New Highway Patrol mufti cars

[pritch]

wats next...probably cops on mufti bikes....SHHSshshhhhhhh

Saw that on my CB500 about 1974 up the Ngauranga Gorge heading outa Wellingtown. the only give away from behind was that he was wearing those silly brown boots that nobody else would be seen dead in. There was no way I was passing anybody wearing those bloody things. He wore a one piece rain suit and a non-issue white helmet with an MoT badge on the front.

For the curious, I noted the latter when he pulled up a truck by pulling alongside it and pointing at the badge on his hat...

[MD]

I'm a broken man. A shell of my former self. I'm going to book myself in for therapy and ask for the strongest & fastest anti-depressant drugs .
Why? The Police have won. They've swamped the roads with what seems like a HP for every 2km of road in NZ.
Game over. The funs over, the other team won. Everybody go home and wait for boredom to consume us.
It just seems even cruising the motorway at anything between an innocent 110-115kph now and SLAM! It's as if the HP materialise out of the seal itself!
Just been out in the car for a short trip and saw two muftis. It gets worse, it seems the driver of the new black Falcon mufti with chrome mags, tow bar, spoilers lives in my suburb! I feel claustrophobic, like being trapped in a nightmare where you just can't get away from the bogey man. Ever turn, there he is, radar/laser at the ready. The dog handler stopped me recently and nearer booked me.
Not that many years ago we would scream up the Kaitokes to the base of the hill. But now. I'm terrified if I go above 108kph. I break out in shakes and a cold sweat. Where have all the good times gone (screams in Pink Floyd tone).
Edit- this is a serious matter separate to this thread so i'll start another depressing thread on the demise of our freedom to speed.

[bex]

If an undercover cop is a mufti, does that mean that an under water cop is a mufti diver!!!

[scumdog]

I'm a broken man. A shell of my former self. I'm going to book myself in for therapy and ask for the strongest & fastest anti-depressant drugs .
Why? The Police have won. They've swamped the roads with what seems like a HP for every 2km of road in NZ.
Game over. The funs over, the other team won. Everybody go home and wait for boredom to consume us.
It just seems even cruising the motorway at anything between an innocent 110-115kph now and SLAM! It's as if the HP materialise out of the seal itself!
Just been out in the car for a short trip and saw two muftis. It gets worse, it seems the driver of the new black Falcon mufti with chrome mags, tow bar, spoilers lives in my suburb! I feel claustrophobic, like being trapped in a nightmare where you just can't get away from the bogey man. Ever turn, there he is, radar/laser at the ready. The dog handler stopped me recently and nearer booked me.
Not that many years ago we would scream up the Kaitokes to the base of the hill. But now. I'm terrified if I go above 108kph. I break out in shakes and a cold sweat. Where have all the good times gone (screams in Pink Floyd tone).
Edit- this is a serious matter separate to this thread so i'll start another depressing thread on the demise of our freedom to speed.

Saw more cops in the crwd ATthe Vincent rally enjoying themselves than I did going to/coming from said rally

[Monsterbishi]

Just to confuse matters even more down here in Christchurch, a construction firm has now painted the tops of it's ladders red and blue, so that when they are tied down to roofs of the work vehicles - which are white I might add, a quick glance in the rear view mirror makes you think their's a cop behind you...

At a distance it's disturbing how cop-like it looks!

[MD]

Yeah that red and blue ladder on the car roof thing seems to be a nationwide prank by tradesman.

[Smokin]

Just to confuse matters even more down here in Christchurch, a construction firm has now painted the tops of it's ladders red and blue, so that when they are tied down to roofs of the work vehicles - which are white I might add, a quick glance in the rear view mirror makes you think their's a cop behind you...

At a distance it's disturbing how cop-like it looks!

I saw a station wagon that had red and blue ladders on it just out of Arthers pass late last year, It scared the living shit out of me , I had to throw out both anchors and the parachute, I did get a big wave and a silly grin from the bugger tho.

Come to think of it I think the smell has finally gone out of my bike pants

[warren35]

If an undercover cop is a mufti, does that mean that an under water cop is a mufti diver!!!

hahahaha i was just thinking that, a bunch of cheeting under handed maggots i tell you.

[0arbreaka]

Argh "the man" is getting stronger!!

[shafty]

I saw a station wagon that had red and blue ladders on it just out of Arthers pass late last year, It scared the living shit out of me , I had to throw out both anchors and the parachute, I did get a big wave and a silly grin from the bugger tho.

Come to think of it I think the smell has finally gone out of my bike pants

FYI, ALCO started a system of making their Industrial ladders with a blue top step, and Domestic ladders with a red top step. This helps identify domestic ladders on building sites (as being unsuitable). MAny tradesmen have a mix. - and I know what you mean, it makes you do a double take alright!!

[Paul in NZ]

Saw a silver / grey Honda Accord giving two very noice and proper 'Ladies' a ticket on the northern part of mana before the roundabout (south of the weigh station). Everyone drives waaay too fast there - it IS a 50kph zone ffs.

It did NOT look like a mufti car.

I don't have an issue with it. Happy to tootle along at 100kph as loong as they keep the traffic flowing I have no need to be any place sooner than I get there.

[Smokin]

The young guy at work got a $150 ticket this morning from a mufti cop, He failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign on his mountain bike.

I'm not sure how they are going to give him demerit points because he does'nt
have a license.

[marty]

he'll be issued with a psuedo dlicno, and demerits added to that. that number will convert to his actual dlicno once he gets a 1L/6L

[Fub@r]

Well seeing this thread doesn't earn an infraction I'll put my pic here seeing it is a mufti vehicle