On
news drivers will be pulled over this Christmas even if only 1 km/hr over the speed
limit, combined with MP Iain Wowser-Galloway's halving of the blood alcohol
limit to roughly two standard drinks per hour for a male - that's two mouthfuls
- I'd like to invite both the land transport personnel of police and
Wowser-Galloway to go to hell.
Neither
the speed intolerance nor the halved alcohol limit will save lives: both
measures punish the responsible, while the irresponsible will drink, drive and
speed as much as they ever have. The worst about both programs is they will be
the death of rural hospitality, already crippled.
Both tweets following show how this police speed pogram is set to unjustly
ransack the bank accounts and driving records of law-abiding Kiwis who are
going peacefully about their lives, and have a right to be left alone (if this
were a Free Land). In the face of police speed intolerance, we need to start
being intolerant of policies such as this from our police. Every driver who is
ticketed between 101 and 104 km/hr contest it in court even if your chances are
forlorn - although both points below may well be valid defences for 1 km/hr
tickets. Use up police time, money and resources so it hurts them also. Every
driver who is inconvenienced by being pulled over and warned, write to the
Minister of Police and demand sensible land transport policy, not this revenue
generating bullshit. They waste our time, we waste their time:
@MarkHubbard33 @nzpolice Speed tolerance of zero is less than legal accuracy tolerance allowed for speedos for WOFs.
— Andrew Riddell (@AndrewRiddell1) November 27, 2014
@AndrewRiddell1 @MarkHubbard33 @nzpolice if 185/70R14 tyres have >3mm of wear between new and illegal then your speedo changes more than 1%.
— Bruce Hoult (@BruceHoult) November 28, 2014
To
police land transport and Wowser-Galloway, f**k-you Christmas.
