how about calling the cops and saying 'I saw them carrying something and I think it might've been a gun'... see, its not really a lie at all.. just a suspicion!
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how about calling the cops and saying 'I saw them carrying something and I think it might've been a gun'... see, its not really a lie at all.. just a suspicion!
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Or, if you're really in trouble. Yell Fire!Originally Posted by Coldkiwi
Lou
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Yep, we are luckt that we have the right to complain. And that is just what I have done, I also copied it to my MP (Tony Ryall), the Minister of Cops and the PCA.
Still reckon it's a waste of time, but I reckon you have to do something. The way the cops are acting round my area, it is but a matter of time before their zeal to apprehend costs someone else dearly...
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Yep I think that all of the emergency services need to rethink there driving standards (if we have to then they should) The other day my sister was nearly taken out by a ambo going through a roudabout at about 80kph.
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The problem is that there is no driver training at all for the services. For the police all they get is a weeks driver training, and basically all that is, is this is wat happens with oversteer understeer etc..... and then have a blat around a race track for a day.
Back in Lou's days the MOT had 6 weeks driver training and 6 weeks rider training.
Pity about the government being stupid and all, in ome ways you can blame the cops for idiocy but then you can blame the government for poor training.
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Or a few years ago you would mention that they were smoking something and it didn't smell like tobacco. That would get the cops out for sure. Don't know about nowadays...
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Dident all the MOT'ers have to do there time on a bike before moving up to a car. That would teach ya respect.
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They did it at the same time, but most of the time was spent on the motorcycle hehehe, i would do that just to ride the bike all day
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And what nobody realises is that the shmucks on highway patrol are ordered not to attend criminal matters and get repremanded when they do. Don't blame the boys & girls on the street. Get stuck into the bosses.You ALL have good points of view, its been good readingBut I have to say that Lou has a good point......The other day a mate had his house broken into and as he came home and cought the little buggers inside he rang the cops and yessssss.... they said "we have no available patrols in the area at the moment" 'phtttttt crap' so they watched the shits jump the back fence and disapair down the railway line.
Now the other day I watched a laser gun speed trap being used from work, it took 5 patrol cars and 8 thats 8 cops to run 1 speed trap :sneaky2: Go figger.... well its easy realy they make heaps with the laser and nothing catching thiefs
We all see the traffic cops out and about but the public has no idea of the volume of day to day crap that the general duties cops have to deal with. The reason the have no patrols available is usually because they are knee deep in sorting out peoples domestic problems, dealing with juvenille offenders or stopping some nutter from topping himself. But this stuff isn't visible to the public so they assume that all cops are pingging Joe Average for speeding while some P crazed maniac rapes their grandmother. It's simply not so.
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I did 7 years on a bike and no car job in sight. You could get into cars earlier if you transfered to some shithole no-one wanted to work in. And our training was suberb, road riding, a bit of track work at Manfield and some off-road stuff, two day each week for 12 weeks. That's why our accident rate was a fraction of the cops.
It's no good giving Police bosses a hard time, spudchucker. They're insulated from it, never hear the public's abuse. The only to get to them is via disgruntled rank and file cops. It might not seem fair, but that's life.
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Hhhhmmmmm i wonder what it would be like if the MOT was still around??? Would it be worse? Or would it be for the better? I can see both views and in a way i tend more to the it would be better part.....
Let the debate begin... if anyone wants to lol
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Did you ever say "have a nice day" to those you ticketed Lou?
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Ya, there used to be some OK MOT's back in the 80's. Can remember getting let-off for speeding in a 50KPH zone on New Year's Eve as an 18 year-old (ya boy-racers are no new thing) because I was sober!
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Hell, there were even some OK council traffic cops!Ya, there used to be some OK MOT's back in the 80's. Can remember getting let-off for speeding in a 50KPH zone on New Year's Eve as an 18 year-old (ya boy-racers are no new thing) because I was sober!
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Spudchucka, people may realise it is the bosses who are so far up their own promotion scales they wouldnt know a crime priority from a bedsore, setting all these crap goals, but it is the copper on the beat/road who the public has to deal with. If the feeling that the public get, rightly or wrongly, is that they are being shafted, then the cops are going to get stick.
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No, those days were pre - McDonalds. A lot of people did say 'thanks' when booked though. (never could understand that).
If the MOT had todays technology and yesterdays attitude, I think there'd be a lot less aggro from drivers. I once let a guy off for 140 on the Southern M/Way. He was sober, the road was empty, car was designed for reasonable speed. So why book him? Didn't happen often though.
And the Police wouldn't be disliked so much, we took most of the flak.
Lou
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