Quite bazaar, wouldn't you say

  G'day mate.

   Here in the land of the red sand dunes, you hear some funny things, don't you Sheila. I have a work mate, well hes a big fella a bikey, you know got himself a Harley. He was showing me some court papers , he'd received, from way up across the state border in New South Wales. These papers were in regards to a incident he had around 2 years ago when him and a mate were driving upto a rally in N.S.W.

   What appears to have happened was that as they drove to the rally, in their car, plus a trailer with 2 Harley Davidson Motorcycles. A Kangaroo hopped out into the road in front of him as he was doing around 100 Klm/Hr, the police have no problems in respect to speed ( and I mean the speed of the car, nothing he was taking at the time). Now what would you, a responsible driver of a motorcar do in this predicament, well through instinct you would swerve to avoid the animal and to avoid injury to ones self,,, wouldn't you.

  Well at certain times this doesn't work, especially as it seems in the dumb location of N.S.W. As he swerved the trailor jacknifed and the finished up in the fence of a field on the highway, luckilly both him and the passenger were uninjured but the car and the 2 Harleys were distroyed, over $60,000 of damage.

   Now the charge he got was one of "Negligent Driving"????????? Whats that I asked, never heard of that befor? Then he told me that its not a valid charge here in Victoria and is only a charge in, crazy N.S.W. Now the penalty for trying to avoid killing your self whiles hitting a Kangaoo, What was it Bruce??, O yes, 2 demirit points off your licence and $110 fine,,,,,but hang on, you can't have 2 N.S.W. demerit points on your Victorian driving licence, no so this increases the fine for interstate drivers too $1,100. "Another way for a copper to get her name recognised and another way, for the state, to grab your money." So remember Shiela just tell Bruce, next time hes up in N.S.W. and a Joey jump out in front of him , hit the bloody thing and you wont get pingged for Negligent driving and hopefully you wont spill the V.B. you've got in your hand at the time". 

   Can't remember the driving laws changing as we drove across Hadrians wall into Scotland, or across the Seven bridge into Whales, do they? why the hell do they change here in Australia, well thats a question I've asked myself since I arrived here, why we suppossedly live in this great country, thats what we are told, yet its not a country at all but a mixture of seven states and teretories trying to be inderpendent.

                                                                                                          All for now.

                                                                                                          Robert, Linda and the boys