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[Mark M]

I once rode the Police specification Indian Chief that is now in the Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham and it has a siren fitted which is operated by a friction drive to the rear tyre. You operate it with a spring loaded heel catch and it's tone changes as you speed up and slow down. Just brilliant! This was at an REOC Rally when the bike was owned by the late Les Power, a lovely and generous bloke. Thanks Les, that was a treat of an afternoon!

REgards, Mark

[Blown265]

To me, the most lopsided (and expensive) fine on that list is "playing loud music" !?! Aside from defining "loud" and the obvious interpretation (as far as I'm aware, no Australian police car is equipped with a decibel meter), the most challenging concept is that "playing loud music" is more dangerous than the other offences on that list- travelling too close/u turns/ etc. Crazy.

[stinkwheel]

The most useful/essential time to have a horn is when the vehicle in front of you decides to reverse. Usually an HGV who overshot his turning, slams on the brakes and just starts reversing.



It's happened to me more than once.

[Presto]

The imprecision and vagueness with which those Queensland ‘laws’ have been stated makes it hard to believe that that extract represents what could be considered to be a legal document: e.g. ‘longer than necessary’, ‘too closely’, ‘clear view in all directions’ [up and down as well as all-round?], ‘the road is blocked’, ‘loud music’. The stupidity of some of the other rules makes you wonder if this isn’t a scam.

[Alan R]

Hi Guys--------subjective indeed !!....My favourite one is}--- "Parking / Stopping within 10 Metres of intersection without a traffic light"...

It's a Catch 22 situation, isn't it ??.....You approach an intersection which clearly hasn't any lights.....You stop and clutching your super-long tape measure you proceed to find just where the 10 metre mark actually is..........SURPRISE !! You are actually within 10 metres and have just generated a camera-recorded automatic fine $$$$$$$$....As our Latin cousins might put it}--- El Bastardos !!...........Yes, a 12v relay will reduce the current through your handlebar switch to that consumed by the relay's operating coil ie}--- very minimal......I would be inclined to Earth ( or Ground ) the circuit at the nearest point actually on the mainframe rather than anything bolted to it.....Paint / corrosion can be a very good insulator after time........

[Rattlebattle]

Reminds me of the jokes about the former SPG in the Metropolitan Police back in the eighties. Offences such as "stepping on the cracks in the pavement" and "looking shifty" were apparently valid....

[Mark M]

Er, it's posted by Leon, our resident Southern Hemisphere joker as regular readers will know!

REgards, Mark

[Leon Novello]

There are reasons for the laws if thought about; eg, reversing law is for the hoons who drift their cars around suburban streets and smoke the tyres reversing at speed late at night. The Loud music law is for the same lot who drive around late at night blasting the suburbs with their Boom boxes with all windows down. The tooting law is for the selfish lot who toot goodnight when leaving a party at 3 a:m. Tooting a J-walker or a kangaroo in the middle of the road or someone who is texting and drifting over to your side of the road is not an offence. The horn is for an emergency only. Not having a hand on the wheel usually means you are not in control of the vehicle even when stopped at lights, the driver could be texting, changing CDs or picking up the lettuce which fell out of his hamburger.

[Presto]

Agreed Leon, there may be reasons for restrictions – I should hope there! – but the framing of such laws should be selective, specific, and objective. These are arbitrary, general, and vague.

[ric]

They missed the one out about sitting outside a school for 20 minutes everyday while waiting to pick your child and leaving your diesel engine running for the whole time.