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05-04-2011, 12:10 AM
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Bringing the Spartan back
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Remember this tread:
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...r+speed+patrol Well driving down the Hume last night, I got thinking about the white lines painted on the road. The question I have is: 12 months on, has anyone been booked? Have you even heard of a mate of a mate's sisters's cousin being booked? I haven't. Has this been a big waste of Tax payers money? Is it just a scare campain? Thoughts?
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05-04-2011, 12:42 AM
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I was selling a car last year and had my phone number on the rear window in big white stickers. As I was flying along the M3 I got a txt from the pilot of one of these saying "m8, 5l0 dn 50 I c4n g37 yr pl8. 4l50, c4n y4 71l7 i7 up 4 m3? l8trs ****".
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05-04-2011, 02:58 AM
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Constant annoyance
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05-04-2011, 07:17 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I drive through that section at menangle 3-4 times a week, if you got booked from these planes you deserve it, you would have to be driving with your eyes closed to miss them,they fly so low you would have to be blind not to see them................ I cannot see how anyone could get booked from them,they can only operate when the conditions are perfect with clear skys etc....
If any thing they are dangerous to motorist due to the distraction they cause. 
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05-04-2011, 09:00 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I figure if it's cloudy / rainy then you don't have to worry about a thing. Keeping in mind I'm a financial / mathematic retard, it doesn't make sense to me the cost involved in having an aircraft in the sky doing circles unless you make a whole heap of cashish.. I mean sure they say they aren't doing it for the cash, but I think we've grown out of that one 
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05-04-2011, 10:15 AM
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Mot Adv-NSW
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Rarely used, single plane available on rare occasion. Was simply a NSW Labor gimmick, as it was by them many years before,when it was later realised to be too costly for little or no return.
The lines marked every 500metres on freeway will not be refreshed, the coalition will not support this enforcement. We will see greater numbers of HWP in marked and unmarked cars, operating independently from RTA's Road Safety branch who under Labor - funded HWP enforcement in targeted blitzes. NSW new transport minister (DG) has stated he hates/doesn't like speed cameras. TV ads regarding the point to point cameras targeting heavy vehicles with the slogan "the law of averages applies" have just been televised with NSW government endorsement, BUT these ads were timed for release after the election, to give folk the impression it's all the coalitions doing. RTA will face scrutiny.
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05-04-2011, 08:59 AM
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05-04-2011, 11:16 AM
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05-04-2011, 11:33 AM
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Constant annoyance
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05-04-2011, 11:39 AM
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05-04-2011, 01:13 AM
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P1g5 1n 5p4c3...
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05-04-2011, 01:37 AM
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meh.
 
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what? im 15, and i cant read that... what does it say??
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05-04-2011, 01:38 AM
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I totalled my XR6
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I assume that message said; "Mate, slow down so I can get your plate. Also, can you tilt it up for me? laters."
Is that correct? I'm rubbish at text talk.
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05-04-2011, 08:24 AM
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05-04-2011, 02:18 PM
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I drive the f3 from central coast to Sydney daily and I have only ever seen a plane flying over the freeway twice. I think you would have to be very unlucky to get done by the aerial patrol
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05-04-2011, 09:52 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Aside from the bun fight ... They used planes in WA on the road to Geraldton when I was over there in 1981. Regular road users tilted their side mirrors upward to sight the planes.
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05-04-2011, 10:00 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Ah sooo 1970s
Victoria had the lines painted on the Hume back in 1974 we were told that planes would check your speed bu I never saw any planes thanks John |
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06-04-2011, 10:18 AM
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With da Warlords
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Lol, bet you he doesnt even know what a CASA ARN is...
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06-04-2011, 08:04 PM
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Chairman & Administrator
 
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Please keep this thread on-topic.
Any further breaches of the site T&C will result in a holiday. Russ
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Aerial speed patrols, 12 months on.
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