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Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Eastern Victoria
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He's lucky they didn't kick the **** out of him.
As much as its a pain in the ***, move on in life and notch this one up to experience, I'm sure he will endure much more pain than this.
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Force Fed Fords
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Victoria
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Another storm in a tea cup police thread. Third hand information, only one side of the story and already people want to hang some copper.
How about the person involved go to his local police station, ask to speak to a supervisor. If he is not satisfied ask to speak to what ever body in your state takes complaints for matters relating to police. Nice and simple, and you will get logical correct answers and not a bunch of cop bashing hysterics. I personally would not touch someones vehicle. If I needed something moved etc including opening the bonnet, I would ask the owner to do it. Good luck.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: sydney.nsw.au
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Whilst it is a crappy situation, and certainly not a great way to have your first taste of the law, what does he hope to achieve?
Does he think by complaining the cop will come out, apologise, pay for the intake to be fixed and buy him a beer? $88 fine sucks, but it's a tank of fuel, so I wouldn't dwell on it. If he gets upset and wants to go to court etc, he'd be looking at a lot more hurt than it's worth. Risk Vs Reward does not stack up in his favour unfortuantely.
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Craazzee Barstard
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Kings Park NSW
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Know the Rules , Know Your Rights , Record Officer & their Details & Notify them of it as they do you ,
I Find 99.9% of Cops have NO IDEA when it comes to defecting cars & to ME it Shouldn't be Their right to Do so WITHOUT have Authorised RTA Inspector with them , How can Cops put Defects on Cars when they Didn't Spend 4 years Becoming a Mechanic & getting a licence to be Authorised to Work on them , So What would they KNOW , Mechanics Should Legally be able to Defect Cars & RTA Inspectors Only , To many cars leave Licenced Workshops that are Just Totally Illegal when the Customer doesn't want to Fix their car , ie Tyres , Broken lights , Brake & Suspension issues , But the Mechanic has to let the Defective car back on the Roads . |
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Force Fed Fords
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Victoria
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I would agree not all police would know how to correctly check a vehicle, but I would strongly disagree with your figure of 99.9% being ignorant.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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TMU police are educated for some of the basic roadworthy requirements, but a canary can be issued on any car by any policeman if they believe something is not correct, it is then up to the roadworthy tester to confirm whether or not it is roadworthy, unfortunately for the owner this means a time and money outlay.
Again, unfortunately, this is part of playing with modified cars
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Join Date: May 2010
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A defect is not a mechanical opinion its an opinion of the officer to say that they think the car is unroadworthy or not safe and needs to be checked by a mechanic. |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Regardless of wether the airbox is legal or not the officer should not be able to do that type of damage. If he wanted a closer inspection he should have given a defect notive and allowed a skilled person to open the lid. If the vehicle was allowed to be driven home i would say it was alot more dangerous/ineffective in the condition the cop left it than before so that is hypocritical in itself. The car wasnt given a defect notice as this would expose the cop for what he really is should a mechanic find it legal. And if making a complaint against a cop leaves you in fear of reprocussions then it says a bit about the people up holding the law in this country. |
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Mate get your brother to go and see the officers supervisor about what happened. All these people saying they will give you grief, how many of you have actually done this?
when i was in cairns last i got pulled over because on the system it said i had no manual licence, anyway i have a manual licence and they couldn't get me for anything so they got me for a 20c piece of reflective material missing on my numberplate. They did this purely because they couldn't get me for anything else. Anyway long story short i went to the officers station straight away after i left the pursuit car and had a nice civil word with the senior SGT. long story short i got an apology and the fine was taken away. he has nothing to lose by just going and having a word with someone, most cops are not as bad as you all think they are. sure this one may be bad but the repercussions from something like this is massive for him and nil for your brother. |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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I am impartial to both parties in this story. Don't forget when an accusation is made the other party is innocent until proven guilty. And if your level of proof rests with a picture of damage and no direct evidence of who actually damaged the air box other than here say then I think you were not listening during year 11 legal studies.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Perth, WA
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![]() Is there anything in the owners manual that mentions the pod filter? There must be a pic of the engine bay in there which you could show the cops on the spot. I'll check tonight when I get home.
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