What cost to the taxpayer?

[Patrick]

Is that your bandit I can smell burning..............?

Nah... she's nice and comfy under her blanky....

[peasea]

Nah... she's nice and comfy under her blanky....

Lecky-blanky? Could be shorting.....

[Sidewinder]

Last Friday night (March 13) there was a huge, and I mean huge, road block on SH6 just north of Nelson at Hira. Ok, WOF checks, breath tests and so on don't bother me but surely one or two squad cars could handle that. I didn't have my camera that evening but we can recall about 7 or 8 squad cars there, an unmarked one at the top of the hill and another squad car just on the downward leg on the northern side. They also took my photograph for whatever reason. It was clearly a sting pointed at visiting bikers who'd come to Nelson for the poker run on the Saturday, this was denied by the officer that checked my details. Liar.

Then came the poker run the next day. The assembly point was host to several squad cars and a few unmarked cars. The route was dotted with patrol cars and several unmarked cars. At Tapawera there was a police photographer, unmarked and marked cars etc. They also used video cameras throughout the day. At one intersection (not far from the Riwaka Hotel) they had positioned cameras about 100m up the road to photograph those who did not come to a complete halt at the stop sign. Fortunately I saw the rider in front do a double take, both his feet hit the ground and I followed suit.

Then came the prize; a major operation on the Appleby Highway that saw hoards of bikers pulled over for WOF and Rego checks with breath tests thrown in for good measure.

I don't have a problem with these operations pre se but I did think that the taxpayers money was being wasted here with the scale of these operations. Do the police really think that at such an event anyone is likely to get turpsed-up? If you did that, and proceeded to knock someone off their bike, the law would be the least of your worries.

When I stopped to reverse the situation and take pics of the coppers I got the twenty questions routine; "what do you think you're doing" etc. Had my machine checked out, me checked out and so on. I also didn't get any straight answers to my questions; double standards.

It was over the top, as per fucking usual.

hahaha that is crack up, maybe the fuckers just had no where to park there cars that weekend, nice pic, that old prick looks pissed that he is on camera!

kaipai brutha

[peasea]

hahaha that is crack up, maybe the fuckers just had no where to park there cars that weekend, nice pic, that old prick looks pissed that he is on camera!

kaipai brutha

It was quite funny mate. He says "what are you doing?" I says "what you guys did last night, you take pics of me, I take pics of you, fair?"

Grumble, grumble, license please, no probs, see ya.......

Nothing better to do.............

[Sidewinder]

It was quite funny mate. He says "what are you doing?" I says "what you guys did last night, you take pics of me, I take pics of you, fair?"

Grumble, grumble, license please, no probs, see ya.......

Nothing better to do.............

haha stupid twats