Wagner Lipnharski's at the pulpit again!

  If it's anything like this country (and I see no reason otherwise),
the problem seems to be the police are setting up the speed traps on the
high-quality, ultra-safe roads, and on the safest sections where excess
speed least matters, particularly where drivers finally get a break to
overtake the knuckle-dragging specimen they've been following for miles
(US element there).

  There would be somewhat more respect for them if they'd come down
heavy on the hoons in the suburbs, the centre-hugging snails, the
one-eyed night creatures and the didgeridoo exhausts (.AU element
there).
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  One of my favourite stories is about an intersection near my home.  It
is a "T"-junction which had a "Give Way" Sign (unnecessary given current
regulations) on the side road which has incidentally, a short hill just
before/ at the junction.  One night, a young driver was driving(?) an
apparently stolen vehicle down this side road to the junction.

  Presumably ignorant of the nature of the junction (presumably because
he was not licensed), he crested the hill, went straight across the
junction, *through* the 16" wooden power pole opposite and into a
resident's garage (via the side wall).  He was presumably going a little
fast.  Absurdly, he was minimally injured.  Don't recall if he was
caught actually.

  The council apparently felt the need to improve safety at the
junction, so they changed the sign to a "Stop" sign and put a "Stop sign
ahead" sign before the hill.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.