UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 1
st, 2019 at 9:51am:
Valkie wrote on Jul 1
st, 2019 at 5:27am:
UnSubRocky wrote on Jun 30
th, 2019 at 11:31pm:
Frickin' dung mattered me off this afternoon about getting an "offender levy" against me, after the court ruled that I pay only the fine and the court costs, after losing my court battle. But, SPERS wanted a piece of the pie, adding the offender levy on top of that decision. SPERS can get the minimum repayments I am allowed. bugger-em. I better not be getting increased demerit points, too.
What the hell is an offenders levy?
It is a levy made against a person found guilty of a driving offence after contesting the charge in court. Not only do you risk having your fine increased, and pay court costs. But, you have the SPERS go after you with another cash grab.
So
In other words,
The grubberment have decided, not just to punish you for some semi- legal cash grab fine
But if you have the gall to dare and question them, they fine you on top of the fine?
But you can't get compensation for your time and effort to fight the fine if you win.
And this is an honest system???????????
All the grubberment want is to churn out fines and get the pennies rolling in.
If they stuff up, as we all know they do regularly, they don't want anyone to question it, but to just pay up.
Speed cameras are about as accurate as a two Bob watch.
They measure your speed over 1 metre, that's right, 1 metre.
The signal is picked up by a piezoelectric sensor in the road and sent to a computer mounted in a box on the side of the road.
As your wheel goes over the second piezoelectric sensor, a second signal is sent to the computer
If the timeframe is too short, it tells the camera to take a picture.
Bingo, flash for cash.
Now the facts
Piezoelectric sensors are know to fail or malfunction regularly.
Putting them in an environment that can be anything from 0 deg to 60 plus degrees will cause them to malfunction even more often.
Then there is the computer
We all have computers don't We?
All of our computers function flawlessly every single day, don't they?
And putting a computer in a box on the side of the road that has temperatures of a similar range to the road 0 deg to over 60 deg c is really going to be beneficial to the computer function.
Trucks, cars and other vehicles also vibrate
Quite a bit in fact.
Out of balance tyres can affect the piezoelectric sensors
Vibration can and does destroy circuitry in the boxes that house traffic lights.
(I used to test these things and you should see how truck noise vibration destroys the circuitry)
But the speed camera computers, far more complex than traffic light computers, won't be affected like every other electrical device, because the known lying R&M tell us so????
Finally, you get the "fine" in the post weeks or months after the event.
It's virtually impossible to prove you were not speeding at a time weeks or months before.
And the grubberment have circumvented the law by making you guilty without actually proving you are.
You must prove your innocence, rather than them proving guilt.
Our grubberment are all crooks
The R&M are even bigger crooks, justifying their lies and corruption by claiming they save lives.
But there is ZERO , nada, nuffink to prove that putting up speed cameras and camera cars has actually saved even one life.
But, on the other hand, it can be easily proven that fixing the roads save many lives.
But the grubberment don't want to spend money fixing roads, they just want revenue.
A POX ON THEM ALL.