Lost license, need help!

[floody]

Originally posted by siksII

Once again, you have expressed your views, you dont have to repeat yourself like you drive me to do now, in saying, stay out of it.

Plus your an enthusiast like the rest of us right? In your signature there is a speedo showing illegal speeds. I dont care if it was you, or anyone else, but im sure that you have broken the speed limit before, while  

'SHIFT_back one and hitTING it' while in the confines of a city. If you are so adamant that 106km/h is too fast in the city, you want me to believe that you have never done that speed right???

Or maybe there isnt a long enough stretch for your 89 sedan to reach that speed in the city.

Whatever the case is, ur a hypocrit.  

Understand?, Person?

Dont reply.

Lets see here. Ok, I retract the moron comment, you may well be a very smart, if not overly responsible person.

That speedo is an R31HOUSE 280kmh cluster. It is photoshopped from a picture of the car standing still, with the speedo resting on 0. I thought it looked cool. Also, such a speed is only illegal if done in a speed restricted area, not say in NT or at an airstrip or circuit or something.

I have NEVER exceeded the speedlimit by 100% in a 50kmh residential area. I have sped in the past, However we are talking multiple kilometer stretches of straight, flat, empty country black top. I have probably sped slightly round town, perhaps by 10kmh, not by 56kmh over,but I have managed not to do it where a camera was. Either way yeah, certainly socially irresponsible. I am a lucky hypocrite I suppose...

My 89 sedan may not be anything special, but I can hit that speed (100 ish) in about 8.5 seconds, so there would be plenty of room if I chose to do that. There is an industrial area where I have tested these things, an 80 zone though, and no traffic, oh and its 4 lanes wide with excellent visibility and no cross streets.

Other than that, the only time I've ever done those speeds is a) on the highway, B) on the track c) On country back roads (empty, straight and 100 zoned).

The thing is, "person", unlike you I would cop it if I did the wrong thing and there was no reason why I should get away with it, instead of wasting everyones time.

cheers,

floody

[siksII]

'i wasnt thinking' meaning that i knew what i was doing, and more logical thinking should have popped into my head at that point. And i think you missed the point of the whole new road/new speed limit point. Im not stirred, im happy to read your opinion, thats why i posted in the first place

If you follow the link in an earlier post, the reason for the road being resurfaced was to reduce noise. This was done at the same time as making it into a 50 zone, once again, to reduce noise. I never meant to imply what you have understood my comments as stating.... ie. creating 50 zone to raise revenue to pay for the new surface lol.

I think enough has been said here...if i can get a pic up soon, i will, then ill close the thread(or whatevr u do with it when u dont need any more comments). People seem to misinterpret my posts sumtimes...easy mistake since there is so many now.

Bottom line seems to be: i have heard of cases where people doing worse have got some type of concession in court, so i dont see why i shouldnt try as i simply dont have the cash, and would really like to keep my license, or at least lose it for a bit less than 7 months.

[Guest stevejar]

bottom line: your a tool.

come down my street any where near that speed and your car's gonna have a few dings in it. it got nothing to do with y the speed limit on the particular road is 50. you broke it moron ! 55/60 i'd have a bit of simpathy - maybe but 100+ ?

fools like you is why i got out of the mod scene into a bloody ford. don't need the friggin attention from police and being labelled a hoon.

have fun walkin mate .. .. ..

[T0nyGTSt]

You're looking at this from the wrong angle.

You're saying that because the roads were in good nick, you should be able to go above 50. It's not your place to say that. There are plenty of roads that can sustain travel at very high speeds.

The court will see that the relevant authorities have decided that 50 is enough and you did 106.

There's no extenuating circumstances.

Unfortunately the way the law is, there's no contesting the vast majority of speed tickets.

I've heard of people who argued with scientific facts that they couldn't possibly be doing the speeds stated on the speed guns/cameras. They still lost.

You were doing 106 by an 'infallible device'. There's no way around it.

T.

[Guest stevejar]

mabey the camera was " slightly " out. must be the cameras fault yeah. old mate isnt to blame.

[esprit]

Just to quickly hi-jack this thread again I've decided to let a friend of mine in first year law represent me (Hey, she'll do a better job than I could) so hopefully all will work out ok. I am going to ask the judge if I can pay off the fine in community service hours, as I don't have a job at the moment and am studying fulltime at university.

Thanks for all the useful posts regarding my situation

[silverskyline]

before you take it to court go ask someone in the courts for advice, im not sure who u ask, someone there. ask for an interview, they will advise u if its a good idea to take the matter to court or not, they know, trust me, they will tell you if u go th court it may cost u you moreand they can re-asses the sitiuation and say that the first fine was not enough and take u of the road for a year and all sorts of s**t, what r u going to say, my accelerated was stuck or i had heavy shoes on that day, every other excuse has been used, if u tell them that if u loose ur licsence u loose ur job, they'l tell u that u should of thought about that before u did 106km in a 50 zone

[siksII]

Yeah ill find out stuff like that before the final decision. Im gonna speak to people from the courts, another guy i know who has got off HEAPS of stuff...worse than me too....

Either way i need more time to pay it, so id fill out the court thing anyway, that will give me time to save and think.