Would you ride with coppers?

[skidMark]

The bigger hypocrites are all the cop bashers on here that call them pigs, useless revenue generating pricks, useless cunts, and a whole host of other abuse. **

Then as soon as they have problems call the police and are all "yes sir, no sir - please help me sir"

Actually - worse than being hypocrites they are cowards as well because they dont have the balls to say it to their face.

(** note used as examples and are not my views)

Yeah it's funny how so many on KB have this one track minds of oh cops are dicks they only ever give us tickets!

Well when you apply for a license you sign away that you are on the road on the condition you obey the rules.

It is not a right to use the roads. It is a priveledge that has rules you must obide by.

If you want ot be a hoon build your own road...

As long as you don't own it the owner can place whatever rules they like on it.

Back to my starting point...

Cops don't just do traffic. They do alot of other things...

When your bike gets stolen.... who do you call?

When your house gets robbed who do you call?

Who catches the crims and locks them up?

Without cops around there would be looting etc. You have to take the good with the bad... Obey the road rules you have nothing to worry about.

Disobey the road rules... and the cops do what they are employed to do. Deal with law breakers.

Simple really.

[MSTRS:Me]

Careful Mark - that's bordering on hypocrisy.

I think you will find that the BDOTGNZA will class it as Irony....

[Finn]

I've ridden with coppers before. Three of them to be precise and they weren't exactly slow. At one stage I think we hit about 200 and this was at night.

This was in Eagle though.

[nadroj]

Reminds me of the song about the flying finn!

[Headbanger]

No, I'd not ride with a cop, especially one who wanted to speed.

Nor would I call them pigs or have I ever rung them, nor would I want to.

Hypocrites are cunts. And a cop breaking the law is massive hypocrite and well below the sort of respectable good bastard behaviour I'd find acceptable.

Though I suppose if they bought along some P?,after all, off duty. Cops can ignore the law they are sworn to uphold whenever it doesn't suit aye?

Fuckin weak.

[Mikkel]

Yep I'd ride with a cop if he was a good bastard, no worries. If he was a fucking cunt I wouldn't waste a second of my time on him one way or the other.

Same as most other people really. However, the coppers do have a job that provides amble oppotunity to expose any cuntery that might lay hidden beneath the morally intact facade.

If they do, and yet tell you that you must give up smoking and drinking because it will kill you, then that is hypocrisy.

Not really. He is after all merely informing you of the risks involved with your lifestyle. If he said "I am not going to treat you as long as you smoke and drink" but was willing to treat himself... that would be hypocrisy.

[peasea]

Then as soon as they have problems call the police and are all "yes sir, no sir - please help me sir"

Actually - worse than being hypocrites they are cowards as well because they dont have the balls to say it to their face.

Don't look at me, in either case.

[scumdog]

Ah, you've all got your points of view.

Me? I just ride, regularly with other bikers around me.

I can't be too much of a hypocrit or whatever the ranters call it 'cos they still go riding with me.

But then again I don't speed.

(Nearly forgot to indicate once though.)

As you were, ranters feel free to continue.................

[3umph]

The bigger hypocrites are all the cop bashers on here that call them pigs, useless revenue generating pricks, useless cunts, and a whole host of other abuse. **

Then as soon as they have problems call the police and are all "yes sir, no sir - please help me sir"

Actually - worse than being hypocrites they are cowards as well because they dont have the balls to say it to their face.

(** note used as examples and are not my views)

Yip have to agree with you there

[MSTRS:Me]

But then again I don't speed.

(Nearly forgot to indicate once though.)

You have our permission to 'play the game'. We don't even mind the stacked deck...
But as for not indicating.... Much worse than a 'few' ks over. At least with the speeding, others know where you are going. The game of 'let them guess' is just not on.

[MarkH]

The cop was/is nothing but a tosser.

I would prefer to avoid riding with people like that, but a cop that is a good bugger would be fine - I have no problem riding with good buggers.

[MarkH]

Cops are humans too, and while they quite probably won't have a toke with you, it is unlikely they will wreck a friendship because someone else does.

Well, they MAY NOT have a toke with you, but then again they MAY. Let's just say that I did at one stage know a cop that would.

[dangerous]

Think about the answer.

Riding with off duty copper-a good bugger and genuine motorcyclist enthusiast, the kind of person you would be happy to drink with and talk shit. Not likely to say anything unless you make a real coont outa yourself.
Here's the rub.
Now while said copper is not going to report back to base after a spirited sports ride, he will have witnessed excessive speeding, the same type of behaviour that in a day or week he will be ticketing some other hapless soul for........
Tempted, but can't get my head around the hypocrisy.

Fark sakes man... cant bee pissed reading the thread, man... you just described the cops i ride with lmfao, im the sencible one should be me dobbing there piggie arses in.

[Skyryder]

I think the point that SPB is making, and he can correct me if I’m wrong, is that he got ticketed for a speeding offence that said cop was guilty of doing himself. That’s hypocrisy in every sense of the word.

But his question was, would you ride with a cop?. On that basis yes I would and I have answered that I would not speed, not wanting to put him/her in compromising position. On that basis I would expect the cop to obey the law in this manner in a group ride on the basis that he would give tickets to those that rode at the same speed as himself when on duty. What an individual officer wants to do on his own is his choice but I expect the same courtesy from a cop on a group ride to me as I have said I would give to him/them. Respect is a two way thing.

Skyryder

[jeffs]

Ok hypocrisy test .

You go on a ride and a cop is in your pack. You all get pulled over for speeding. The cop takes of his helmet
and says "Hi bud" to the cop that pulled your group. The other cop says " Hi, since your with them, ride on but watch your speed next time"

A. Do you say " NO I want my ticket for speeding, because its unfair the cop got me off" ?
B Say "thanks" and ride on . Then when you stop buy the cop rider a coffee for saving you from a ticket ?
C. Stop riding with him because you now know he's a cop.
D. Ride with him more often because you might get pulled up for speeding.

I take B and D and still be able to sleep at night