I was pulled over for an RBT just South of Old Reynella on South Rd, by Senior Constable Peter Schultz from the Christies Beach police station. Blew zero and he waved me on.
The next day he visited my registered address, my parents' house; to let me know he ran my plates after I left, and the car came up as unregistered.
He gave my dad his number, and asked him to pass it along, so I could register the car and give him a call when it was done.
I registered the car; gave him a call, he asked where I was, and I told him.
He came around and threw the book at me for it. Had to go to court, lost my license for 3 days, permanent mark on my criminal record. It occurred to me later that if I'd just not called him he wouldn't have bothered or been able to chase it up.
Rego was out by 2 days.
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Jeez! Was the cop a motorcycle cop? They usually do asshole stuff like that!
I dodged a bullet last night man. The cop had every right to book me and send me to court which would have resulted in a lost license, and probably job. I came inside, registered the car and thanked whomever was looking over me that it didn't end badly for me.
Uninsured and unregistered is one of there biggest earnings, ever speed camera and every traffic camera reads your plate and checks your rego. All the time.
Your the first I have heard off getting a warning.
I was pretty lucky. I tried to be extra nice in the hope he would be lenient. It obviously worked. I genuinely didn't know it was unregistered and maybe he saw the truth of that in my responses as I wasn't lying - I actually believed what I was saying. Anyway, I got off with a warning which he said he would have sent in the mail...I'll probably do a post about it when the letter arrives.
Yup very lucky I would say, I know people getting $1200 fines for the same offense.