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I've heard of GIO (a long time ago) going around a neighbourhood asking people who lived there if they saw a young guy driving a car often that he was listed as "once a month" on the policy (he was at fault in an accident). Turns out, almost every day, so the company went "gtfo". Fair enough too; you don't pay for it, you don't get it.

they see me trollin' fyi: played for about 6 months (5 months before BC and one after), and wooowww was that a timesink. worked out to be like 8 hrs a day 7 days a week. while working full time with a gf. sleep? what's that?

Next time I'll bring my other (mostly farked) stockies for someone to use; cbf going to get them from my sister's garage before then

1) they're chrome 2) they look like tempe rims if they were stripped back and powdercoated a nice colour, however *free plug for chris/craved*

The man knows his insurance, I'd pay heed

there there... let's hug it out

True, I don't know why I said that... *scratches head*

I think last texi I did 13 runs all up all day, and all of them lasted under a minute (badoom tish). Having said that, quite a few moments with smoke Still got a ton of tread on my tyres though.

So they're actually doing something about it now? The only problem is that the police need to be there... I'm sure if I were to take video of a driver doing 40 in a 60 zone and blocking traffic, I'd get hit with a fine for touching my phone while driving. Still... We're starting to get towards common sense (slowly).

They do this all the way up to Sydney anyway. While it does kinda get the people who speed, it'd still be better having an actual police presence out on the road. Ah well; ours is not to wonder why... apparently.

+1 Exactly right. Anyone getting done by any speed cameras has no excuse anyway, especially fixed ones. Wonder if they'll extend this to HWP sitting in bushes?

As I was having a rant to my family last night: The "good" drivers that this "helps" won't even notice, as they're the ones doing the right thing and therefore not losing any points at all. You could actually drop full licensed drivers down to 7 points, and the "good" drivers won't notice, because they're not losing any. Meanwhile, it (theoretically) would get the bad drivers off the road quicker, except they'd just drive without a license anyway. Oh wait, but that would mean that the Govt. don't get the money that comes in from a 5-strikes-you're-out rule. srsly guize, this isn't a win for motorists, it's a win for money.

I've got an idea, but I need a few things: 1) the right shutter speed 2) two helpers who can aim (this gives a hint as to what i wanna do)

Even if an exemption was granted, the first thing that needs doing is those rims to be burned to the ground.

punch on!

Constantly speed

Having said that though; currently we're given 4 "chances" until we lose the license (based on 3 points ea), now they're making it 5 (end up with -2 pts, but I digress). Let's say hypothetically they stay with $231 for 10-20 over, then that makes the Govt/RTA $1155 instead of $924 per driver losing their license, and it seems that there's a LOT of them. Let's go on a rough example and say per year, 3000 people lose their license (no statistic evidence, I'm guessing). That's another $231*3000 they make, while just seeming to give serial speeders more leeway. ($693,000, by the way). I know it's not all that much in the scheme of things, but still. Admittedly for the average person who might get stung once and go, ooh shit, better slow down... It's not that much of a drama. It just seems like a last-minute grab for Ms Kenally to try and mollify the NSW populace. We've all got the shits with NSW Labor as it is; I don't think this is going to make people turn around and go, hey, everything else they f**ked up wasn't that bad. (Not that I want Libs in there either...) EDIT:: Your point about signage for the cameras is true though; they've been sitting in some pretty sneaky spots. At least a sign will be a "hey, if you haven't been watching your speedo, do so NOW".

I can do this, gimme a job and a hefty pension when I "retire" in disgrace for farming NSW for its hot bitches.

Just the clothing and helmet, and sign an indemnity form basically saying that if your driving kills them, it's not our fault. 131 hours to go bitchessssss

All good. Hopefully karma catches up with him. If you're worried next time, post something up and just get some people's opinions first; I know it'll be hard to part with cash again for something seeing as you've been bitten twice, so hesitation and caution is only natural. *coughadaptronice1280scough*

Hah! Can you say "Labor is trying the hardest they can to stay in power"?

odd that they'd charge that much for a 4k car. having said that; my first car was insured for $5500 and NRMA wanted $1300 or so (paid $2200 for it), but for the first year of having it, definitely. was that the best that was avail? sheesh ouch.

Yeah, it's the fine line. Basically, because all I've invested in my daily car is about $500 so far, if it goes missing from the train station one afternoon, sure it sucks, but ah well. No huge loss. On the other hand, anything over a certain value (as you agreed, and around the 3.5-4k mark I'd think), you start looking towards comp. I know that TPFT covers up to 5k if it's stolen, but still, if you're not at fault in an accident, you might as well just dump the car somewhere if it's undriveable. tl;dr: comprehensive sucks but it's worth it. find a good insurer and hope for the best.

I've got third party on my daily, but that's cause it's worth about 1k if that, so if I crash it I go "oh well". For anything worth more than say 4k, comprehensive.

Unfortunately it's a very hard lesson to learn. From now on though, make sure if you buy something from someone, if they SMS, ask for a PM, and if they've only got a few posts, be a bit wary. Sorry this happened to you man