When a runner isn't the only option...

[madboy]

Those who know me know that my first response to seeing the 5-0 is to drop two gears, THEN analyse the pros vs cons...

Well this morning on the way to work, gave it a wind up off the lights to hunt down some boyracer for a laugh (I highly recommend it - who woulda thought their turbo 4WD rice-rocket wasn't the fastest thing on the road?). After my ego was manicured ready for another day at work, I caught up to some traffic and dropped down to do some lane-splitting at a more sedate pace.

Had to drop something off in Maungaraki, so stopped at the lights. I hear sirens. Hmm.... look at the clear road ahead of me, look at the hill on my right, but think of my dissatisfaction with my current tyres, my sore wrist, I'm still half-asleep, I don't wanna be late for work while storming down some back road... okay, time to take it like a man and get ready for a rodgering.

The two uniformed cars come screaming up the inside of me, one pulls directly across in front of me, blocking my exit and stops, while the other stops right beside me. This is gonna be expensive I think.

Then the traffic coming the other way stops, the cops shoot across the motorway and up Maungaraki Hill... OMG - so it wasn't me?!!! :drinknsin

[Pwalo]

Scary, eh?

[madboy]

Scary, eh?The disq and arrest, no. The fines, court costs, impoundment costs (if applicable), car insurance issues, etc, Yes.

[Motoracer]

Heh, nice one man!

[Eurodave]

yeh, I bet your sphincter was working overtime,still,what a releif after they had f*#ked off after someone else!! :whistle:

[wildcat_lgf]

Bet you're glad you didn't do anything silly like making them chase you at high speeds for no reason? :)

Good fortune to you! If only it held out all the time

[justsomeguy]

Bet you're glad you didn't do anything silly like making them chase you at high speeds for no reason? :)



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[Wolf]

Bet you're glad you didn't do anything silly like making them chase you at high speeds for no reason?
The "joys" of a guilty conscience.

It's kinda fun spotting Catholics on the road - easy to spot: You're in the midst of a line of vehicles all cruising along at 100kph on the open road, you round a corner, see the cop or camera car parked on the side of the road and suddenly a couple of the cars in front of you plow on the brakes and drive past the cop at 75kph. Obviously those are the Catholics. They're so convinced, at a basic level, that they're guilty of something that the merest hint of authority provokes strange reactions.

(PT alert - before I wake up tied to a stake and surrounded by a bunch of the Devout wielding blazing torches)

[wildcat_lgf]

The "joys" of a guilty conscience.

(PT alert - before I wake up tied to a stake and surrounded by a bunch of the Devout wielding blazing torches)

Yeah those Opus Dei can be quite pious! :devil2: But don't sweat it, you won't be the first to feel the flames :) you can thank the Reformation for that

[Beemer]

I had a moment like that last year - overtook a car coming up to a corner and as I passed it, a cop came around the corner and flashed his lights at me. It was on a windy road near Tokamaru and there was nowhere to pull over, so I just kept going. I saw in my mirror that he had braked but he had cars behind him and I knew he wouldn't be able to turn around safely for about 3kms so I figured if I saw flashing lights coming up behind me, THEN I'd stop! Never saw them, but all the way to Palmerston North I expected them and I felt very nervous every time I saw a cop that day! Never heard anything more about it so he obviously didn't clock my rego.

By the same token, I WASN'T feeling guilty when a cop car came up behind me in Wellington a few years ago with its lights and siren going. I indicated and pulled over to let it pass and it stopped behind ME and the cop got out! Result? A ticket for going through an ORANGE light about 500m earlier, and despite disputing it and taking it to court, I lost a morning's pay, $135 (the JP hearing the case cut the fine but still believed them!) and gained 35 demerit points. So if you're ever behind me, THAT'S why I stop for orange lights! Telling the cops that the road code says to stop if you can do so safely or proceed through the orange light scored me no brownie points at all. :angry2:

[Devil]

Telling the cops that the road code says to stop if you can do so safely or proceed through the orange light scored me no brownie points at all. :angry2:
I have wondered a few times, where they draw the line at safe.
I usually stop for orange lights.

[Beemer]

I figured safe was if you stopped behind the lines of the intersection - I went through because there was a guy right up my date. He braked when he saw the cop (who was waiting at the lights of a side road) - and ended up 10 feet INTO the intersection - not exactly what I would call safe but he didn't get the ticket, I did! If I hadn't gone through, it's likely he would have smashed into the back of my car. At least then it wouldn't have been my fault!

What annoyed me most is that I DO NOT run red lights and I nearly always stop on orange unless they change as you enter the intersection. In fact I had been writing letters to the Wellington police asking them to install a red-light camera at the Haywards Hill intersection as you took your life into your own hands if you decided to go as soon as the lights turned green. But of course, all that information was 'irrelevant to the case" and I wasn't allowed to even mention it! It wasn't any consolation to find the cop who gave me the ticket was even hated by cops as he regularly gave them tickets! And a few months later the bastard got a Queens Service Medal and I had to take his bloody photograph! Arsehole!

[Lou Girardin]

The "joys" of a guilty conscience.

It's kinda fun spotting Catholics on the road - easy to spot: You're in the midst of a line of vehicles all cruising along at 100kph on the open road, you round a corner, see the cop or camera car parked on the side of the road and suddenly a couple of the cars in front of you plow on the brakes and drive past the cop at 75kph. Obviously those are the Catholics. They're so convinced, at a basic level, that they're guilty of something that the merest hint of authority provokes strange reactions.

