Kiwi Cops - The Biff verdict

**spudchucka** · 9th September 2006, 19:39

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Well said Rhod - my view too. My detector has (touch wood) helped me avoid tickets for a few years but in all my dealings with the HWP, the cops have been fine and I've got away with far more than I really deserved to without penalty. In 31 years in NZ, I've only met one genuinely unpleasant cop and that was about 5 years ago on SH1 a few k's north of Bulls. He did me for towing a trailer with the car at 105km/hr. Whilst this was admittedly breaking the law, it was the way he went on at me when he pulled me over, you'd have thought that I was public enemy No 1. That experience hasn't in any way diminished my respect for the cops though, they have a s**t job to do.

Short guy, gnome like beard?

**Blackbird** · 9th September 2006, 20:05

Originally Posted by spudchucka

Short guy, gnome like beard?

Nope, silver/white hair, maybe early 50's. Was driving a mufti Nissan 200SX turbo when he did me but I saw him some weeks later in a normal HWP car at the same spot pulling someone else.

**stunz** · 9th September 2006, 20:46

Originally Posted by Edbear

This thread...!

Is this KB?

yes...I was thinking the same thing...I reckon one of me brats has changed the URL to my Kiwi biker shortcut...(mustve been payback for the plastic spider I put in the cornflakes this morning...now THAT was funny...)

**Edbear** · 9th September 2006, 20:50

Originally Posted by stunz

yes...I was thinking the same thing...I reckon one of me brats has changed the URL to my Kiwi biker shortcut...(mustve been payback for the plastic spider I put in the cornflakes this morning...now THAT was funny...)

**McJim** · 9th September 2006, 21:48

I never got stopped by the Police in the UK.
I've never been stopped by the Police in New Zealand.
In fact - closest I got to a cop in NZ was at the Boobs on Bikes Parade the other week.

I don't think they like me, my personalised number plate, my FTO or my VTR.

If rumours are true I may get to meet some tomorrow on the noobie ride (weather permitting) which will be nice - then I can post an opinion.

**Limb** · 9th September 2006, 22:03

Havn't been pulled over by a cop for as long as i can remember.

When my son got his learners this year we were coming back from Thames after getting his licence and there was a police road block pulling cars over in Tairua. My boy wanted to get pulled over so we road back and forth pass them a few times. We still didn't get pulled over.

**Shadows** · 9th September 2006, 22:16

Originally Posted by Blackbird

but I saw him some weeks later in a normal HWP car at the same spot pulling someone else.

Damn. Some people will do anything to get off a ticket!

**KLOWN** · 10th September 2006, 01:36

shit, I don't have enough time to write about all the tickets ive had (about 50) so I have a real good idea what cops can be like and i've found out........... about 2/3rds are all good. Some can be real assholes and I have had one cop assult me for standing ountside pizza hut waiting for a pizza ( I was pulled to the ground by my hair and kicked once and all this was without warning. I think it was to do with a party that was going on up the road, maybe mistakin identity?) I am always polite and I don't begrudge them for giving me a ticket, I know the law and i willingly break it, but I've been let off for doing 110km/h in a fifty but given a ticket for doing 61km/h in a 50 but as I said before about 2/3rds are all good! as many have said before... I don't want to be doing there jobs, so don't have a cry if one cop is having a bad day and gave you a hard time!

**sunhuntin** · 10th September 2006, 07:21

very little experience with cops...only ever had one ticket and that was no seatbelt!
have been caught up in rego checks etc, but one time this has happened, me and the other bike both got waved through

gotta love that! even with my barely there l plate, they just let me go, lol.
i do speed, but for some reason ive always been able to sense where theres a cop, and keep my speed even, or else i get stuck behind a slow vehicle, or a car flashes their lights at me.

plus all the local cops have bp fuel cards, which means i deal with a couple a week through work....i have to be polite, and hope to god that works in my favour if i ever do get pulled up for something.

**JimO** · 10th September 2006, 07:50

my first time stopped by a cop was in 1976 i was 16 we had done a booze cruse from Dunedin to Oamaru on a sat night in a mk3 Zephyr, i drove, didnt have a licence. in Oamaru i went sideways around a corner and there was a black and white he stopped me and asked for my licence (didnt even look at the large bottle'o speights between my legs). "dont have a licence " i say "ok" he says slow down and be on your way. I got pulled over lots of times on bikes and never got a ticket, once on a RD 350 the cop says "jeez that thing can go"

**Sketchy_Racer** · 10th September 2006, 09:15

Originally Posted by KLOWN

shit, I don't have enough time to write about all the tickets ive had (about 50) !

Shit! You are either really dumb and dont learn from your mistakes.

Or your really rich.

I aint had a ticket yet...... hopefully not to soon either. But i guess if i dont speed i wont get a ticket!!

**KLOWN** · 10th September 2006, 12:53

Originally Posted by RG100!!

Shit! You are either really dumb and dont learn from your mistakes.

Or your really rich.

I aint had a ticket yet...... hopefully not to soon either. But i guess if i dont speed i wont get a ticket!!

all the tickets have stopped me being rich, and i just love going fast too much to stop doing it so I guess I'm dumb but thats fine by me.

edit: I have had only one ticket on my bike the rest have been in cars and i think the most tickets i got was when i owned a modified mini, man that car is fun to drive round in and it could ALMOST get to 200kph, just not fun stopping with four drum breaks.

**Sketchy_Racer** · 10th September 2006, 20:01

Lol yeah you probably would be rich if you got all the $$ back from your tickets!

**McJim** · 11th September 2006, 16:27

Well Sunday came and went and I still haven't met that elusive creature the Kiwi Copper. Mav reckons he saw one in a mufty car in Clevedon but then I've told him to stop taking the drugs. Prob just some dude driving to church in his sunday best.

So still can't pass an opinion yet.