Completely Un-pc Vote

[bluninja]

Bikerboy, that sucks. I've only been pulled over once by the police in NZ. A gingernut outside Wellsford, and I got the agressive verbals despite not speeding at the time. Maybe we should all carry a tape recorder with us, and make a show of turning it on before talking to an officer of the law.

BTW, if you were just emerging from the petrol station, even if he locked onto you, the metal structure of the station right behind you would have interfered with his radar (another reason they trap you on straight uncluttered bits of road) and if he wasn't even in direct line of sight (forward or reverse) then his reading couldn't be accurate.

Slim, when I hear about instances like that I sometimes wonder whether they dose them with speed or some drug to make them agressive and nasty. It would be great to get an undercover video of police behaving in this way, just so something would be done about it. Still, no ticket; I guess the guy suffers from SPS (short penis syndrome)

TTFN

[Coldkiwi]

at the very least you can demand to see the radar having clocked you at the supposed 137kmhr!!! Sounds like the same dirty bastard who reckoned he got Aff-man at 133 kmhr (quite impossible on that section of the Sth mwy).

Filthy filthy pigs

 

[bikerboy]

The problem is the radar probably did think something was going that fast, However it could have been anything, including the radiator fan of the polivce car. There have been studies done where signs vibrating in the wind can cause a false reading, often things like house going 300kph.

The idiot in the car hears the alarm, looks around and if he sees no vehicles he presumes it a false reading. If he sees a vehicle he ASSumes that the driver is guilty. There is no thought process or logic to it, much like those scanners at the check out. If it says the can of beans is $10,000.00, thats what they'll try to charge you unless YOU point out the mistake.

[Slim]

Originally posted by Coldkiwi
at the very least you can demand to see the radar having clocked you at the supposed 137kmhr!!!

I definitely would have if he'd started writing out a ticket, but until that happened I didn't need to see it because I knew that I was doing 110kph.

Sounds like the same dirty bastard who reckoned he got Aff-man at 133 kmhr (quite impossible on that section of the Sth mwy).

Older, white hair, mustache, sargeant-major type of guy.

Originally posted by bluninja
Still, no ticket; I guess the guy suffers from SPS (short penis syndrome )

PMSL!

[Goddess of Goof]

One cop was nice, once.
My riding buddy and I passed him on the highway back from Paeroa, we weren't speeding or anything, just coping with heavy traffic.
He fully looked at us, but we carried on. Later on we stopped for 20 minutes to let the sun set and avoid sun-strike, which was getting troublesome.
Cop passes us, pulls over, and gets out purposefully, and strides over to where we were innocently parked up in a safe place.
Uh oh, whaddus he want ? we muttered. Looks like something's
up.

Turns out he was a biker and interested in bikes - particularly the one my friend was riding. He was friendly, informed, and we had a real nice long talk. You can never tell, eh.

[What?]

Did a runner once -  a long time ago when my CB11 was quite new and the cops had nothing anywhere near that fast... Plus I was only a few K's south of Tokoroa, so it was a good bet that I could get into town and down a side road before the cop even got turned around.

I don't believe I would try it again - the opposition has improved (?) over the years to the point where getting away with it is unlikely, and the consequences of trying outweigh the risks.

(a small aside: the cop very likely saved me from a spill as I hit a possum exiting a corner whilst in the process of evading said cop. As I was hard on the gas, there was not too much drama, but no cop behind me probably would have seen me do something really silly, like brake!!)

[aff-man]

Quote:

Older, white hair, mustache, sargeant-major type of guy.

 

Nope sorry slim my gut was late twenties highway patrol large and intimidating type of guy. Being pulled over for my first time i was packing myself and so got walked all over by this guy. He even ended up giving me a fine for not having an L plate on my restricted i mean come on and when asked where he was parked he became vague and quite agressive. And so here i am, three months later,  after sending numerous letters to the cops trying to find out where he was parked and only getting crap reply's which actually do not answer any questions. I am not going to pay untill they answer my questions and if they don't well i'll keep sending letters. Isn't it funny that when you ask the hard questions they somehow seem to "misinterperate" them or just not answer them at all.

