What would you prefer?

[Dodgy_Matt]

Here's a surpise: Both!

Only nowadays the traffic guys don't drive black'n'white cars.

Susssh, dont tell Scuba_Steve they drive holdens

[rastuscat]

What would work for me with the Popo would be to see them doing the job they have been employed to do!.......................Are the Popo crime control or traffic enforcement???

Funny. When we all join it's for the same purpose. Get paid to protect people and property.

But what does that actually mean? After you join da Popos you realize how many things are actually involved in that. Some want to be a search and rescue member. Some want to be a Popo negotiator. Some want to be a Popo dispatcher. Some want to attend crimes with little chance of catching a crook and mindlessly fill out paperwork for the benefit of who knows who. Some want to be firearms officers, others maritime officers. Some want to be an education officer, convincing munchkins that maybe weed isn't a career choice.

Some join road policing, as the Popos are contracted by the government to deliver hundreds of thousands of hours each year of road enforcement. The personal choice might depend on the roster, the smaller amount of paperwork, the lower chance of attending mindless tasks that other sections have to.

Kindly accept that you have little knowledge of what the Popos do before suggesting they should all be attending to your personal preference.

So there.

[scumdog]

Kindly accept that you have little knowledge of what the Popos do before suggesting they should all be attending to your personal preference.

So there.

Fuck-off rastuscat, that's not the way ranters on here want it....this IS the 21st century mafter all and it's me-me-me all the way!

[Scuba_Steve]

Fuck-off rastuscat, that's not the way ranters on here want it....this IS the 21st century mafter all and it's me-me-me all the way!

pfft well theres ya 1st problem, did your mum never tell you "the world doesn't revolve around you"??? It revolves around ME! & it's Me, Me, Me!!! not you, you, you. stupid scummy

[oneofsix]

Fuck-off rastuscat, that's not the way ranters on here want it....this IS the 21st century mafter all and it's me-me-me all the way!

umm so that's where scumdog is coming from, self centre little ..., whereas one could believe rustus wants to be helpful

I should have left it alone but it was too hard to resist

[Kickaha]

Kindly accept that you have little knowledge of what the Popos do

Scummy told me he only joined for the donuts

[rastuscat]

Scummy told me he only joined for the donuts

I joined for the donuts too, so eat me

[Jack Miller]

The reader poll needs a third option: "Just leave us alone"

[Kickaha]

The reader poll needs a third option: "Just leave us alone"

I've actually found it remarkably easy to get them to do that

[Drew]

Haven't read all the responses, as the few that I did read made me forget the original question.

What should be done to increase rider safety? Umm, actually teaching people to ride, as a requirement for getting a licence!

Basic handling test is a joke, and so are the people training riders to pass it.

After riding for 17 years, I recently sat my restricted licence test. Another fuckin joke. There is no way I proved I had the ability to ride a motorcycle on the roads in ten minutes riding around Lower Hutt suburbia.

Stiffer penalties? More of us will just realise a middle weight (and up) bike will smoke a cop car, and do runners. That is the opposite of safer.

Places like this mentoring riders? Mentoring what, typing?

I really struggle to think who should do the training, or even write the standards for a passing mark after it. But I have full confidence that the current retards in the rider safety/acc group, or someone like them would end up with the job, making it a waste of time like what they are doing now.

Pessimistic of me you think? Fuckin oath it is! Someone will probably say that it's easy to pick holes in something, and they are right I guess. But riddle me this, something so easily torn down, should it be put up in the first place?

[Drew]

I've actually found it remarkably easy to get them to do that

It's easy to avoid police attention when you're a hundred years old and get overtaken by grannies out for their weekly shop.

[Jack Miller]

It's easy to avoid police attention when you're a hundred years old and get overtaken by grannies out for their weekly shop.

Check rastuscat's other recent post. He'll give you a ticket if you're holding up traffic.

[Jack Miller]

I've actually found it remarkably easy to get them to do that

Yeah but rastuscat isn't willing to settle for that. He wants to either hunt you down and ticket you, or hunt you down and get engaged to you. Non-molestation isn't an option in the poll.

[Kickaha]

Yeah but rastuscat isn't willing to settle for that. He wants to either hunt you down and ticket you, or hunt you down and get engaged to you. Non-molestation isn't an option in the poll.

I think you better get a bigger tinfoil hat

[Scuba_Steve]

I've actually found it remarkably easy to get them to do that

you've never been a "young driver" with a motor vehicle then have you??? or at-least not since the traffic & cops joint forces to increase police presence & fight real crime scam people.