Another cop bashing thread

[Lou Girardin]

One of the AMPS guys was bowled on Gillies Ave last week. He'd just come off the off-ramp and headed towards Khyber Pass. About 50 metres further on a car turned right across a line of other cars waiting to turn right and drove into his lane. It was pouring with rain, he tried to brake and avoid the car, but he clipped the front of it and ended up parting company with it and slammed into a stone wall. He was taken to horsepiddle and amazingly was found to have suffered severe bruising only.
The cop investigating the accident has said they're not taking action because two witnesses said that the rider had room to pass the car and that he overreacted and caused his own crash.
These witnesses are obviously experienced bikers who are fully conversant with a bikes braking and avoidance capabilities on a streaming wet road.
What happened to the fact that chummy in the car drove into our guys lane, thereby failing to give way?
Then contrast this to CaN getting a dangerous charge on the say so of some faceless 'witness' some months after the fact.
What bloody morons are they hiring these days?

[Squeak the Rat]

Bloody cops

[Finn]

Bloody Asians!

[outlawtorn]

just doesn't seem fucking fair man, this way of thinking that the biker is always wrong is really getting on my tits. It's time public education is stepped up a notch and time the fucking police are trained in both car handling and bike handling. Send every new cop out there on a bike for two years, then he can better judge a situation.

[Squeak the Rat]

I wonder what he recorded the accident as?

Multi vehicle, rider primary responsibile. Factors: speed, wet.

[ManDownUnder]

[ManDownUnder]

Bloody Asians!

Bloody Mary?

[Finn]

Bloody Mary?

Thought she was a virgin.

[ManDownUnder]

Thought she was a virgin.

You can be a virgin once a month????

[Finn]

You can be a virgin once a month????

I forgot about MarkAuckland.

[Sniper]

We should rise against the man/women thing

[Finn]

We should rise against the man/women thing

Helen Clark?

[Sniper]

Helen Clark?

Ahh yes, that one

[MSTRS:Me]

Ahh yes, that one

Bloody oath!

[dawnrazor]

We are certainly 2nd class citizens as far as the general public are concerned. When I mention I have a motorbike in non biking company, I can see people make a character judgement about me, they assume your wreckless, immature and poor, when in fact I'm generally very safe, boring and could buy and sell their sorry asses before lunchtime!

I don't think bikers are taken very seriously in this country and this sort of response reflects the general predjudice ingrained in joe-publics mind, after all, to them we are smelly biker gangs who sell drugs and rob you house etc etc.

Its doesn't occur to most people that you ride 'cus it beats driving everyday hands down, and 'cus its the most fun you can have in kevlar and leather.

If I'm asked once more by family or friends when I'm going to get a car or for that matter when I'm going to learn to drive a car i'll......

Doesn't exactly instill your faith in witnesses to be objective with their testamonies does it, thats an invisable enemy right there, only a raised positive biker image will make non bikers sympathetic to the bikers lot -but that isn't going to happen over night...well it will if petrol prices keep going up and people chop in their cars for scooters. Wow never thought I'd be glad at the prospect of more scooters on the roads.

Hey Lou you don't think the cop thought it was you do you, given the location ? (I smell conspircy)

Seriously though sounds like your mate was well lucky no thanks to anyone else, the insurance claim will be interesting, a case in point where going to court may well be an option if you get a good lawyer!