Don't blame me, I'm only the driver

[Graham W]

The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about daft excuses offered to
police by drivers:

<http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Dont-blame-me-Im-only-the-driver--highway-offenders-get-creative/2005/01/30/1107020263988.html>

How about this truck driver, hopefully he's looking for a new job:
================================================== ==============
"I've got 65 tonnes behind me, what can I do?" proffered the driver of a
B-double truck when he was pulled over for exceeding the speed limit by
45kmh along the Hume Highway at Gunning.
================================================== ==============

Or a new version of the old line claiming "I'm a good driver, whats
dangerous for everyone else is perfectly safe for me":

================================================== ==============
Then there was the Austrian chap travelling at 170kmh in a 100kmh zone
along the Pacific Highway. "We are able to drive this speed in Austria
and we are used to it," the man told police.
================================================== ==============

The wife's in labour?

================================================== ==============
On Christmas Day a 38-year-old man was clocked riding his motorbike at
100kmh in a 60kmh zone in Mount Druitt. "My wife rang me and she's
having a baby and is in labour," the man told police. When the police
phoned his home, the man's wife denied she was having a baby.
================================================== ==============

My favourite:

================================================== ==============
One 17-year-old P-plater was stopped in Killara at 6.10am on New Year's
Day and recorded a positive blood-alcohol reading of .065 per cent.

An hour <later> he was picked up by police again. "Look I've already
been dealt with," he told the officers, "I just want to go home and you
won't let me."
================================================== ==============


Years ago at a random licence check, the cop noticed my registration
sticker was missing from my bike. He asked me why and I (truthfully)
replied, "It fell off". Then he asked me how long ago it had fallen off,
and I (truthfully) replied, "too long ago".

If the stuff above is any indication of how other people treat cops, I
guess I shouldn't have been surprised that I was sent on my way with
instructions to get a new sticker ASAP. And I did get one ASAP too.

[Rainbow Warrior]

A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked up
that night at the pub riding pylon was injured enough to hospitalised, the
bike hadn't been registered for 5 years.



"Graham W" <zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote in message
news:366dl9F4v4vltU1@individual.net...
> The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about daft excuses offered to
> police by drivers:
>
>
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Dont-blame-me-Im-only-the-driver--highw
ay-offenders-get-creative/2005/01/30/1107020263988.html>
>
> How about this truck driver, hopefully he's looking for a new job:
> ================================================== ==============
> "I've got 65 tonnes behind me, what can I do?" proffered the driver of a
> B-double truck when he was pulled over for exceeding the speed limit by
> 45kmh along the Hume Highway at Gunning.
> ================================================== ==============
>
> Or a new version of the old line claiming "I'm a good driver, whats
> dangerous for everyone else is perfectly safe for me":
>
> ================================================== ==============
> Then there was the Austrian chap travelling at 170kmh in a 100kmh zone
> along the Pacific Highway. "We are able to drive this speed in Austria
> and we are used to it," the man told police.
> ================================================== ==============
>
> The wife's in labour?
>
> ================================================== ==============
> On Christmas Day a 38-year-old man was clocked riding his motorbike at
> 100kmh in a 60kmh zone in Mount Druitt. "My wife rang me and she's
> having a baby and is in labour," the man told police. When the police
> phoned his home, the man's wife denied she was having a baby.
> ================================================== ==============
>
> My favourite:
>
> ================================================== ==============
> One 17-year-old P-plater was stopped in Killara at 6.10am on New Year's
> Day and recorded a positive blood-alcohol reading of .065 per cent.
>
> An hour <later> he was picked up by police again. "Look I've already
> been dealt with," he told the officers, "I just want to go home and you
> won't let me."
> ================================================== ==============
>
>
> Years ago at a random licence check, the cop noticed my registration
> sticker was missing from my bike. He asked me why and I (truthfully)
> replied, "It fell off". Then he asked me how long ago it had fallen off,
> and I (truthfully) replied, "too long ago".
>
> If the stuff above is any indication of how other people treat cops, I
> guess I shouldn't have been surprised that I was sent on my way with
> instructions to get a new sticker ASAP. And I did get one ASAP too.

