“Please Nanny, we want more rules”

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NZ: ‘A summer crackdown on speeding which will lead to fines for drivers travelling more than 4km/h above the legal limit is strongly supported by the public…’

21 thoughts on ““Please Nanny, we want more rules””

  1. I reckon they’re telling porkies about the support. Or questioning oldies and indoctrinated women in a (mis?-)leading manner.

    Going to be just like Victoria: You can’t have multi-cult/equality *and* treat motorists like adults.
    The last drive in then out of Vic I had to “undertake*” numerous motorists who were doing under the limit in the fast/overtaking/right lane.

    *You’ll have seen the signs on the back of Trucks: R-Passing Side /L-Suicide
    and my fav R-Overtaker/L-Undertaker

  2. I think all this bullshit and propaganda is simply a way of avoiding the central problem–that the general standard of driving on NZ roads is abysmal. I’ve driven in Europe, India, America, Australia and NZ. And New Zealand was the worst, by a wide margin.
    Speed doesn’t kill. Idiots kill.

  3. KG is on the money, the problem is the standard of driver skill. From what i’ve seen you don’t have to know a lot about driving and how to handle a car to get your license and hog the fast lane. Raising the standards and making it harder to get your license is also the hard option, the lazy public won’t buy it.

    So unfortunately with a noisy minority squealing – somebody do something about the blood bath – and the inability of the authorities to take the harder option, throw in the revenue raised from traffic fines and the only thing they will do is lower the speed limits and try to milk everyone.

    I don’t know what it’s like in NZ, but out here our tendency is to demand someone else, government namely, to do something for any problem we face. Take alcohol abuse and related violence, there is no end to the calls for the police to do something, but few of us willing to put the bottle down and pull our heads in.

    I’ve seen some dickheads on the roads out here and as much as i’d like to, raising the speed limit would definitely mean more of them will find themselves hugging trees, poles and at the bottom of a ravine. The worst time to drive is during the holidays, oh lord that’s when the city dwellers are holidaying.

    They have no idea how to overtake and on country roads it means long irritating lines of cars behind some caravan. They can’t even overtake on a multi-lane city road, that’s how annoying it is. And they mostly drive just under the speed limit, until off course a passing lane comes, then they magically all speed up until the passing lane ends. You really wish for a tomahawk when that happens.

    These days i try not to drive long distance, if i can’t fly, i try to sucker someone else into driving, far better for your blood pressure.

  4. Everywhere they have put up median barriers on the main highways, the death toll in that area has dropped. The falling numbers are more to do with slowly putting in safer roads than it is issuing speeding tickets.

    • (Or perhaps instead of saying safer I could easily say “idiot-proof”. The idiot that drives into the barrier tends to only put themselves and their passengers in hospital, rather than taking out 7 or 8 people in a head on)

  5. For a long time I’ve obeyed speed limits (or at least not consciously flouted them) but because it’s a lot easier to accidentally exceed the limit by 4km/h than by 10, I now find myself looking more at the speedo and less at the road ahead than I used to. I’m not sure that this makes me a safer driver.

  6. Yeah, I can’t help but wonder who they asked the question of. Then again I would be disappointed but not surprised if that’s what the sheeple think…

    Down here, they invariably put the speed cameras on the straightest roads which tells a story about their priorities… revenue over safety, me thinks.

  8. Just got home from dragging more dead cows out of molasses troughs. In the heat and the dust and the flies……lovely work, it is. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

  9. Went to get the inspection sticker on my truck today.Bastards changed the rules so now no sticker if the driver side wiper crosses a crack.
    So I went around the block,got out,slipped the clip off the wiper arm and “adjusted” it up just enough so the crack is below the wiper.Pulled back around,got my sticker and left before anyone recognized me :mrgreen:

    • I actually wasted $10 on the sticker.Upon looking at it,there is no hologram or watermark present and the rest of the information is penciled in.A digital camera and two minutes on the printer along with a shot of spray glue….. :roll: :mrgreen:

    • Unless you’re a bureauscum, it is Nominto. They’re telling porkies in a good cause you see, so that’s ok.
      Where have we heard “the end justifies the means” before?
      Bastards.

      • yes..who would “doublethink” would have a place in the “transparency” of this modern age..nah; it just gets worse!
        do they still have “1984” on schools reading lists anywhere?oh thats right, they don’t read books anymore..just hipster social MSM crap[a.k.a the fountain of truth in the new church of progressive brainwashing]

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