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The only way any Australian is ever going to beat or evade speed cameras is to immigrate. This academic twits that set the rules in the country are just idiots. TXT you a fine because it needs to be instant, what a f@$king crock. Of course the cameras in Brisbane have cut accidents, that must be the truth because a copper said it but wheres the proof, in my ar$e. Police have become state govt tax collectors and the fallacy of the danger of hoons and cameras being for road safety is firmly implanted into the brainwashed minds of Mr and Mrs Joe Average. Maybe they all bought into this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubrtPy5cbmg

I wasn't trying to start a revolt with the story, more pointing to the fact that depsite their numerous social issues, which on a population pro rata are not much differnt than Australia's, when push come to shove they will stand up. Australian just say she'll be right mate and cop it. The other interesting point is that the camera company is Australian. Personally I think Australia is stuck with this permanently. I'm just glad that I escaped what was once the lucky country.

This report was in the New York Times yesterday. You can say what you wany about Yanks but at least they have the balls to stand up and not take crap from their Govt. See below From the New York Times Friday July 16th 2010. By Randall C. Archibald PHOENIX – As 17 other US states contemplate joining the line, at the first tick of the clock Friday, an array of automated cameras on Arizona freeways aimed at catching speeders will stop clicking. There is no glitch. The state, the first to adopt such cameras on its highways in October 2008, has become the first to pull the plug, bowing to the wishes of a vocal band of conservative activists who complained that photo enforcement intruded on privacy and was mainly designed to raise money. It was a tumultuous impassioned run here. A man wearing a monkey mask racked up dozens of tickets fighting them in court, to protest the system. Vandals at different times strategically attacked the cameras with silly string and pickaxes. More seriously, the operator of a van carrying a mobile speed camera was shot dead on the side of a freeway in April 2009. The suspect is being prosecuted on first-degree murder charges and the family of the victim has announced a massive lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety. Gov. Jan Brewer, a republican seeking election to a full term never embraced the program, begun under her predecessor, Janet Napolitano, a Democrat whose revenue projections from the tickets fell short largely for a simple reason: violators tended to just ignore them. The cameras, which included 76 units either mounted near the road shoulder or operated from Vans, were adept at snapping speeders as they whizzed past sensors, but getting offenders to pay after the tickets were mailed to them was another matter. Less than a third of the 1.2 million tickets issued were paid, and the state collected only $78 million, far below the projected $128 million annual revenue. Some of those tickets, typically $181 apiece, no doubt were lost in the mail; others no doubt were not paid as violators tested a legal theory that they needed to be served in person. Process servers who were supposed to follow up had no chance of keeping up with the load. Ms. Brewer made no secret of her disdain for the system operated by Redflex Traffic Systems, which will turn off the cameras the moment its contract expires on Friday. “She opposed the program because it was designed primarily as a state revenue generation tool,” Ms. Brewer’s spokesman, Paul Senseman, said this week. She is also uncomfortable with the intrusive nature of the system. She is willing to allow voters the opportunity to decide the future fate of the system, and anticipates there will be continued discussion and debate of the proposal in the Arizona legislature.” Some of the loudest critics were conservatives, who organised protest groups and continually prodded legislators to impose restrictions on their use, arguing the cameras amounted to, as one citizen put it, “government spying on its citizens.” “It is unconstitutional,” said Shawn Dow, founder of Arizona Citizens Against Photo Radar, who also questioned the safety benefit and propriety of having Redflex, whose parent company is based in Australia, involved in issuing tickets to Americans. The Department of Public Safety had initially reported a 19 percent drop in fatal collisions in the first nine months the cameras were in use, but after evidence surfaced of flawed data analysis surfaced a new director of the department was named an no date have been released since that embarrassing incident.

Apart from the fact that he's a grubby lying weasel who couldn't ly straight in bed he had 2 ex band members full on conning everybody about about man made global warming to the tune of billions of dollars. The fact that he got knifed in the back by Queen Julia (which IMHO was just good karma), that alone is enough to demonstrate how trustworthy the labour Govt isn't. Still theres enough dickheads in the joint to ensure that Labour will get back in on the strength of the greens, and in 2 more years we will have even less business's in Aus and a bigger overseas debt, more bankrupticies when the housing bubble bursts, and massive unemployment then everybody will ask why?

