Dangerous driving highway patrol.

[Morepower]

I feel for the general duties and the CIB guys. They must cop a fair old bit of shit on account of a few other wankers acting like pricks.

You are right, know a couple of Police not HP cops and you can see the being tared with the same brush thing gets to them. Way better to have Traffic separate like the old days.

[Two Smoker]

yeep! they need it eh, the bikes have that bike training, to ride the new beemers (yucky) there was a 3 day course of riding over the rimutakas/some random areas down there i think.


Dunno how in-depth it was or anything but at least its a bit of a start possibly.

Yeah they do some training (as you would know) for driving, a few days at a race track (in other words fuck all)

Yep there are some good guys out there, and the majority of them are good guys, but you do get the odd wanker.....

But that kind of driving it just completely unnecessary....

And who was it that we saw doing highish to high speeds on the waikato ride

[Kwaka-Kid]

Yeah 6chris6!

whats all that about, i saw your 600 mate, you oughta take it easy. And you been eating all the pies 6chris? you was certainly looking a touch large.

[Warren]

I wonder if the police car you saw was related to the one parked upside down in the middle of the road in the news?

[marty]

probably as related to each other as you are to billy connolly

[marty]

You are right, know a couple of Police not HP cops and you can see the being tared with the same brush thing gets to them. Way better to have Traffic separate like the old days.

and you want cops to exersize discretion? were you riding and driving around when the MOT was separate from the police?

[Blakamin]

Oh yeah on the way home I saw what the emergency was about. You guessed it, someone was speeding.

Holy hell those traffic guys need to be reigned in.

Yeah... someone probably *555 the speeder!

[spudchucka]

What a fuck tard... I reakon they definately need to be reeled in, another thing is they dont have driver training so probably can't handle the car too fucking well either....

Keep us updated....

They do have driver training but it is very limited. There is a new training package being delivered at the moment which includes driver performance assessments.

[spudchucka]

But it really pisses me off that there are a few arrogant retards that have got in to the force who think that blue and red lights are are licence to put everyone else at risk just to catch a guy who probably drifted up to 112 down a hill. aaahhgggg

It pisses a lot of cops off too.

[NodMan:Me]

Yeah 6chris6!

whats all that about, i saw your 600 mate, you oughta take it easy. And you been eating all the pies 6chris? you was certainly looking a touch large.

you'll keep boyo...so just who was that masked man in your leathers at Puke the other week...and yep its true beeemers do wheelie and stoppie...shit who said that??..hope no ones got the photos

[Zapf]

Tha Majority of Cops are good guys and even some of the Highway Patrol guys.Some of the shit they dish out is driven buy the LTSA and top cops who are more interested in statistics and making themselves look good than effective policing , But it really pisses me off that there are a few arrogant retards that have got in to the force who think that blue and red lights are are licence to put everyone else at risk just to catch a guy who probably drifted up to 112 down a hill. aaahhgggg

Humm... doing 112km down the hill, and you start thinking about what speed they need to do to catch them...? how about 140+? and did they not say speed kills? so by that logic the cop is more guilty than the person they are trying to catch...

[Quasievil]

Humm... doing 112km down the hill, and you start thinking about what speed they need to do to catch them...? how about 140+? and did they not say speed kills? so by that logic the cop is more guilty than the person they are trying to catch...

exactly, the only time I have done 200km/h on a public road was in a HP car in pursuit of a VTR1000 doing 74km/h in a 50 zone bloody ridiculous really I thought, and that was the last time out with the boys in blue for me, I think they drive wrecklessly quite often just to get a minor traffic infringement notice written up

[enigma51]

Bit of the topic
Heard this story yesterday of this traffice cop down wellington that either pulled over someone or was inspecting a brake down. From what I heard its close to some tunnel or bridge (Have not been to Wellington yet) Stop his new Beemer got of walked over whille giving a glance to his new beamer. Grin on the face feeling like he is the man. So around the corner comes a Asian Driver hits a puddle and goes straight into the poor guys bike. Hows that for fucked up.

[vifferman]

exactly, the only time I have done 200km/h on a public road was in a HP car in pursuit of a VTR1000 doing 74km/h in a 50 zone bloody ridiculous really I thought, and that was the last time out with the boys in blue for me, I think they drive wrecklessly quite often just to get a minor traffic infringement notice written up

Hmmmm.... that's a thought. Wonder how the cop who ticketed me had to drive to catch up, given that: (a) he was parked in a lay-by when I went by, (b) I don't think I went below the speed limit between when he pinged me and when he pulled me up, and (c) there would've been a lot of traffic between us, as it was a very busy road.
I can honestly say that I was riding very carefully and safely, and speeding when overtaking (in a passing lane) was the only law-breaking I did.
Wonder who caused more of a potential hazard to other road users? No-one had to get out of my way....
I'm not trying to justify breaking the law, and I didn't actually see the police car until he was behind me with the siren on, so I can't comment on his driving, but I'd imagine there are times when in order to serve a ticket, police actually are actually more of a danger than the "killer" speeds of miscreants like myself....

When the 'bottom line' of traffic laws is safety, this makes you think, dunnit?

[Motoracer]

A while back (about 1.5 or 2 years ago), I was doing the kopu to Whanga turnoff road on a nice day. I was going around a blind right hander going fairly quick. A HP car came flying around and overshot the corner, comming halfway into my lane. Then during her desperate atempt to keep the car in her lane, she slid the back wheels and started going sideways. Just when I thought I was going to sideswipe the HP car even when I went to the far edge of my lane, she got it back under control and then managed to go back into her own lane. It wasn't till a few corners later that I realised what had just happened there (or what could have happened).

At the end of the day, I was happy to not get a ticket for speeding + not having the HP car run me off the road.