So a cager tried to kill me/a cop today

**MarkH** · 15th April 2009, 15:56

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

How stupid can some people be?!

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin (RIP)

**motorbyclist** · 15th April 2009, 19:36

Originally Posted by macros87

bottle guy = dushbag, but on another note, how come you get pulled over so much? what the hell are you doing out there on the road!

i do a minimum of 40km per day, most of which is through west auckland. I personally like the idea that they do licence/rego checks as that might be the way in which my stolen bike is recovered, and will help keep retards off the road (and rthus keep our acc levies etc from soaring)

plus, as the cop said, bike is rego'd to my dad and I certainly don't look like an old man so it would be a bit irresponsible not to check

Originally Posted by maha

If this person 'tried' to kill both you a cop, surely he/she will be done for attempted murder at the very least? Maybe, just maybe, and I am going out on a limb here, but maybe the bottle was ment to hit the ground and not you or the cop?

now for some reason i can't see this post (suspect a mod beat me to it), but two things come to mind:

Had a bottle hit either of our bare heads at 100kph I have no doubt it could result in a lethal injury
While I may have exaggerated a bit, what the fuck went through this guy's head before he threw the bloody thing? Malicious or just plain stupid I dont care; he should not be allowed to simply drive off to bottle another unsuspecting person and possibly injure/slaughter them too.

I bet you wouldn't be too impressed if some wnaker starting taking 'warning' shots at you either

**dpex** · 15th April 2009, 19:49

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

SO today I got pulled over by a biker cop after he'd been following me for some time along the motorway - just a routine licence check to make sure I was legal and the bike was infact mine. Happy to oblige (though I must remember not to approach cops with my helmet on, they get scared

).

Just before we go to put out helmets back on we hear the smash of glass as a bottle lands just short of the cop bike. There is only ONE car going past, so the cop goes, "well I guess that was him then", pops on his helmet and tears off after him.

I continued down the motorway and didn't see him pulled over so assume the driver continued to do a runner.

Not only could that bottle have killed either of us, but it was obviously that car that threw it.

How stupid can some people be?!

I must say, I have yet to see a car throw a bottle. Cam belts, rings, etc, I have seen. But a bottle? That would be a first.

**dpex** · 15th April 2009, 20:12

Originally Posted by scumdog

But, but, lowering the drinking age was to allow people to learn how to drink sensibly from a young age.

Hoo-boy, THAT really worked, didn't it?

Scum, I take your point, but change never happened in a time-frame of a life.

For example, military Juanta is kind've yesterday's activity, yet Barny is going hard at it in modern Fiji.

First comes change, then society slowly, ever so slowly, gets used to it.

In about 3,000 years from now Kiwi kids will have grown up enough to deal with booze at age 5. But, of course, by then they'll have access to a vast range of devices of which we cannot even conceive, all of which will give the older generation heartburn, pain, and much more.

The fact is, no person learns vicariously. We all learn from personal experience. We can 'tell' the youngers every last ounce of our accrued knowledge, and most will snuffle at old cunts trying to tell the new generation where it's at....like they have the moral authority?

Nup. The best we can do is find ways to beat hard and sharp on malefactors.

The current regime of touchy-feely imprisonment/car-crushing/licence removal, are just hurdles to jump. 'Who gives a fuck?' is the new anthem.

Sundry Singaporeans and Eastern Blok folk give a fuck when their arses can be flayed.

But, at the moment, here in lil-ol NZ, we're still held fast in the clutch of those who believe one can reason with youth.

Fact is, they couldn't reason with me as a youth, and nothing has changed except there's no cop around ready to give my youthfull equals a boot up the arse.

It was the prospect of the boot up the arse which kept me on the straight and narrow.

But scum, for the minor group of shits who give you cops a hard time, just know that me, and most of us, hate the fact you have radar but love the fact you're there when we really need you.

Interesting duality of thinking, eh?