off tickets that have been handed out by police officers armed with appropriate speed detection gear for all kinds of reasons in court. writing someone a ticket based on the description of some random member of the public is a very slippery slope.

[metric]

Missus got 2 of those letters for driving through an orange light.

Opened them both

One for the driver of so and so car

Also got the letter addressed to the person thanking them for reporting her for driving through an orange.

Had there name with our address so ended up at ours as well. FAIL

GOLD!



Did you go through the phone book till you found them? Driving through an orange....like you can avoid that every time.... What about spending time chasing those running the reds!

Everyday I see people drive straight through a stop sign near work. Perhaps I should just note down their plates and fire through a stack of complaints. Lucky for them i'm too lazy.

Wasnt impressed , Looked them up in the phone book and were like two streets away. Didnt dwell on it though

Im a firm believer in you keep your nose out of my business and ill do the same

[Elmo]

Im a firm believer in you keep your nose out of my business and ill do the same

I agree, but sometimes it is required to get the police involved. If not for you, for the safety of other people on the road.

How would you feel if someone had over taken you in a dodgy manoever, you curse but do nothing about it, only to find 10km up the road that the person had done another dodgy pass but this time not made it in, killing a small child in a car coming the other way, or worse, killing the parents so the child has to grow up with out them.

THATS why I call *555. To rid me of any guilt for not dobbing in any person with the large potential to cause harm to inocent people.

I dont call them for some one speeding, or over taking etc, but hell (and THIS happened) if Im (yes, speeding) doing 110 with a trailor on, and a freaking truck and trailor pulls out and passes me, then disappears into the future quicker than I can blink, then yes, I AM going to call the cops.

Blatant disreguards to the law and safety will get me calling the cops. (More so the safety ones).

Dont get me wrong, Im no saint, but Im no idiot either!

[Cakky]

Missus got 2 of those letters for driving through an orange light.

Opened them both

One for the driver of so and so car

Also got the letter addressed to the person thanking them for reporting her for driving through an orange.

Had there name with our address so ended up at ours as well. FAIL

Reminds me of the time when I was a bad little youngster got in a punch up in town and was fighting some charges in court, requested all witness statements etc to prepare defence.

Documents turned up with the victims statements addresses etc all blocked out, until the summary that was, phone numbers, address everything. Almost got the charges dropped purely on that!

[Garreth27]

many years ago i did get a warning letter in the mail as someone had reported me for doing excessive speed down rathgar road in henderson, on that occassion i was guilty and was just being an idiot at 3am. Lesson learnt, never did it again. Thinking about it now, glad i learnt the easy way and not from a fatality.

[jbod]

u guys all saints and angels, on a car "enthusiast" site? i call BS

[post edited due to complaints - leave your sexual predjudices at the door thanks]

+1 ..skids are dangerous in residential areas so should be *555 tho think mike just summed it up.. If you have time to *555 people for going through an orange or driving to close you probably have far to much time on your hands

[Mr Revhead]

Are we allowed to use *555 for slow ass drivers who hinder other people on the road?

Or people who drive slow with oncoming traffic only to speed up at overtaking lanes or when traffic is clear?

Certainly.

I don't actually know of a single genuine case where someone got a fine from a 555 call
.

I do. They got dragged out of the car and arrested
Car load of dicks throwing paint balls around, I *555 and followed them reporting the many violations. They got stopped by 3 cop cars and charged with various offences.

[strx7]

+1 ..skids are dangerous in residential areas so should be *555 tho think mike just summed it up.. If you have time to *555 people for going through an orange or driving to close you probably have far to much time on your hands

spoken like a true traffic law breaker......
wait a minute, didn't you have a thread a few weeks ago about a too loud exhaust..... case in point

reporting that stuff just means we care alot more about road safety than those that dont.