I wish I'd done a runner

[vifferman]

Fuck it!
Only two blocks from home, and I spot a mufti cop going the other way, and he looks too interested in me. So, I slow down, and meander along, hoping I wasn't speeding and/or he didn't clock me if I was. Eventually, I see the flashy light thingoes in my mirrors and pull over, a mere 50m from my house. $170 and 35 demerits later and I'm REALLY pissed off - at him, at me, and at not going for it. By the time the car had performed a safe u-turn and caught up (coz it wasn't motoring), I could've ben safe in my gargre. Or down the neighbour's driveway.
Although I'm normally an advocate of "do the crime, pay the fine", in this case I wish I'd been more naughty. That's 70 points in the last coupla munce, and $340. I can't afford either.

[Roj]

The question is what were you doing?

[vifferman]

No, the question is, "Should I have made a run for it?"
But since you're so curious, I was riding home, minding my own business.
The cop shoulda minded his.

[dmoney]

bugger sounds like you should of guned it dude.shouldnt they be out looking for real crimes anyway

[vifferman]

Well, in the normal commuting day, I break enough rules that I deserved the pain this inflicted, but knowing I was so close to home, and that his u-turn etc. would take a while, I was so tempted to hide down a side street or run for cover. The thing was, I wasn't really flying, so I wasn't actually sure I'd got pinged. And because I wasn't really flying, he didn't do the big smokey u-turn and high-speed pursuit thing. If I'd waited till he was out of sight of my mirrors (it was round the corner and down the hill), then given it heaps, I might have made it.
Or not.


Now I'll never know.

[jrandom]

Bugger.

Are you still under 100 points?

[vifferman]

Now I've got the beating from the vifferbabe to look forward to.

[The Pastor]

if you did a runner they would stake out your house and get you in about a weeks time.

[vifferman]

Bugger.

Are you still under 100 points?

Yeah - 70.

But because I ride like a dick (and I'm not particularly repentent this time), it makes it TOOOOO easy to go over the limit.
The last two tickets, I was like, "Oh - that was fargin stupid - must be more careful!" But now I've become a hardened criminal, as well as a three-time killer (the two speeding tickets in the '70s weren't murderous, as it was semi-OK to speed back in those primitive days...)

Or has it all changed? Are we no longer murderous thugs? Is there some other catch phrase?

Any time, anywhere, you could be fucked over and fined and have very many points that yopu don't really want added to your licence!

[vifferman]

if you did a runner they would stake out your house and get you in about a weeks time.

Bastards!
But of course, I'd've just parked the bike up for a few weeks, and used my son's Fart Punto.

So.
Now that the adrenaline of the event has dribbled away down my leg and into my sock, I need to make some Hard Decisions.
Do I punish the police by misbehaving whenever I can, or sell my bike and buy something stealthy like a Jog 50, or be very very good, and never ever kill anyone ever again?
Hmmm... decisions, decisions...

[HDTboy]

Don't think. Go!

[Slingshot]

So I assume that you live in a superb, probably families with young children live around you, maybe they were out playing and enjoying the sunshine.

I think you know where I'm going with this...





But I know your pain...I got done a couple of blocks from home a while back, cop with a laser pinged me and then walked out into my path to stop me.
The question I asked myself then was should I run....him over

[ZeroIndex]

Being close to home makes it worse, cause if you did run and got caught, really bad things happen... stopping is always the right thing to do.

[The Pastor]

basicly you can never really run from the cops, its just pub stories that make you think you can.

[timorang]

feel for ya. i wish you had been less obliging as well. in commuting traffic i have on several occassions got the fark out of there when spotted by plod as i bend the rules. my view is that if i move on in a legal way (careful to not add to the original sin) and subsequently get caught then fair enough and i will be done for the original offence. as it stands my legal reteats have been adequate to avoid plod and i am in 'credit' for the day plod finds me(currently and touch wood...).