To Flash or Not to Flash?

Sgt.Bungers said :

I always flash for radar guns and speed cameras, or any other hazards on the road which would otherwise result in a driver braking hard if they hadn’t received advanced warning.

Never flash for RBT’s though.

I don’t warn for RBTs, came across one in Kambah on Wednesday (someone flashed me as a warning, useless as they were patrolling the other direction anyway) and they were doing both speed and RBT, I didn’t warn any other driver.

I will warn for any speed camera van as they are revenue raisers. Depending on the location of radar guns I may nicely warn. I will never warn for school zones, it is the the one place I will never speed at all myself. Drivers speeding in school zones should be shot.

I flash to warn, except if it’s a hoon-mobile or an idiot with their foglights/headlights on in broad daylight.

I also randomly flash city-clogging 4WDs and other idiots driving around with lights on in broad daylight.

I don’t ever bother flashing Subarus, which are the new Volvos and driven by this generation’s complete potplants.

I always flash for radar guns and speed cameras, or any other hazards on the road which would otherwise result in a driver braking hard if they hadn’t received advanced warning.

Never flash for RBT’s though.

I also randomly flash drivers on the country roads around Bungendore who are going far too fast. Don’t have to do this often, usually once a month, and almost always on Macs Reef Road to someone who’s just cut a corner slightly wandering onto my side of the road so they can maintain 110-120 in a 90 zone lined with driveways, intersections, school buses/children, horses and kangaroos. Always, without fail, you’ll see brake lights come on in the rear view mirror. Win.

I flash, for anything that requires warning… a breakdown, a crash, a dead roo on the road, or even cops. But I don’t flash hoons about cops. And actually, on the rare occasions there are cops on the Captain’s Flat Rd, I don’t flash for that either, as they’re doing something useful.

Generally I always flash on 70km/h+ roads, mostly on others, but never in school zones or the road that goes past my house (50km/h). I call it tough, love.

Couldn’t agree more. Drifting along the parkway at midday at 110km/h is a completely different story to hoofing through school zones. Kids are known to be unpredictable, and school zones are one speed limit I do agree with.

School zones are a whole different world, anyone who speeds in a school zone, thereby putting kids at risk, should receive a stroke with a cat-o-nine-tails applied by a seven-foot front rower for every kph over limit.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I’m no saint when it comes to speeding, I try to behave for the most part, but am more concerned with driving to the conditions than monitoring the speedo

Same here.

I always flash to warn other motorists. Those who take delight in seeing others getting booked are sad little people.

I must be one of those sad little people. I take great delight in seeing people who drive unsafely or above the speed limit getting pulled over.

+1

me, too. Especially in school zones.

#11

Here here.

It’s what Canberrans were born to do.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I’m no saint when it comes to speeding, I try to behave for the most part, but am more concerned with driving to the conditions than monitoring the speedo

Same here.

I always flash to warn other motorists. Those who take delight in seeing others getting booked are sad little people.

I must be one of those sad little people. I take great delight in seeing people who drive unsafely or above the speed limit getting pulled over.

I’m no saint when it comes to speeding, I try to behave for the most part, but am more concerned with driving to the conditions than monitoring the speedo

Same here.

I always flash to warn other motorists. Those who take delight in seeing others getting booked are sad little people.

hellspice said :

i thought it was illegal to warn others ?

Not illegal to “warn”, but it is an illegal use of high beam.

chewy14 said :

DarkLadyWolfMother said :

I tend to randomly flash when I know there are no speed traps around. I do my bit to help in little ways.

When people do this and I find out that there is no speed trap, I drive faster to make up for the lost time.

It’s actually safer to drive really fast, it means that you’re on the road for a shorter period of time, and hence there’s less chance of you having an accident (if you were driving slowly, there’d be double the amount of time in which an accident could occur).

This is even more important when it’s raining or foggy: you should drive as fast as you can and get home as soon as possible. After all, you can’t have a car accident sitting on the couch and drinking beer, can you?

Before y’all cross into territory previously covered:
http://the-riotact.com/?p=10220
“NSW introducing fines for drivers flashing lights to warn motorists”

i thought it was illegal to warn others ?

I generally flash to warn people of speed traps, although I sometimes don’t if a car coming the other way gives me some reason the suspect they are a d1ckhe@d! Like a spoiler on an excel…

DarkLadyWolfMother said :

I tend to randomly flash when I know there are no speed traps around. I do my bit to help in little ways.

When people do this and I find out that there is no speed trap, I drive faster to make up for the lost time.

@#3 Love it. I’m might start doing that too. I’m no saint when it comes to speeding, I try to behave for the most part, but am more concerned with driving to the conditions than monitoring the speedo – I love my cruise control because on the few times I’ve been pinged it’s mostly been because of speed creep on the highway. Flashing expands the range of the speed trap, and like weeziepops said, they don’t care about the revenue, it’s about slowing people down in a bad area.

DarkLadyWolfMother said :

I tend to randomly flash when I know there are no speed traps around. I do my bit to help in little ways.

Is that why Canberra drivers go around with their lights on when it isn’t foggy?

xyro said :

and the mighty old patrol uses 25-30 litres per 100 kays over 95! Ouch!

Egads! That’s horrible, surely it shouldn’t be anywhere near that bad.

I tend to randomly flash when I know there are no speed traps around. I do my bit to help in little ways.

i was a bit dissapointed with the content after great expectations with the title too!. But i always flash, I never speed (not since I was 22 or so) anyway so the flashing does not help me. I like money too much to drive over the limit, and the mighty old patrol uses 25-30 litres per 100 kays over 95! Ouch!

I always flash, on the assumption that the point of speed traps is slowing people down and not raising revenue. Plus it’s kinda like stickin’ it to The Man…