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  • Eagle@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    I just had to rescue a frog. In my bedroom. 3 very interested cats, and one squeaky little frog who is now outside. Who needs sleep?

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    The cat is mad at me because there’s cream in the fridge and it’s not all in his belly (just some). He’s given up yelling at the fridge and is now glaring at me, and occasionally mixing it up with looking very sad and lean.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    Gosh the internal review process for traffic fines is such a crock of shit.

    I’m challenging a red light camera fine as I think it was incorrectly issued - my car crossed the stop line when the light was yellow, then it turned red and the cameras went off. You have to cross the stop line after the light has turned red to commit the offence (at least that’s my reading of the law). Wrote a detailed review applications with reasons, my recollection of the situation, referring to the photo evidence you can access etc, all I got back is “we are satisfied the offence was committed”. That’s it. Pay up or go to court.

    I’m in this crap position of having only my recollection of the situation to rely on. I can’t prove my car was in the intersection when the light was still yellow outside of pointing to the police photo which shows exactly this. But that wasn’t good enough for the review. It’s a really expensive fine too. Feels like guilty until proven innocent rather than the other way around.

    I’ve been much more careful since this fine, the light is yellow I’m stopping. I don’t trust those fixed cameras one bit.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      12 days ago

      Ooh - I have first-hand experience with this! I had green, but needed to stop because a pedestrian was crossing the intersection illegally somewhere in Hawthorn. I was over the line, but not 100% over the line. When the pedestrian cleared the way, I continued and the camera went off. Your whole car needs to be over the line when the light turns red. The flash goes off the same millisecond, there is zero grace on that.

      I challenged, and had to go to court. Explained what happened and the magistrate and he agreed that I was not breaking the law. I can’t find the outcome term online now - I’m at work and don’t have time to research it. I can explain what happened in layman’s terms though:
      When you challenge the offense, you are saying the police made a mistake. That you shouldn’t have been issued an infringement. The police will fight you in court over that.
      In my case, I was given a verdict that basically meant “person is guilty but there are extenuating circumstances”, and I didn’t need to pay the fine etc. It did cost me a day off work, though

      If you are saying your front tyres were over the line, so you’re not guilty, I don’t think that’ll fly. Your whole car has to be over the line when it turns red. In my case, they could see I was doing like 5-10km/h when the light turned red, I obviously wasn’t zooming through. So while the photo didn’t show the pedestrian, they believed me.

      • tone212_@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        This is really helpful, thank you - tells me that I should just pay the fine. The time, stress and anxiety of challenging the police isn’t worth it for me. The front tyres were over the line on red but from what I’ve read, with fixed camera fines, part of the car being over on red means no infringement.

      • tone212_@aussie.zone
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        12 days ago

        I thought so too at first. The road rule is not about being out of the intersection once the light is red, but the vehicle not crossing the stop line once the light turns red. If you’re in the intersection on amber, you can complete the crossing even if the light turns red and no infringement. That’s my research anyway.

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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          11 days ago

          There are a fair few intersections in Melbourne where you couldn’t ever move if you couldn’t be in the intersection as it goes from amber to red and then complete the crossing. Denmark St northbound turning right into High St Kew, for example, is impossible otherwise.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Iirc it specifically says something along the lines of “you must stop at a yellow light unless it is unsafe to do so”. If the light goes red when you’re 5 metres from the stop line and you’re barreling down the road at 60, obviously you aren’t going to stop

        • LovesTha🥧@floss.social
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          12 days ago

          @Baku @CEOofmyhouse56 You end up in an intersection while it is red more often when going slowly than when going the speed limit. When doing the limit you should see the orange long early enough to brake.

          When doing 10 in an 80 zone you may be in the intersection the entire period of the orange.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    Dinner out, first time in ages. Little Mexico in Berwick. Nice enough, kinda lacking in spice levels but that’s probably more on me.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Had a garbage sleep with last night’s temps. But on the plus side I could have a really long sleep. I only just properly got up. Though I did get up for half an hour for a quick zoom this morning. I needed it though. I feel less emotionally strained and foggy, and like I can properly get into the swing of moving

    It is just dawning on me that cause of my screw up with trying to redirect that parcel that’s now gone into hibernation in Adelaide, I can’t actually have internet at the new place until it arrives. Guess I can’t finally put my 1.1TB of banked mobile data to use (full 5g even inside at the new place! Initially speedtest.net was reporting about 300mbps down, but Amaysim caps their download speeds to 100mbps. It settled out at about 115mbps. That makes it faster than the max NBN speed I can get at the new place, so perhaps 5g home internet is actually a practical option

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      12 days ago

      I feel less emotionally strained and foggy, and like I can properly get into the swing of moving

      When we were 18 I moved into a new place, and on night 2 or 3 I got up at like 3am for a drink or something and walked straight into a freakin wall. Ever heard the sound of an idiot bounce off the wall at 3am? it sounds hilarious. Unless you’re the idiot. So make sure you turn a light on if you need to get up.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    Absolute steal on one of the mrs’s Christmas presents! She wanted some tea so I went to grab one of the tea2 gift packs. One was like 85 bucks, the assistant stopped me and said “hey just so you know if you buy 2 its like 80 bucks” and was like “so 160 in total?” he goes “no, both for 80” wait so I get a second one, and have to pay 5 bucks less? Heck yes!

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    I’m progressing to the next stage with this job. I don’t know if it’s what I want to do but if I got an offer I feel like I shouldn’t knock it back. I just don’t want to end up in a similar situation where I’m out in a year’s time because it didn’t work out

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      12 days ago

      The kiwis have given you a parting gift of germs? How rude of them. Hopefullly the plane trip back isn’t too uncomfortable!

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    I regret getting in contact with my Aunty to settle things.

    She tells people that I’m the nice one I’m the family but I just choose not to get into conflicts.

    She texts me this.

    “I haven’t got any replies to my emails. You better tell your cousins to hurry up to have settlement by blah blah date”

    Dunno if I’m reading into too much but it does t sound very nice and feels like she’s pressuring me to rush them.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      11 days ago

      Family conflict over property issues is the worst. Brings out a real nasty side of people. I hope like hell it’ll go smoothly in my family

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        I’d like to see it resolved soon but not with messages like that. It’s very demanding I feel and she’s supposed to be the executor of the will.

        There’s already been major conflict in the family with the contesting of the will and some legalities that had to play out and she dumps it all on me because I’ve chosen to stay neutral as much as I can.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    Oh noes … Came home a bit early so I could regroup and finish off the years tasks quietly. 20 min nap on couch became 2 hour DEEEP sleep with random nightmares and now my neck is cricked and I am discombobulated.

    Yep. That was 2024 in a nutshell