Australians at work

subby · Post by **subby** » Wed May 12, 2004 12:24 pm

I am proud of these guys

anthias · Post by **anthias** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:38 pm

I love it. I have a loose contact in the relevant authority and I have confirmed that this story is in fact true

Good on those guys! speed cameras - irritating things. (I've never actually been got by one, but I have seen them make a lot of mistakes, and in some instances cause accidents when a line of traffic sees them and suddenly breaks so as not to get booked!)

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Wed May 12, 2004 6:01 pm

I have an interesting story. Before going to college, I worked at Kraft Foods (in the Cool Whip division) with a gentleman that had worked for the N e w York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). Well, one of the NYSDOT workers he worked with, before the worker quit, drove a big old NYSDOT van at over 90 miles per hour (very fast for you non-americans) when a N e w York State Trooper clocked him and kept going to reach speeds over 120 mph.

The N e w York State Trooper finally caught up to and pulled over the worker and asked him what the f#$@ he was doing. He said he just wanted to "see what this baby could do." The Trooper busted out laughing and didn't give the worker a ticket, letting him go on his way.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Wed May 12, 2004 7:03 pm

very nice!

just proving once again how useful a tool sense of humor can be. timing & delivery are everything...

and damn, hats off to those canberra youths. only thing could have been better was finding a van that matched the original and sticking the license plate on that. fotos don't lie...

i used to know this nutso guy who had no social security# (an american ID system) or license who would deliberately break the speed limit, get himself pulled over by a cop and argue the cop down. what a master spin doctor he was. if i could have a tenth of that guy's skill...

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Wed May 12, 2004 8:04 pm

H a h a, t h i s p l a c e h a s g o n e t o t h e d o g s.

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Wed May 12, 2004 8:40 pm

marrow wrote:H a h a, t h i s p l a c e h a s g o n e t o t h e d o g s.

Grrr! Woof...

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Wed May 12, 2004 8:45 pm

Great stories!

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Thu May 13, 2004 9:32 pm

geez, this turned out to be an urban legend?

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/snaptrap.asp

anthias · Post by **anthias** » Fri May 14, 2004 11:38 am

Well I'll be damned - "My friends friend" assured me it was actual. Of course, you can't trust those "hoax monitor" websites either - I've heard things I was involved in called hoaxes. Sometimes the websites that expose hoaxes are no more relieble than the guys down the pub

In my expeirnece there is often a germinating truth behind the story - humanity being what it is allways wants credit or relation or locality what have you. Someone once said that 12 times the number of people who were at woodstock claim they were. I think that factor of human nature can cloud the hoax line at times

n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri May 14, 2004 1:28 pm

hmm in case of hoax make fact

see? i've figured out what a double entendre is

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Fri May 14, 2004 7:20 pm

anthias wrote:Of course, you can't trust those "hoax monitor" websites either - I've heard things I was involved in called hoaxes. Sometimes the websites that expose hoaxes are no more relieble than the guys down the pub

well, snopes IMO is reliable, if a bit on the preachy side. they're one of the two biggest urban legends sites on the net (last time i checked, anyway).

IMO the doubt lies not so much with the site or the (real or imagined) pranskters themselves, nor the people who write up the (real or fictional) events, but with the newspapers. one newspaper will print a story like this on a slow day knowing full-well it's unsubstantiated, then a bunch of other newspapers will play copycat, using the first article as the basis of "truth".

so a very interesting routine they've got down. that's why i love listening to independent news or watching the french news, where they *really push the microphones in people's faces*.