The law does work!!!

Stumps

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After spending the day shopping out or town, I was on my way home when I was tail gated for about 10Km's before being over taken by a stupid "P" Plater who then insisted on then disappearing in to the distance, swerving all over the road making a menace of herself, Concerned, I went to my local police station and reported this incident, in the interest of public safety, I was told that this would be followed up later on , I thought nothing more of it and went on my way home, with in less than 10 minutes of leaving the police station, I saw this young woman and her car pulled over by the police and being issued with a fine.

Now I normally don't give a sh*t about other drivers and their behavour, I usaully dish out some abuse and go about my business, but this young driver caught my attention by the lack of control she had over her Hyundai excel, and the fact that she insisted on using the oncoming lane while navigating the tight twisty bends of the road about 10 km's, a section of road which is nortorious for crashes and death's, what made it worse was the fact that she is a "provisional" licence holder and had a sever lack of experience in car control!.

Now I was no saint when I was a "P" plater and had done plenty of stupid things, but with the rise of young driver deaths in Australia, I felt I should do something, to help slow this down, hopefully she will learn from this experience, slow down and drive safer.

but I was really surprised by the quick response of the police, usaully they don't follow these sort of complaints up, but it's good to see the system work for a change!
 

So

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Crazy Aussies and your weird rules. :p

:beer: for going to the trouble of getting a crazy ass driver off the road tho'.
 

Stumps

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yep, a driver who has just completed the required 12 months and pass their first driving test, of there learners permit, It is the first solo licence you get, it is heavly restricted, to only 90km'h and you can only drive unmodified non turbo or V8 vehicles, it is required to be held for 3 years aditional test are required to obtain a full licence.
 

So

Lifer
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wow...harsh, but it probably makes for safer roads around those parts.
 

Stumps

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New regulations have just been introduced to help lower the increasing death toll, obviously with this type of driving they are needed!
 

Calin

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Interesting law... However, the provisional drivers will go faster than 90km/s just as often as other drivers go faster than their speed limit.
Anyway, I think you did good.

Calin
 

MacBaine

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Originally posted by: Stumps
yep, a driver who has just completed the required 12 months and pass their first driving test, of there learners permit, It is the first solo licence you get, it is heavly restricted, to only 90km'h and you can only drive unmodified non turbo or V8 vehicles, it is required to be held for 3 years aditional test are required to obtain a full licence.

Sounds like something we need in the states
 

Pliablemoose

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I have a mission for you Stumps, find a Nissan Patrol diesel & mail it to me piece by piece.

Or maybe just the engine & a service manual:D
 

TheLonelyPhoenix

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For your next post, I'd like you to refrain from using more than 2 commas per sentence.

Once you've got that down, we'll work on a coherent thought process.
 

So

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Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
For your next post, I'd like you to refrain from using more than 2 commas per sentence.

Once you've got that down, we'll work on a coherent thought process.

That's pretty niggling, and I'm a freaking Grammar Nazi.
 

TheLonelyPhoenix

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
For your next post, I'd like you to refrain from using more than 2 commas per sentence.

Once you've got that down, we'll work on a coherent thought process.

That's pretty niggling, and I'm a freaking Grammar Nazi.

Maybe I'm just nit-picking, but I find it difficult to read a post where each paragraph is just one long string of commas with a few words in between.
 

flot

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Originally posted by: Stumps
yep, a driver who has just completed the required 12 months and pass their first driving test, of there learners permit, It is the first solo licence you get, it is heavly restricted, to only 90km'h and you can only drive unmodified non turbo or V8 vehicles, it is required to be held for 3 years aditional test are required to obtain a full licence.

HAHAHA that explains it.

I had some dumbass from Australia, asking me how to temporarily remove the turbos from his 300ZX twin turbo. :)

I should have guessed he was 16.