Highway Cops

[Grahameeboy]

2 cars had a minor shunt just where the Shelly's Beach Road is...2 Highway Patrol Cars and 1 unmarked cop car caming screaming down through all the traffic on motorway to attend...

[Patrick]

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.

Fair call... The dog is actually part of the handlers family, so go figure... As for the bystanders checking the dog, yep that would be bad.... they don't like strangers.....

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 .

True... Gotta get there to be of any use first, ay...?

2 cars had a minor shunt just where the Shelly's Beach Road is...2 Highway Patrol Cars and 1 unmarked cop car caming screaming down through all the traffic on motorway to attend...

Every minute the road remains blocked on the motorway in Orks, the tail grows by a kilometre. That is why they hurry...... The sooner the orad is cleared, the sooner the tail stops growing worse....

[Grahameeboy]

Fair call... The dog is actually part of the handlers family, so go figure... As for the bystanders checking the dog, yep that would be bad.... they don't like strangers.....



True... Gotta get there to be of any use first, ay...?



Every minute the road remains blocked on the motorway in Orks, the tail grows by a kilometre. That is why they hurry...... The sooner the orad is cleared, the sooner the tail stops growing worse....

But they were not blocking traffic...

[scumdog]

But they were not blocking traffic...

Until a cop gets there it's not confirmed.

Have you ever heard the contrdicting/inaccurate info we get from the public??

It goes both ways, -
"Car rolled, multiple injuries, persons trapped" = car rolled forwards down a hill into a parked car, nil injury, only the car 'trapped'.

"Car off the road after running into ditch, can't see anybody hurt probably won't even need a tow-truck" = car into tree-stump in ditch, one dead, two injured....

[Patrick]

But they were not blocking traffic...

Doesn't stop the rubber necked budgies driving past, though.....

As long as they are parked up at the side, normal traffic flow doesn't resume.....

[Sidewinder]

shot the fuckers, run them off the road with a semi, tap open the gas and going flying past them on the back wheel given them the finger

[Patrick]

shot the fuckers, run them off the road with a semi, tap open the gas and going flying past them on the back wheel given them the finger

You can get a semi truck up on the back wheel??????????????????? That, I gotta see....

Or ...

You can get a semi up on the back wheel???????? That, I don't wanna see, ya sick perv.....

[Dave Lobster]

They do what they like, it's simple. Make a complaint and they'll white-wash it.

I've reported a few. Sometimes good result, sometimes not. Most of the ones I've reported were mufti ones, and I didn't realise they were police until I got a phone call.
Good result:
Inspector something rang to apologise that one of his men was weaving all over the lanes on Manukau Road at seven in the morning. Excuse? He was tired and had been to an armed robbery. Sorry.. a policeman SHOULD know better than to drive when that tired.
Bad result:
Police car full of plain clothed mates on a Saturday cruising down the northern motorway (to Mitre 10) at 130-140km/h in the overtaking lane. Phone call to say this isn't illegal. I kid you not..

[SPman]

Whats the old saying it not the speed that kills it the sudden stop at the end

Or the sudden Cop at the end.......

[peasea]

Police car full of plain clothed mates on a Saturday cruising down the northern motorway (to Mitre 10) at 130-140km/h in the overtaking lane. Phone call to say this isn't illegal. I kid you not..

I'm utterly aghast. Not.

It CAN work in your favour though. Not so long ago I got off the I/I ferry at Picton and got to cruising along behind a police stationwagon. "Crap" I thought, "this is gonna be a slow 100kph trip back to Nelson". Not so. Just out of Spring Creek he pulls to the left and slows, so did I. (I'm not that stupid.) So, he gets back on the gas and trundles along at 120-odd. "This'll do me" I thought and we sit on that for ages until I look down and spot the needle happily poised at 130. Then it started raining, no let up on the speed from either of us.

We were stopped for a while at the base of the Whangamoa's while a truck was righted (big crane etc) then it was all go over the hills where the bugger got away from me in a hail storm. After reaching the flat again, in the pissing rain, I motored along at 130-140 and managed to catch up with him just before town where I turned off. (Not before giving him a friendly couple of high beam flashes.)

I got a good look at his face in the rear view mirror of the s/w while we were waiting for the crane to finish up and I recall the rego number of the s/w. If he ever stops me for speeding I'll be sure to bring all this up.

[scumdog]

As above, it can also work against the plods - in a 'work' car you catch up with somebody doing 95kph+-, follow them for a bit, cars build up behind so you overtake Mr95kph, all other cars follow so all sweet you think.

Next day Mr95kph phones your boss to moan and says he was 'doing just about 100kph' and a marked patrol car overtook him and 'it had to be doing almost 115kph at least to pass me, what right does he have to do that?.'

So sometimes driving a marked patrol car is the slowest way to get anywhere...

[Dave Lobster]

Next day Mr95kph phones your boss to moan and says he was 'doing just about 100kph' and a marked patrol car overtook him and 'it had to be doing almost 115kph at least to pass me, what right does he have to do that?.'

Must be an ex cop to have such an accurate speed guesser

[Mikkel]

As above, it can also work against the plods - in a 'work' car you catch up with somebody doing 95kph+-, follow them for a bit, cars build up behind so you overtake Mr95kph, all other cars follow so all sweet you think.

Next day Mr95kph phones your boss to moan and says he was 'doing just about 100kph' and a marked patrol car overtook him and 'it had to be doing almost 115kph at least to pass me, what right does he have to do that?.'

So sometimes driving a marked patrol car is the slowest way to get anywhere...

Yep, you can never please everybody at the same time.

Pissing everybody off on the other hand...

[Patrick]

I'm utterly aghast. Not.

It CAN work in your favour though. Not so long ago I got off the I/I ferry at Picton and got to cruising along behind a police stationwagon. "Crap" I thought, "this is gonna be a slow 100kph trip back to Nelson". Not so. Just out of Spring Creek he pulls to the left and slows, so did I. (I'm not that stupid.) So, he gets back on the gas and trundles along at 120-odd. "This'll do me" I thought and we sit on that for ages until I look down and spot the needle happily poised at 130. Then it started raining, no let up on the speed from either of us.

We were stopped for a while at the base of the Whangamoa's while a truck was righted (big crane etc) then it was all go over the hills where the bugger got away from me in a hail storm. After reaching the flat again, in the pissing rain, I motored along at 130-140 and managed to catch up with him just before town where I turned off. (Not before giving him a friendly couple of high beam flashes.)

I got a good look at his face in the rear view mirror of the s/w while we were waiting for the crane to finish up and I recall the rego number of the s/w. If he ever stops me for speeding I'll be sure to bring all this up.

Score is already 1 all... you were doing 130 - 140 without getting a ticket, you didn't have a moan...

Who is to say that the same car won't have someone else in it either...? They aint personal issue, ya know....

[3umph]

So sometimes driving a marked patrol car is the slowest way to get anywhere...

Yeah I understand that Scumdog... I do a bit of work for the Chch police with my business and get to drive quite a few marked cars around here and there...
It's amazing how many people slow to quite a bit under the speed limit when you are behind them or put on seatbelts, get the kids to sit down etc etc...

my favorite funny day was when I was stopped in a long line of traffic at some lights and a bike came roaring up and stopped at the rear corner of the car when he saw the marked car.... I wound down the window and signaled him up to it and then told him I was not a policeman so carry on...

the look on the fellows face to begin with was priceless

I can also see why a lot of people get pulled up as you can see the change in people when a marked police car is about... some can not even look at the car/driver and make them self look really guilty of something even if they are not....