AH! This sucks! Rant!

**Polyal** · 19-10-2006, 11:37 AM

Now I know my sooking wont get me anywhere, but I want to see what others think.

I went to the car this morning to see that I had a ticket, I though WTF, I haven't done anything wrong!

So I read the ticket and apparently its against the law to park your car faceing the "wrong direction". What a load of crap!

I can understand if it was on a major road, that very busy, but I parked in the street that I live in, in a residentual area, that is quite as hell and only has a primary school opposite it.

Its a small street, verging on a lane, and I was parked in my spot outside my house. The only reason I parked in the "wrong direction" was because I entered from the other end and just parked straight up in my spot. Basically I CBF'd doing a 3 point turn. No harm done.

I dont see how my car facing the other direction makes any difference to anything. It takes up the same amount of space even if it was facing the other way and was in its alloted space.

How does it break any laws? Its not harming anyone, its plainly visible (if you cant see it then you shouldn't have a licence).

It seems to be another one of those crap laws to get a few extra bucks. Its only $65 but Ive been having a good run of late.

And to top it off, it was given at 8:44AM, what kind of loser gives out that kind of ticket at that time, and how the hell checks this crap in residentual areas!

If it was on a main street then obviously Id never to do as you would have to cross onto the wrong side...lol...but in a tiny residentual area what difference does it make!

Im bloody fuming...what a waste, should have parked in a loading zone!

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Dezza · 19-10-2006, 11:44 AM

That's bogus! I don't see what's wrong with parking the wrong way at all. I do the same sometimes, so I guess I'd better stop doing it, if I'll get fined

GreenMachine · 19-10-2006, 11:47 AM

Issue is that you have to drive the wrong way up the street as you take off... I've been booked for this before too. Yes, it sucks.

**Polyal** · 19-10-2006, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by GreenMachine

Issue is that you have to drive the wrong way up the street as you take off... I've been booked for this before too. Yes, it sucks.

You serious! For about half a mili second!

Ill get a pic, its a two way street; bah I just needed to rant

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MYVYSS · 19-10-2006, 11:50 AM

also the fact that during the night oncoming cars would not have the benefit of seeing your reflectors on the back end of the car, I know it sucks but it is the rules

xr8svo · 19-10-2006, 11:59 AM

this happened to me a while ago but it only cost me $30 it was at like 11:30pm was a very wide residential street that wasnt very busy gave me the *****. To top it off the hub caps were stolen off the car the same night.

SlikedTurb · 19-10-2006, 11:53 AM

stiff biscuits, if you weren't aware of that Law you shouldn't have got you licence, it's as simple as that. i thought it was quite obvious that you can't drive on the wrong side of the road.

**Polyal** · 19-10-2006, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SlikedXR8

stiff biscuits, if you weren't aware of that Law you shouldn't have got you licence, it's as simple as that. i thought it was quite obvious that you can't drive on the wrong side of the road.

People drive on the wrong side of the road all the time, when you are going down residentual streets with cars parked everywhere.

I wasn't driving it was parked.

max · 19-10-2006, 12:02 PM

Write a letter. Explain that you were unaware la la la..... Being council you will probably get off with a warning if you don't abuse them. It sounds pathetic but laws is laws, made for the good of the majority not for the individual.

nat_daly · 19-10-2006, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by SlikedXR8

stiff biscuits, if you weren't aware of that Law you shouldn't have got you licence

i'm hoping that you know every minor road rule to be making a comment like that, otherwise, going by your statement "you shouldn't have got your licence"
I think it would be only fair to give the man a warning or what not before fining them, fair enough polyal was in the wrong, but he didnt even know it, and if people wanna blame him because he didnt read every little section of the law outlaid in front of him, on the excited day of him getting his P's, then i think that's rediculous
Just remember when you got your p's,
did you go home and read EVERYTHING about road rules?

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SlikedTurb · 19-10-2006, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by nat_daly

i'm hoping that you know every minor road rule to be making a comment like that, otherwise, going by your statement "you shouldn't have got your licence"
I think it would be only fair to give the man a warning or what not before fining them, fair enough polyal was in the wrong, but he didnt even know it, and if people wanna blame him because he didnt read every little section of the law outlaid in front of him, on the excited day of him getting his P's, then i think that's rediculous
Just remember when you got your p's,
did you go home and read EVERYTHING about road rules?

