What Coppie did - A thread listing Police road accidents and bad driving

[bogan]

Nope, feel free to criticse away, loud as you like, scream if you want to . The people that matter are not listening.

I would say that everyone who listens matters, it is a democracy after all.

[bogan]

No point, it would achieve nothing & change nothing.

yes, lets all be good sheeple and do as we are told, far be it for us to actually do anything to make a change

[Deano]

No point, it would achieve nothing & change nothing.

Well if people want to vent, rant and rave about it, why not just ignore them and let them get on with it. Easy.

[trustme]

yes, lets all be good sheeple and do as we are told, far be it for us to actually do anything to make a change

Excellent , so what are you doing to change it besides snivel.

[bogan]

Excellent , so what are you doing to change it besides snivel.

Everything I cant think of, submitted emails to police whatshisname, and transport minister, looking at the facts and theory behind the whole speed kills campaign, looking into alternate solutions to having to actually do uturns (cameras in cars). How about you? doing anything, or just head in the sand?

[trustme]

Well if people want to vent, rant and rave about it, why not just ignore them and let them get on with it. Easy.

More fun winding you guys up, & maybe just maybe instead of the gumfest someone will do something. Not me I'm afraid , been there done that.

[trustme]

Everything I cant think of, submitted emails to police whatshisname, and transport minister, looking at the facts and theory behind the whole speed kills campaign, looking into alternate solutions to having to actually do uturns (cameras in cars). How about you? doing anything, or just head in the sand?

Excellent , I seriously wish you the very best of luck .It needs organisation one bloke is just pissing in the wind . Pick fights you can win or it is futile & disheartening ultimately you walk away disillusioned from tilting at windmills.
I sound like one of those grumpy old cynics, I am.

[bogan]

More fun winding you guys up, & maybe just maybe instead of the gumfest someone will do something. Not me I'm afraid , been there done that.

So rather than actually do something, you impede those that are trying to? and to use the death of someone for a wind-up quite frankly sickens me.

[SPman]

I got this as well but he jumped out from behind a tree.
coming back from palmy to wellington years back. idiot was looking to be run over.
all he wanted to do was say 'got you speeding - tickets in the mail' then he went back to hide behind his tree.
DICKS!

A young cop tried that in Perth last year in a suburban street - his uniform didn't save him!

[kave]

For my most recent event involving a policeman trying to kill me I had my wife on the back of the bike which really made me furious. I was travelling south, somewhere between Auckland and Kawakawa on monday the 12th of April. I saw a police ute with "Serious Crash Unit" emblazoned on the back (the irony). Traffic was doing your usual "I have seen a police officer so I will crawl along at 90kph so as to avoid getting a ticket". I pulled in behind the police vehicle and cruised, normally would have popped past but I wasnt in a hurry and I didn't want to upset my wife.

Came up to some passing lanes and the car in front of the cop slowed to 70, probably praying that the cop would pass him and he could get on with driving normally. Cop decided to sit in his lane without passing so I made the most of the opportunity and indicated, moved into the passing lane, accelerated to 100kph and started overtaking the cop. As I drew level with the front passenger-side window of the police ute, the driver suddenly decided he was sick of travelling at 70 and swerved into my lane. Completely failed to indicate, only the fact that I was paying attention saved my wife and I. Had to swerve into the (fortunately clear) northbound lane to avoid being wiped out.

The driver was not a young cop. He had a moustache you could twirl and looked (and drove) like a bit of a cowboy. If this is what we are getting from senior police officers then is there really any expectation that their current intake of 12 year olds will be performing any better? Also, if any police officers are reading this I am sure I have given you enough detail to identify the culprit. I am not going to make a formal complaint but feel free to tell him that he needs to pay a bit more attention while driving.

[Deano]

More fun winding you guys up, & maybe just maybe instead of the gumfest someone will do something. Not me I'm afraid , been there done that.

It appeared that you were the one getting wound up.

[Pixie]

I know if a cop car was traveling behind me only 2ft off my back tyre I would've pulled off the road, hoping he'd follow and I could ask him why he is doing so, failing that at least I've removed myself from a very serious dangerous situation (2ft is so ridiculous I almost find it hard to believe), get his rego and report it. You must live in a very paranoid world if you think that 'every cop will have your rego number clipped to his sun visor'.

Paranoia doesn't mean they aren't out to get you:
My brother,an ex MOT cop, was living in a BOP town some years ago.He started dating the ex girl friend of one of the local police.From that point on he was being stopped for the most spurious reasons imaginable,by just about every local cop on the force,until he went to see the district commander in person and the harassment ceased.Some cops are not just scum,but stupid scum at that.

[Pixie]

Excellent , I seriously wish you the very best of luck .It needs organisation one bloke is just pissing in the wind . Pick fights you can win or it is futile & disheartening ultimately you walk away disillusioned from tilting at windmills.
I sound like one of those grumpy old cynics, I am.

Well I'm seriously considering,when this thread has done it's dash,editing and compiling all the anecdotes into a document that I will distribute to various ministers and maybe even media.
Don't worry I'll hide your identities.

[Pixie]

For my most recent event involving a policeman trying to kill me I had my wife on the back of the bike which really made me furious. I was travelling south, somewhere between Auckland and Kawakawa on monday the 12th of April. I saw a police ute with "Serious Crash Unit" emblazoned on the back (the irony). Traffic was doing your usual "I have seen a police officer so I will crawl along at 90kph so as to avoid getting a ticket". I pulled in behind the police vehicle and cruised, normally would have popped past but I wasnt in a hurry and I didn't want to upset my wife.

Came up to some passing lanes and the car in front of the cop slowed to 70, probably praying that the cop would pass him and he could get on with driving normally. Cop decided to sit in his lane without passing so I made the most of the opportunity and indicated, moved into the passing lane, accelerated to 100kph and started overtaking the cop. As I drew level with the front passenger-side window of the police ute, the driver suddenly decided he was sick of travelling at 70 and swerved into my lane. Completely failed to indicate, only the fact that I was paying attention saved my wife and I. Had to swerve into the (fortunately clear) northbound lane to avoid being wiped out.

The driver was not a young cop. He had a moustache you could twirl and looked (and drove) like a bit of a cowboy. If this is what we are getting from senior police officers then is there really any expectation that their current intake of 12 year olds will be performing any better? Also, if any police officers are reading this I am sure I have given you enough detail to identify the culprit. I am not going to make a formal complaint but feel free to tell him that he needs to pay a bit more attention while driving.

I thought SCU investigated serious crashed not tried to cause them.

[Ixion]

Another one come to light, in the Harold this morning . Rider lost a leg