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[Lou Girardin]

I know someone that had a dose sprayed into his bike shorts and had to sit in a very cold bath when he got home.

I bet it was a lot bigger until the bath took effect. Have you tried it again Spud?

[spudchucka]

I bet it was a lot bigger until the bath took effect. Have you tried it again Spud?

The old red hot love sausage trick aye. Nope, wasn't me and apparently the effect was more along the lines of a Johnny Cash song.

and it burns burns burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire

[Clockwork]

Many years ago (way too many) I was liberally applying Brut splash on, (you know, the way they do in the commercials) The stuff splashed on to my balls............



Shit!!! that got hot!
The dance was somthing like this--->

[Biff]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[Biff]

An old rugby tour trick - wait until one of your fellow rugger buggers has decided to call it a day and collapse in an alcohol induced coma on the floor. Whip their pants down and spray Deep Heat on their sphincter. Then take one condom, spit in it and lay it beside the unfortunate fellow. When he wakes up, his arse is burning and there's a used condom next to him. Just watch the expression on his face when he makes the (incorrect) connection.....oh what fun!!

[marty]

aahhh the bliss of having winja blocked. no doubt he's calling someone names, or telling them how much their mother likes giving him head. what a boring fuckwit he is

[Blakamin]

[edit] nah, fuck it... WINJA, I told ya I wasn't puttin up with you calling people names so i'll just delete your post

[NC]

i dunno - mikey's kinda funny in an idiotic sort of way. i have some mates with pepper spray though if you ask nicely......

Please please please please please please please LOL

[denill]

I am not a police knocker but have like many others, good reason to question and criticise their priorities. This article appeared in the local newspaper last night.

BillW

Source - HB Today

TOP STORY: Body stayed on beach while cop manned speed camera
21.01.2005

Chris Gardner

"Rescue services left waiting with a drowned man were told police could not attend the Ocean Beach scene - but the man who pulled the body from the waves passed an officer with a speedgun up the road soon after.

Roger Parr, who pulled the body of 79-year-old Havelock North man Jeremiah Henley from the surf at Ranaika with a friend on Saturday, spotted an officer on speed camera duty just minutes from Ocean Beach after being told police were not available after a 40-minute wait.

Ocean Beach Kiwi Surf Patrol was on the scene before Mr Parr, of Napier, and his friend had pulled Mr Henley out.

The Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter also responded - taking the body away when they learned police were not coming.

"We waited 40 minutes for the police to come and do their part. Nobody was available to come to the scene of an unexplained death, or to get an account of what had taken place," Mr Parr said.

He thought police must have been busy dealing with essential matters elsewhere, but then saw a police officer with a speedgun about 3km from the scene of the drowning - at the Ocean Beach Road intersection with Waimarama Road.

"I was distressed to see this policeman sitting there in his car and pointing his little speedgun down the road," Mr Parr, patient care co-ordinator at Cranford Hospice, said.

"How can it be that the death of a person is downgraded to such a point of insignificance that it does not warrant any response from the police because they are too busy trying to hand out fines up the road?"

He did not hear from police until Monday, when an officer asked him to go to the Hastings police station and give his statement.

"It would seem that, increasingly, the only way to access any service from the police is to drive at 111km per hour on the open road."

Hastings area commander Inspector Dean Clifford said given the circumstances and staff available he was "happy with how the police staff dealt with this very unfortunate event".

The officer Mr Parr saw was a Road Policing Group member dealing with a crash on Ocean Beach Road, which was experiencing heavy traffic.

"Deployment of resources are made based on the information at hand and, unfortunately, at times those decisions may not meet the expectations of the people involved."

Mr Clifford did not supply details of the crash. A Hastings firestation spokesperson told Hawke's Bay Today that the fire service did not attend any crash in Ocean Beach Road that afternoon.

Mr Henley, a widower, was to be farewelled today at St Luke's Anglican Church in Havelock North.