[Kwaka-Kid]

hey aff-man, thats no good to hear dude!

however at least i didnt get my speeding ticket i thought the camera flashed me approx 2 weeks ago, my mate got hte same camera 2 days after me and got hte ticket a few days ago, i checked my mail at my old ladies. and none from them YAY! im so happy, i only just raised my plate so its right up under the reflector, but im sure its visible? + looks std. so its all good, maybe ti saved me, maybe a car saved me, or maybe it was a 100watt indicator i saw :P hehe.

well, ive never ever been pulled over on a bike, they wont touch me i want to so i can just have a good chat! oh well i lie, i have been pulled over i think twice, but just by bike cops i know, that ive waved to to pull over. anyways yeah, i honestly fully dont have the big i hate cops attatude, and im guessing its because i havent been pulled over on the bike, ive been pulledover once in my car, which was all good and i chatted to the young cop, and ive been in mates cars a number of times... and just let me say tone/attatude gets you a long way.. or a long way down shit creek if your some of my mates.. i sit and listen in the back seat thinking "dont be another teenage hero that wanted to tell the cop hes wrong" - i look @ it this way.. no matter what, once he has said somthing, e.g You were speeding back there, DO YOU REALLY THINK, if u tell him u wernt, hes gunna all of a sudden say "oh im sorry lad, musta got u mixed up, hav a nice day" so my wayis automatically agree and sound regretful and genuine, just dont try and tell them they are wrong, worse yet, dont start swearing @ them or poking fingures, okay in the moment it might make you feel like the absolute man  - and be a great storey to tell the mates, but the ending will never be a good one.

thats all, sorry for the long post

[SPman]

You can be as charming to them as you like - it just means they are smiling as they write out the ticket!

If they want to be obnoxious pricks, they will be obnoxious pricks and all the arselicking in the world won't get you off

So - Fuck em

[bikerboy]

So true SPman, sooo Truue!

[aff-man]

yes the officer who pulled me over was agressive untill he had written out the ticket and then he was all smug and stuff  .I hope to meet a nice cop just to change my impression of them.

[Redstar]

hey I saw this flow chart on this and it was real cool. I cant remember it all but it went somthing like.

1. are you tyres warm yes move on no stop.
2. have you got a bike faster than a BMWRT1200? yes move on no stop. (thats easy)
3. do you know the streets you are on ? yes move on no stop
4. did they get your plate? yes move on no stop?
5. do you allready have 190 demerits? yes move on no maybe stop
6. do you have a pre arranged alaby? yes move on no stop
7. do you have a hiding place? yes move on no stop
8. is the traffic heavy? yes move on no stop.
9. can you spell alaby? aliby? alibuy? excuse?
yes move on no stop.

are you putting anyone else at risk? kids pilion? family?
yes Don't go there!

[Slim]

Originally posted by Kwaka-Kid
i look @ it this way.. no matter what, once he has said somthing, e.g You were speeding back there, DO YOU REALLY THINK, if u tell him u wernt, hes gunna all of a sudden say "oh im sorry lad, musta got u mixed up, hav a nice day" so my wayis automatically agree and sound regretful and genuine, just dont try and tell them they are wrong, worse yet, dont start swearing @ them or poking fingures, ...

I completely agree with your comments regarding attitude, for the simple reason that a bad attitude can only make things worse for you ie: you got pulled for speeding, but bad attitude got your rego/warrant/bike examined more thoroughly & a bigger ticket.

But I've already demonstrated in this thread that if you weren't doing what they say you were, telling them so may work. OK. So he didn't say, "Oh, I'm sorry lass, musta got u mixed up, have a nice day," but he came pretty close to admitting that he may have pulled over the wrong person and he didn't write me a ticket, and if I'd just rolled over & said, "Yes officer, no officer, three bags full officer," I would have got a nice ticket & some extra demerit points which I didn't actually earn.

Truth always pays.

[What?]

Damned right, Slim. I once got pulled up going into Sanson on the way home from Manfeild by a cop who claimed to have clocked me at 139K. When I told him "No", and explained that the bike he clocked was a blue and white Suzuki 2 stroke, whereas mine was a red and white Honda 4 stroke his whole attitude changed. In fact, he had clocked me over the limit as well, but was happy to leave me with a flash of the headlights and a finger wave.

And then there was yesterday. I followed a highway robber car from Cambridge to my home (just out of Tauranga) at 120K most of the way. Said highway robber was following another car at same speed for quite a way with no action, then he tries to give me a demo on how fast he could get his commodore up the Kaimai hill. Giving it heaps, he was, and looking in his mirrors quite regularly to see if I was still there (?!) Seems there is always one to blow our theories away.

[Coldkiwi]

no, he was doing what I've seen another pig do.. break the law and see if you follow him at which point he will stop and nail your ass! He's not testing his car, just baiting you.

saw a pig acclerate hard to get through a yellow light (PLENTY of room to stop) and as he went through, he looks up in his mirror to see if I'm going to go as well! (I'm not that stupid). I can gaurantee he would've pulled me over if I had

Cheeky punk ass mother