Cardboard Police car

[magicfairy]

Just saw this on the Stuff News Site
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3938914a10.html

Looks pretty real from the back, I'd slow down.

[imdying]

Sweet, much better than wasting a cop sitting at the side of the road :yes:

[Wasp]

yea and it'll work too (provided its not ovbiously a fake)

[McJim]

Sweet, much better than wasting a cop sitting at the side of the road :yes:

You're not supposed to waste cops - either at the side of the road or anywhere else for that matter.

Can it be construed as impersonating a police officer though..If the police had done it then fair play but Fulton Hogan? I think they've broken the law.

[RantyDave]

Just saw this on the Stuff News Site
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3938914a10.html
Nicked by students in 3... 2... 1...

Dave

[outlawtorn]

I wonder how that would stand against the lovely wind in this country? Wouldn't it just scare the shit out of you if you saw the arse of a cop car being blown around the motorway?

I smell a lawsuit.......

[merv]

Is impersonating the Police legal? I think not if I was to do it.

[scumdog]

Just saw this on the Stuff News Site
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3938914a10.html

Looks pretty real from the back, I'd slow down.

I'd slow down too!!

[McJim]

I'd slow down too!!

I'd have a word with your union rep mate - that's demarcation that is. It's not like they're paying you enough for all the shit you get from KB let alone the shit you get when the pubs empty on a Friday night! Sorry - forgot where you lived for a moment there - I'll rephrase, when the pub empties.:rofl:

[imdying]

You're not supposed to waste cops - either at the side of the road or anywhere else for that matter.

Can it be construed as impersonating a police officer though..If the police had done it then fair play but Fulton Hogan? I think they've broken the law.

:rofl:

Read the article, Transit bylaw of some sort allows them...

[rwh]

:rofl:

Read the article, Transit bylaw of some sort allows them...

I'm not convinced by that. What gives Transit the right to let people impersonate police officers? I'm sure I'm not allowed to impersonate a cop even in my own home; this is a public place, and the point is to make people think there's a cop there when there isn't.

But then, I get annoyed when a shopkeeper sticks a red or blue beacon in their window ...

Richard

[McJim]

:rofl:

Read the article, Transit bylaw of some sort allows them...

Yup - I read that bit - it implies that I can therefore impersonate a Police officer while on my front lawn - which I might do next time my neighbours kid drifts his beemer round the corner.

[Disco Dan]

Where is it? I want to nick it and strap it to my back! WAHOOO!

[Flyingpony]

There's going to be a lot of 'Cried Wolf' syndrome if people get complacent and assume it's just another cut out.

Uni Students will have fun with that cut out ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... gone.
As will those who do tagging.

[Colapop]

Won't it get soggy in the rain?

[imdying]

They're not impersonating an officer, just his car. Maybe the difference is in that? I know you can't impersonate their cars either (well I assume you can't?), but maybe the bylaw or whatever is something to do with that distinction?

I bet they don't leave them out after hours though :rofl:

[Beemer]

I don't have a problem with it, hopefully it may result in our car having fewer stone chips from morons who hoon past me in the opposite direction, showering said car with gravel. There have been two serious (both fatal) accidents at road works near where I live, so at least they are trying to do something about it. They're a lot more realistic than the earlier cardboard cut outs - these look actual size for a start!

[McJim]

They're not impersonating an officer, just his car. Maybe the difference is in that? I know you can't impersonate their cars either (well I assume you can't?), but maybe the bylaw or whatever is something to do with that distinction?

I bet they don't leave them out after hours though :rofl:

The trick is to paint your car up like a police car and then in your defence say "I'm going to a Blues Brothers convention - we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's night and we're wearing dark glasses - hit it"

[ManDownUnder]

The trick is to paint your car up like a police car and then in your defence say "I'm going to a Blues Brothers convention - we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's night and we're wearing dark glasses - hit it"

What happened to "On a mission from God!"??

[onearmedbandit]

I'd slow down too!!

But surely you wouldn't need to?

IIRC I think the Amberely Police down here had something similar years ago. That's one town you don't want to speed through.

[Drunken Monkey]

They could just lay out chicane with barrels and/or cones at the start of the roadworks to slow people down if that was really the problem. Of course, that would just be too easy.

LOL @ the comment about them impersonating people working...

