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    Red light experience - venting

    Okay, so I'm one of those that you all love to bag. Your call. But anyway, I'm a motorcycle traffic cop in Christchurch. There aren't too many of us, you may know me, whatever.

    Last night at about 9.30 I was sitting on the company bike watching the Colombo St/Hereford St lights, when a Ford Falcon taxi (narrows it down to about 10,000) drove through a red light. It went red when the front wheels were 2 to 3 metres prior to the limit lines, the driver was accelerating to beat the lights. It was a cut and dried, ridgy didge red light offence.

    Anyway, I followed (red and blue lights allow us to do that), having had a FULL, CLEAR UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW of the offence. Pretty clear cut. The taxi then failed to indicate turning a corner, and eventually stopped for me some distance further on.

    I then got a lecture about how good a driver the driver was, how law abiding too, how I should go catch a boy racer or a gang member, how the driver hadn't had a ticket in 30 years, further details of the fabulous driving skills,more details of the advanced driving skills, etc. Oh, and it was orange.

    Anyway, just the one ticket issued, the red light one.

    I then got to ponder, yet again, the view that we all have our own driving ability. Today that taxi driver, who blew a red light and failed to indicate, will be telling all the clan about this nasty , revenue collecting man who wrote a BS ticket for such a law abiding, skilled driving member of the taxpaying public, one who pays my wages.

    And I'll write the same ticket every time I see that offence, as people who crash red lights hit people sometimes.

    Just venting.

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    Red light runners are the scum of the universe and more dangerous than open-road speeders.
    Glad some cock got what they deserve.
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    I dont trust taxi-drivers at ALL on the road. Unexpected behaviour is the norm and anything that'll cut two seconds off the journey is to be expected!

    Bike cops on the other hand... well. Never had a run in with one of those before, and considering i've passed a few while lanesplitting carefully I guess I should only hold a good opinion of them!

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    Further to my ramble. I'm not sure what's going through peoples heads when they accellerate to get through the red... Are they trying to make the most of a potential accident?

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    Oh good. Can you have a busman's holiday up here? The local plod don't seem all that interested in this sort of dodgy shit. Do you 'do' roundabouts as well?
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    yep - red light running and not indicating is SO RIFE in this country.
    also - what about not keeping left on the open road and on motorways?
    i would guess that in auckland if the police started to enforce this - it would make a decent positive impact on the motorway congestion...

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    I was hit by a red light runner a little while ago, and when I'm sitting at a red light and someone runs through it they get the big from me thats for sure, so good on you rastus for that call

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    Good on you!

    Oh, and welcome. Plenty of police on this site, and a few m/cycle cops to boot. One of my riding partners is ex-bike patrol and is now with the SCU in Auckland.

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    Won't get any complaints here about issuing tickets for red light runners.

    Number of times I've easily stopped on the orange and watched the car that was 100 metres behind me scorch past (at way over 50kph). If I can stop, they can.

    I trust you pointed out to him that running an orange light is also an offence. And the penalty's the same.

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    Irony is, I bet there is a KiwiTaxiDriver forum somewhere that the driver is slating me on. Then everyone climbs on with stories of how they have been done wrong by the revenue collectors.

    This does polarise people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    I then got to ponder, yet again, the view that we all have our own driving ability.
    Matched very closely by a lot of motorcyclists over inflated opinion of their riding ability.

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    This does polarise people.[/QUOTE]

    So does putting jumper leads on their nipples

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    Matched very closely by a lot of motorcyclists over inflated opinion of their riding ability.
    Stop going around trying to give motorcyclists a bad name dude. If you keep venting like this people will think we're all reckless fuckwits.

    Ratuscat - Taxi Driver probably doesn't actually think he's that good - he was just so much of an idiot that he thought spouting an overinflated opinion of HIS driving would be enough to persuade you that it was a one off, warning offence.

    I have always thought that polite acquiesance would be the best approach if stopped for a driving offence - I could be wrong however as it's just that I have never been stopped and never had a driving offence.....ever....so what would I know?
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    So, what to you reckon the ratio is?

    Like, the ratio of People who whinge about getting tickets - vs - [COLOR="navy"]people who think it's a good job, the ticket was deserved for what the person did?[/COLOR]

    Sadly, the ratio is quite high.We often (like, every day) hear the whinges, just don't often get a compliment for catching the offenders in the first place.

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