What's the bloody point of having laws then?

[dalekboy]

So yesterday I was out in my car, taking it to get its rego check done.  It was out of rego because I had it in getting work done on it that took longer than expected. That's fine. I had it booked in for the rego check yesterday morning

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[pre_vet_girl]

[smofbabe]

I'm definitely with you on the drunk driving case but not on your own incident: I think it would be different if you hadn't actually had a verifiable (had the cop chosen to do so) appointment to get the rego updated for that day - this wasn't a case where he just let you go with a sob story that oh, you'd been meaning to get to it but hadn't had time due to small children or something.

[anonymous]

Another nice little piece where history repeats itself. What is the tally now? Politicians and or their staff getting off with a slap on the wrist and a red face. It's ridiculous. We like to think that Australia is this great big awesome democratic nation, pfft. Think again, people.

Sometimes I wonder why I studied law at all.

[emma_in_oz]

You would not believe what percentage of my job consists of writing a response to the same letter:

'I was speeding. I always speed. So in fact I was breaking the law. But then I got fined. Fined! Lost demerit points! Just because I was breaking the law! Why should I be punished because I habitually break a law intended to protect the public?'

I cannot believe how many people write in to complain that they are being punished *for breaking the law*.

Of course, even worse is the vision of the well connected not being punished at all.