[Conehead]

"Rainbow Warrior" <sleek@sbs.com.fr> wrote in message
news:YtnLd.126$CR2.4847@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
> bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked
up
> that night at the pub riding pylon was injured >

pylon-riding is shocking

--
Conehead
"Well.... I never said that I'd thought it all the way through........."
Clem

[sheik yerbouti]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:16:36 +1000, "Rainbow Warrior"
<sleek@sbs.com.fr> wrote:

>A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
>bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked up
>that night at the pub riding pylon was injured enough to hospitalised, the
>bike hadn't been registered for 5 years.
>

is he out yet?


---
vn commodore transmission swap online manual
http://www.freewebs.com/sheik_yerbouti

[The Interceptor]

I don't mean to be rude, but your mate was a fool. And the fact that that
he bought a CB250 makes him even more of a fool - I mean, they are a
seriously uninspiring bike!

Brett

Rainbow Warrior <sleek@sbs.com.fr> wrote in message
news:YtnLd.126$CR2.4847@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
> bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked
up
> that night at the pub riding pylon was injured enough to hospitalised, the
> bike hadn't been registered for 5 years.

[Stanislaw Knobski]

I prefer Pole Dancing!
Stanislaw.
~
Conehead wrote:
>pylon-riding is shocking
>
>--
>Conehead
>"Well.... I never said that I'd thought it all the way through........."
>Clem
>
>

[Rainbow Warrior]

"The Interceptor" <thisemailadress@willnotwork.com.au> wrote in message
news:1107180638.224646@quartz.westnet.net.au...
> I don't mean to be rude, but your mate was a fool.

Well sorry I do find it rude to label someone you only know one sentence
about a fool.

> And the fact that that
> he bought a CB250 makes him even more of a fool - I mean, they are a
> seriously uninspiring bike!

It was transport, not ego motivated, besides it went fine from A to B till
he pranged it. It didn't seem that bad a bike in the late eighties.

It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on their
"inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.


> Brett
>
> Rainbow Warrior <sleek@sbs.com.fr> wrote in message
> news:YtnLd.126$CR2.4847@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> > A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
> > bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked
> up
> > that night at the pub riding pylon was injured enough to hospitalised,
the
> > bike hadn't been registered for 5 years.
>
>
>

[Rainbow Warrior]

"sheik yerbouti" <delbo21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2ddsv0dfh43360kf1hmntcv8kel0vc70na@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:16:36 +1000, "Rainbow Warrior"
> <sleek@sbs.com.fr> wrote:
>
> >A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
> >bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked
up
> >that night at the pub riding pylon was injured enough to hospitalised,
the
> >bike hadn't been registered for 5 years.
>
> is he out yet?

No, they never caught him, he threw his public service job in and did a
runner, and last I heard 10 years ago he was a full time park bench wino,
despite all his former friends efforts.

[Albm&ctd]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:56:02 +1100, Graham W
<zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote:

>================================================== ==============
>On Christmas Day a 38-year-old man was clocked riding his motorbike at
>100kmh in a 60kmh zone in Mount Druitt. "My wife rang me and she's
>having a baby and is in labour," the man told police. When the police
>phoned his home, the man's wife denied she was having a baby.
>================================================== ==============

Did he say his wife? She could be someone else and probably right now
some female is doing just that, having a baby human.. unless it turns
out to be a goat.

Al

I don't take sides. It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

[Graham W]

Rainbow Warrior wrote:
> It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on their
> "inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.

Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
into it once their egos take over.

[Graham W]

Rainbow Warrior wrote:
> No, they never caught him, he threw his public service job in and did a
> runner, and last I heard 10 years ago he was a full time park bench wino,
> despite all his former friends efforts.

Maybe he's happier now. I think I would be.

[Albm&ctd]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:58:26 +1100, Graham W
<zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote:

>Rainbow Warrior wrote:
>> It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on their
>> "inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.
>
>Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
>post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
>from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
>and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
>into it once their egos take over.

