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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
We are on the long road back....and have to say the WA police presence in Exmouth was oppressive. The road closures and lowered asinine temporary speed limits were a joke. The crowds were modest at best. No way were there 50,000 visitors....which the shop vendors we chatted to were happy to confirm.
I was breathalysed twice and also pulled over as their fancy patrol car cameras could not read my front rego plate. No ticket, but....Seriously?
The bureaucrat(s) that organised Exmouth should have their butts kicked.
Gripes aside....indeed Nature sure put on a show!
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Breathalysed only twice? I was four times - Geraldton, Carnarvon (twice), and Exmouth. Plus having cops flash their lights at me 3 times for driving at the reckless speed of 45 km/h!
I read the WA gov'mint spend over $21M on the event. Well, I suppose all those extra police, rangers, and sunburnt and dehydrated road-block workers, plus the hundreds of hired solar-powered trailer-mounted signs flashing "MAJOR EVENT IN PROGRESS" every few hundred metres and remote security cameras at every possible parking spot, intersection and side track for hundreds of kilometres along the highway was tax-payers money put to good use.
Having said that, most of the road-block workers were very nice and apologetic and several did say that it was the top-level city bureaucrats who set the silly rules.