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pehaps i didn't, i've had a parking ticket, because i was stupid and left the car too long. i accepted it. i didn't jump on a forum and have a whinge about it. we all do silly things most of us learn from it and accept it. too many people use ignorance as an excuse these days. "oh i didn't know" or "no one told me". it's his responsability to learn the laws, nobody elses!

nat_daly · 19-10-2006, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by SlikedXR8

pehaps i didn't, i've had a parking ticket, because i was stupid and left the car too long. i accepted it. i didn't jump on a forum and have a whinge about it. we all do silly things most of us learn from it and accept it. too many people use ignorance as an excuse these days. "oh i didn't know" or "no one told me". it's his responsability to learn the laws, nobody elses!

in that case, i agree..
people should accept it and move on
maybe we should create a "whinge and cringe" thread;)lol

Psycho Chicken · 19-10-2006, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by nat_daly

i'm hoping that you know every minor road rule to be making a comment like that, otherwise, going by your statement "you shouldn't have got your licence"

How is it a minor road rule? It doesn't take a massive IQ to figure out to park the wrong way you need to drive on the wrong side of the road, which is illegal.

nat_daly · 19-10-2006, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Psycho Chicken

How is it a minor road rule? It doesn't take a massive IQ to figure out to park the wrong way you need to drive on the wrong side of the road, which is illegal.

its ok to drive on to the wrong side of the road to do a 3 point turn? maybe when parking he indicated across? i'm sorry but i classify it as a fairly minor rule(it was in a small street) compared to doing something like 170km/h in a 60?
I know that it is a law, but I feel sorry for polyal, as i know if something like that happened to me, it'd **** me to say the least.
Yes it is his own fault, and im sure he will learn from his mistake;)

Danny · 19-10-2006, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SlikedXR8

stiff biscuits, if you weren't aware of that Law you shouldn't have got you licence, it's as simple as that. i thought it was quite obvious that you can't drive on the wrong side of the road.

Typical 9 poster Comment. Learn your position before opening your mouth. It isn't something that is taught in driving lessons so Polyal had every reason to not know this rule.

Sheesh!

flappist · 19-10-2006, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny

Typical 9 poster Comment. Learn your position before opening your mouth. It isn't something that is taught in driving lessons so Polyal had every reason to not know this rule.

Sheesh!

Hey, what is with the personal attack. DM status or a zillion posts does not make you superior.
Everyone here has had 9 posts at one time and there are several here with many thousands of posts who are not old enought to drive yet.

He is basicly right. If you do not have a reasionable grasp of the traffic act as it applies to basic driving and do not have at least a bit of common sense then you should not be on the road.

The parking thing is not a life and death situation and everyone makes mistakes or wrong decissions but I bet Polyal and probably many others won't do it again.

nat_daly · 19-10-2006, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

Hey, what is with the personal attack. DM status or a zillion posts does not make you superior.
Everyone here has had 9 posts at one time and there are several here with many thousands of posts who are not old enought to drive yet.

He is basicly right. If you do not have a reasionable grasp of the traffic act as it applies to basic driving and do not have at least a bit of common sense then you should not be on the road.

The parking thing is not a life and death situation and everyone makes mistakes or wrong decissions but I bet Polyal and probably many others won't do it again.

yeah better go move my car:P

max · 19-10-2006, 05:13 PM

What I want to know is it a police or council issue? I thought it would be council. Sheeez! What happened to the good old days of a warning for a first offence??? If its an expiation notice, like I posted before, its well worth the old writing a letter routine, Sorry Sir, Didn't realize Sir, Kiss my arsz Sir, la la la... I'd like a schekkell for every time a letter got me off a council offence.

Danny · 19-10-2006, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

Hey, what is with the personal attack. DM status or a zillion posts does not make you superior.
Everyone here has had 9 posts at one time and there are several here with many thousands of posts who are not old enought to drive yet.

He is basicly right. If you do not have a reasionable grasp of the traffic act as it applies to basic driving and do not have at least a bit of common sense then you should not be on the road.

The parking thing is not a life and death situation and everyone makes mistakes or wrong decissions but I bet Polyal and probably many others won't do it again.

Apologies, but what I was meaning was more along the lines of, before you go shooting your mouth of a more mainstream well known member of the forums (And someone who isnt known to be at all disrespectful or a hoon of sorts), Hang around for a bit, and get a feel for who might deserve a bit of a spike, and who is genuinely shocked at some misfortune that fell upon them.

I'm sure Polyal didnt know the laws, Im sure many would make that mistake, Theres no need for some yahoo to come on telling him that he's having a whinge and deserves what he got. Come on!?

MITCHAY · 19-10-2006, 06:01 PM

I've seen people booked for this before aswell. The dude wanted to knock the inspector's head off! Really it is a pretty pathetic rule. There are plenty of rules that you wouldn't know about unless you were done for it I bet. You can't possibly know every rule as they always change.

It's like that "Indicate left whilst going straight on a roundabout" rule. There are plenty of people who don't do it either because they haven't heard of it or they just don't do it, but could be done for it.

Smoke Pursuit · 19-10-2006, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny

Typical 9 poster Comment. Learn your position before opening your mouth. It isn't something that is taught in driving lessons so Polyal had every reason to not know this rule.

Sheesh!