To set the ledger straight:

Source HB Today:

`Speed-gun' flak a mistake
15.02.2005


Reon Suddaby
"Allegations of police checking for speeding motorists, rather than attending the scene of a drowning at Ocean Beach, have been quashed as more information emerges about decisions made at the time of the death of 79-year-old Jeremiah Henley.

Mr Henley drowned at Ocean Beach on January 15 and Roger Parr, who pulled the body of Mr Henley from the surf, said when he called police he was told they were unavailable.

However, when he drove 3km along the road after the drowning, Mr Parr saw what he thought was a police officer with a speed-gun.




Hastings area commander Inspector Dean Clifford said at the time the officer Mr Parr had seen had not been on speed camera duty, but had been dealing with a crash on Ocean Beach Road. He did not supply details of the crash.
However, Inspector Gary Allcock, of the police central communications centre, later said police attended an accident on the road at 6pm, a fact confirmed by Minister of Police George Hawkins in response to written parliamentary questions lodged by National Party police spokesperson Tony Ryall.

Mr Hawkins confirmed two police cars had been working in the Hastings area at the time of Mr Henley's drowning, and that one of the cars attended the road accident after police were made aware of the situation at 5.17pm.

Mr Allcock said it appeared a vehicle spun out on Ocean Beach Road, with the four occupants thought to be uninjured. However, a later report from a volunteer fire brigade which attended the crash said two of the car's occupants had delayed shock.

Yesterday, Mr Clifford said police first heard of the drowning at 5.33pm, at which point Mr Henley was confirmed dead.

As ambulance services and the Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter were already at the scene of the drowning, and because of the location of the body, the decision was made for the helicopter to bring the body back. Police met the helicopter at Hawke's Bay Hospital."

Cheers
BillW

[Blakamin]

Mr Hawkins confirmed two police cars had been working in the Hastings area at the time of Mr Henley's drowning,

For a town with the troubles it has, I find it amazing they only had 2 cops on the road...
shit, the place is so crime-ridden it has its own court!!!

[Pixie]

I have serious doubts regarding that comment, but I would try to help in a non violent way. The only law I am aware of that says you can assault someone is if they are attempting suicide, then you can use any force required to stop the person

Including killing them?

[inlinefour]

Including killing them?

Just to stop them. Killing is murder...

[Pixie]

I guess it's obvious that I don't have a lot of respect for what our Police force has turned into, but incidents such as happened yesterday won't improve that.
I was travelling towards the motorway on Onewa Rd and saw one of the Motorway support utes was about to turn left from the off-ramp into Onewa. This cretin looks straight at me and pulls out! So I tootle him vigourously and, thinking he'll stop for a nap soon, follow him onto the motorway. He doesn't stop so I pulled alongside and gave another tootle to attract his attention, like a naughty schoolboy he didn't look to see what all the noise was for, just stared straight ahead.
Now, I've heard that Police drivers will be graded gold, silver, bronze etc. But this guy is a dead cert for lead.

No...he was a gold

[Pixie]

Honda it appears from your comments that you really don't understand what the Job (policing) is all about???? Most of us didn't sign up for Traffic Policing, but hell thats now part of the job, so we do it, believe me when dealing with traffic offences the Drivers/Riders attitude plays a major part.
I have been in this job for over twenty years and met some bloody interesting people, a large number I still know today.
REMEMBER it could be your ass were trying to save.
One thing I have learnt about with this job, nine times out of ten the ones that couse problems for everyone else SCREAM the loudest when something happens to them.
We don't make the law's they Govt's that we all VOTE in Do.

Sorry guy's I get pissed off with the cop bashing (media).

As Homer Simpson put it:do a half arsed job...it's the american way

[jimbo600]

Yeah the old feds get a bashing alright. However when they catch a dickhead like the guy in Wanganui who murdered the girl on the riverbank they get fuck all attention. Pats on the back to spud and all the other cops on this forum who work stupid hours and get crap all recognition unless it's a bashing. Some HP do let you guys down though but most of us know theres a difference.