Remember the hoons?
Well, I guess the local council got sick of cleaning up donuts, fixing road-signs and taking calls from irate residents. They plonked Sam in the car-park. Sam was only there for a few days, but I'm sure the kiddies were happy to know they were travelling at almost --_--- kilometers per hour.
By the way, that's sunny Melbourne in the background. Nice, isn't it?
That's a proper speed in Victoria (according to speed cameras anyway) Expect the person doing that speed to get a letter in the mail soon.
Another great example of the failsafe Speed Camera system us Vic's have to put up with...
Posted by: Adsy | 02 December 2004 at 20:27
Reminds of a time when I was working in the Pilbara, the local wallopers left a breathalyser in the pub foyer so patrons could check their blood alcohol before driving home.
The young blokes in town decided that this was a contest, and tried to break the record of .337 BAC by downing shooters and strange concoctions of strong drink.
From memory, the best brew was a shooter comprised of vodka, cointreau and tequila, warmed with a cigarette lighter for about 30 seconds.
Nice to have the results confirmed by a gadget supplied at the taxpayer's expense.
Posted by: Pedro the Ignorant | 02 December 2004 at 22:22
What? yer car isn't wifi enabled?
Posted by: Nabkov | 03 December 2004 at 02:27
Tony, I feel someone from my neck of the woods should apologise to you lot for http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4060779.stm>this mustachioed freak. Please feel free to offload another 3,000 bartenders to the UK in return.
Posted by: hungbunny | 03 December 2004 at 02:39
I think you might be onto something, Adsy. That car what was snapped was a 1978 Datsun 180B doing light speed.
You worked in the Pilbara, Pedro? I worked in the Pilbara. Small world. Except for the Pilbara, it's big. I remember some squaddies on Operation Kangaroo trying to blow up a BA meter in about 1983. Made quite the scene they did.
What's "wifi enabled", Nab. It get's a touch wifi if you run over dead animals in the country.
You have a discening eye for queer stories, Hung. What next? A charity drive featuring Mustachioed Freak juggling dead cat foetus jars whilst riding a penny farthing under Loch Ness?
Posted by: Tony.T | 03 December 2004 at 15:18
"sunny" Melbourne Tony ? I know these day's picco's can be modified to suit the viewer, but "sun" and Melbourne used in the same sentence simply doesn't work.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 04 December 2004 at 23:26
It's sun, Brett. Sun, in a comfortable blue haze.
Unlike that laser beam thing you've got in WA that scorches brains from December 'til March.
Posted by: Tony.T | 05 December 2004 at 11:53
I've been to Melbourne and Geelong, I think we had some sun, but we went over to that mock up mining town and it pissed it down.
It pissed it down in Sydney as well, however, as your winter temperatures are about the same as our summer, I went swimming every afternoon, this led to a group of astounded Ozzies peering over the fence and shouting to their neighbours to see the mad Pom swimming in winter, you're all bloody soft lads down under!
Posted by: Yorkshiresoul | 05 December 2004 at 20:27
Now, Mike. Mike. Mike ... Mike.
Coming, as you do, from Denley Moor "where it were ALWAYS raining" you can't complain about rain over here.
PS: That "mock mining town" is called Sovereign Hill and you've been there one more time than me.
Posted by: Tony.T | 06 December 2004 at 11:51