If you try to walk I'll tax your feet
Authorities in New Zealand are to crack down on motorists who dodge taxes by registering their vehicles as hearses.The scam came to light when a female caller to a radio phone-in revealed that the manoeuvre saved her and her friends around NZ$125 each. Her car qualified, she said, as she used it to carry frozen chickens home from the supermarket.
Currently around 1,500 vehicles are registered in the low-charge "non-commercial hearse or ambulance" category.
Land Transport New Zealand has written to 937 possible scammers warning them to register correctly. "Carrying groceries or dead animals in your car does not make it a hearse," spokesman Andy Knackstedt said.
He said offenders could be liable to a NZ$1,000 fine.
"Although we will be allowing certain drivers to register an Austin Montego, Porsche 911 cabriolet or BMW X-3 as an ambulance, 'cos you'd have to be fuckin' mentally ill to get into one of those mate!"
posted by Chris at 3:45 pm
8 Step to the white courtesy phone:
Cool car
August 10, 2006 7:57 pm
Yes it does have a rather nice line to it doesn't it?
But I can't help but feel you wouldn't manage to get an adult sized coffin in there.
Is there that much call for stylish pet funerals?
August 11, 2006 7:30 am
that looks like an unmercifully converted e-type - Je suis désolé
August 11, 2006 10:21 am
It was a coupe Roo, and they always had a roofline that was far too high so it's not that bad.
And can you imagine all the pale young Goths you could pull with that set of wheels? Sweet!
August 11, 2006 1:23 pm
I had a 2.0 litre désolé but the parts were a bugger to get
August 11, 2006 10:03 pm
If I was a midget it would be the way I'd want to go.
August 12, 2006 12:04 am
If I were a really tiny midget I'd like to be carried to my grave in Jerri Ryan's cleavage
August 12, 2006 8:01 pm
Chris - now there's a train of thought I had always thought I kept to myself... hmmmmmm
August 14, 2006 12:29 pm
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