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I generally find that if you are polite to cops and are honest and humble (not to the point of digging your own grave tho!) you get off lightly. If you give them any lip or claim you were doing 40 when you were doing 120 then you're gone.

Cops aren't idiots, and they have a really tough job to do (back when they used analog UHF I used to listen to them on occasion and it's a shit job sometimes). You will get an absolute c*#@ occasionally but most of them will give you a fair go if you don't antagonise them.

Yeah no more listening, with the switch to digital, and soon to be encrypted...

but yeah, its best to be honest and cop it on the chin.

I got done doing 130 in a 80 zone in my diesel gemini about 8yrs ago when i started driving , til this day I still think that bloke was the coolest cop , he did book me but I was doing the wrong thing he only done me for 15 over the limit not 50. He asked me

COP " none of my business , but why were u speeding"

ME "I been driving all day and have not been within 10kays of the speed limit it the first bit of open road i had i was just driving i gunna have to take more notice of my speed"

COP "mate I know what u mean i wish people would do the speed limit , how do u think i feel when i travel behind a car they do 30kays below the limit F@#k it S#$ts me , look at this d#$khead he would only be doing 40 i wish i could book him"

ME "OK"

COP " how the hell did you get 130 out of a diesel gemini , look mate slow down a bit , I know your on your P`s but dont do 80 in 100 zones you will just hold people up just make sure u dont go above 100 and we will not book u , now go home and drink those beers in the back seat and have one for me"

ME "yes sir"

Yeah well I was all "cops are great" until some PMS'ing troll decided she'd book me for a red light offence the other night.

Write a letter to the RTA, and try and appeal it. It won't cost you that much and it might work.

I've found the RTA to be relatively receptive to this kind of thing.

I got pulled over a couple of weeks ago for doing 66 in a 50 zone was lucky enough to get a freindly cop who let me off with a warning.

After telling me to slow down as it was a 50 zone, he then got in his xr8 and absolutely floored it away from me which seemed somewhat hypocritical.

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