Queen Julia, what a farking joke. I'm just glad I don't have to live in the place anymore. I got an R Spec hidden away gathering dust and I wonder if they will tax me for it, or tax me for the dust, or just tax me anyway? Q. How do you kill a country? A. Vote in an ego maniac and a circus of clowns. The irony of it all is they call themselves Labour and not one of them has ever done a real days work in their lives and I'll bet a years pay the good people of Aus will be stupid enough to vote them back in again

Spot on Dillz. This thing is an Avis rental. I wouldn't buy one in a fit. I've tried the Camaro, The Vette, The Dodge and the 2010 5.0 litre Mustang. The 2010 Mustang wins on all counts except vision IMHO. I took the Challenger up the Pacific Coast Hwy from Malibu to Camarillo today, about 40 miles, and it is DEFINATELY NOT a good handling car, good if you want to be looked at though. I have to fly down to Jacksonville Florida on Thurs and have booked a new AVIS Stang down there so it will be an interesting comparo. Sorry gettin-sideways the SS Camaro looks the part but it's like the Dodge when it comes to finish and handling. I like the way the new Mustang has copied the Camaro pointed front bumper. At least you can drive a car here without worrying about some psuedo officer of the law hiding behind a lampost collecting revenue with a speed gun or getting pinged by a multi nova.

Its called climate change Dule, nor global warming and the variences are minimal. They just keep on pushing it. It has all happened before and it will all happen again

I hope so tab. It is a great shame, but even my R Spec has better build quality and mine is definately a Friday car. The FG has got a better build quality and finish than all of the present American so called muscle cars, but having said that it also costs an arm and a leg more. I will hang some pictures of this lightening strike 3 legged race horse up tomorrow. 1.33am here and time to crash.

I have a 2010 5.9 litre Dodge Challenger in AVIS LA. Great looking car, gutless for a 5.9 V8, cheap plastic finish, rattly dash at 1600 miles, poor handing, crappy brakes, handling a la Chrysler Valiant, but a great looking dash. Looks all go but a NA XR6 would out run one and not even know it was in a race. Corvette yes,Camaro yes, 2010 5.0 litre V8 Mustang very big yes. Dodge Ho Hum, maybe the 440 magnum has some get up and go.

All of the politicians lie to all of the people all of the time. They are so stupid and self absorbed they don't seem to get that the whole world (wwf tin rattlers excepted) have woken up to the fact that there is no global warming. It's a great way to keep the masses worried though. Ba$tards

The R Spec is just a slightly optioned BF2 F6 and now it won't make any difference in pric whether its an R Spec or not. The so called up graded suspension was just a joke as was all Typhoon suspension shocks springs and bushes. I traded a BA Typhoon on a BF R Spec the BA had pedders sports riders in it which are nothing to rave about but that made it a much better handling car than the BF R Spec. FVP were just emptying the parts bin with leather seats and special mats and a limited run number which now doesn't mean anything. If you are set on a BF focus on getting a well looked after and serviced example. I've got 2 of the things, one with 23,000 klm and one with 24,000klm. Finish and quality wise they are both clunky diff whining dashboard rattling buckets of sh!t. The finish on the FGs seems much improved but they lost me because they left the driveline shunt in the things. Out of the BF R Spec and the BA Typhoon IMHO the BA was a better car than the BF and the apparent hundreds of little improvements in the BF over the BA were not very noticable in the real world.

Because it makes it much easier for them to brand you a HOON and steal your money :o

It has nothing to do with common sense and little to do with any Govt concern about the road toll. Mark Scaife and all his merry men won't shut down the multi billion dollar photo tax corporation. Ian Johnson and Harold Scruby will be in shock and denial over what Skaife said.

