Not quite giving a line to a cop but many moons ago (26 years actually) I was busted doing a stand-up wheelie past my then girlfriend's house in Oxford Terrace, Naenae, on my then brand-new GPZ750R.
Ended up in Lower Hutt District Court on a Reckless Driving charge, in front of two old biddies back when the JPs did traffic charges.
I went into a long detailed explanation about cleaning the carbies, and how the throttle had stuck WFO when I was taking the bike for a test run after the cleanout, which ended up with the old biddies chastising the copper about how he'd added insult to injury for this poor 18-year-old who must have been absolutely terrified and had only just managed to stay on his motorcycle in the face of a horrendous machine malfunction!
I bet that wouldn't happen now...
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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