Nearly busted for flashing

[Steam]

Problem is that your attitude is exactly why so many people hold the police in such contempt these days.....

You are OUT OF YOUR MIND. Scummy is one of the good guys.

[CookMySock]

[very relevant stuff snipped for brevity..] Frankly, you don't deserve any respect from the community because you aren't earning it, until you do I'll continue to do everything I can to obstruct you.

Anyone got a nutshell I can put this in ? Absolutely spot on.

DB

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah Scummy, I agree with these guys. About time you and your lot re-wrote the rules on policing, the last set you frontline guys drafted up must be really embarassing the top brass and government. I mean how in the hell did they give the responsibility of creating the policy on policing to you guys in the first place, all you do is sit in your cars all day on your fat arses with a speed gun.

[Steam]

yup. Final request - badge number please, and the "name calling by police officer" leaves the Internet right now, or else it goes international. Your call.

nup you don't do you - spoken like a true officer o' the law. NEVER has any police officer actually done anything to assist me when I was victimised, yet they trip me on any administrative triviality at every opportunity, while simultaneously accusing me of wronging half of collective society.

You are beaten this time, how does it feel ?

DB

members of any government agency, particularly the police, will emphatically NOT call members of the public losers and liars while in a public forum. If they want to do this on their weekly piss drinking sessions then that is fine. This was public.

The easy way to resolve this is to pm me the badge number. The hard way is to involve the media. I WILL report this, and I will do it the easy or the hard way, or the really hard way. His call.

Badge number please ?

DB

Holy fuck, are you for real, or just pretending to be a pathetic and lonely loser who jumps on a high horse and gets all "morally outraged" when an off-duty cops says shit in their own time, at home, on the net, not as a police officer?

Are you for real? Because if you are, you are one of the folk we need less of in this country.
You the very worst of the PC-screamers.
You are against free-speech.
Forget Helen Clark, you've gone far beyond her. I won't invoke Godwin's law, but that's where you're headed.
You are hateful, perhaps filled with some grudge born from another incident in the past.
Perhaps you're such a little man, so weak and powerless and ineffectual, that you feel the need to have a go at people on the internet, to make yourself feel big and tough, as you try to stir trouble.

I am astounded by your ignorance and wilful stirring.
I meet people like you maybe once every few years, and wonder how they got so old with common sense like that.

Why don't you shut the fuck up... and go out your front door and do something nice for someone.
Try to make things better in your desolate little town instead of trying to make the rest of NZ suck as much as your life must.

[Kickaha]

You are OUT OF YOUR MIND. Scummy is one of the good guys.

That he is, fucking top bloke is Scummy

all you do is sit in your cars all day on your fat arses with a speed gun.

And Donuts

[McDuck]

Problem is that your attitude is exactly why so many people hold the police in such contempt these days. The post that started this thread illustrates to me that policing is beyond most of the police force these days. Sitting on your collective asses in a car with a radar is the easy way out, get out of it from time to time and police a few other road laws, see how that goes. When was the last time anyone saw the police seriously police intersection laws? Never is when, because that would involve actually doing something, not just reading the paper and waiting for the radar to do the job for you. If the great "get the speeder" strategy was actually working it might hekp your case, but it aint, the stats are getting worse not better while you lot sit on your asses with a speed gun. Frankly, you don't deserve any respect from the community because you aren't earning it, until you do I'll continue to do everything I can to obstruct you.

I get the fealing that scumdog is one of those cops who isnt a fuckwit,

[TimeOut]

Holy fuck, are you for real, or just pretending to be a pathetic and lonely loser who jumps on a high horse and gets all "morally outraged" when an off-duty cops says shit in their own time, at home, on the net, not as a police officer?

Are you for real? Because if you are, you are one of the folk we need less of in this country.
You the very worst of the PC-screamers.
You are against free-speech.
Forget Helen Clark, you've gone far beyond her. I won't invoke Godwin's law, but that's where you're headed.
You are hateful, perhaps filled with some grudge born from another incident in the past.
Perhaps you're such a little man, so weak and powerless and ineffectual, that you feel the need to have a go at people on the internet, to make yourself feel big and tough, as you try to stir trouble.

I am astounded by your ignorance and wilful stirring.
I meet people like you maybe once every few years, and wonder how they got so old with common sense like that.

Why don't you shut the fuck up... and go out your front door and do something nice for someone.
Try to make things better in your desolate little town instead of trying to make the rest of NZ suck as much as your life must.

+1 couldn't have said it better myself.

[McJim]

And if they use the words "I was just.." - they're screwed.

But, but but....I am always just....have you ever known me to be unfair?

[Ixion]

But, but but....I am always just....have you ever known me to be unfair?

Justice and the law are but indifferently acquainted. They pass by on opposite sides of the street, and should they meet, they salute, but do not embrace.

[spudchucka]

yup. Final request - badge number please, and the "name calling by police officer" leaves the Internet right now, or else it goes international. Your call.

Come on, the suspense is killing me. Do your worst, please!

[Mikkel]

Yeah you tell 'em Steam!

At least when they're sitting in their cars with their radar guns and their doughnuts they won't be hanging around on street corners harrassing old ladies and causing trouble! Bloody coppers

/shuffles off to find a good seat.

[Mikkel]

You are OUT OF YOUR MIND. Scummy is one of the good guys.

Indeed what would the do at the Riviera of the South if their only police "helicopter" was sent of to sulk in the sin bin - or whatever the police force use to keep the troops in line...

[McDuck]

Case in point, look at how long it took the local cop to flog the front Weill? Far out there are some bent cops out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8COCPyB-go

[Waylander]

But will anyone answer the question as to what law is broken by flashing headlights??

More important question, does all this mean that we can get done for flashing our lights at some fuckwit too stupid to turn his brights off when approaching oncoming traffic?

[Ixion]

No. The law is almost entirely silent about flashing headlamps (in this context).

You could get done for flashing in such a way as to dazzle or blind oncoming traffic.

Otherwise , there is nothing about flashing them at all. At most they might be considered to have the same function as the horn - to alert other traffic to something they should be aware of,a warning signal. The visual equivalent of tooting.

As always the law is many years behind the fair, and has not gotten round to dealing with the practice.

Of course, if you are silly enough to ADMIT that you were flashing to warn motorists, there are several things they might charge you with (though it's doubtful any would stand up to a determined defence). Just as they could if you held up a sign saying "Radar cop ahead".