So the police don't care?

[Devil]

Multiple turning lanes at at intersection are my the most likely place to find a dumb cunt. People just cant get their head around (or give a shit about) turning into the correct lane.

[thepom]

I,m with stabbing him in the face but I mean it.......

[Felicks]

mmm today walking in town i witness a cop car sitting at the lights on Gasson st going up to madras st, on the morehouse intersection. Two cops in the car right at the fron of the waiting traffic with a clear view of the entire intersection.
As i waited there to cross every single car that turned into madras st from morehouse DID NOT turn into their own lane...not one of the probably 10 or 15 that turned....and guess what the cops did nothing...not a thing just sat there?

So i agree with SMOKEU too, if its not to do with boys racers they dont give a shit. There is another thread on here about south island police and their wank tactics.

Now i had the chance the other week to talk to two of christchurchs bike cops, and they were the most stand up, upfront and honest fellas i have met, both ride in their own time, and they really made me change my opinion of police...but seeing this today just took it back to square one

Yep and I happen to ride with one of them too.

Its funny you should mention the "turning into an unavilablable lane" thing. It is amazing how many people break that rule and how many don't even know it exists! Well thats what they often say when stopped anyway.

The rule has been there for as long as I've had a licence - 25 odd years. I bet there are people reading this that may be scratching their heads trying to figure out exactly what rule you are talking about.

Yep, the cops could have stopped one of those cars (they certainly couldn't have stopped all 10 - 15). They could have ticketed him (and possibly have got the usual corresponding moans from the recipient..or this forum), or warned him/her.

The other 9 or 14 would still be totally unaware, ignorant of what they have just done.

Aside from periodic licence retesting or advertising, I'm thinking the message is never going to get through..

Quite honestly, if Police stopped every motorist that they saw doing something wrong, it would take them about 2 hours just to drive the length of Moorhouse Ave. They'd never get anywhere - ie get to deal with decent criminal offences or the 'rapists and murderers' which is the phrase often thrown at Police by the public when doing traffic work.

[SixPackBack]

............... I'm thinking the message is never going to get through..

Agreed. Not matter how bad the force gets, no matter how much folk distrust them or see them as glorified tax collectors, no matter how many end up in prison or are thrown out of the force the message never gets through......

[PrincessBandit]

A sidelight on the resourcing question :

In 1940 New Zealand had 1458 cops, of all ranks. For a population of about 1.6 million, one cop per 1126 people.....

Nothing special about the year 1940 BTW, just ahppen to have figures for it . The cost to the taxpayer, per head for policing then was 7s 8 1/2d BTW.

It would be interesting to know the facts and figures for the crime stats back from 1940. I somehow suspect that back then the Police faced a considerably less stressful job than they do now. Sure there was still "serious" crime but not on anywhere near the same scale and frequency there is today. We might have more personnel in the Police dept now but if a scale were to be devised rating police numbers with severity and frequency of hard core crime my guess is that they're still under-resourced to cope with what they face on a day to day basis.

Multiple turning lanes at at intersection are my the most likely place to find a dumb cunt. People just cant get their head around (or give a shit about) turning into the correct lane.

Yeah, they make me super wary when I'm on the bike. Even in the car I'm paranoid about making sure I stay in the lane I'm supposed to so that I don't create chaos on the road.

What always gets me though about rude road users (of any mode of transport) are those who cause problems then get aggro when you react to their actions.

[Felicks]

....What always gets me though about rude road users (of any mode of transport) are those who cause problems then get aggro when you react to their actions.

...you should see the looks on their faces when a police car "cuts them off" (or so they think) when he's turning into the correct lane. Its priceless!

[James Deuce]

...you should see the looks on their faces when a police car "cuts them off" (or so they think) when he's turning into the correct lane. Its priceless!

I've not seen that. Most of the police vehicles around appear to use the standard approved practice of turning into the incorrect lane most often.

It's the look on my face when I turn into the correct lane and get abused by some mouth breathing twat that's priceless.