Ford and Adolf Hitler admired each other's achievements.[39] Adolf Hitler kept a life-size portrait of Ford next to his desk.[39] "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the Chancellor of Germany in 1933.[39] In July 1938, four months after the German annexation of Austria, the Nazi government awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal for foreigners.[39] Ford disliked the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and did not approve of U.S. involvement in the war. From 1939 to 1943, the War Production Board's dealings with the Ford Motor Company were with other officials in the organization, such as Edsel Ford and Charles Sorensen, much more than with Ford. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ford initially refused to convert his factories to war work.[40] During this time, Ford did not stop his executives from cooperating with Washington, but he did not get deeply involved. Focusing on his pet projects, he watched as the work progressed.[41] After Edsel Ford's passing, Henry Ford resumed control of the company in 1943. After years of the Great Depression, labor strife, and New Deal, Ford suspected people in Washington were conspiring to wrest the company from his control.[42] His attitude inspired background chatter in Washington about how to undermine his control of the company, whether by wartime government fiat or by instigating some sort of coup among executives and directors.[43] In 1945, "with the company teetering on the brink of bankruptcy,"[44] Edsel's widow led an ouster and installed her son, Henry Ford II, as president.[44] The Dearborn Independent The non-Ford publication The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem. Articles from The Dearborn Independent, 1920 Grand Cross of the German Eagle, an award bestowed on Ford by Nazi GermanyIn 1918, Ford's closest aide and private secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, purchased an obscure weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent for Ford. The Independent ran for eight years, from 1920 until 1927, during which Liebold was editor. The newspaper published "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," which was discredited by The Times of London as a forgery during the Independent's publishing run. The American Jewish Historical Society described the ideas presented in the magazine as "anti-immigrant, anti-labor, anti-liquor, and anti-Semitic." In February 1921, the New York World published an interview with Ford, in which he said "The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on." During this period, Ford emerged as "a respected spokesman for right-wing extremism and religious prejudice," reaching around 700,000 readers through his newspaper.[45] During the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s, the Protocols was reprinted and published in Germany, along with anti-Jewish articles first published by The Dearborn Independent and reprinted in translation in Germany as a set of four bound volumes, cumulatively titled The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem. Vincent Curcio wrote of these books that "they were widely distributed and had great influence, particularly in Nazi Germany, where no less a personage than Adolf Hitler read and admired them." Ford is the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf. Steven Watts wrote that Hitler "revered" Ford, proclaiming that "I shall do my best to put his theories into practice in Germany, and modeling the Volkswagen, the people's car, on the model T."[46] On February 1, 1924 Ford received Kurt Ludecke, a representative of Hitler, at his home. Ludecke was introduced to Ford by Siegfried Wagner (son of the famous composer Richard Wagner) and his wife Winifred, both Nazi sympathizers and anti-Semites. Ludecke asked Ford for a contribution to the Nazi cause but was apparently refused.[47] While Ford's articles were denounced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the articles explicitly condemned pogroms and violence against Jews (Volume 4, Chapter 80), but blamed the Jews for provoking incidents of mass violence.[48] None of this work was written by Ford, but he allowed his name to be used as author. According to trial testimony, he wrote almost nothing. Friends and business associates have said they warned Ford about the contents of the Independent and that he probably never read the articles. (He claimed he only read the headlines.)[49] But, court testimony in a libel suit, brought by one of the targets of the newspaper, alleged that Ford did know about the contents of the Independent in advance of publication.[50] A libel lawsuit brought by San Francisco lawyer and Jewish farm cooperative organizer Aaron Sapiro in response to anti-Semitic remarks led Ford to close the Independent in December 1927. News reports at the time quoted him as being shocked by the content and having been unaware of its nature. During the trial, the editor of Ford's "Own Page," William Cameron, testified that Ford had nothing to do with the editorials even though they were under his byline. Cameron testified at the libel trial that he never discussed the content of the pages or sent them to Ford for his approval.[51] Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that "whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro."[50] Michael Barkun observed, "That Cameron would have continued to publish such controversial material without Ford's explicit instructions seemed unthinkable to those who knew both men. Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, a Ford family intimate, remarked that 'I don't think Mr. Cameron ever wrote anything for publication without Mr. Ford's approval.'"[52] According to Spencer Blakeslee, The ADL mobilized prominent Jews and non-Jews to publicly oppose Ford's message. They formed a coalition of Jewish groups for the same purpose and raised constant objections in the Detroit press. Before leaving his presidency early in 1921, Woodrow Wilson joined other leading Americans in a statement that rebuked Ford and others for their antisemitic campaign. A boycott against Ford products by Jews and liberal Christians also had an impact, and Ford shut down the paper in 1927, recanting his views in a public letter to Sigmund Livingston, ADL.[53] Ford's 1927 apology had been well received. "Four-Fifths of the hundreds of letters addressed to Ford in July of 1927 were from Jews, and almost without exception they praised the Industrialist."[54] In January 1937, a Ford statement to the Detroit Jewish Chronicle disavowed "any connection whatsoever with the publication in Germany of a book known as the International Jew."[54]

