Surely they wouldn't

**YellowDog** · 18th January 2013, 09:30

A Barrytown man failed to persuade a judge that police had forged a photograph in order to prove his motorbike had strayed over the centre line.

Police photographed Grant David Crook on his machine as it crossed the centre line on a bend near Punakaiki on December 22, 2011.

Crook was stopped and told he would be getting a ticket in the mail. He asked for a copy of the photograph, and when it arrived he decided that it depicted a different bend to the one he had been stopped on, so concluded the police must have super-imposed a picture of his machine on the bend.

Supporting this theory, he said, was the fact that the photo was not stamped with a time and date.

Sentencing Crook in Greymouth District Court, Judge Paul Kellar dismissed the claim but said he accepted that Crook had given honest, but mistaken, evidence.

He was fined the original $150 infringement fee.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...859830&ref=rss

**Edbear** · 18th January 2013, 10:06

Nup, I think it was a case of him assuming which bend he was photographed on.

An expert photographer would be able to give a good opinion on the pic.

Oh, but wait... The KB lawbashers haven't said their piece yet...

**Zedder** · 18th January 2013, 10:13

I laughed when I saw the riders name was Crook, then laughed again about if the cops name had've been Crook.

**Asher** · 18th January 2013, 10:45

i would have thought all the officer would have needed to do would be bring the exif data to court to prove he was right. Strange he didn't.

**The End** · 18th January 2013, 11:17

Originally Posted by Asher

i would have thought all the officer would have needed to do would be bring the exif data to court to prove he was right. Strange he didn't.

Exif data can be modified easily, and by the sounds of it he would have given a hard copy as evidence rather than a digital one.

**p.dath** · 18th January 2013, 11:25

Originally Posted by Edbear

Nup, I think it was a case of him assuming which bend he was photographed on.

Perhaps he spent a lot of time over the centre line on corners but wasn't looking down to notice that particular corner.

**Murray** · 18th January 2013, 11:37

So who decides what bends you can cross the centre line and what ones you can't??? We all know bendy roads where you can see a long way ahead whether any traffic is coming towards you.

**p.dath** · 18th January 2013, 11:57

Originally Posted by Murray

So who decides what bends you can cross the centre line and what ones you can't??? We all know bendy roads where you can see a long way ahead whether any traffic is coming towards you.

Um, are you serious?

**scracha** · 18th January 2013, 12:22

Originally Posted by p.dath

Um, are you serious?

Me, I'm a big boy.. I decide which bends I cross the centre line on.

**YellowDog** · 18th January 2013, 12:35

I do try not to cross the centre line, as it can be slippery or have bumpy cats eyes that can affect traction and balance.

BUT sometimes a you just need a wider line and...... well.....

**onearmedbandit** · 18th January 2013, 12:53

I try not to cross the centre line, means I have to lean less.

**Haggis2** · 18th January 2013, 13:13

Cos coppas have nothing better to do than doctor pics for a lousy $150 fine. What a muppet. Suck it up and pay the fine bitch

**FJRider** · 18th January 2013, 15:05

One cop takes the photo on one bend. Radio's ahead to his mate ... who then stops and gets the details of the rider/driver.

Rider/driver gets mail.

Common practice throughout the country.