We're not revenue raising HONEST!

[soop]

Nightmare gridlock on Eastlink | Herald Sun

Have a squiz at that.

Police set a booze buss up on the freeway at 4pm on a friday arvo.
They're lucky some bastard didn't open fire.

[Bravotwozero]

Nobody uses Eastlink anyway!

But seriously, ####ing stupid! What Einstein came up with that idea???

[soop]

If no body uses eastlink anyway, why did the traffic bank up for 5km?

[crazyspoon05]

Maybe they should have set up on the Monash, could have just walked along breath testing everybody on the Monash at that time of the day....

Good idea to catch idiots that drink drive by targeting a highway as there obviously isn't anywhere to turn down to avoid being tested (and good idea to have an afternoon one rather than the late night/early morning ones everybody knows of) but poorly executed

I think whoever came up with that location (on both sides of the freeway at once) must be the same 'genius' who set up the divvy van RBT location on High Street Road just around from a blind corner a couple of weeks ago

[soop]

They were supposed to be there untill 8pm.

Seriously.

They did it to net as many fish as possible, how is that not scrounging for cash?
All they managed to do was hold thousands of people up for 2hrs to achieve what?

I'll be it didn't save ONE life.
Probably made a few grand though.

[delcowizzid]

they did the same thing here and went oh we found no drink drivers its working im like WTF its not even knock off time and no ones had after work drinks and left to go home by 5pm LOL

[soop]

LOL,
They found nothing so it must be working?

I didn't shoot Julia guillard in the face today, and the moon hasn't fall out of the sky. How good is that?

[crazyspoon05]

They were supposed to be there untill 8pm.

Seriously.

They did it to net as many fish as possible, how is that not scrounging for cash?
All they managed to do was hold thousands of people up for 2hrs to achieve what?

I'll be it didn't save ONE life.
Probably made a few grand though.

People in Melbourne expect to be held up on their way home from work, otherwise why would they take the Monash 'Carpark' route 5 times a week

[soop]

What, so that makes it alright to block it off to breath test people?

Congestion is accepted. A few douche bags standing in the middle of the road isn't.

[crazyspoon05]

Totally, they are the law and you will respect their AUTHORITAH !!!!



At least the little bitches can't whine about being picked up by one of the Eastlink speed cameras, this just gives them something else to whine about

[showbags]

i think the plds were trying to save money. if anyone tried to run the booze bus, they could just chase them on foot.

[minux]

At least the little bitches can't whine about being picked up by one of the Eastlink speed cameras, this just gives them something else to whine about

Now that is utter revenue raising...you could do 150+ along that road without an issue. Sadly, keeping limits low, not enforcing bad driving such as failing to keep left etc is less important than catching someone at .051.

[gopher]

who gives a shit
never been on the eastlink wouldn't even know where it is
they could set it up there in morning or afternoon peak hour for all i care

[crazyspoon05]

Well the Liberal Party did say they would increase police presence so today has certainly proved that

Just wondering why the Herald-Sun hasn't run stories like that when the police set up on the Eastern Freeway at peak hour

[minux]

Well the Liberal Party did say they would increase police presence so today has certainly proved that

Just wondering why the Herald-Sun hasn't run stories like that when the police set up on the Eastern Freeway at peak hour

Umm, wont they run a story tomorrow if anything? Not sure thye would do a special print for a booze bus setup lol. That said, why havent channel 7/9/10 abc run the story in their news breaks? What about the Age etc? Not sure what your point is?

I did find this though, funnily enough on herald Sun website.

Nightmare gridlock on Eastlink | Herald Sun

[crazyspoon05]

Sorry, I meant why the sudden interest by the Herald-Sun in gridlock when the police have done it numerous times on the Eastern Freeway with nary a word from the Herald Sun in the past

Perhaps one of their reporters or the editor was late home and his wife didn't reheat his dinner ?

[gopher]

I did find this though, funnily enough on herald Sun website.

Nightmare gridlock on Eastlink | Herald Sun

i found the same article, funnily enough in the first post of this thread lol

[minux]

i found the same article, funnily enough in the first post of this thread lol

lol yeah just noticed that LMAO

[torch]

They did it to net as many fish as possible, how is that not scrounging for cash?
All they managed to do was hold thousands of people up for 2hrs to achieve what?

I'll be it didn't save ONE life.
Probably made a few grand though.

First time Ive heard anyone claim picking up drunk drivers was a cash raising issue idea, Im sure the government rakes more in just letting the traffic flow and letting the idiots get photos taken of themselves.

Friday afternoon, fair bet there were some sloshed up drivers in there.

Perhaps they didnt get one drunk?, so the exericise is a waste of time? Hardly, it reinforcse the idea to people that they could be breathtested anytime, not just in the late hours of friday and saturday night.

But we shouldnt have random tests when the traffic is busy because some one get home late, its better than not getting home at all. More than anything the potential for carnage on the freeway is there if just one intoxicated person stuffs up and causes a big pile up at speed, well done to the police for doing what many see as unpopular

[gopher]

. More than anything the potential for carnage on the freeway is there if just one intoxicated person stuffs up and causes a big pile up at speed, well done to the police for doing what many see as unpopular

either way you end up with gridlock.
gridlock from a breath testing exercise is much more preferable to gridlock caused by a traffic accident

[soop]

How many times last year was there gridlock due to a drunk driver?

Everyone thinks theres a problem because the govt makes out like they're trying to fix one.
Its easier to fix a problem thats barely there then it is to fix one that actually exists.

Alla Health care system, roads and immigration issues.

[shadetreemechanic]

I reckon I can drive better drunk than a heap of people who are sober. Used to know this old bastard who was pissed all the time driving his old Merc around, not a scratch on the thing though

Cops are run like a business these days. They want revenue

Note that I don't support drink driving though and I won't drive plastered.

[soop]

This is going to piss the sheeple of.
It doesn't hurt to drive after a few bevies.

.05 isn't even tipsy.

Don't believe the bullshit they spew on telle and bill boards.

[Julie]

I don't honestly see how it could be called revenue raising? Only those drink driving are liable to pay any fine and if they were raising any significant amount of 'revenue' then that would suggest that there is a drink driving problem on that stretch of road and such measures may have been warranted.

[vr94ss]

I don't honestly see how it could be called revenue raising? Only those drink driving are liable to pay any fine and if they were raising any significant amount of 'revenue' then that would suggest that there is a drink driving problem on that stretch of road and such measures may have been warranted.

Think of the greenhouse gases this produced!