Entrapment!

[dAVE]

GTKitty - yes, they have rules to follow..... but alot of them are on a power trip and use their power to bend you over. 95% of the cops I run into are ****wits, but thats cos they are traffic cops. I know a few dudes in the force and they detectives or something nice and high... and they are top blokes. Its just these traffic cops in dead end jobs are the lowest of low and have nothing better to do than to **** people over.

[Zoix]

I met 2 nice coppers once, that was on the jason cruise from toowong, they were nice, every other one i have met was bad.

[GTKitty]

Well i aint disagreeing there. Some coppers are losers, but you have to wonder why they are that way. You cant assume that if you copped constant abuse for doing your job by a bunch of loud lil smartasses that you would be pretty unreasonable too...

At risk of condemning myself I wanna be a copper... thing is that i know the other side and respect that car enthusists are for the most part well behaved, decent blokes who wanna do nothing more than talk cars with other enthusists, for that reason i wanna make it a lil more equal (not if) but when i get in there.... just for kicks too.... i wouldnt be able to help myself but play up in a patrol car. only pull you up if you beat me in a drag hehe

[chaos]

i was always told never to be a copper cause they dont get all that good respect u think they may get.

But you have to see there point of view being pulled over for simply driving a car.

[GTKitty]

I dont think that i understand what you are trying to say Chaos. I dont wanna be a copper to be respected... i know that if thats the case that i would be suffering every type of denial imaginable if i beleived that i would be respected. All the same i reckon that if both cops and car enthusists were willing to work together that the problem would be resolved alot more. Being willing to assist the coppers would only prove that you are not doing anything illegal and that way all those losers doing bunrouts at BWCP, wrecking it for everyone else would be found out and dragged over hot coals because of it.... by cops and enthusists alike.

Getting off that topic though.... who is going to Street Torque next weekend??

[chaos]

coppers arnt gonna get the respect the deserve if they pull over every nice car on the road. They pull over a car for the fun of it they harrass people cause there bored. All this money there spending on the "hoon" squad could be spent improving other things. I've seen countless footage of police edging ppl on in drag races etc.

Police have been invited to a number of car cruises to keep an eye on things and yet they see it as a perfect opportunity to harrass car lovers. People took the time to invite them and they do that. How can car enthusists work with police if they do this. Police should stop wasting tax payers money and catch real criminals out there.

[GTRgeoff]

I saw four brand new electric blue high profile Falcon V8 patrol cars coming off the Ring Road in Melbourne in a convoy. They all looked a little older and real serious except the last guy who was slowing back to get some space from the others and then herbing it up with this huge grin on his face. Obviously an enthusiast in the best kind of car....someone elses!! More of this guy on the force........

[Simonster]

I had a pleasant experience last thursday on the way to work.

In Brisbane heading towards Ispwich on Ipswich rd just prior to the Cunningham HWY exit in an 80 zone a motorcyle cop got me doing 103 in an 80 zone. That's just under the over 25km/h bracket, which was 3 points and $250.

I guess what might have helped my cause was he didn't even get to signal me to pull over. I knew I was gone and indicated and pulled over before he did anything.

I said good morning and he told me I was doing 103 in the 80 zone. I said I knew I was over the limit but didn't think that it was that much. He just turned the gun around and showed me the reading. I said "well the laser doen't lie"

He asked me for my license and asked why I was going so quickly. I just told him i was late for a brief at work. (Im in the RAAF and was wearing my uniform-flying suit)

He said that he didn't like booking RAAFies and told me to take it easy and let me go.

I was pleasant he was as well, and when I got to work i told everyone that I'd just met the nicest mototcycle cop on the planet.

What's the moral to the story? There isn't one, I guess i was just lucky. ;0

[Nexus9]

The moral of the story is to make sure you always drive around in an Armed Forces Uniform.

I used to drive around in a Police Uniform, but "The Man" says this is illegal (heheh)