How often do you get stopped by police?

[peasea]

To use your comment with amendments here...

And yes the younger ones are a problem, it's far easier to deal with, talk to and warn someone who doesn't have an attitude...

I too treat and speak to people how they treat and speak to me... They start it, I finish it. If it's a baddie, they get a quota full....

You HAVE to be way over 30 then.........

For the most part, with age comes experience but (because of all down sides to being a copper) many of those with experience find another way to earn a living. (A bit of a generalisation...) We often get stuck with ten cent, spotty wannabe heroes on the frontline and when you get to MY age the last thing you're gonna tolerate is some glaring advertisement for Clearasil handing out a lecture.

Mind you, as I've gathered a few years I'm less inclined to retaliate physically and IF there's a problem I'll use the so-called 'proper' channels. The less said and done in anger on the side of the road the better, especially if there are witnesses.

[idleidolidyll]

Too right, it's hilarious having to pay Helen Clark's crowd money ! I love doing it too, I can't stop giggling every time I pay tax

Never been pulled up on the bike, but I ride like a nana anyway.

mate, I'm HAPPY to pay $120 to piss a cop off all day long.

If it weren't for the points I'd choose to do it at least once a month; the money is peanuts

[zxcvbnm]

I got stopped in 1988 for doing 120 (est) in a 50km, got done for a WOF. Others where for random motorbickle night checks that I just did runners from in the end

Haven't been stopped for any thing for years apart from alcohol/WOF/reg checks.

[mstriumph]

To use your comment with amendments here...

And yes the younger ones are a problem, it's far easier to deal with, talk to and warn someone who doesn't have an attitude...

I too treat and speak to people how they treat and speak to me... They start it, I finish it. If it's a baddie, they get a quota full....

Patrick, Patrick, Patrick ...... [may i call you Patrick?]
people like me - we NEVER 'start' it ..... we are far too well-mannered to brawl in public ............... and far too modest to think of ourselves as mentors for public servants ........

but when i get spoken to, apropros of nothing, in an overbearing an over-familiar way by someone who looks as though he's scarce out of nappies....
someone who obviously doesn't have either the smarts or the confidence to realise that you catch more wasps with honey than you do with vinegar .... then i WILL get out of my tiny car, rear up to my full height, look at him down the length of my aristocratic nose and point out to him, gently but succinctly, the error of his ways in treating a member of the public with the sort of contempt his attitude displays

you don't like that? ---- to be truthful, i don't like it either ..... fundamental manners, people skills and the respect that one human being should display towards another are skills he should either have learnt at his mother's knee or in kindergarten cop school ........ but if those responsible for him have failed it would be remiss of me to fail him too.

have a nice weekend

[racefactory]

So is the fine a normal $400 dollar one for driving a bike bigger than a 250 on your learners? Or is is less?

[Ixion]

$400. 25 demerits. Each time. Breach of licence conditions.

[mark247]

So is the fine a normal $400 dollar one for driving a bike bigger than a 250 on your learners? Or is is less?

$400 and 25 demerits like what has been said. I got done for that once before i got my exemption, i was stupid enough to keep riding and got pulled up again before i had my exemption but he let me off that time, then i got PULLED UP AGAIN with out my exemption and this cop wrote me another ticket but stated on it that if i get my exemption in 28 days i can get the ticket wiped. So yea, pulled up 3 times for the same thing but only 1 fine... lucky me... but i should of learnt my lession the first time...

[Patrick]

people like me - we NEVER 'start' it ..... we are far too well-mannered to brawl in public ............... and far too modest to think of ourselves as mentors for public servants ........

but when i get spoken to, apropros of nothing, in an overbearing an over-familiar way by someone who looks as though he's scarce out of nappies....
then i WILL get out of my tiny car, rear up to my full height, look at him down the length of my aristocratic nose and point out to him, gently but succinctly, the error of his ways in treating a member of the public with the sort of contempt his attitude displays

you don't like that? ---- to be truthful, i don't like it either ..... fundamental manners, people skills and the respect that one human being should display towards another are skills he should either have learnt at his mother's knee or in kindergarten cop school ........ but if those responsible for him have failed it would be remiss of me to fail him too.

have a nice weekend

Was speaking of myself... can't do much about those you talk of, unless I am fortunate enough to catch them out doing that shit. Swift kick on the arse polishes boots best.... but you can't do that.

Re-read my post. With me, THEY always start it. I talk how I want to be spoken to. When THEY up the ante, well, you know the rest...

You getting out of your car etc etc and firing up after they have pissed you off - I do like that!!!

It is exactly what those you talk of need. That one time might last him/her a life time and they learn from it. Others, it is in one ear and out the other, but their time will come... be it a smack in the head or a PCA...

And hey - you have a nice weekend too... I'm off to a Jmaes Bond Party - only the birthday dude is the one and only James - everyone else is the baddies or Bond chicks. Should be fun.....