Thank you to the Officer on the Tukka's

[The Tazman]

While trying to keep up with a couple of the quick riders in Wellywood on Sunday I made a bit of a late overtake on the Tukka's getting a little close to the nose of a car. Not usually to much of a problem but it was a mufty!! Which I didn't know untill right at the bottom when I may have been going a few K's over the limit and found I had red and blues in my mirrors and sirens in my ears.

I pulled over and he poceeded to tell me what I had done. He looked over my bike and asked me a few ?'s. The Top man then let me off with a warning.

Now here is the lesson. I have been stopped once or twice!!! before (ask me when you next see me) and have only had 2 tickets in 20 years!!!!!

Remember they are only doing a job the same as you and I!
If someone came into your work ranting and raving or with an attitude problem that you had never met before, how would you react????

If I was an officer that had stopped someone and got verbal or attitude I'd be thinking f**k you your getting a ticket matey!!!!!!!

Hense I was very polite to the officer.

Now I know that there are some officers out there that it dosen't matter how you are they are just going to give you a ticket. Now I would say there are two kinds. The ones that are just bad and the ones just having a bad day, rmember they are only human beings and are all someones son, daughter, Mum or Dad so consider this.

How many of you have got out of bed the wrong side, had an argument before going to work, feeling fed up for what ever reason, now think how it affected your work that day!!!!!

As for the bad eggs that is life and is a bummer that they get in to the police but how many of you work with quite a few people? Any bad eggs there?? Now multiply your total work mates out to the number of the police. how many bad eggs do you have now??????????????

Well that's my bit for today. Thank you if you have taken the time to read this.

If you are unlucky to get stopped I hope you get the good ones or one that's had a good day.

Hope you all have a fanTAZtic day.

Gary

[Ninja51]

Interesting read Taz, but if "Top Man" HAD given you a ticket, I wonder how your story would have read? Would you have put your hands up and admitted
you were out of order and would Mr Plod have a lesser accolade?

[Sniper]

Nice one man.

[GIXser]

Interesting read Taz, but if "Top Man" HAD given you a ticket, I wonder how your story would have read? Would you have put your hands up and admitted
you were out of order and would Mr Plod have a lesser accolade?


so true---

[The Tazman]

Interesting read Taz, but if "Top Man" HAD given you a ticket, I wonder how your story would have read? Would you have put your hands up and admitted
you were out of order and would Mr Plod have a lesser accolade?

I have been in the wrong every time I've been stopped hence why I've been stopped. Yes I would have been pissed off if I had got a ticket but would have excepted it as that's the way it is. You also have to look at all the times you don't get caught!! :D
ok off to work for me

[skelstar]

Awesome.
People tend to forget that everytime (generally) they have been pulled over, they have been doing something wrong, knew they were doing something wrong, and got caught. Bummer.

[Finn]

It's certainly not like that in Auckland. I got a speeding ticket the other day while I was walking to the dairy.

[skelstar]

Wow. They ARE creative up there huh?

[Big Dave]

I agree with you Taz - my cautions to ticket ratio is currently 50/50 percentums.

They were all no contests too.

walking to the dairy! bwahahahah

[marty]

there's no need to be creative, just well read:



``Except as provided by regulation 53, no pedestrian may cross a roadway otherwise than on a pedestrian crossing or a school crossing point when a pedestrian crossing or school crossing point is reasonably available to the pedestrian for that purpose within a distance of 20 m.''

[DemonWolf]

haha.. I always get annoyed when people are in the middle of the road waiting for a gap.. when 5 meters down the road there's a crossing where they have the right of way (within the 2 diamond? markings on the road).

[Phurrball]

I was a beneficiary of such a warning recently -

Good to see posting positive things about our friends the 'rozzers' to counter the misconception that discretion is dead and 'All rozzers are bastrads', balance is always a good thing...

Cheers

[roogazza]

The lesson here is take time to look around you and at what you're passing,
and don't ride above your ability just to keep up with others that could be better than you ! Ahhhhhh grasshopper cheap lesson , huh ? G.

