AN ACT OF BASTARDRY

by Bikeboy

So here's my next letter. I just ask a few well aimed questions and you can almost feel them squirming. There's nowt in the SOP's that can prepare them for this.

I finally get a response on the 21-Nov-2006, one day after the new due date, confirmation of their tactic. This time however, I haven't contacted them to ask what is going on as I've discovered something else about their tactics: a letter to them means the fine is on hold until a response is sent. Now I'm starting to enjoy myself. Bureaucracy cuts both ways don't ya know?

Will you look at that! I just got another extension to the extension that couldn't, under any circumstances, be extended. Who'd of thunk it? Now if you remember my goal is 15/2/07, still some way off but wouldn't you know it, Xmas is fast approaching and those hard working public servants need holidays and I just happened to send them this letter.

And check out the response I receive, I feel I may have grown tiresome for them, poor loves.

Now I conveniently forget to call them at all. Fuck, why put the noose around my own neck? Let them come for me. In the meantime I receive an overdue notice and the fine has gone up. Another low down filth tactic, time to dust off the principle and lay low, no more letters says I, no phone calls, I'll just wait and see. If it goes to court I reason that because I have had no response or resolution I should be OK.

Then this letter arrives on 3/1/07, just what I've been hoping for, a bungle, the laughter hurt my guts!

Again my tactic is to lay low; theirs is to send me another overdue notice. This is getting monotonous. However, two good things come from the overdue notice. The fine is back where it started at $279 and my goal has been realised, the notice has a due date of 20/2/07.

Strike a blow for the little man Bikeboy, you did it! Three points still on your licence means you get to keep your job and continue riding, legally.

What did I learn?

'Fortune favours the brave'. And now when I go riding I obscure my number plate with my rego holder. This attracts a $305 fine with no loss of demerit points! Only if you get caught though...

Cue Rage Against The Machine: "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!"