Highway Cops

[ElCoyote]

That's funny, you should do stand-up.

After you've seen cops lie in the box you might change your tune. Until then, all the best to you in your fantasy world mate..............

What he said and raise one

[scumdog]

not in this state eh....

I dunno, looks like your average gixxr to me...

[vifferman]

It's not wrong for us to expect a high(is) standard of driving from our police, is it?
A couple of weeks ago, one did a u-turn in front of me, without indicating, then a right turn shortly afterwards (no indication again), then turned into a driveway a few hundred metres further on, and finally remembered to indicate after he'd initiated the turn.

[davereid]

It's not wrong for us to expect a high(is) standard of driving from our police, is it?

The local police have changed the way they get to the main road. (They used to sit behind old ladies at the traffic lights with the disco lights on until the old girls broke into tears, or pulled into the traffic against the lights.)

Now they blast past my workshop, avoiding the traffic lights, but gaining an off camber corner. Iwas gettn a pie (oops fruit juice) from the dairy by the corner on Monday and a well crossed up police commodore came around the corner. Judging by the whites of his eyes, he had long since given up hope of getting it right. I think luck was on his side that day, as the often busy intersection was deserted.

Most young cops grew up driving front-wheel drive cars. I think the different handling characteristics of rear wheel drive cars catch them out.

Old bastards like me enjoyed a youf of rear wheel drive V8s...

Hanging the back out around endless corners, with rubber peeling off as you supped from your flagon was the stuff of endless saturday nights.

It wasn't until I got a front wheel drive car that I had an off !

[Patrick]

not in this state eh....

That shit'll buff out... where is the twink?

[mogiman]

I was waiting to turn right into mt eden road three kings from landscape road end,
Saw some flashing lights coming up the hill so waited .
cop came up the hill doing at least 120 hung it out round the corner through a crossing (this is about 7.30 in summer),just as someone was pulling out from getting there fish and chip, cop smashed into the drivers door.
It was incredible to watch the other car free rolled about 50m down the road and drove into a fence and stopped ,
the cop got out and ran to the back of his car to check on his dog ,all the cars stopped people running from the shops,both cars were write offs ,
yet the cop was more interested in his dog ,
I would hate to think what the person in the car was like ,as the impact was right on there door ,was bloody scary the sound was incredible the cop was young ,
when i saw him coming up the hill i didnt think he was going to even make the corner,
if i hadnt been a bike rider i wouldnt have been so aware of my surrounding and it could have been me ,it was @#$%in scary !!!!
Whats the old saying it not the speed that kills it the sudden stop at the end

[3umph]

The local police have changed the way they get to the main road. (They used to sit behind old ladies at the traffic lights with the disco lights on until the old girls broke into tears, or pulled into the traffic against the lights.)

Now they blast past my workshop, avoiding the traffic lights, but gaining an off camber corner. Iwas gettn a pie (oops fruit juice) from the dairy by the corner on Monday and a well crossed up police commodore came around the corner. Judging by the whites of his eyes, he had long since given up hope of getting it right. I think luck was on his side that day, as the often busy intersection was deserted.

Most young cops grew up driving front-wheel drive cars. I think the different handling characteristics of rear wheel drive cars catch them out.

Old bastards like me enjoyed a youf of rear wheel drive V8s...

Hanging the back out around endless corners, with rubber peeling off as you supped from your flagon was the stuff of endless saturday nights.

It wasn't until I got a front wheel drive car that I had an off !

back in the old days when you could drink and drive and sex was safe....

[scumdog]

I was waiting to turn right into mt eden road three kings from landscape road end saw some flashing lights coming up the hill so waited cop came up the hill doing at least 120 hung it out round the corner through a crossing (this is about 7.30 in summer)just as someone was pulling out from getting there fish and chip and smashed into the drivers door it was incredible to watch the other car free rolled about 50m down the road and drove into a fence and stopped ,the cop got out and ran to the back of his car to check on his dog all the cars stopped people running from the shops,both cars were write offs yet the cop was more interested in his dog ,I would hate to think what the person in the car was like as the impact was right on there door was bloody scary the sound was incredible the cop was young ,when i saw him coming up the hill i didnt think he was going to even make the corner, if i hadnt been a bike rider i wouldnt have been so aware of my surrounding and it could have been me ,it was @#$%in scary !!!!
Whats the old saying it not the speed that kills it the sudden stop at the end

You lost me on the third line or so......

There's only so much missing punctuation an old geezer like me can take.

[vifferman]

You lost me on the third line or so......

There's only so much missing punctuation an old geezer like me can take.

Here ya go, ScumOf Dog: the condensed version:
"flashing lights ... cop doing 120 ....smashed into drivers door ...sudden stop"

[mogiman]

[QUOTE=scumdog;1944817]You lost me on the third line or so......

There's only so much missing punctuation an old geezer like me can take.

English was never my strong point and my 20year old keyboard with keys that dont work or work very well dosnt help ,At least its not text speak that would stuff ya

[mogiman]

Here ya go, ScumOf Dog: the condensed version:
"flashing lights ... cop doing 120 ....smashed into drivers door ...sudden stop"

fect........

[Mikkel]

I dunno, looks like your average gixxr to me...

...in the penultimate state of the gixxer evolution.

Stage one: Materials goes into factory.
Stage two: Motorcycle.
Stage three: Broken motorcycle.
Stage four: Parts.

[Patrick]

Here ya go, ScumOf Dog: the condensed version:
"flashing lights ... cop doing 120 ....smashed into drivers door ...sudden stop"

How dare the dog handler speed to get to the burglars on/rape/whatever... what was he thinking......

Cornering at 120??? He must have had racing slicks on...

Piss poor crashing tho... and worse he went to the dog first..... (no such thing as a "young" handler = newish noob. They all have a lot of years under their belts...).

Good story though......

[Mikkel]

and worse he went to the dog first.....

Hmm, dunno how I feel about that. Cops are just human and are just as vulnerable to the shock of crashing as everyone else. I don't know how many people here have been in a crash, but my experiences suggests that you're not always thinking that straight (or humanely) just after the crash. In a word you go into survival mode and start off by looking after yourself and yours.

Now, if the bystanders had gone off to look after the dog first - that would have been bad.

[mogiman]

First point blindish corner ,second point ped crossing ,third point populated area ,Im pretty sure the guy would have been no older than 25
Yes he was obviously on a way to a job and yes he had a job to do
ok fine to do those speeds to a job if you can see whats ahead of you,but everything about what happened was dangerous.. ,so to slow down for 5-10 seconds wouldnt have made any difference to where he was going no excuses for it .