Ticketed for riding without a helmet.

[Fisty]

A chap up the road from me was paddling his bike (engine not running but keys in the ignition) off the road onto his garden when a policeman stopped next to him.

This is the same ginger prick of a copper that pulled me over twice in 2 days for wearing jeans.

Anyway he has given him a fine (not sure how much ) and a producer for riding his bike without a helmet!

I really do think this copper has it in for bikers. Just walking down my street I have counted 4 cars without valid tax and the police do nothing about it. There are a family of drug dealers 2 doors down and all the police care about is targetting bikers at the moment.

Its really making my blood boil.

End of rant.
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[Fisty]

AWESOME!

Thank you, will pop round with that info when he gets home.
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[map]

As said above, you can now push a bike without wearing a helmet. However, this wasn't always the case and sounds like the copper is behind the times. Being familiar with the current law is part of the job description. A quick note to the chief constable should put him right

HTH
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[MoshizZ]

You may even get the ginger twat the sack
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[thegubner]

[TUG]

i would push for a sacking after wasting my time twice for wearing jeans, who the fuck does he think he is? hes wasting your time and police resources. get him sacked.
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[jackw72]

when i first read this i was thinking to myself it is actually legal but i have been shown otherwise =]

He was only looking out for your safety with your jeans on maybe its a little pedantic but still the point is there.

Have you told him about the drug dealers? If they only do small stuff the police cannot really touch them without going through a shit load of paper work and this is why they usually do not bother unless its high classed stuff.

The tax discs i would remind him of tho
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[powelly]

[TUG]

[jackw72]

it's their job if your manager paid you to call me up and sell me a kitchen and you know im not going to want one would you still do it?

RHETORICAL QUESTION

Yes it's pedantic but its not a bad thing its probably made you think twice about going out in jeans when you could not be bothered to wear gear...
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[TUG]

after having half my knee eaten by tarmac i still wear jeans.
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Haz ER-5, innit!

[jackw72]

i wear jeans all the time, i wear my work and school trousers to their respective locations, i only wear full gear for trips im going far or no destination.

Lonewolf without meaning to offend you in anyway that sentence does not really make much logical sense
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[TUG]

read it again then?
i came off my bike and got dragged on my knee, after 2 month healing i still wear jeans. if a copper pulled me i wouldn't suddenly go omfg what am i doing? i mean jeans! thats like not wearing a lid or gloves

no chance.
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[jackw72]

it made literal sense just not logical sense.

i know what you mean but it sounds stupid when i read it out to myself.

think of the policeman as your loving mother or father, sure they have the best interest in mind for you but you like to rebel.
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[jackw72]

it made literal sense just not logical sense.

i know what you mean but it sounds stupid when i read it out to myself.

think of the policeman as your loving mother or father, sure they have the best interest in mind for you but you have your own personal preference.
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[TUG]

no i just cant be arsed, and my mum has said buy leather pants to go with my jacket, i have some textile trousers but there wank too.
point is its easier for me but if a police man pulled me and made a show of me i wouldnt be impressed and i would make a report to his superior
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[jackw72]

your too cool for me boy. thats why it will never work. you have me suuuuiicidal suuuuuuuicidal when you say its over.
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[Fisty]

In response to the drug dealers, its a mother father and 3 kids.

The oldest kid ( 16 ) sells drugs to his mates etc while the mother and father sell drugs from the house.

Car pulls up outside the house and beeps horn, child of about 7 comes to the car takes the order from the car and money goes back inside obviously to mum and dad.

Child comes back outside with drugs and hands them to the driver.

Its like a fooking drive thru for drugs.

And yes I have told the police and child protection numerous times about it but the usual response is " we will send someone out to look when we have someone available"

Allthough last year they did get done for growing canabis, it had snowed and eveyones roof had snow on it except theirs. The heat from the lamps etc had melted the snow!!
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[jackw72]

haha. why are they not in prison then?

shoot them. low life fuckers.

buy some off them then cover it with arsenic/similar poison and sell it back. Tell them all to take a sample at the same time. What they do call the police?


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[thegubner]

Woooo Hooooof or free enterprise.

[pa_broon74]

Stopping a person on a bike because they're wearing jeans is crossing the line between upholding the law and invasive micro-management of the individual.

I wouldn't be happy, that officer sounds like he's crossed that other line between doing his job (upholding the law) and being a nosey self-appointed jobsworth who thinks he has a monopoly on good sense.

Fortunately you don't get many of them, but when you do bump into one...

That is all.
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[jackw72]

at the end of the day...

i love you all
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[Fisty]

Threads going off on a tangent here......

Anyway, told the chap up the road about it and he thanks eveyone for their advice!
He is going to see his brother on sunday who just happens to be a solicitor to see what he has to say about it!
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