Biker runs from cops

[scumdog]

I actually thought the results would come through immediately....

Noo...the blood has to be sent away to ESR and then analysed and then the results posted back to the cop in charge of the case and he may well be on days off/leave whatever so it is not instant.

[madboy]

.... (c) been too limp to be any good to the whore. (maybe he was one himself??)

On the contrary, that'd be the perfect job for her... money for nothing.

[candor]

So Madboy, if its really true what they're all saying - that there is no deterrent - what would you recommend. What do you think might have made you change your mind about failing to stop? A friendlier police service, bike love, a greater awareness / value on safety, a week in the slammer or something worse than current accumulated fines would warrant (threat of)...
I take it you are young from the handle, so am interested to know.

[karla]

But now you need to realise that the issue I am discussing here has nothing to do with the police and everything to do with how the law is put together. All I am saying that the law, as it is, leaves lots of room for non-perfect human police officers (that would be everyone of them I'd like to believe) to violate civil liberties - that we otherwise take for granted - with little or no consequence.

Again, just to make it clear - my beef is not with the police but with the law itself.

I agree, laws are a bandaid in an imperfect system, and people are not perfect by nature.

Would you make the laws more water-tight? What would you change, if you could change them? I tend to lean towards the philosophy that laws are only for honest people; and at the end of the day no amount of law or punishment will prevent crime. It is only the conscience of mankind that stops us from doing "wrong". Conscience is one of those illusive understandings that cannot be taught, it can only be modelled

How many of us "know" that something we are doing is "wrong", but continue to do it anyway? Me for one, as I am often weak-willed and self-centred and like immediate gratification. Yet my strongest strengths come from learning to deny that nature, and aspire to higher places. That isn't something that a law can change, or that we can instill in the Next Generation.

Sheesh, I must have been thinking too much yesterday

[rodimus]

If you're gonna do runners, maybe you should make sure you're a very accomplished rider first.
And don't do runners unless you have good rubber and lots of gas, then it's game on!

[Patrick]

Officer Gingacunt ?

Who issues speeding, obscure plates (arguably) and licence breaches? What does he do for a job again? I wonder how many bikers have made him hate them so much...???

[Patrick]

If you're gonna do runners, maybe you should make sure you're a very accomplished rider first.
And don't do runners unless you have good rubber and lots of gas, then it's game on!

Just like the fella in Christchurch then?

[jrandom]

Just like the fella in Christchurch then?

More like the 'fella' on the Shiny Red Bike in Wellington...

[Ixion]

Who issues speeding, obscure plates (arguably) and licence breaches? What does he do for a job again? I wonder how many bikers have made him hate them so much...???

Who also issues tickets so much without merit that he makes no attempt to turn up at court to maintain the charges.

And who deliberately provokes and incites riders into (usually minor and technical) breaches of the law

Who (on the basis of this thread) takes a sadistic delight in 'pinging' motorcyclists for technical breaches where the possible punishment is wildly disproportionate to any actual wrongdoing. As indeed even the judiciary seem to agree.

I do not consider such behaviour part of a 'cop's' job.

[Patrick]

More like the 'fella' on the Shiny Red Bike in Wellington...

Huh?????????? More info?

[jrandom]

Huh?????????? More info?

Ahem. There was a thread... hang on...

Here you go.

[Ixion]

For the umpteenth time it is *not* the lock shop guy.