Dumb enough to invent and mass market the mighty V8

Excellent. Needed a damn good laugh

Should give BP a miss now after what they've done in the Gulf of Mexico. I always ran BP Ultimate, never again.

Australian HWP Police 2010 = High Speed parking Inspectors cum Digital Photographers with guns and battitude Don't dare argue with me. I am trained not to give a sh!t and anyway I am always right, you are always wrong. I will lecture you, you will listen, then I will fine you and even if I'm wrong you will have to lose your time at court to prove it. I don't care how long you have been driving, you exceeded the speed limit by 2klm now give me at least a days pay and shut up and put up with it No wonder so few people have any respect for them anymore. Speed Kills now holds about as much water as Rudds Global Warming Con

It's to terrorise motorists motorists. I've never seen such a pathetic cash grab as the leaving your car unlocked nonsense. Man I'm glad I'm out of the place. Democracy in Australia, not any more

It's all for safety sake didn't you know f-wolf. Nothing more to it than that.

The scum spent a fortune in WA WA land putting in double cameras to catch motorcyclists as they have no front number plate. Another Ruse to dud the people. In the USA most states are having referendums and getting rid of the worlds ultimate Sychophant device.

Dirty theiving scum, as if the rates and fees for every other thing they can think of are not enough

I think he is a german or dutch dude by the sound of his excent. Dam good vid though

You've been watching too much news or reading too many Aus newspapers matey. Australians are now monitored watched and controlled much more than Americans are. You get left alone on the roads in the USA and their airports are much less harassing than ours are I'm sitting at Seattle airport right now and I can get through the security a lot faster than Sydney or Melbourne and be treated with respect instead of the smart arse attitude of many of the ex dole bludgers who now fill the positons in Aus and think they are FBI agents, so don't kid yourself aboiut the terrorist nonsense. I hate to say it but the Yanks do stand up for their rights, while we just bend over and get shafted harder. With what has become of our once great land I'd swap my citizenshipo in a heartbeat. Once you get out of LA the USA is fantastic, the people are friendly and a lot less controlled than we are now, the cost of living is cheap and the USA has a hell of a lot more to offer than Australia does anymore. We have become an island of compliant pussies run by liars and idiots like Krud and Baldy and Penny Pong.

that's a low act on the coppers behalf Auscraft. It seems all the real coppers have been replaced in many cases with Mongrels and they wonder why people don't trust or respect them, it sgotten to the point of absolute stupidity. I drove from New Jersey to Ocean City last week, the speed limit is posted at 65 MPH, went through 3 states, New Jersey, Delaware, one Maryland at 85 MPH on cruise control, passed about 6 Crown Vics hiding on the side of the road and they won't bother to turn the key and chase you if your not doing at least 90 MPH. They use a lot more common sense here if the drivers are flowing with the traffic and ther is no hiding behind lamp posts with hand held radars and no speed cams hidden in the bushes. Its a lot better place to drive than what has become of Aus in the endless cash grab