So hypothetically, you find yourself being chased by a helicopter

[White trash]

On a serious note, I've personally watched 14 minutes of night footage from eagle of a fairly well known Auckland sportsbike rider unknowingly being tracked by the chopper while he's doing a runner.

The thermal imaging is almost impossible to escape. To the point where the cop car brake heat obscures anything else you can see from the car. It's farkin cooooooool footage too.

[unstuck]

Yes, but do they not teach you that helicopters can fly?

By the time they got a police helicopter down this way i would be at home watching cops.

[Murray]

Lyttleton tunnel is your friend

[Usarka]

The thermal imaging is almost impossible to escape. To the point where the cop car brake heat obscures anything else you can see from the car. It's farkin cooooooool footage too.

Yeah if they've got you on thermal you're pretty much fucked.

Unless you can find a KB group ride to merge in with! Extra bonus is they'll have to attend to the next person who bins.

[bogan]

I ain't so bothered about helicopters but I tend to run away from flying things in general, wasps bees, oh and this thing, if the police used one of these I would surrender on site.

TURN UP THE VOLUME, stick with it and prepare to surrender everything you have.

farrrrrkkkkk that's cool, and you just know the youtube aint doing the real life sound justice. How do I make my bike sound like that?

Helicopters eh, best way would be to find a bike rally and blend in I reckon. Or have an almighty crash with a big fire that flares their thermal imaging, and while they are blinded, throw all your gear onto the fire, and act like a bystander

[Maha]

A cop once said to 27 riders that ''I wont chase any of you for two reasons 1) cant stand the paper work an 2) not interested in scraping you off the road, I'll just call in the police helicopter''...imagine that?..a cop copter on a Maha ride..
Some riders brief that was....thanks Scouse.

[steve_t]

Find a multi-storey building you can ride into, like a hospital, and hide in the ceiling space, naked

[Katman]

Jaunt to another dimension.

[jaffaonajappa]

Say a cop choppa can fly at 200kmh.
How the hell do you just Gas it and out speed them? Which roads are you talking about? Cos if its got bends or traffic on it - the cops taking the direct and shorter route - your not. I mean.
If your outrunning a cop choppa - youve proly done something realllllly really bad. And your going to look at other options to escape justice (or whatever) - Im thinking something that involves you hoping off your bike perhaps near a shopping mall - mixing in the crowds and ditching ur bike gears? And if the bikes in your name - your still screwed.

[slofox]

I ain't so bothered about helicopters but I tend to run away from flying things in general, wasps bees, oh and this thing, if the police used one of these I would surrender on site.

TURN UP THE VOLUME, stick with it and prepare to surrender everything you have.

Some time waaaaay back in the mid fifties, one of these things flew over our school - at a height that didn't seem, at the time, to be much more than in that footage although I bet it was. The sound as I recall it was similar too. Although it didn't suddenly roll it all on as it passed over.

Heard later that it crashed on landing when it got back home...

Cool aeroplane.

[Grasshopperus]

They dont have police helicopters down this way. C YA.

But they'll know it was the village motorcyclist.

[Ender EnZed]

Ride under a big tree. Then climb the tree. They won't look for you there.

[The Stranger:Me]

Lol. I fogot to add I'd pull out my nine and fire off a couple of rounds at the flying oinksters.

Just hit them with that green laser again.

[Oakie]

Some time waaaaay back in the mid fifties, one of these things flew over our school - at a height that didn't seem, at the time, to be much more than in that footage although I bet it was. The sound as I recall it was similar too. Although it didn't suddenly roll it all on as it passed over.

Cool aeroplane.

I remember them also doing it about 1972ish and watching them fly over while I was at Intermediate. It may have been the farewell flight.

[The Stranger:Me]

Leaving out many of the more interesting particulars, we'll say for this point of interest that, for whatever reason, NZ's finest wants you to pull over to the side of the road.

You have chosen to ignore their polite request, because fuck it, you got knee down on the track. Once. Dispatching these assholes should be a piece of cake right?


WRONG.


They've decided that your deeds are cartoonishly mischievous enough to warrant calling in a police helicopter. Well, fuck. What's your next move? Is there no running from the eyes in the skies? Or do you have a place to run to where you think they won't see you?

What comes now then, ye heroes of KB?

So as a matter of interest, how many police choppers do they have?
What's the cost of keeping one of those things in the air for an hour?