Cop charged with dangerous driving while responding to an urgent job

[The Stranger:Me]

Does this mean I should go 50kmph the next time someone is being bashed/raped/burgled whatever...????? WTF?????????

Yes please, any response to these thing would be preferable to the current situation.

[jrandom]

But every year innocent people lose their lives when a Police chase ends in tragedy.

To lose my wife or family to an unnecessary police chase would gut me...

You make it sound like the cops are gunning down runners with automatic weapons.

If you lost your wife or family to a police chase, it'd be because they drove like twats and crashed their vehicle in an attempt to run from the law, not because the police happened to be trying to stop them.

I've been involved in 'unnecessary' (ahem) police 'chases' several times, but strangely enough, I haven't died. Could have been because I pulled over when I saw the disco lights instead of going mental and wrapping myself around a tree.

[Patrick]

Charged with Dangerous....rightly so. Not above the law, is he? Extenuating circumstances?? Let Joe Public use that 'excuse' and see how far it gets him.

Correct... not above the law..Extenuating circumstances?... for sure. Await the full story to see what comes.

Just worries me that if you're bleeding out or getting your brains bashed out, you want me to come along at 50kmph to save you...

Cop cars are faster than Ambos and Fire Trucks - they are lumbering bricks on the road, cars aren't.

Joe Public doesn't respond to urgent duty matters, so I don't see your point there....or is that a fish hook embeddedin my cheek?

[jrandom]

Yes please, any response to these thing would be preferable to the current situation.

Do you have first or second-hand experience of a slow Police response to a violent crime in progress?

Because that sure doesn't fit with what I've seen.

[pervert]

Yes please, any response to these thing would be preferable to the current situation.

Haha that's brilliant...unfortunatly I'm not allowed to give anymore green rep out for 24 hours otherwise you'd be getting some.

[jrandom]

Having said that, 115kph at 8.43am outside a school is perhaps not advisable, although as none of us was there at the time, who knows what really happened?

What she said.

We don't have full information, so it's difficult to do a proper job of Monday-morning-quarterbacking.

The cop was undoubtedly a dangerous cunt with no regard for human life or safety, though; after all, isn't that why cops join the force? That, and the awesome rate of pay, naturally.

[Motu]

I don't see why Cops should be allowd to speed when gixer riders can't,why should they they get away with it when we can't? Everyone should abide by the same rules.....except if someone is stealing my ipod.

[scumdog]

Pretty standard for the Police in all emergency situations...no?

Unless of course someone's doing 106km in a 100km area...

Yup,
Everybody want to be cut from their wreck,
Everybody wants a band aid on their gashed head
Nobody wants a ticket for their crap driving
so they don't call the cops.

[Patrick]

Do you have first or second-hand experience of a slow Police response to a violent crime in progress?

Because that sure doesn't fit with what I've seen.

Sortof explains the above comments about non responding...

A burglary that is hours old, offenders long gone, will be delayed while we go to the bashing in progress, happening now,.... but this has been pointed out before and some just don't get it... :slap:

[scumdog]

Amazing, start a thread about a 'Police screw-up' and the trolls that leap out of the woods is really scarey, does KB attract that type of person or have they just got sad lives anyway???

[Patrick]

I don't see why Cops should be allowd to speed when gixer riders can't,why should they they get away with it when we can't? Everyone should abide by the same rules.....except if someone is stealing my ipod.

All gixer riders speed... cops get speeding tickets too... but this is a cop going to a bus crash with at least 10 injured kids on board....damn that fish hook is biting in...

[Finn]

You pussies. If a kid ran out onto the road and got hit by a car doing 55, they'd still be floor pizza. And don't tell me the driver would have enough time to stop because most kiwi's are in a coma while driving. Besides, what are kids doing on the road in the first place?

Besides, more damage is being done to our kids while at school.

[jrandom]

A burglary that is hours old, offenders long gone, will be delayed while we go to the bashing in progress, happening now...

Indeed.

I think most folk here acknowledge that, but have a beef with the level of resourcing that traffic policing gets, as opposed to the saving-babies and ninjitsu-ing violent criminals stuff.

What they still fail to get, though, is that the Gummint has allocated more resources for general policing, but the new cops have to come from somewhere, don't they?

And I don't see any of the habitual whingers lining up to join the force.

Must be our colonial heritage. Gotta have something to complain about.

[MSTRS:Me]

Correct... not above the law..Extenuating circumstances?... for sure. Await the full story to see what comes.

Joe Public doesn't respond to urgent duty matters, so I don't see your point there....or is that a fish hook embeddedin my cheek?

No, Joe public does respond to urgent duty matters (at least they are urgent to the individual involved). The 'reason' given for that cop's excessive speed was that the road conditions were good with traffic being light.
I'm late for an early start at work, on the motorway at 3.30am, there is no other traffic, I am doing 145kph. The only cop out of bed is just up ahead. Do you think that I am not walking??
Note: - my excuse is just the same, BUT I was doing 45 over, not 65....

[pervert]

Amazing, start a thread about a 'Police screw-up' and the trolls that leap out of the woods is really scarey, does KB attract that type of person or have they just got sad lives anyway???

Are you able to submit a post without using the word 'troll' or 'trolls'?

Those words seem to consume you...