Bloody day in the Cradle

[Spud]

I seem to have less close calls when I wear my sweatsafe band, seems to be a case of "if you have one you dont need it, but beware if you dont! thats the day you need one". It gets tied to my helmet when I finish a ride. That way I cant leave it behind, besides it looks really cool around my ankle! Spud2008-09-08 04:55:28

[GIRR]

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Instead JMPD set up two road blocks yesterday that must have netted a fortune. One on Main Road and one on William Nicol. I got stopped at the one on Main Road while taking my kids to Montecasino skate park. Spent 1 hour on the side of Main Road paying R800 to not go to jail. I had one R500 fine on which I had apparently missed a court summons and they added R300 for contempt of court (I have moved home twice in the past year so assume it went to an old address).

I'm all for enforcing the law (my kids were peeved at losing an hour of skating time though), but think it needs to be consistent. Would JMPD set up two huge road blocks like that in Alexandra. Never! They target the people with a fixed address, credit/debit cards (that's how most people were paying their fines) and a submissive attitude. One taxi driver they stopped just shouted at them and told them he had never ever received a summons for his R1000 fine. He drove off minutes later after what must have been a 'misunderstanding'.

Back to this topic though, how on earth do you think they're going to catch guys on motorbikes for speeding? They don't have big enough number plates for the camera's to pick up and cops are certainly not going to step into the road to try and stop a motorbike doing 200kph...

 

The best part of the road block on william nicol is that it is right next to an illegal taxi rank.

[idrive]

Back to this topic though' date=' how on earth do you think they're going to catch guys on motorbikes for speeding? They don't have big enough number plates for the camera's to pick up and cops are certainly not going to step into the road to try and stop a motorbike doing 200kph...

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Several years ago a prominent Superbike racer was killed when a moronic idiot spietkop did exactly that somewhere near Harrismith or KZN.

[GIRR]

Back to this topic though' date=' how on earth do you think they're going to catch guys on motorbikes for speeding? They don't have big enough number plates for the camera's to pick up and cops are certainly not going to step into the road to try and stop a motorbike doing 200kph...

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Several years ago a prominent Superbike racer was killed when a moronic idiot spietkop did exactly that somewhere near Harrismith or KZN.

 

Why was he doing 200km/h... is the next question.

 

Same way they stop a car doing over 200km/h I'm sure, stop them at a secondary point a kilometer or so later?