Wow! That was a lot of police people!

**strandedinnz** · 29th November 2013, 07:51

Nelson street in Auckland has a minimum of 20 police people and 5 cars on it at the moment ... seem to be targeting red light jumpers.

Hell of a lot of resources booked out for that .... anyone fancy robbing a bank today ? No one available to stop you!

**jasonu** · 29th November 2013, 08:00

Originally Posted by strandedinnz

Nelson street in Auckland has a minimum of 20 police people and 5 cars on it at the moment ... seem to be targeting red light jumpers.

Hell of a lot of resources booked out for that .... anyone fancy robbing a bank today ? No one available to stop you!

Time and resources well spent. Better than writing tickets for doing 104kph on the motorway.

**Stirts** · 29th November 2013, 08:06

Originally Posted by strandedinnz

Nelson street in Auckland has a minimum of 20 police people and 5 cars on it at the moment ... seem to be targeting red light jumpers.

No, they are just picking up their xmas party donut order from Scratch Bakery.

**Erelyes** · 29th November 2013, 08:10

Originally Posted by strandedinnz

Hell of a lot of resources booked out for that .... anyone fancy robbing a bank today ? No one available to stop you!

You seriously think they don't call people off jobs to go to something more important? I got away without a ticket for that reason once, they got something urgent called through on the RT!

**Rhys** · 29th November 2013, 08:16

Originally Posted by jasonu

Time and resources well spent. Better than writing tickets for doing 104kph on the motorway.

Couldn't put it any better myself

**duckonin** · 29th November 2013, 08:36

Originally Posted by jasonu

Time and resources well spent. Better than writing tickets for doing 104kph on the motorway.

You are joking of course !

**willytheekid** · 29th November 2013, 08:43

...want worse?

On the ride home yesterday (Northern CHCh), went through woodend and noticed the pub carpark was packed with bikers!...thought, ahhh, burt munro! (gave wave etc etc)

Then guess what I saw?

No shit...19 marked police cars!!!, and two "undercover" cars (that where speeding in a 50k zone

)...all heading back into town after the revenue grab.

...friggin over kill or what?

and the absolute WORST part of it...not one of them waved back!

meanwhile....in central city chch

anyone heading down this year...you have been warned!, I think they may be collecting wallets?

**Zedder** · 29th November 2013, 08:45

Originally Posted by Erelyes

You seriously think they don't call people off jobs to go to something more important? I got away without a ticket for that reason once, they got something urgent called through on the RT!

You mean they were probably going to higher revenue gathering event...

**strandedinnz** · 29th November 2013, 08:47

Originally Posted by Erelyes

You seriously think they don't call people off jobs to go to something more important?

Ummm ... the humour gene skipped you by ?

That aside .. if they have bottled up a significant percentage of their resources to one small area, and their presence is causing traffic to back up in the area and surrounding streets, and they are on foot (yes most of the police were not sitting in a car and were walking! Very rare sight ...), how are they supposed to rapidly respond to an important incident ?

I'm all for getting red light jumpers (camera on my bike would have recorded 2 this morning at least), but to me the scale of the operation today seemed over the top and more of a big wigs ego exercise to show they are "doing something", good for the press releases I suppose.

**The Reibz** · 29th November 2013, 08:50

"Mate yah fucked, no WOF/No Reg/Bald Tires, heres a pink sticker cunt!!!"
Just in time for christmas. Toughest time of year, I know I could do with a couple of extra bucks right now

**Zedder** · 29th November 2013, 08:56

Originally Posted by strandedinnz

Ummm ... the humour gene skipped you by ?

That aside .. if they have bottled up a significant percentage of their resources to one small area, and their presence is causing traffic to back up in the area and surrounding streets, and they are on foot (yes most of the police were not sitting in a car and were walking! Very rare sight ...), how are they supposed to rapidly respond to an important incident ?

I'm all for getting red light jumpers (camera on my bike would have recorded 2 this morning at least), but to me the scale of the operation today seemed over the top and more of a big wigs ego exercise to show they are "doing something", good for the press releases I suppose.

It does seem strange they would be doing this when they had a campaign specifically targetting red light runners that ran for a month and finished in October. Apparently red light runners cost "us" $43 million a year.

**Jay GTI** · 29th November 2013, 09:05

Interesting, saw a couple of them hiding behind a parked car on Howe St this morning with a tax gun, which isn't far from Nelson St. Something going on it the area.

**Devil** · 29th November 2013, 10:17

Came throught there this morning, no problem whatsoever. That area is so common for red runners and people doing 70km/h+ down Nelson. They should hit that intersection more often.

**wharekura** · 29th November 2013, 10:35

Originally Posted by Devil

Came throught there this morning, no problem whatsoever. That area is so common for red runners and people doing 70km/h+ down Nelson. They should hit that intersection more often.

We have a heap of idiots jumping red lights in cowtown (hamilton) and I do not mind the copas pinging these pricks. revenue gathering or not, the red light bastards are flipin dangerous to us bikers - especially those of us that commute to work on our bikes and not just on the nice sunny weekends.