[bull]

Ive always thought that a lifesize printed version of cop car would be a cheap alternative to have on the side of a road - fulton and hogan doing it is bloody good initiative but i think next step should be the actual police incorporating it.
Its the feared look of a police car that slows people down on the roads so having them stationed all along our roads would be good, then they could slot a real car in at different times just to deter those who know that the fakes are there.

But then i guess everyone will have a cry that they are tricking us into getting speeding tickets.
They will definitely need to put a high fine or something as a deterrant to stealing them. Id love one for my house.

[Colapop]

They could just lay out chicane with barrels and/or cones at the start of the roadworks to slow people down if that was really the problem. Of course, that would just be too easy.

LOL @ the comment about them impersonating people working...
Yeah, coz cones are really hard to run over in a truck....

I've worked on the roads and some f*cks don't give a shit. You get hit with a stone in the eye or clipped by a wing mirror if you're lucky. People get killed by idiots speeding through roadworks.

Sorry, that's right we spent too much time sitting on our arses to get hurt.

[mstriumph]

Can it be construed as impersonating a police officer though..If the police had done it then fair play but Fulton Hogan? I think they've broken the law.


i don't think you can be done for impersonating a policeCAR ........

-- how could it be imPERSONation, anyway? ...:shutup:

[Waylander]

They paid $1000 for it? How are they gonna make that money back? I doubt that thing will be able to fine anyone so are they gonna make up some new tax?

[Flatcap]

They could have a cardboard cut out of a car crash - that would get the rubber-neckers to slow to a crawl...

[rwh]

I've worked on the roads and some f*cks don't give a shit. You get hit with a stone in the eye or clipped by a wing mirror if you're lucky. People get killed by idiots speeding through roadworks.

From the point of view of someone who hasn't worked on the roads - I don't think I'd really thought of the flicking stones issue. Maybe that's because I don't think enough, but that's not the point. The point is that I, incorrectly, see/saw the limits as being too low, and ignored them.

Perhaps if they added some graphics showing a roadworker getting hit by a stone? And perhaps a comment about how the road needs to 'set' after resealing, as was mentioned in another thread.

Perhaps I'm odd, but I tend to take things more seriously if I can see the reasoning.

Richard

[Colapop]

Pictures? It'd be better if people watched their speedo's. Stones hurt. Have you ever tried to crack a windscreen with your knuckles? And yet stones do it pretty easily.

[McJim]

i don't think you can be done for impersonating a policeCAR ........

-- how could it be imPERSONation, anyway? ...:shutup:

Hmmmm - so that's where we got the word incarceration from....

[Skyryder]

You're not supposed to waste cops - either at the side of the road or anywhere else for that matter.

Can it be construed as impersonating a police officer though..If the police had done it then fair play but Fulton Hogan? I think they've broken the law.

No I don't think so. No one is impersonating the police. It's not dissimular to the card board cut outs of police man at the entrance of shopping malls. Have not seen one in ages but this worked to deter shoplifters.


Skyryder

[Lou Girardin]

Jeez, imagine a cardboard scummy. Complete with cutout tassels.
And a papier mache laser gun.

[Waylander]

Jeez, imagine a cardboard scummy. Complete with cutout tassels.
And a papier mache laser gun.

All this time I thought he just looked like that...

[kro]

Note the number plate.... I think that may be the diff between impersonation, and a legal deterrant.

[scumdog]

They could have a cardboard cut out of a car crash - that would get the rubber-neckers to slow to a crawl...

And somebody would get run over by a rubber-necker looking at the 'wreckage':yes:

[Komuter]

Sweet, much better than wasting a cop sitting at the side of the road :yes:

Yeah, then maybe the buggers can catch the bugger that tried getting into my Harley GN250 shed the night after I bought it....

[Fat Tony]

Cardboard? If that was over here, it'd be torched within a day.

[oldrider]

I wonder if you can get a cardboard cut out of a Foreman or something, so that the road gang will stay on the job and have a real reason for having to slow down at road works!

Half the time you go through them nothing is happening because there is nobody there and they seem to be making them longer and longer all the time!

Case in point is the one at Nevis bluff, it goes on and on for bloody miles. Pissed off, :nono: John.

[elle-f]

I had to laugh because when i first read this i thought about the rain and then the cost - something like $1000 and then i thought........how stupid actually advertising this THEN they had them on the news last night and like Kro, i noticed the numberplace "POLICE" and THEN........they had this stupid cop going on about how today it might be cardboard but tomorrow it might be the real thing......HELLO!!

