Idiot in a 1975 Mazda

[jbod]

+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.

Id bet my driving record would be cleaner than yours mate. Who do you think you are, really? Your a bit of a smartarse behind your keyboard trying to sound like your oh so perfect.. Anyway, im saying is theres a line between what one should report to the police

[iOnic]

Lots of hypocrites here IMO. Dude doing skids up and down your road for half an hour is dumb and deserves all he gets. I refuse to believe that there are people on this forum that have never broken a law though. I know for a fact that some of the people pointing fingers really ought not to.

If you're going to point fingers - at least make sure your hands are clean.

OP - Get details, give to cops - let them deal with it. It's their job to deal with douchebaggery.

[Lloyd]

Most on here would have broken the law on here many times, speeding or whatever.

Slightly different to doing skids up and down the street. Time and a place for all this sort of stuff.

While we're bitching about driving habits, people need to learn about tailgating and how to use those little orange flashing things on the corners of their car more importantly. The number of near misses because of just ignoring the basics is something that really needs addressing. I've sat at the intersection near my work and watched a very near accident happen because of people not following road rules while a cop in a marked car sat there behind the car at fault and simply shook his head at the situation and drove away.

[macabre]

Hmm smells like jealous front wheel drive 20v owners club in here.

[Toby]

I worked in comms for a bit, someone doing skids up and down the road when it was reported was usually investigated if there was a unit available and there was a good description (rego is the best thing to have).
If not well... go online and fill out the complaint or if you really feel strongly about the issue go into a station, file a report (fill out a really old and annoyingly worded document that exists for crash reporting more than driving complaints).
Doing this will mean you may need to stand up in court but that's what it takes.

Or you can just let the prats drive like idiots and kill people/damage property.

[cat007]

Hmm smells like jealous front wheel drive 20v owners club in here.

Pretty much.

[Bling]

Hmm smells like jealous front wheel drive 20v owners club in here.

Must....resist.....urge.....to.......reply......to......obvious.......troll........

*twitch*

[B1NZ]

I am seriously pro for having to sit a new driving test with an instructor when you renew your license.

Even if you think you follow the roade code over time things slip and half the time you dont realise youre doing something wrong, I think everyone (including myself) need a refresher course from time to time.

My workmate who thinks he's the worlds best driver pulled me up on not indicating for 3 seconds before changing lanes - which I didnt really think of, so now I focus more on that now, although he drove the wrong way round our offices one way system a few weeks back and collided with another workmate, and he tried to argue it wasnt his fault - gold!!

[Mr Revhead]

^ that was the original idea put forward when the ten year license was mooted. Watered it down to an eye test and a fee

[rolla_fxgt]

^ that was the original idea put forward when the ten year license was mooted. Watered it down to an eye test and a fee

Mainly because people that had been given a licence for life, threatened to sue the government, and the elederly claimed it was discrimination against them, and threatened to vote out the government if they went through with the original proposal.

I have no problem with some sort of test when it comes time to renewing my licence. I know I have picked up heaps of bad habits, and are nowhere near as careful about sticking exactly to the speed limit, or checking my mirrors constantly. Having to sit a test would refocus my driving for the better.

[Luke - BZG]

I *555'd a newish camry that while heading back to wellington from melling at night was wandering in his lane, running onto the lane dividers repeatedly and several times crossed a wheel completely into the next lane, I gave it a couple minutes incase the guy just spilt coffee in his lap or was changing a CD etc but he kept it up so I *555'd him.

Cops were very good and stopped us at an intersection in Wellington. Turns out it was a taxi driver and he wasn't drunk, but he was driving like it. Cops game him a ticket for failing to stay in his lane, a few weeks later I got a call from the police officer that the guy disputed the ticket and was taking it to court. This made me feel like he was calling me a liar or saying that I was wrong, so I fronted up at court, told it how it was and the ticket stuck.

(I still have no idea why the guy couldn't stay in his lane.)


This has been the first and only time I've used *555 But I will use it again if I feel it may prevent a road crash, or if someone is doing an Edaboc gymkhana.

[tiny2009]

(I still have no idea why the guy couldn't stay in his lane.)
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Possibly a long day? When I lived down in Tawa I had left my car at near one of the stops as I could hardly stand when I got off the train (yay student days). I got a call the next morning from the cops, turns out a Taxi driver stoved into the back of it pushing it over the footpath and through a fence = loads of damage.

He had been on night shift then had dropped his wife at uni or something and fell asleep. Lucky for him none of the kids playing across the road were near him when it happened (Saturday morning at 9am). I was dark on him and gave him a decent earful when I arrived on the scene, cop felt sorry for him and didn't charge him. Had it been me driving I have no doubt cops would have written out a decent fine.

Then I got even more pissed when I called the Taxi company to sort insurance only to find out the driver had dropped the car at the yard, told them he hit a fence then did a runner. Things only got messier from there....

[Lloyd]

Long day or not, getting outside your lane is a biggie. Nothing worse than coming around a corner to find someone not paying attention or cutting a corner, more so when you're on a bike and having to take evasive action to avoid people on your side of the road.

[Rookie]

I would have parked up and watched. Not enough tough rotors get skidded up these days

[VR-4Squid]

I would have parked up and watched. Not enough tough rotors get skidded up these days

"like"

[duddley]

That would be because of petrol prices

[Bling]

Or because you live in Turangi