Its common sense for christ sake!!

satria · 19-10-2006, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by LSTerritoryGhia

Its common sense for christ sake!!

no, common sense is saying "i'd have to be a really really really stupid person to drive head on into that safely parked car over there, my excuse would be 'he was parked backwards'."

Guess what buddy, its a 5metre long hunk of metal either way. It doesn't matter which way it's parked.

polyal, please post a pic of this hardly used street to shut these people up

Smoke Pursuit · 19-10-2006, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by satria

no, common sense is saying "i'd have to be a really really really stupid person to drive head on into that safely parked car over there, my excuse would be 'he was parked backwards'."

Guess what buddy, its a 5metre long hunk of metal either way. It doesn't matter which way it's parked.

polyal, please post a pic of this hardly used street to shut these people up

Its not legal, that says it all for me. Plus you have the Insurance problem.

Try driving in Fog early morning, i know a bloke who drove straight into a car parked in a street under a car cover, not exactly the same but because there were no reflectors he didnt see it.

Anyways, its dumb and I very much doubt a driving instructor would condone it unless he or she is a complete ****wit.

jabba · 21-10-2006, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Danny

Typical 9 poster Comment. Learn your position before opening your mouth. It isn't something that is taught in driving lessons so Polyal had every reason to not know this rule.

Sheesh!

It may not be taught in the driving lesson, but it is noted in the drivers rule book, and it is our duty to read and memorize the book before we complete and pass the driving test...

flappist · 19-10-2006, 12:00 PM

You crossed the opposite lane in front of potential oncoming traffic and you have to do so again to get back on the road. This is dangerous.
This happens a lot up here with european backpackers not knowing Australian law. There have been several accidents because of it.

You couldn't do a U turn and park correctly? Too hard? Too lazy?

Hey why not drive down the wrong lanes on the freeway during peak hour, they are always clearer, or when you are on a single lane road and there is traffic coming the other way pass on the right rather than the left?
Or drive with your lights off on a moonlit night or in well lit urban areas?

Some of the road rules are based on common sense, this is one of them.

SlikedTurb · 19-10-2006, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

You crossed the opposite lane in front of potential oncoming traffic and you have to do so again to get back on the road. This is dangerous.
This happens a lot up here with european backpackers not knowing Australian law. There have been several accidents because of it.

You couldn't do a U turn and park correctly? Too hard? Too lazy?

Hey why not drive down the wrong lanes on the freeway during peak hour, they are always clearer, or when you are on a single lane road and there is traffic coming the other way pass on the right rather than the left?
Or drive with your lights off on a moonlit night or in well lit urban areas?

Some of the road rules are based on common sense, this is one of them.

very well said. this is selfish behaviour. there are too many people on our roads who think it's all about 'me'!!!

**Polyal** · 19-10-2006, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

You crossed the opposite lane in front of potential oncoming traffic and you have to do so again to get back on the road. This is dangerous.
This happens a lot up here with european backpackers not knowing Australian law. There have been several accidents because of it.

You couldn't do a U turn and park correctly? Too hard? Too lazy?

Hey why not drive down the wrong lanes on the freeway during peak hour, they are always clearer, or when you are on a single lane road and there is traffic coming the other way pass on the right rather than the left?
Or drive with your lights off on a moonlit night or in well lit urban areas?

Some of the road rules are based on common sense, this is one of them.

If I could be bothered Ill take a pic of the "street", and you will see how much of a joke it is.

Yes, I was to lazy, the only people that travel down it are the residents, say about 20-30 max would come down during a normal day.

edit: actually thats a huge number, there are only 12 houses in the street.

That highway example is ridiculus, and a complete exaggeration. There are no lanes, no lines, nothing.

For the record, im not a dill, ive had my licence for 6 years with no accidents, fender benders or anything like that. I aced my tests and know the laws, ive either forgotten, or never heard of this law.

Like I said, I would NEVER think of doing it on a busy road.

Chrispy · 19-10-2006, 12:05 PM

I believe it has something to do with reflectors on your car.
The reflectors (red) are only on the back, so they would not be seen at night.
Chrispy

4.9 EF Futura · 19-10-2006, 12:07 PM

Pretty clear cut rule on this one im afraid mate. Actually i think it was one of the theory questions when i got my Ls 9 years ago!

You cant differentiate between quiet and busy roads. You only need 2 cars to have an accident.

Dont mean to sound harsh but suck it up i reckon... you got caught fair and square.

Pay the ticket and move on

And dont park like that

**Polyal** · 19-10-2006, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by 4.9 EF Futura

Dont mean to sound harsh but suck it up i reckon... you got caught fair and square.

Pay the ticket and move on

And dont park like that

Yeah I agree, I was curious to know whether others had been done for it.

Like I said in the first post, I know I can do nothing about it, just frustrating as there is no possible way anyone could have been harmed.
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