[Big Dave]

The lesson here is take time to look around you and at what you're passing,
and don't ride above your ability just to keep up with others that could be better than you ! Ahhhhhh grasshopper cheap lesson , huh ? G.


Bah - If you were a genuine master - you would say 'Gwasshopper'.

[Big Dave]

balance is always a good thing...

Cheers

Particularly on a motorcycle.

[roogazza]

I was a beneficiary of such a warning recently -

Good to see posting positive things about our friends the 'rozzers' to counter the misconception that discretion is dead and 'All rozzers are bastrads', balance is always a good thing...

Cheers


I have a mate called Phurrball ! a bit unkind, but it does suit him ! G.

[Lou Girardin]

It's certainly not like that in Auckland. I got a speeding ticket the other day while I was walking to the dairy.

No, it wasn't a ticket. It was an arrest. And it wasn't the dairy, it was the corner of K Rd and Howe St.
Got a lawyer yet, Lee?

[Finn]

No, it wasn't a ticket. It was an arrest. And it wasn't the dairy, it was the corner of K Rd and Howe St.
Got a lawyer yet, Lee?

Where have you been Lou? Prostitution is legal now. Did you know that the Bettles have split up?

[Velox]

Ha! Almost exactly the same thing happened to me last week! On the Takas I overtook a mufti (was it the silver one Taz? sorry - don't know models) and he pulled me over at the bottom of the hill, told me it's not a racetrack, let me off and was generally a good sort. Except he tried to imply speed was a factor (as usual) and I argued that it wasn't. Good to see cops promoting a reasonably positive image, and not just cause he didn't ticket me, but cause he had an ok attitude and reasonable perspective on the whole thing. They're obviously trying to simmer down bikes on the hill at the mo, but maybe they're trying to be actively 'good' about it.

[Velox]

Good to see cops promoting a reasonably positive image, and not just cause he didn't ticket me, but cause he had an ok attitude and reasonable perspective on the whole thing. They're obviously trying to simmer down bikes on the hill at the mo, but maybe they're trying to be actively 'good' about it.
Actually I take that comment back. A short lived glimpse of optimism crushed by reality. I think that guy was just a one off.

[The Tazman]

Velox it was a gold car and it pains me as a guy not knowing the model but I'm still not used to them all over here. The officer had a really good attitude and if they keep that up they will get more respect.

[Insanity_rules]

So what your saying is the police are people too huh? Interesting theory, where might I subscribe to your newsletter?

Just kidding, I have quite a few friends who are police officers and ex police officers and they are generally good people who are just that.... People!

I find politeness goes a long way, if your going to get a ticket then 99% of the time you deserve it and if you get let off with a warning then it's a bonus and a cheap lesson.

[Lou Girardin]

Where have you been Lou? Prostitution is legal now. Did you know that the Bettles have split up?

What? When?

[Pixie]

How many of you have got out of bed the wrong side, had an argument before going to work, feeling fed up for what ever reason, now think how it affected your work that day!!!!!

As for the bad eggs that is life and is a bummer that they get in to the police but how many of you work with quite a few people? Any bad eggs there?? Now multiply your total work mates out to the number of the police. how many bad eggs do you have now??????????????




Gary
However, anyone who thinks they can alleviate their own misery by making someone else's life miserable is an idiot and will,if they are lucky, find out they are wrong.It will turn them into horrible shrivelled little black things (psychologically speaking) that will die of cancer with no friends :banana:

[Pixie]

Where have you been Lou? Prostitution is legal now. Did you know that the Bettles have split up?
No, not the Bettles!
They've split up?
The nuts? the bettle nuts?
Really?

[Velox]

So what your saying is the police are people too huh? Interesting theory, where might I subscribe to your newsletter?

Just kidding, I have quite a few friends who are police officers and ex police officers and they are generally good people who are just that.... People!

I find politeness goes a long way, if your going to get a ticket then 99% of the time you deserve it and if you get let off with a warning then it's a bonus and a cheap lesson.
Heh. Yep, gotta always treat everyone as a person but there are quite a few that don't act like they are and put on a 'programmed-robot' routine instead. But I agree - shouldn't influence the fact that we should treat them as 'people'.;)