Police, setting the example

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In the past 3 days i've seen a police van not indicate twice and have only one brake light,
and only today i saw a cop car in front of me with the driver on the phone!!

What's the deal there?

any one else seen the police doing exactly what they tick people off for?

given the opportunity would you have approached the driver on the phone and told him to put it down?

Your thoughts.....................

[Jamie S]

I seen a police biker with a dark visor on last summer.
And I have seen traffic cops on the phone before now but i think there allowed to be ?

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[bennett211085]

Well their allowed to shoot foriegners in the head 8 times if they feel like it, and they dont get nicked for that either.

[Jamie S]

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[Dan 4RR]

Hmm, I remember watching a police man drop some litter in the street, this fucked me off since they dish out £40 fines for someone dropping a mouldy chip
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[colezxr]

the police bible pretty much says they can break the law whenever they want to,
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[stinkwheel]

Mind you, I thought the best one was when they used a police helicopter to catch a woman eating an apple while she was driving. Using an estimated £10,000 worth of police resources in the process.

The Sun newspaper got hold of the story. They got the police on record saying that it was dangerous to eat while driving then set up a stall giving out free donuts round the corner from the police station.

They then proceeded to photograph the coppers driving round the next corner while munching donuts.

Absolute genius!
LINK to summary of story

[goatrider]

Anyone read the latest copy of Perfomance Bikes magazine?

There is an article in there about 2 guys racing an R1 and a GSXR1000 across europe. At one point they come across a convoy of over 30 bike coppers riding their pan-europeans (or maybe beemers) along at over 100mph who wave the 2 guys past to over take and then prompt them using hand gestures to pull off high speed wheelies for their amusement....... . I think they were in Italy at the time (dont have the mag to hand - left it at work). Dunno how true the story is but they do have pics in the mag of the 2 guys riding along with the 30 or so bike cops.

It seems that european cops are a fair bit more laid back than here in Blighty.


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[Dave McCool]

Gave some abuse out tonight to to berks in a marked focus.

They'd seen their colleagues on foot patrol walking towards them. They were at a t-junction with a mini roundabout, and they were joining the main road. As I approached the junction, wanting to go straight on, they were coming from my right, so obviously I stopped to give way to them.

Unfortunately, I had forgotten that it's ok for a police car to stop halfway across a roundabout to wait for a couple of his mates to get there for a chat.

I waited about 15 seconds before giving a long blast on the horn.

The driver and passenger looked at me, before turning away and continuing their wait (the ones on foot were still about 100 metres away). A bit annoyed by now, I decided to say bollocks to his right of way, as he'd clearly forgotten what he'd learned about the rights and wrongs of parking on a roundabout. I drove past and made various hand signals accompanied by the 'tongue in bottom lop, eyes wide open - I'm a window licker' face, which the visible mirth of the patrolling officers (who I know personally, and get on with pretty well) told me had expressed my feelings of frustation and rage pretty effectively.

Still pretty pissed off by that display of ignorance/arrogance (I'm genuinely unsure which it was).
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[st3v3]

I've seen 'em driving while on phone and drinking cans of coke, I treat them like any other road user, travel at 20-30 then when stop at lights/roundabout etc, express my annoyance with hand gestures and explaining inside my helmet they're so shocked they just get embarrassed and drive off red faced or stop commiting the offence Job done(Til next time)
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