Cops tailgating to try and make you speed

[rouppe]

Happened to me in my car quite a few years ago. Driving north up towards Taihape. He (in a marked car) followed at a distance, zoomed up, fell back, zoomed up.

I stopped in Taihape for a break, he pulled up across the road, and then told me to stay in the car while he gave me some snarky lecture about how I'd been 'seen speeding' in Hunterville.

"Nope officer, you're wrong. I know you're wrong cause today happens to be the only day in recent years I decided to stick religiously to the limit"
"You were seen"
"Get them here then, I'll be in the coffee shop"
"Got my eye on you sonny"

To make it worse, despite me having done nothing, and not been stopped by the official method of lights and/or sirens he baled me up in my car and refused to let me exit.

Little prick. I've been waiting for a similar event to unfold so that at the end of it I can demand his details to make a complaint but it hasn't happened since.

[Rych]

hmmm, cop's tail gating you most likely means you're probably going too slow as a lot of people do when they see police, automatically think they must go below the speed limit by 10km/h...

If they are trying to make you speed that's plain rude, I don't know of any that would do that.

[Shadows]

Definately happens, more than once in my own experience.

[Hinny]

... he is almost glued to my ass ...

I'm confident that every man who has met you would like to be in that position.

Can't blame him for that.

[scumdog]

Has anyone ever encountered this strategy? I haven't, but according to a chap I know it is quite common.

What's with this 'make'???

[Bassmatt]

I was following a mufti down the Tauranga side of the Kaimais at 100kph. Cop pulls into the slow vehicle lane and stayed in it, still doing 100, obviously hoping i would pass him and thus exceed 100. Pretty fucken cynical policing if you ask me. Also, I tend to pass cars that pull over for me out of courtesy as they clearly would prefer i was in front of them.
Makes you wonder how bad the speeding problem really is if they have to resort to these sort of tactics.
And they dont know why the public doesn't respect em like they used to - wankers.

[scumdog]

Have had this happen to me a lot of times.

Empty road and cop pulled over, i go passed, he pulls out then every 30sec he radars me. If I pull over he will stop and do the checks etc

I have had this happen to me on Auckland motorway too! its crazy. The only way to deal with it is pull into a driveway (dosen't always work!) or just hope he gets bored or a speeder comes from the other direction!

Yeah doesn't work in my experience!

I saw a cop in an old white BMW in whanagrei. 20" chromes, big more and what looked like illegal tints. He was FLOORING it from 0-50k at all the lights trying to get a drag race going. He was in a weird police uniform that i'd never seen before - dark blue baseball cap and a puffy jacket. My radar detector was going nuts.

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The above reminds me of why I'm glad I don't live on the exciting and vibrant Norfeyeland.

[george formby]

I was following a mufti down the Tauranga side of the Kaimais at 100kph. Cop pulls into the slow vehicle lane and stayed in it, still doing 100, obviously hoping i would pass him and thus exceed 100. Pretty fucken cynical policing if you ask me. Also, I tend to pass cars that pull over for me out of courtesy as they clearly would prefer i was in front of them.
Makes you wonder how bad the speeding problem really is if they have to resort to these sort of tactics.
And they dont know why the public doesn't respect em like they used to - wankers.

Refresh my memory on Slow vehicle lanes. Do you filter left regardless or only enter the lane if you are in fact a slow vehicle i.e. cannot maintain an adequate speed?
Genuine question, left my road code at home.

[Bassmatt]

Refresh my memory on Slow vehicle lanes. Do you filter left regardless or only enter the lane if you are in fact a slow vehicle i.e. cannot maintain an adequate speed?
Genuine question, left my road code at home.

You only use them if you are slow, hence the name, they are pretty much there for the trucks which I believe can only go down at the same speed they can go up.

[Scuba_Steve]

Refresh my memory on Slow vehicle lanes. Do you filter left regardless or only enter the lane if you are in fact a slow vehicle i.e. cannot maintain an adequate speed?
Genuine question, left my road code at home.

only if your slower than the other traffic they're just there to allow you to let others past they are not a lane in itself as such

[Taz]

And they wonder why there is no respect. I can see a run on machetes at the otara market.

[george formby]

only if your slower than the other traffic they're just there to allow you to let others past they are not a lane in itself as such

Cheers all. That was my take, you have to physically change lane to use one so why would a cop maintain the open road limit in a slow vehicle lane?

A+ Left his road code at home too

B+ Deviousnes

C+ Genuine mistake

D+ He's f@#$%^g with ya!

Answers on a post card please...

[PrincessBandit]

I've never had cops do it to me, but if it did I'd be only too happy to engage in some verbal dialogue with them over it. My daughter's friends don't call me a daschund for nothing!

[Berg]

I have been called in to cert speedos for the police (I refuse to call them popo as I find that offensive to Len Snee who was murdered by a scumbag called Popo). Almost every speedo I have checked reads up to 10kph fast with 8kph being the average. If you are cruising along at an indicated 100kph and are in fact doing 90-92 the policeman would have pulled into the slow lane to let you go as their speedos are certed to within 3kph at 100kph.
I have never seen the deliberate tailgating act in 25 years of driving and riding. Must just be the way I ride.

[Hinny]

My daughter's friends call me a dachshund ...

That's a bit of entertainment!