Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "Which is the best Australia?... (r/australia)" video.

  1. OK while shops must put a mark up on goods sold, such prices on meat pies and sausage rolls are RIPOFF. I do realise that food concessions at major sporting venues also charge high prices, they at least can justify their high prices because the venue charges them very highly on making the concession space and facility available, and also often carry considerable overhead on unsold overstock, as sales volume is unable to be perfectly estimated, leading to scrapping quantities, hopefully providing / donating excess to food services for homeless or disadvantaged assistance services not just dumped trash. As far as supermarket, depending on brand and specific pie or sausage roll variant and pack size price can vary. One of the major brands Four and Twenty, as 4 pie pack, standard Beef meat pie standard price is around $7 per4, Chicken&vegetable near same or $1 less, but regular supermarket discount weekly can have these down into $5 range, specific variants like Beef&pepper, Angus Beef normally around $11, but special reduced to $7.60. Other brands can be $8 to $12, and even only 2 per pack, but some real variants Sous Vide, Wagu Beef, and many more. Yet some house brand could be 8 basic meat pies for $6 or less. Individual 'cold' pies could be $3 region or less. Hot ready to eat will be marked up a bit on that depending on shop. Sausage rolls mainly vary mainly by size less by varied recipe, but supermarket packs, 6 or 8 similar to basic meat pies. Individual quick microwave heatable pack, both meat pie and sausage roll normally around $3, with specials at $2 range or less frequently as low as $1.50. Another variant are Pastie, either meat&veg or vegetable only, in 4 pack like basic meat pie in pricing. In normal takeaway shops or small bakeries, hot meat pies of many flavour variants, including pepper curry chilli and many more typically are in $2.50 to $4 range. Pasties similar, and sausage rolls as low as half those prices though up to same prices. Another variant are "party" pies, sausage rolls or pasties. Basically smaller 'bite' size items often served as finger food at gatherings and parties where large groups grab as needed. In supermarket pack a dozen or so might be $12, or less if on sale. Larger packs also available at scaled relative cost to quantity. Those exorbitant prices in the video seem to be tourist zone or sports/special function concession offers typical.
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  2. Tow hitch injury in Australia makes the vehicle insurance liable for injury compensation if the person injured cares to follow through a claim. By receiving injury from the protruding hitch, it is treated the same as injury by being hit by moving vehicle, even though the vehicle itself was stationary, and the injured person did not pay attention. Thus it is highly preferred to have a removable tow hitch, locked in place by a lock pin, while needing its use. The remenant mounting them is within bumper outline and no longer liable if someone somehow skins their shin.
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  3. In most Australian places tail-end to kerb is illegal, yet other places require it. I once while doing a three point turn around in a side street outside a small group of shops, was observed with rear end to kerb in mid turning around having used the extra space of parking bays outside the shops reversing into the empty parking bay, as this was mid evening after the shops were all closed. Well as I drove out completing the turn around, a police car drove past the end of the road seeing my vehicle tail end to kerb. As I proceeded away, I have the police strobe lights and siren start behind me, I got pulled over and given a harsh lecture about illegal tail to kerb parking. I explained that I was turning around, looking for a specific address of a community house where a group meeting was to be held. The police started writing me a fine but neither officer could clarify the location I was seeking and finally cancelled completing the ticket and left me with a warning, stressing to do the three point turn it was not necessary to reverse into the parking space, as normally only road width is used for that turn around.
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