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My advice for this young bloke is to let it go.

By all means, document the conversation, take photographs of the damage that was caused and photocopy the ticket just in case something in the future arises but leave it at that.

And if anyone out there thinks this young bloke has been hard done by, ask a few people who were P platers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s about what cops used to do in those days.

I wouldn’t waste anyone’s time reporting him to the officer in charge of his station or the ethical standards department unless you plan on leaving NSW for greener pastures. Remember, the ESD up there deal with “sometimes” corrupt police who are involved in very serious “errors of judgement”, they couldn’t really care about a few broken pieces of an airbox of someone’s intake.

I’m not saying that it’s right, just pointing out the harsh reality.

So if you like pain, make a complaint.

Remember, about what’s fair and right. There are a lot of things in the world that aren’t fair and certainly are not right and realistically, this is a fairly minor issue.

If you had fallen down on the side of the road while the cop was talking to you and suffered multiple broken bones and missing teeth and they suddenly found a loaded handgun in your car that wasn’t there before, then you’d have a problem.

Rack it up to experience. It’s all part of being a P plater.