Ludwig,
That's what you carry a kids baseball bat for. To deal with the tailgaters and ignorant speeding P platesrs who overtake you in a quiet suburban street.

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We could do away with the utterly unrealistic speed limits on country roads and highways for a start.

Yes, I hear you Poirot, but seriously, funding is a huge issue for us, especially with more and more hand outs.

Furthermore, traffic violators don't cause much more damage to our roads than the rest, in fact, the majority of the damage/ware and tear, is done by heavy vehicles, many of which don't get finned.

So, where will the money come from.

<< Well it seems there's a potential revenue boon in targeting people who accidentally drop tissues when they're accessing their wallets. >>

Poirot, I agree that this is disgusting. But it would surely be a rare event.

However, when it comes to police behaving badly, the recent fining of thousands of people for infringing the new lowered leeway on speed limits without the police or pollies having told us about it beforehand has surely got to be a thousand times more despicable…

… and yet I am not detecting much outrage about it.

I would have thought that you would be one who would totally share my intense outrage over this.

Ludwig,

"However, when it comes to police behaving badly, the recent fining of thousands of people for infringing the new lowered leeway on speed limits without the police or pollies having told us about it beforehand has surely got to be a thousand times more despicable…

… and yet I am not detecting much outrage about it.

I would have thought that you would be one who would totally share my intense outrage over this."

Well, yes....I think outrage is just the tick for that one.

I was having a poke at the Newman govt in Qld...which appears to be developing an interesting hue of fascist police state about it.

You've gotta watch that kind of thing...it's why terms like "slippery slope" were coined.