United Motorcycle Council NSW

Not Enraptured by Raptor

en·rap·tured: adjective. Full of joy, ecstatic, rapturous, rhapsodic. Feeling great rapture or delight.

rap·tor: noun. A bird of prey. Any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals (Latin, one who seizes, from rapere, to seize)

My name is Dave and I am a Life Member of God’s Squad CMC. I have been riding bikes for 33 years, and I am privileged that over half of those have been as a patch member of God’s Squad.

I have loved bikes all my life; my first bike was a Suzuki TS 125 that Dad bought for me when I was in Primary School. I used to ride that bike every day after school, up in the State Forest near our home in the Hunter Valley. I used to pretend that I was the Fonz on Happy Days, riding his wild Triumph, being cool and chasing ‘chicks’. Fast forward. My current bike is a Harley-Davidson T-Sport, I am a father of 3 and my children constantly remind me that I am uncool - and I have been married for 17 years to the same chick....

Why Publicans can’t refuse you entry.

It seems for about three years now certain licensees have been refusing entry to their Hotels to members of 1% clubs. According to some licensees they have been doing so because certain police have threatened them with adverse consequences if they do not.

Entry onto anyone’s property without their permission is trespassing. Yet, if this were always the case society would not be able to function properly. So the law creates an implied permission to enter other people’s land unless they revoke that permission. This can be done with a sign telling you not to enter or it can be done by the land owner telling you to leave.

However, with businesses there is no need for an implied permission to enter as by their advertising, or their very existence, they are inviting you to enter.

 Having invited you to enter, the business owners need power to ask you to leave if you misbehave. In the case of Hotels that power is to be found in the Liquor Act (NSW) 2007.