SHELRACING
27th November 2008, 08:29
Got snapped by the cops road testing Grandma wobblers bucket down the road yesterday.
I've been working on the jetting, gave it a warm up in the garage, did a first run down our street. About .5km turned around came back, and went for the second run. Gunned it down the straight to the first intersection. Just pulling up at the intersection to turn around, and a cop arrives at the intersection at the same time. :doh:
As out running him on the Loncin wasn't an option. The following mexican stand off felt like a life time (or at least a couple of laps round Taupo on an RG50 :lol: ). I figured I was totally screwed, I sat there thinking of all the offences I'd commited, How was I to explain this to Mrs Wobbler, not to mention getting her bucket impounded (that would have to be a first). The cop just sat there dumbstruck, probably couldn't believe his luck. Then he pulls over to the middle of the road, sticks his head out the window. " Going far " he says. " Nah mate, I live at the end of the road just turning round " I said.
With that he drove off. Well bugger me I'd better go and buy a lotto ticket.:banana:
Saw the cop again later, sitting on the main road. Apparently he was there all day.
Tuamarunui cops have rep for being tough, especially on speeders. Refreshing to find they are not all the aholes we beleive them to be, and that they can be fair, reasonable and somewhat blind at a time when no real harm was done.
Cheers to the cop anyway :2thumbsup
I've been working on the jetting, gave it a warm up in the garage, did a first run down our street. About .5km turned around came back, and went for the second run. Gunned it down the straight to the first intersection. Just pulling up at the intersection to turn around, and a cop arrives at the intersection at the same time. :doh:
As out running him on the Loncin wasn't an option. The following mexican stand off felt like a life time (or at least a couple of laps round Taupo on an RG50 :lol: ). I figured I was totally screwed, I sat there thinking of all the offences I'd commited, How was I to explain this to Mrs Wobbler, not to mention getting her bucket impounded (that would have to be a first). The cop just sat there dumbstruck, probably couldn't believe his luck. Then he pulls over to the middle of the road, sticks his head out the window. " Going far " he says. " Nah mate, I live at the end of the road just turning round " I said.
With that he drove off. Well bugger me I'd better go and buy a lotto ticket.:banana:
Saw the cop again later, sitting on the main road. Apparently he was there all day.
Tuamarunui cops have rep for being tough, especially on speeders. Refreshing to find they are not all the aholes we beleive them to be, and that they can be fair, reasonable and somewhat blind at a time when no real harm was done.
Cheers to the cop anyway :2thumbsup