Putty Blitz

[MadKaw]

Posted to MCCNSW, believed to be true.???


Major Police operation in progress for the next month, operation sportsbike. Focus is on the Putty rd, and George Downes dve which is the road from Broke to Wollombi Pub.

In use are:
1)Un-marked Burnt Orange SV6 VE commodore, with give away 5ft stainless UHF whip antenna on right rear 1/4 panel and a large frangipani flower sticker on top right of rear windscreen, and of course when you get up close the light box in the back window

2)Un-marked Silver VZ SS commodore with same features as the Orange one (antenna, Flowers and light box)

3) Marked Hunter Valley Highway cars

We pulled over in the middle of the 16km of corners at the end, and watched 1&2 above just cruising back and forth every 20-30 mins through the bends. They are using the un-marked cars as the mainstay vehicles for obvious reasons, and when following them, they will drive alot slower than the speed limit especially around corners where double white lines exist in an attempt to get you to overtake over the un-broken lines, and to get you to speed.

I believe the operation is ongoing for the next month.

[robracer]

The frangipani sticker is a nice touch

[Glen]

Hoffy and I were up at Colo Heights on Saturday arvo and the lady at the servo was telling us the cops had 6 unmarked cars patrolling between Windsor and Singleton so it sounds about right.

[Strika]

Revenue streams while initially encouraging have dropped off on the Old rd, hence the need to reclaim that lost revenue on the Putty! It's just simple economics!!

[mike-s]

its a real shame the whole "entrapment" thing is still allowed here, half the crap they'd get people for wouldnt happen if that was the case.

[Wattie]

Funny about the flower stickers...

i was told be a reliable source that they are CODE for "i take it up the bum"

[mike-s]

if thats the case, shouldnt they be handing them out then?

[Phil]

we saw a marked patrol car in the "back yard" last week too. but as we are law abiding citizens we didnt even get a second look.

[zxnator]

yeah their just giveing flowers a bad name. LOL