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There was sooooo a blitz on in the Bayside area tonight.

1. Driving down beach rd from Brighton Beach station and there is the policed riced up Monaro blocking a driveway out of a parking lot along the beach, was coming around a corner at the time and i don't think i was speeding (by that i mean, i don't think i was doing 62 or 63 :) ) I'm not 100% on my speedo anyway.

So past the Monaro and i swear, 500m's down the road a blue i would assume BA XR8 had a coppa with the gun out the window, he too was parked in a driveway. As i had dropped back after the Monaro, like below 60, i was bringing my speed back up to 60, but may have gone to like 62, 63 then dropped back again. But by the time i was checking all that out, i look up and there was the f*cking Ford!! The bit of beach rd they chose was seriously 2km's or dead straight, flat road. Having TWO cop cars setup there is ridiculous!! Why not placed them where there is a known accident area or a dangerous stretch of road!!! Not a 2km stretch of dead flat, dead straight road!!! :D

Anyway, off down sth rd getting petrol, pull into shell. Look across to sth rd and see another cop car and then this ute go past him in the right lane he must have been doing 71 or 72 (traffic was all going same speed, he was just slightly faster) On went the lights, so cops must have been sitting dead on 70 and this other car crawls past at like 2km's faster and they pull him/her over!!

On way back home, another cop car, this time VY SS, pulls over this bike as he makes a right hand turn and the cops were going straight. Cops saw something, i don't know what because it was a legit turn and change their lanes, turn the lights on and pull the bike over. I still for the life of me can't figure out what for, i guess they assumed they would find something and get more $$ or they hadn't got their quota for the night or whatever.

So that's 4 coppers now, and i proceed to see 2 more down Hampton st on the way home prob going around hassling kids, that's about all they seem to do in Bayside.

Anyways, with all these revenue raising threads, i thought i'd add my disgust too. If i get a speading fine for like 63km/hr on that stretch of beach rd there i am going to be the unhappiest camper ;) Why the hell waste police resources like that and put 2 expensive (relatively) cops cars within 500m on a dead flat, dead straight road??

It was night time, so there was no way of knowing if i was booked was there? He had a gun leaning out the window, no flash, but do they even use those anymore? How do they get ur license plate num?

someone, contact M.A.D. :mad:

I was driving home last night up mt.alexander road (@12:30am). I saw a panel van had pulled over an VS commadore. And then On bulla rd about 5km's further down there was a Booze bus. And they didn't let ANY drivers through.

I mean the road is 2 lanes and the testing lane was full of cars and the guy with the light thinginy didn't wave through other cars until the testing lane was cleared, as they normally do. He just held up traffic and EVERYONE was breathtested, including the VS commadore that had just been pulled up a few k's before.

Originally posted by predator666

Cops were out down maroondah hwy near nunawadding too last night.. booze bus blocking off the whole lane.

Maybe they were doing a blitz on?

My friend is a copper down Brighton way, should ask him :(

Funds must be low again this week hey?

They're probably getting ready for there blitz for the footy finals and leading up to summer.... Was reading in the Age that they're gonna be absolutely everywhere...

I think I must be lucky - I've had my Skyline for four months now and only received three fines... :(

Was same at maroondah hwy... i don't think i was clear about but they blocked off all 4 lanes, so you had to pull into the service road to get the breatho. So they tested basically everybody.

the female officer said they were on the lookout for a blue skyline because its driver was "bad" but i'm not what that was all about to be honest..

It was night time, so there was no way of knowing if i was booked was there? He had a gun leaning out the window, no flash, but do they even use those anymore? How do they get ur license plate num?

nah no flashes needed.

 rofl chinny i just drove home from the city @ 2am and didnt see one coppa...

i walked home from stkilda road took about 2.5 hours and only saw 1 police car :(

bout 500m's Waz, and that's more a trap than a deterrant. I would understand if they put 2 cop cars (specially the expensives one which they have last night) in one of baysides black spot areas, but this stretch of road would possible be the safest in melbourne! dead flat, dead straight, 60 limit. 2 lanes either way - they were there just to make money, not to increase the safety of motorists

But i do see ur point, and that's basically what i did. Dropped back a bit, then once passed, brought my speed back up, but not 100% if i like brought it back up and past a bit. Like to 63

So i would had to have been pulled over if i was speeding that night??

Andrew - walked home from st.kilda road!!!!! R U NUTS!? they're called taxis, pretty handy things :P

Originally posted by inark

rofl chinny i just drove home from the city @ 2am and didnt see one coppa...

haha, maybe u didn't see one ..... but they might have seen u.... muahahahah ;)

nah seriously, if u remember brighton beach car park from that Import Cruise, they sometimes camp there. What i means is that at the entrance of the car park, they pull in, spin the car around looking like it's going to go, but just back a bit so they don't block the driveway. So basically, backed them selves into a corner of the car park, and have the gun trained down beach rd as they have a clear view of it. Bad thing is, is that you come around the corner on beach rd and u'll NEVER see them, bcos they'll be behind u as u drive pass, tucked up away in the station car park. I thought that was a bit rude! :P

Originally posted by SS8_Gohan

bout 500m's Waz, and that's more a trap than a deterrant.  

when were they trying to do anything opther than set traps??

a speed camera on a highway that people know about is a deterrant

a speed camera at the bottom of a hill is revenue raising

grrrrrrrrrr if i could piss on cameras i would...

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