ROFL

Al

I don't take sides. It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

[Gonz]

>> A mate had an accident on a CB250 he brought off a mate and he hadn't
>> bothered to swap the rego over, he had an accident, some chick he picked
> up
>> that night at the pub riding pylon was injured >
>
> pylon-riding is shocking

depends whose pylon she was riding

[Knobdoodle]

X-No-archive: yes
Graham W wrote in message <36996eF4soufqU1@individual.net>...
>Rainbow Warrior wrote:
>> It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on
their
>> "inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.
>
>Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
>post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
>from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
>and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
>into it once their egos take over.
~
....and when they go so far as to actually use their car name/nickname as
their posting "identity" then you know they are 100% in imaginary car=status
land.
--
Knobhugepenis

[Rainbow Warrior]

"Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle@notmail.com> wrote in message
news:ctpip5$fbr$1@mws-stat-syd.cdn.telstra.com.au...
> X-No-archive: yes
> Graham W wrote in message <36996eF4soufqU1@individual.net>...
> >Rainbow Warrior wrote:
> >> It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on
> their
> >> "inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.
> >
> >Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
> >post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
> >from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
> >and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
> >into it once their egos take over.
> ~
> ...and when they go so far as to actually use their car name/nickname as
> their posting "identity" then you know they are 100% in imaginary
car=status
> land.
> --
> Knobhugepenis

You drive a huge fiberglass weiner? :-)

[Rainbow Warrior]

"Graham W" <zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote in message
news:36997vF4soufqU2@individual.net...
> Rainbow Warrior wrote:
> > No, they never caught him, he threw his public service job in and did a
> > runner, and last I heard 10 years ago he was a full time park bench
wino,
> > despite all his former friends efforts.
>
> Maybe he's happier now. I think I would be.

Yes, well maybe he is, but it's a sh^t of a way to loose a good mate.

[Rainbow Warrior]

"Graham W" <zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote in message
news:36996eF4soufqU1@individual.net...
> Rainbow Warrior wrote:
> > It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on
their
> > "inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.
>
> Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
> post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
> from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
> and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
> into it once their egos take over.

Yep if we all brought practicall & economical vehicles like we really
should, there'd be a lot more microcars.

[Scott Badman]

"Graham W" <zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote in message
news:36996eF4soufqU1@individual.net...
> Rainbow Warrior wrote:
> > It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks vehicles on
their
> > "inspiration" factor, some of us actually have practical vehicles.
>
> Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
> post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
> from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
> and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
> into it once their egos take over.

Now now, 'ego' is not a dirty word.

Why if Jesus had an ego.......

[Bernd Felsche]

"Scott Badman" <sbadman@goldwayenergy.nospam.com.au> writes:

>"Graham W" <zebedee@alphalink.commercial.au> wrote in message
>news:36996eF4soufqU1@individual.net...
>> Rainbow Warrior wrote:
>> > It may surprise you, but not everybody on the planet picks
>> > vehicles on their "inspiration" factor, some of us actually
>> > have practical vehicles.

>> Just quietly between me and you, I think rather a lot of the people who
>> post here are quite obsessed with the status they somehow imagine comes
>> from driving their chosen car. Whether it's actually the most practical
>> and economical vehicle capable of fulfilling their needs doesn't come
>> into it once their egos take over.

>Now now, 'ego' is not a dirty word.

>Why if Jesus had an ego.......

Some people reckon he had three. ;-)
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[kevcat]

> Then there was the Austrian chap travelling at 170kmh in a 100kmh zone
> along the Pacific Highway. "We are able to drive this speed in Austria
> and we are used to it," the man told police.


That Singleton fuckwit got off his charge of dangerous driving when he
was clocked doing over 160kph in his Rolls
his argument
the rolls is designed to do those speeds safely(fine if he was not
sharing the road with others)
and he had a good driving record, so what, not being booked is NOT an
indication of a driver capable of driving at 160kph safely

Kev