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"Justice" gone mad???

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
"Justice" gone mad???
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Did he shoot someone?
Did he mug someone?
Did he pillage and plunder????   NO he...


A Nelson skateboarder hit with a $750 fine for cruising down New St on his board is refusing to pay the "overly excessive" infringement. [/quote]


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4040893/Skateboarder-refuses-to-pay-fine
[quote]A skateboard was classified as a vehicle, and skateboarders in central Nelson posed risks including frightening and intimidating the elderly.


so could cars and motorcyles and scooters and....



What were the police thinking??? 



dairyflat2010-08-19 15:00:45
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm a little teapot short and stout.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Here is my handle, here is my %#&$
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
When i get all steamed up hear me shout.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Tip me over and tip me OUT.
 
haha f**ked it up.
Cosimo2010-08-19 16:14:52
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I too think society would be a lot better with laws that you had to obey even if you didn't feel like it or anything like that.  I mean, what benefit do they provide?

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Sascha Krueger, 33

Allegedly

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
dairyflat wrote:

intimidating the elderly.




 
 
just where do they get that idea from?  I'd love to see some proof of that... They just thow out quips like that and they never seem to be challenged over their ...wait for it... veracity. what a good word...
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Having said all that (and in no way am I trying to defend the cops actions or the bylaw) he was warned. But clearly decided that the cop didn't really mean it so ignored the warning.
 
So, i'd be happy if they changed the fine to "$750 for being a dumbass".
 
 
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Denny Crane *shakes hand*
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Wait!

21.0 Skateboards, roller skates, inline skates, and wheeled recreational devices
  1. No person shall ride or use any skateboard, roller skates, inline skates or wheeled recreational device on any footpath in a Prohibited Area, as outlined in Schedule 2.
  2. The Council may, from time to time, by resolution publicly notified, add to or amend the extent of the Prohibited Area.
  3. Nothing in this Bylaw will serve to restrict or prevent the use of any wheelchair, pushchair, pram, trolley, cart or mobility device or other similar device constructed for and used for the purpose of the transportation of disabled persons, young persons or personal effects, on any such footpath. [/quote]

and then...

 
[quote]

�Vehicle�-

  1. Means a contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which it moves or is moved; and
  2. Includes a hovercraft, skateboard, in-line skates, and roller skates; but
  3. Does not include-
    1. A perambulator or pushchair;
    2. A shopping or sporting trundler not propelled by mechanical power;
    3. A wheelbarrow or hand-trolley;
    4. A pedestrian-controlled lawnmower;
    5. A pedestrian-controlled agricultural machine not propelled by mechanical power;
    6. An article of furniture;
    7. A wheel-chair not propelled by mechanical power;
    8. Any other contrivance specified by the rules not to be a vehicle for the purposes of this definition.
    9. Any rail vehicle

mmm....   ??

dairyflat2010-08-20 14:06:58
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I've been working on the railroad, all the live-long day.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cop it asweet, Tony Hawk.
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As you complain about the price of biscuits, a little boy waits. Cosimo2010-08-20 14:22:31
I like tautologies because I like them.
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Hard News wrote:
Biscuits.... mmm... back soon.
 
*smoke cloud*
I like tautologies because I like them.
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Dairyflat. The guy was obviously warned. Cops can use discretion,if we was being dangerous,and warned about it,then was a big enough dumbass to go and do it again,then thats a fair fine.
 
Perhaps a better way for him to go was to cop the warning,then ring or go to the station and get the law cleared up later,so that he may skateboard in peace next time.
 
That or he could just realise he is 33 and not skateboard anymore.

Allegedly

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Tegal wrote:
Dairyflat. The guy was obviously warned. Cops can use discretion,if we was being dangerous,and warned about it,then was a big enough dumbass to go and do it again,then thats a fair fine.
 
Perhaps a better way for him to go was to cop the warning,then ring or go to the station and get the law cleared up later,so that he may skateboard in peace next time.
 
That or he could just realise he is 33 and not skateboard anymore.
 
You just hate freedom.
I like tautologies because I like them.
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Tegal wrote:
That or he could just realise he is 33 and not skateboard anymore.
 
Tell Tony Hawk and his millions that.  Turns out he's about 40 days younger than me.

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Hard News wrote:
Tegal wrote:
That or he could just realise he is 33 and not skateboard anymore.
 
Tell Tony Hawk and his millions that.  Turns out he's about 40 days younger than me.
 
Pleeeese become a professional skateboarder!
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I believe in police brutality.


Allegedly

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tegal wrote:

I believe in police brutality.

 
 
That guy's compensating...
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dairyflat wrote:

�Vehicle�-



  1. Means a contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which it moves or is moved; and
  2. Includes a hovercraft, skateboard, in-line skates, and roller skates;


My hovercraft is full of eels!

(would you like to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?)

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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Junior82 wrote:
dairyflat wrote:

�Vehicle�-



  1. Means a contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which it moves or is moved; and
  2. Includes a hovercraft, skateboard, in-line skates, and roller skates;


My hovercraft is full of eels!

(would you like to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?)
Please foondle my bootocks!
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
From all that I understand regarding it, if he was on the road he wasn't in the wrong. I'd like to see where the fine comes from if this is the case. $750 is also pretty stupid, you get far less for running red lights.
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