I believe even cops should have the choice of being a squid if they want to.
Just as I feel I'm free to think they're silly to do so.
Just as I feel I'm free to think they're silly to do so.
Same ol' , same ol' again..... One rule for them & another for us :shakehead:
I was going to mention those 'pants' the same way but you just never know how many gay horse riders there are out there......... Hey , good luck to them if they are but they are a touchy bunch when you start talkin' bout them :BLAA:
I believe even cops should have the choice of being a squid if they want to.
Just as I feel I'm free to think they're silly to do so.
Just as i feel that Harley Riders are silly to ride Harley's...and they probably think i am a gay romper in my one piece leathers, on a sportsbike!
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Freedom of choice, but i do believe there should be a minimum requirement re riding gear on a bike...thongs, sandles, croc's, all should be illegal for a start...
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Harley riders don't wave to me :cheer:
Hell sports bike riders don't half as much as they used to when I was on my gixxer.
There's a quote that goes something along the lines of...
Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Sums up my thoughts on the matter quite well really
As for cops booking bikes in a blitz, it sucks, it happens but nowhere did you specify it was the same cop doing the blitz as was doing the lane splitting. It's like that video the other day with the cop busting another off duty cop for speeding. Some are pricks and some are just doing a job they've been told to...
On one hand you claim they should introduce more laws to limit the ways you and other people in your community ride their bikes .. on another you're unhappy that other restrictive laws stop you from doing something other members of the community see as unessential and dangerous? Not exactly innocent when we're all aware that doing so is essentially illegal.
I'm not exactly innocent myself ... :ban:
As for the guy on the pushbike, he's clearly just a dick :rockon:
Anyway motorbike riders get to Strathalbyn, stop for a coffee, when one of cyclist's who they passed, walks over to them, and tells them he is a cop, and that they had better watch themselves, cause they overtook illegally...
Yes they did overtake illegally to the letter of the law, but they did exercise due caution when overtaking...But as for the cyclists...i thought it was a bookable offence to obstruct traffic, by driving way under the speed limit...and 3 abreast...
I spoke to guy at the Speedway on Saturday night, who got pulled over on his way out to the track on his Suzuki Boulevard, or Intruder, or something that makes you look like a starfish to ride....definitely not a Harley...and when the police officer spoke to him, his reason was to check whether he was a bikey! WTF!
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Officers with that kind of attitude don't belong in the force.
Even before you consider the problems with inaccuracies in speedometers, particularly at those high speeds, its simply a form of discrimination, and the fact he said that at all is appalling.
Its the same situation that many young people face, particularly on P's. You are young so you must be doing something wrong, they'll do their best to find the most obscure thing to get you for as well, just so they can reinforce their own personal bias.
If they can't do their job in a way that maintains fairness, objectivity and the law (in spirit, not just in letter) then they shouldn't be employed at all... or they can work somewhere that doesn't effect the greater community.
With the dispute over Police insurance currently going on it was mentioned that police won't be handing out fines for minor offences, as a way of protesting.
Now firstly, it is pretty horrible that this is being taken away from them, and honestly if this is where the government is cost cutting then we have major problems.
But at the same time police should be seriously considering handing out even minor fines ALL the time, because the easily enforceable laws which catch most people (on minor offences), are often not the issues that people who deserve attention are braking.
& they have told me he has been removed from the traffic branch :thumbup: Even they agreed that his attitude washeavy handed policing by the young & over exuberant Senior Constable
for his field of policing :thumbup:not appropriate
That's good to hear, what is sad is that it only takes a few bad apples to taint the overall image. An issue that not only the police face, but motorcyclists as well.
Its been 4 weeks now since the FZ was sold/traded.
Missing my bike sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. Having withdrawls of that shrieking 600 inline 4.
Even though I ride it every day, the Strom still feels like the Mrs bike & all im doing is borrowing it.
Ahhhh :spank:
Been biting my tongue, but no more. The new ad for motorcycle safety, with Mick Doohan (aka God) pointing out the dangers of intersections, and kind of trying to get riders into the mind set of looking out for other people's pathetic driving. Cool.:thumbup:
Mick Doohan - Black Spots - YouTube
The same Gov't that is telling us we need to watch the approaching intersection like a hawk, also put the speed cameras on the same intersection, set to a couple of km/h over, so that you have to watch your speedo like a hawk instead. On the bright side, at least they can pay for the ad using the revenue raised from speeding fines.