GreenGlenn
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posted February 18, 2002 06:36 PM
Cops!!!
I have seen lots of people ranting about cops and their sometimes rabid enforcement of the speed laws. Well my bud and I had quite the encounter with one of them this Sunday.
For over a year we have been making a group ride to the ONLY decent riding area around here that actually has (gasp) corners! There are several ways to get there, one is on a loooooooong boring stretch of highway that is well patroled and another is through an equally long, sparsly populated and not (I thought) patroled at all. We usually take one up and another route back. Well, it turnd out a cop lives on the backwoods road. Every Sunday for the past year he would see us go FLYING past his house and give chase. We have never known he was there. If we had, trust me, we wouldn't have continued to do this.
Last Sunday, Slugs (YZF600 man for those at GAP2) speedo cable came off during out strafing of the countryside on this backwoods road. We stopped to fix it and BS for a minute and off we went. At the end of the road, we stopped and waited for the other guy on a Gixxer 1000 (yes... behind the YZF) and continued the BS. Gixxer caught up and off I went. Getting around the corner I look back and theres the Gixxer getting screamed at by a cop. Hmmmmmm. Showing remarkable self-restraint, we didn't run. We all pulled over where he pointed. He gets out and says "Yer all going to Jail, hope you had fun." OH SHIT.
He was soooooo pissed about us running that same stretch of road, right in front of his house, every Sunday at about the same time. Said that somedays after he chased us forever, he'd go back home and have something like 10-15 deputies on a roadblock waiting for us to come back down the road, but we never did. We always went home on a different road.
After he calmed down from the chase, he got REEEAAAAL cool. Took our names and license numbers and said that if he saw bikes that even looked close to ours, we'd be getting a visit from him. No jail. Not even a ticket. After tormenting this poor bastard for over a year, having to explain to his wife/neighbors why he can't stop us. After having sooo many of his cop buddies called out to do roadblocks for nothing, he didn't do a damn thing to us.
He could have had out ASSES. He knew we were in the military and that the Navy would have packed it in even deeper after the county was done with us. He just let us go. This man was beyond cool. Cops aren't always bad.
Thats enough - starting to feel like Redelk now.
Think I'll take a different route this Sunday....
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22348bCVC
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posted February 18, 2002 06:52 PM
...ya' takes yer' chances...
... and ya'jus' never know who's out there...who lives on what road...who's drivin' that clapped out truck...or who yer' ridin' with  ...
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ROCKET J
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posted February 18, 2002 07:01 PM
 Edited By: ROCKET J on 19 Feb 2002 04:50
What do you mean Captains Mast?
Just be glad you are not at sea. On ship brigs give a new meaning to claustrophobia. Especially if they are guarded by "Bellhops".
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Turbo810
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posted February 18, 2002 07:06 PM
I have a very good friend who is a cop. He is very cool and rides himself. He says his thing is people lying to him. If someone lies to him they are getting a ticket period. If they say hey I admit what I was doing and don't lie more times then not he will give a writen warning. Not all cops are bad. I would say for the most part they are good people just doing their job the best way they know how.
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12RPilot
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posted February 18, 2002 10:12 PM
Oh the good 'ol days!!! I remember when the navy said we would be de-nuked if we were caught breaking any traffic laws. Luckily, I never tested them. I can imagine how the cop felt. Kinda the way I used to feel when a certain group of Hardleys used to fly by my house with open pipes. Damn how I hated them bastards.
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ZXtra
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posted February 19, 2002 01:28 AM
A couple years ago I got caught doing about 150 mph on a GSXR750 (country road, no side roads). The cop asked me how fast I was going. I said about 130 mph (Lie!). So he checked my record (clean) and let me off with a warning. Cool! (and lucky!) -ZXtra
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frEEk
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posted February 19, 2002 06:49 PM
guess its strictly an individual thing. i have gotten tickets for just 20 over, but i have passed a cop at 200 over and he/she didnt blink. i would certainly prefer if there was more consistancy, but only if the consistancy leaned towards the lax side of course
regarding the country cop fly-by, he woulda been much better served had he just stuck a big sign by the road that said "slow down" or something. u coulda just taken it easy past his house, and everyone would be happy. moreover, im not sure that a single group of bikes making one pass one day a week warrants that much anger. if it were a constant thing, or LOTS of bike ridin by every sunday, i would be pissed too. well, hindsight is always 20/20 as they say. easy to say "they should have" when it wasnt u.
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22348bCVC
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posted February 20, 2002 12:03 AM
...hey frEEK...there are TONS of signs out there already for whatever government wants to regulate/control/discourage/monitor/etc./etc. ...I don't think it makes one bit of difference to those who are wont to break the law in spite...its just the way it is...ya' takes yer' chances n' yer'pays the price...frustration and anger comes with the job...and hopefully cool heads
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sassyvanilla
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posted February 20, 2002 07:29 AM
I dated a cop and.....
when ever I was driving, I would pull
u-turns...everywhere/anywhere, drive fast when the speed limit was slower....and I did all of these things and more when we were in his district!!! 
He never said much.....but deep down I think he liked this Sassy chick!!!!
PS...u-turns are illegal in canada
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12RPilot
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posted February 20, 2002 07:32 AM
I'm gonna pull a Redelk here and expand on this a little. First of all, Freek is right. Officers are only human and carry all the "baggage", if you will, that they have acquired over a lifetime of experiences. Some are bound to think that bikes are dangerous. Some think it's very irresponsible to break the speed limit laws. Then there are others like CVC who are riders and look at things a little bit more from our angle. One of my duties as a member of our Police & Fire Commission is to interview prospective police officers. The first thing I look for before spending a gazzillion dollars on their academy training is a cool, level head. However, in a town of our size, I know many of these guys and/or their families and I see a wide variety of backgrounds. I realize they will not all return from the academy with the same attitudes across the board (luckily, all I've talked to despise drunk driving).
I also interview experienced officers for promotion. Some go through alot of changes with a little experience on patrol. But inevitably, their outlooks are different and cover quite a spectrum of priorities.
To sum it up, I gotta agree with CVC. Ya roll the dice and takes yer chances. I got no problem paying the fiddler if I'm gonna dance. I may run into a guy who just got laid before his shift or a guy who just got served divorce papers. But I knew the law before I bought the bike. (Ok, my fingers are tired now.)
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Bigju
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posted February 20, 2002 08:19 AM
I think the key is in the field experience. Every cop has had different experiences. When I stop bikes, its to see if they are stolen. No I don't play the lie game either, thats the quickest way to get fucked. And yes after a year of bikes screaming past my house on sunday morning I would be pissed too. I don't know about anywhere else, but here traffic is subjective we make our own decisions about writting tickets. Me personally, I haven't wrote a ticket in years! My thing is arrest, out of 400 officers in my station I'm #3 in total arrest thats what I do. Damn I'm kinky just love those cuffs
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ROCKET J
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posted February 20, 2002 08:25 AM
Bang! Bang! Bang!....Um... Halt! Police!
I live in Cincinnati.
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12RPilot
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posted February 20, 2002 08:30 AM
I was having a few drinks with a female officer and, feeling a little macho, told her there was no way she could cuff me if I didn't want her to (which I did). She just smiled and asked much pepper spray I have inhaled lately!!! Point well taken.
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22348bCVC
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posted February 20, 2002 12:27 PM
KLINGON CLOAKING DEVICE
...and ddpete3 will be flanked by two men in blue on green bikes today...Palomar, Ortega, and to parts unknown...it'll be like riding inside his own 'Klingon cloaking device'...heh heh heh
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