Brickbat: Cracked

Julian Harris had been visiting his family in Brisbane, Australia, and when he returned to his car he found a police officer had ticketed him for parking on a footway, parking on the wrong side of the street and leaving his window partially rolled down. Harris said he'd only left the window down to keep the car from getting too hot on a warm day. But police officials say that under Queensland law if a driver is more than three meters from his car he must park it with the engine off, the key removed from the ignition, the parking brake engaged and windows rolled down no more than five centimeters.

Comments

[Snark Plissken]

How much artisinal mayonnaise does he have to sell to pay for that ticket?

[Live Free or Diet]

A MOTORIST fined for leaving his car window down got off lightly, the state's top cop says.

The cop at the end made it clear this is about him not wanting to do his job.

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...and windows rolled down no more than five centimeters.

You see, it's handy because the cops always have a special tool with them for measuring this.

[Austrian Anarchy]

How far is that in real distance anyway?

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Enough to get 2 fingers on it.

[BigT]

...the cops always have a special tool with them for measuring this.

Their dicks.

[Fist of Etiquette]

What makes this a brickbat is because they use centimeters. I mean, no one even knows what a centimeter is.

[UnCivilServant]

It's not a guage for measuring pennies?

[Austrian Anarchy]

No, pennies are a gauge for measuring tires.

[UnCivilServant]

But how do you calibrate the pennies?

[Austrian Anarchy]

The ruler handles that.

[Fatty Bolger]

What they need are commercials to alert the public.

"Cops everywhere are cracking down on open windows. Leave your windows open and you WILL be caught. Roll up - or pay up."

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I really hate those commercials. They are the epitome of FYTW--no persuasion, just because-i-said-so.

[pan fried wylie]

"FYTW, btw you're paying for this commercial."

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Grrrrr.

[sarcasmic]

The law is the law is the law is the law is the law is the law is the law is the law.

[UnCivilServant]

Unless it's an executive order.

[sarcasmic]

Look. If the president says it's the law then it's the law. You racist pig.

[Swiss Servator, KALT!]

*applause*

[Cabeza de Vaca]

Well in Australia he's lucky a flying super poisonous spider snake didn't get in his rolled down window.

[Swiss Servator, KALT!]

If a drop bear wants into your car, no window, rolled up or down, is gonna stop 'im!

[Art Stone]

Or a cane toad

[Drake]

Sounds like the window thing was just a little icing on the ticket. The idiot parked on a sidewalk on the wrong side of the road. Surprising that his car wasn't towed.

[New Cassandra]

Plus the steering wheel is on the wrong side - What would you do Drake?

[Fatty Bolger]

Comissioner Stewart said the officer involved had been acting on information that there had been property crime in the area.

And naturally, cops didn't like being left out of the action.

See, leaving your window down might make it easier for somebody to steal something of value from you. So the city will encourage you not to do that by taking your money. After all, when somebody steals something from your car, it wastes police time because they have to fill out paperwork, when they could instead be doing something more useful, like writing tickets for cars with open windows.

If this doesn't make perfect sense to you, then you just don't have what it takes to be a cop or politician.

[R C Dean]

I like the way the police response to increased property crime is to start penalizing people who have committed no such crime.

[Art Stone]

They can't break your window to create jobs if the window is rolled down

[invisible furry hand]

Forget it Jake. It's Queensland

[Ted S.]

At least nobody has taken "Brisbane" and turned it into a discussion on circumcision. 😉

[invisible furry hand]

Ha! Well played Ted, well played

[BigT]

Queensland? That's so _ _ _ !!