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Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

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I believe they were wanting to fine tune the law so that the vehicle to be confiscated is the driver's own personal vehicle. Thus any company vehicles would be exempt or unsold vehicles. The police would instead confiscate the car of the driver if he/she currently has one.
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Yep, but with the *current* law where ever that vehicle ends up it get confiscated regardless #-o
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Yeah it would be pretty sucky that's for sure. But then I'd be heading for the dealership and demanding a replacement and that they pay the cost to get the car back.
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Just wondering about the proposed changes... what happens if two rev heads with two cars and no clue were to pick a secluded road and tear it up in each other's car? For argument's sake.
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Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

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It's simple... as with every other law leave police to use their discretion.
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Firefox curser seems to work on this forum.... and the dictionary too.

And there seems to be a tsunami around Ecuador...
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spartacus wrote:Firefox curser seems to work on this forum.... and the dictionary too.

And there seems to be a tsunami around Ecuador...
And right you are Sparts - and a warning for our East Coast friends too - http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/nsw_alerts.shtml

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Reports of it going through the Chatham islands of NZ at 0.5m or so. By the time it gets to the east coast it will probably be just manifesting as weird behaviour over sandbars and unususal rips like the last one.
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Yeah, it was just reported on Sunrise as expecting 50cm bodyboarding waves on our east coast. Not so lucky in Chile.
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ABC News online wrote:Police have fined a 90-year-old drink-driver caught speeding in Melbourne's north-east.

They say they clocked the man doing 83 kph in a 60 zone on Thompsons Road in Lower Templestowe last night.

Poolice say he blew nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit, with a reading of 0.112.
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Well that was fun. Driving down Reid Hwy in a golfball hailstorm. Half a doz dents in the bonnet and roof of the work ute.
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Who's seen http://www.google.com.au/ today? :)

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Zebedee wrote:Who's seen http://www.google.com.au/ today? :)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, it takes me back!
30 year anniversary.

I still remember playing it on coffee table style machines - also called Ghostmunchers

The Google.au one is playable too.
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Magnus wrote:30 year anniversary.

I still remember playing it on coffee table style machines - also called Ghostmunchers
I wondered why that was there. My wife still plays it on Windows :roll:
I was in a shop in the last day or three that was selling those coffee table games :shock: Can't think where it was now. Might have been PLE?
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