On the pre-breakfast pootle this morning, I noticed three HP cars on the new section of the Waikato Expressway (Ngaruawahia bypass). Two on the other side of the road - one having a conversation with a motorist - and a third one on my side of the road. He was up ahead of me in one of them there orange patrol cars and I gradually caught him up (at 95km/hr.). He pulled left as we exited the expressway and as I passed him, he flipped on the gogo lights and indicated that he wanted to converse with me. So like the law-abiding citizen than I am, I moved over and stopped.
He was a very pleasant young man and was really only checking paperwork. He wasn't even going to view my licence until I offered it to him. All checked out fine of course (I said I was law-abiding). We proceeded then to talk bikes and idiots on the roads for a few minutes until he left me to continue my pootle.
The only thing he didn't seem to approve of was the fact that I had a radar detector aboard. I assured him that I wasn't a hoon (

) and that it worked very effectively as a speedo monitoring device - every time it chirps, I check the speedo - solely against speed drift you unnerstand. He didn't seem too worried after that.
Lucky I was all up to date with the rego and wof, eh?
And had changed the worn out S20 on the back...
First time I've been stopped in five and a half years.
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