[Karma]

Staff were often injured by gravel sent flying when people drove too fast through roadworks

Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't leave shit all over the road, then they wouldn't have to worry about being hit with it, after all, it dings my bike!


One motorist came down from a speed of 73kmh to 38kmh when they saw the cutout, and many others hurriedly put their seatbelts on

I'd say this was more dangerous than going too fast though the roadworks.

[spudchucka]

Jeez, imagine a cardboard scummy. Complete with cutout tassels.
And a papier mache laser gun.

Gets you excited doens'nt it!

[The Pastor]

Doesnt carbord burn?

[Guitana]

At least you will stand a better chance of outrunning this copper if you're speeding.

[Quartermile]

You watch next thing the bastards will be putting speed camera's behind them or fake emmiters that set off radar detectors. :shit:

[ceebie13]

Cardboard? If that was over here, it'd be torched within a day.

Well, didn't they already do that over there Tony? I seem to remember actual size side-view cardboard jam butties placed on motorway overbridges. Or was that idea scrubbed and the project folded? The idea worked on paper but not in practice.

[ceebie13]

You watch next thing the bastards will be putting speed camera's behind them or fake emmiters that set off radar detectors. :shit:


Well funny you should say that... some enterprising anti-speeding bloke living in my Dad's sleepy Oxfordshire village actually built a life-size replica of a speed camera and positioned it just inside his garden perimeter which was side on to the road through the village. Top marks for detailed accuracy and I for one slowed up on first seeing it...but close inspection gave the game away and i would imagine like me, most (local) people simply got used to it and ignored it. It was probably a talking point in the village pub for a while though.

[scumdog]

You watch next thing the bastards will be putting speed camera's behind them or fake emmiters that set off radar detectors. :shit:

Sounds like a dang good idea, top marks!

[Finn]

I wonder when they're going to start sending cardboard cops to burglaries?

[kro]

Maybe we should make cardboard cut outs of helmet-less riders, and put them beside the motorway, that would give the cardboard cops something to chase. Or perhaps cardboard Corolla's with cut springs, and 8 cardboard people inside?.

There are many famous cardboard celebrities, like Leonardo DeCaprio, and Bob Saget.

[avgas]

I like it - good use of a tree

[avgas]

I wonder when they're going to start sending cardboard cops to burglaries?

Be an upgrade from the paper ones they send now

[Ixion]

What - thicker cops you mean ?Dunno that that's an improvement :whistle:

[Grahameeboy]

What - thicker cops you mean ?Dunno that that's an improvement :whistle:

But I thought there was already enough paperwork in the Police...............

[Quartermile]

You reckon they might start issuing fake tickets ......ohhhh lets hope so

[Pixie]

"The reason I didn't stop,your honour,was that I thought it was one of those fake,cardboard cops following me"

"That does not mitigate your actions"

"Ok,your honour, I admit it.I was as drunk as a Judge."

"I think the phrase is 'Drunk as a Lord'."

"Yes,sorry,You are correct M'lord"

[VasalineWarrior]

i don't think you can be done for impersonating a policeCAR ........

-- how could it be imPERSONation, anyway? ...:shutup:

Sure you can. Mikey had his old 750 done up in police colors and sigange (I assume a police bike and car are in the same category). They didnt like it much though, think they told him to take it off when they finally caught up with him at the pub

[scumdog]

Sure you can. Mikey had his old 750 done up in police colors and sigange (I assume a police bike and car are in the same category). They didnt like it much though, think they told him to take it off when they finally caught up with him at the pub

Yeah, saw one of the Fulton Hogan guys driving the card-board car to the pub too..............



pfffft! Like THAT'S going to happen!!

[Ixion]

Sure you can. Mikey had his old 750 done up in police colors and sigange (I assume a police bike and car are in the same category). They didnt like it much though, think they told him to take it off when they finally caught up with him at the pub

Well, sort of. IIRC, he painted it blue with a spray can, scrawled 'Police' on the tank in white paint (spray can and a shakey hand). I think the cops did tell him to take it off, once they managed to stop laughing.

[Patrick]

[QUOTE=Ixion;911932]Well, sort of. IIRC, he painted it blue with a spray can, scrawled 'Police' on the tank in white paint (spray can and a shakey hand).QUOTE]

Prolly having a mastie at the time???