(PT alert - before I wake up tied to a stake and surrounded by a bunch of the Devout wielding blazing torches)

Rubbish, we feel guilty while we're doing it, but keep on doing it and console ourselves that we'll be forgiven on Sunday. At least, I used to, now I don't give a fat rats botty.

[Lou Girardin]

I have wondered a few times, where they draw the line at safe.
I usually stop for orange lights.

In Auckland? And you're still alive, amazing!

[Devil]

In Auckland? And you're still alive, amazing!
Yeh, scary huh.

[Ixion]

:headbang:
In Auckland? And you're still alive, amazing!

I always stop if possible for orange lights, but I reckon it's a wonder I'm alive, the number of times some f**kwit has nearly plowed into my rear - not to mention the times I've had to dive out of said f**kwit's way.

Just last night , again. Tootled off the mororway at Mt Wellington, down the ramp, green light at the bottom , oops turned orange just as I come up to it, but I can still stop .Quick mirror check, nothing behind for a good way. So I do. Front chirrups a bit but I stop OK , right on the line . Slip into neutral and promptly hear that horrid screech of some idiot locking his wheels up. Shit oh shit oh shit - and I have to get into gear too. :shit:

Fortunately the incompetant idiot *just* stopped short of my rear end.:headbang:

What really pisses me off is that he must have been *WAY* behind me when I braked. I reckon he saw the orange and accelerated- then realised he had to stop. Grrrr :bash: :bash:

It utterly pisses me of that people cannot *STOP*. If I can stop on two wheels with a tiny contact patch you bloody well should be abel to in your cage , especially as you must have had at least 50 foot more room than I did. :spudgrr: :spudgrr:

Why the hell cannot poeople learn how to stop . :mad: :mad: :mad:


And what is really annoying is the police attititude, they just arenn't interested (in Auckland , anyway - may be different elsewhere)

[Will]

Com'on, you know that cage drivers are zombies. :devil2: They don't have to be awake and react to the whole situation that we do. If we don't, it is pain for us; if they don't it is pain for somone else (us).

Now how can we reverse that! :whistle:

[hondacmx450]

well to day is the 13 and i have had it with cars today i was in my lane my space and my time doing things right and what you know the f#%$er in the bmw beside me moves over on me so i blast the horn and tell him what i think of him and he gives me a ear full (he was on the phone ) then up the road 500 yards or so some cock pulls out and moves right in my lane i hit the picks the back comes up (nice stoppy) then ride up and ask if he is ok he said why and i said cause it is hard to drink solids in a straw cars sux and so do most blind phone yabba dicks thats all have a nice night im going out to watch the boyracers wast there time and gas and hope for a smash :nono: :nono:

[madboy]

Well while we're having a rant... I think fri 13th should be lucky. I got the relief of the the episode this morning, then once i was on my way back to work I got to blow past 6 cop cars coming up the gorge at 180 without a hint of a chase (well I don't really think the transporter they were on stood a shit show against the 636 anyway but they usually at least try)...

Now yesterday the 12th... for some reason no bastard could indicate properly yesterday. The stunning examples of wannabe prizetakers are:

1. Lanesplitting gently I come up on some twit who thought you indicate once, leave the lane, indicate once more as you straddle the lanes, then turn your indicator off...
2. another couple minutes up the road the plonker who indicates once only, then does a lane change...
3. winner number three was the woman up the gorge... 3 lanes. indicates right, moves from middle to right lane, still indicating. meantime bus she was passing indicates correctly and moves from the middle to the left lane. so now that the middle lane is free (where she has been for a good 20 seconds), and still with her right indicator going, she moves back into the middle lane.

and on the way home... the dumb homey who does a lane change 5 cars ahead of me with absolutely no indication at all. None, nada.

But the winner is... the taxi driver a minute past the homey. No fucking indicator whatsoever. None at all. Hits the picks, two car lengths in front of me (lanesplitting of course) and moves from the right lane to the left. But instead of moving INTO the left lane, he sits a few inches over the centreline so I have a choice between swiping his car, swiping the poor innocent bastard beside me, or slowing down... first time I've ever taking a swing at a wing mirror. Didn't really help my sore wrist. Probably didn't help his night either.

[Pixie]

The "joys" of a guilty conscience.

It's kinda fun spotting Catholics on the road - easy to spot: You're in the midst of a line of vehicles all cruising along at 100kph on the open road, you round a corner, see the cop or camera car parked on the side of the road and suddenly a couple of the cars in front of you plow on the brakes and drive past the cop at 75kph. Obviously those are the Catholics. They're so convinced, at a basic level, that they're guilty of something that the merest hint of authority provokes strange reactions.

(PT alert - before I wake up tied to a stake and surrounded by a bunch of the Devout wielding blazing torches)
So that's the reason.
All the cagers on auckland's motorway are catholic.

[Pixie]

[QUOTE=Ixion]:headbang: Just last night , again. Tootled off the mororway at Mt Wellington, down the ramp, green light at the bottom , oops turned orange just as I come up to it, but I can still stop .Quick mirror check, nothing behind for a good way. So I do. Front chirrups a bit but I stop OK , right on the line . Slip into neutral and promptly hear that horrid screech of some idiot locking his wheels up. Shit oh shit oh shit - and I have to get into gear too. :shit:

Fortunately the incompetant idiot *just* stopped short of my rear end.:headbang:

What really pisses me off is that he must have been *WAY* behind me when I braked. I reckon he saw the orange and accelerated- then realised he had to stop. Grrrr :bash: :bash:

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The important thing is:You did not break the law. :niceone: