They are not all bad cops

**3umph** · 31st January 2010, 21:32

Why do we always have a big rant about the bad cops... they are definatly the minority but always seem to get the biggest and most vocal posts....

I got copped on the way to Woodstock this year on the Old West Coats Rd... Ipod blasting, nothing on the road so just cruising along and creeping up all the time....

then the old red led started flashing in my eye so hard on the breaks.... dam the red and blue come on on the mufti car.... Bugger, wondering what he pinged me for... will I be walking? is it a big fine??? or will I get off with a warning??? what ever it is it is well overdue...

I stopped and the cop had to continue driving up to turn around behind me... last time I got pulled up on a bike I got one hell of a tune up from the cop... mind you I was a hell of a lot younger then..

by the time he got to me I had my lid and gloves off and just started digging out my licence (hoping I was going to get it back)

To my surprise he was very friendly and very chatty.. he informed me that I was clocked at 119km/h (phew I thought), no mention of me slowing or when he first saw me that I was going faster, he did mention they have a 10km/h tolerance and I then thought to my self maybe I may get off with a warning.... he got my details and back to the car to run me and the bike through....

all clean to report and handed me the ticket... $120 and 20 demerits...

We then had about a 5-10 minute chat about bikes and some of the chases that had happened some ending good and some not so good...

I left thinking what a good guy he was... pleasant and not the rude obnoxious cops that you usually hear about...

At the end of the day they are only doing a job and they all are not the sort that the rants on here go on about...

I'm a speeder... I got coped... and I thanked him for a job well done...

**pc220** · 31st January 2010, 21:45

Good on ya mate. Good to hear someone take it on the chin instead of whinging on about the asshole cop who dished out the ticket. At the end of the day they are doing a job that %99.9 are not willing to even consider.

**Grasshopperus** · 31st January 2010, 22:37

Funnily enough, I also had a positive experience with a police officer today after getting a warning about speed.

They're just normal folks who have to deal with an incredible amount of bullshit in dealing with the general populace.

We should have national hug-a-cop day or something.

**Spearfish** · 1st February 2010, 00:27

Its going to be interesting how long this thread goes.
If the cop had given you the same ticket and you were seeking sympathy.............

**shafty** · 1st February 2010, 03:10

Good post Dude!

**terbang** · 1st February 2010, 04:41

A friends Daughter and her mates went out to the pub and had one or two too many. Stumbled out of the pub acting rowdy and the likes and got into their car. Cops sitting across the road watched all this and as she drove out of the carpark, they nabbed them and she got done for DIC. Fair enough, silly twit should know better. Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned, but wouldn't it have been better for them (cops) to have confronted silly drunk twats and pointed out the consequence of what they were just about to do. They would have shat themselves and certainly would have taken the hint.
Both approaches, watch them get in the car and then nick them or putting the hard word on them before they drove would have either way stopped a drunk driver. So why the exercise in entrapment in preference to a little bit of preventative maintenance?

**CookMySock** · 1st February 2010, 04:51

Originally Posted by 3umph

Why do we always have a big rant about the bad cops... they are definatly the minority but always seem to get the biggest and most vocal posts. [....] I'm a speeder... I got coped... and I thanked him for a job well done.

Yup ya just pays ya speeding tax and move on. Anyone who can afford that just pays it.

Thats not the problem.

The problems are, roughly ;

Cops being involved in car crashes and using their experience and police resources to weasel out of paying up.

Cops knocking bikers off, and using etc etc as above.

Cops doing dangerous shit on the road and using police resources to, ala rinse and repeat as above.

Cops making up new laws ad-hoc (must stop for three seconds at stop sign, must put feet down etc) and purporting to enforce the law with them, when it's clearly bullshit.

Cops randomly stopping bikers and insisting said biker rode down this and that road at alleged dangerous speeds etc etc, with three other po po cars pulling up and saying "yeah thats him" and writing him a mountainous ticket for it and then lying in court about it.

Heard enough?

Thats the problem.

Steve

**CookMySock** · 1st February 2010, 04:57

Originally Posted by terbang

Cops sitting across the road watched all this and as she drove out of the carpark, they nabbed them and she got done for DIC. [...] wouldn't it have been better for them (cops) to have confronted silly drunk twats and pointed out the consequence of what they were just about to do. They would have shat themselves and certainly would have taken the hint.

Nah thats a foolish and dangerous thing to do. Think of your own daughter travelling in the opposite direction...

Very few things are as dangerous as driving really pissed. They aren't "silly drunk twats" - they are dangerous criminals. Theres a world of difference.

Steve

**awayatc** · 1st February 2010, 06:28

problem here is we are finding it acceptable to get a speeding ticket for 19 kms or so over the limit on a country road.............
as long as the cop is "friendly".......
something wrong when we start thanking the Speed Nazi's for giving us a fine

**Grubber** · 1st February 2010, 06:30

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Yup ya just pays ya speeding tax and move on. Anyone who can afford that just pays it.

Thats not the problem.

The problems are, roughly ;

Cops being involved in car crashes and using their experience and police resources to weasel out of paying up.

Cops knocking bikers off, and using etc etc as above.

Cops doing dangerous shit on the road and using police resources to, ala rinse and repeat as above.

Cops making up new laws ad-hoc (must stop for three seconds at stop sign, must put feet down etc) and purporting to enforce the law with them, when it's clearly bullshit.

Cops randomly stopping bikers and insisting said biker rode down this and that road at alleged dangerous speeds etc etc, with three other po po cars pulling up and saying "yeah thats him" and writing him a mountainous ticket for it and then lying in court about it.

Heard enough?

Thats the problem.

Steve

Jeez mate....Ya so full of shit. Like that happens every day does it. I don't think so.

**CookMySock** · 1st February 2010, 07:09

Originally Posted by Grubber

Jeez mate....Ya so full of shit. Like that happens every day does it. I don't think so.

Er your derogatory mouth is shooting itself off again. Does it do that often?

No one said it happens every day. When it does happen, it shouldn't. Even the police agree that it shouldn't. Read here from a police officer saying the same thing ;
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1129624123

Steve

**Genie** · 1st February 2010, 07:34

Originally Posted by awayatc

problem here is we are finding it acceptable to get a speeding ticket for 19 kms or so over the limit on a country road.............
as long as the cop is "friendly".......
something wrong when we start thanking the Speed Nazi's for giving us a fine

one should obey the law of the land or leave the land!