Damn Cops :(

[Booney]

LMAO,dont get it MW? You're the one who said 'most intelligent people' would understand.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

Im sure glad Im not the one who pulls out the dead bodies after crashes.

or has to tell sone 18 y o P platers Mum and Dad that young Johnny has killed himself due to speed and driving a suped up Corolla, Cortina etc (i.e what car does you husband drive) or even worse has been killed due to a P plate driver driving a suped........

Most cops I know tell me if they pulled over everyone doing 5 kms over limit they'd be doing it all day so normally it is just point finger and glare, ......

agreeed, but its important to remember not all P-Platers or people that drive hotted up cars drive in a dangerous manner though.

[Strawb]

Lets see I was pulled over by some police as a P plater when i was taking my good ol' XE Falcon to have a roadworthy a few years back got to over the South Road over pass and i was picked up. I was and still am on P plates and I had a permit to move my car to be done. The coppers were cool about it all and said they where just doing their job. A few months later after a North and Sturt match at Prospect the next day after having a skinful I drove to work and didn't see a cop. Interesting huh you never find a copper when you need one.

[Punk Rooster]

Lets see I was pulled over by some police as a P plater when i was taking my good ol' XE Falcon to have a roadworthy a few years back got to over the South Road over pass and i was picked up. I was and still am on P plates and I had a permit to move my car to be done. The coppers were cool about it all and said they where just doing their job. A few months later after a North and Sturt match at Prospect the next day after having a skinful I drove to work and didn't see a cop. Interesting huh you never find a copper when you need one.

I think there is a moral to the story there.... somewhere?

[Psyber]

I thought I might point out where I was coming from with my comments on tyres: I have a high powered small car [S-series Audi], I drive it hard, and occasionly get picked up for transient speeding. I never take risks on iffy tyres or brakes because I want to stay alive.

Cops get cynical, having to tell parents their kid is dead etc. as referred to above. They get angry about extra work generated by hoons doing burnouts, and they then do tend to start to think all P-platers are the same and check their cars for anything risky on sight, on the premise that getting the cars off the road reduces the risk. I have had my cars looked over several times but they can never fault them and I stand by smiling sweetly - they even checked over a Porsche 968 I had at one time, but I think that was really just envy or drooling.

Sure cops sometimes develop an "us and them" mentality and go over the top, but they are not alone!

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

I thought I might point out where I was coming from with my comments on tyres: I have a high powered small car [S-series Audi], I drive it hard, and occasionly get picked up for transient speeding. I never take risks on iffy tyres or brakes because I want to stay alive.

but in all honesty if you are driving in a normal safe manner, and not pushing your car to the limit you should be able to get by fine on bald tyres, not that i try, there was just a period of a few days between when the tyre went bald and i could get the money together to have new ones put on.

[Ian]

I thought I might point out where I was coming from with my comments on tyres: I have a high powered small car [S-series Audi], I drive it hard, and occasionly get picked up for transient speeding. I never take risks on iffy tyres or brakes because I want to stay alive.

but in all honesty if you are driving in a normal safe manner, and not pushing your car to the limit you should be able to get by fine on bald tyres, not that i try, there was just a period of a few days between when the tyre went bald and i could get the money together to have new ones put on.

Sorry Sam, but your dreaming, even a 1/2 worn tyre is no where near as good as a new one. With tyres down to the wear bars last Friday, you would be lucky if the tyres wern't aqau-planing (floating) instead of cutting through the water, the tread is there to pump the water out so that you still have contact with the road, the less tread depth, the less likely it is that you will keep contact.
As for getting the money together after they are worn out, try keeping an eye on your tyres, and be ready before they hit the wear bars, by then it is too late, they are worn out already.

[WRxb0y]

I got done once going along Heaslip Rd behind the RAAF base. I was going 138km/h, and that is a 90km/h zone !!!
The cop was in a unmarked SS commodore traveling in the opposite direction. Just as he was about to pass me , I saw the red and blue flashing lights on the dash. I slowed down as best as I could without using the brakes. I look in my rear view mirror, and I tell you what... the u turn he pulled would've made the Duke boys proud. Full 180 ubolt dust/dirt and shit flying everywhere. He must've been doing at least 150 or so to catch back up to me.

When we finally pulled over... geez.. this guys was pumped up.. He come storming over to me (which I was out of the car by now)
"Do you know how fast you were going ??" he asks
I replied "The speed limit"
At this stage I knew I was a gonner.
He then proceeded to tell me my speed etc. He then says "See for yourself on the dash" I said "Yeah I believe you"
He wasn't interested in that, he wanted to show it off.. this guy was pumped up !!
He bogan mate was standing like a bouncer at a club giving me the stare and stuff. Possibly thinking I was going to do a runner.
Seriously.. behind the RAAF base. There is nowhere to run to... you can see for about a 10km radius.. and it is all flat... (What a Maroon!!)

So to top it off.... just short of $500 was the fine.. OUCH !!
Explaining that one to missus, was not easy !!

[JK]

Whilst travelling for work with a colleague I once got pulled over on the Hay Plains for a Random Vehicle Drug Test/Inspection, the Chief Officer greets me and explains what it's all about and asks me if I would be prepared to have the routine conducted by a trainee (and if I would submit to having it video'd, which I did) to which I said "No Worries" ... Well the bloke reads every question from a running sheet, regularly getting lost and requiring me to tell him which question to go to next ... WTF??

Chief Officer comes back and says we'll just take the dog around the car for a minute or so, if nothing on board then no worries you'll be right to go ... Next thing he comes back and spiels some carp about "We have sufficient concern to believe you are transporting illegal narcotics", so off to the inspection bay I go.

After telling the coppers there is NOTHING in it, one by one they all come over and try "Come on mate, you might aswell just tell us what you've got and where it is", I was dumbfounded to say the least (meanwhile other cars are allowed to continue through, all pointing fingers through their windows at us) ... One Copper eventually tells me "These Dogs are so well trained they could sniff the smallest amount from miles away" to which I replied "Wonder what they're growing on the farms out this way?".

For the next half an hour they unload all the luggage from the boot, and physically place the dog in there, several times on and over the front and back seats all the time almost goading him to half give them a sign ... By the time we're done I'm left to re-pack everything and they let us go, albeit regretfully and with icy stares still looking upon us as though our surnames were Barlow and Chambers!

So, 45 minutes lost, eventually get to a motel to discover that all of my work shirts and trousers etc were creased to buggery .. Was a humourus exercise for 10 minutes or so, and appreciate the value of what they're doing, but unimpressed with the treatment I received when clearly I was friendly and obliging.

[Dutchy]

Whilst travelling for work with a colleague I once got pulled over on the Hay Plains for a Random Vehicle Drug Test/Inspection, the Chief Officer greets me and explains what it's all about and asks me if I would be prepared to have the routine conducted by a trainee (and if I would submit to having it video'd, which I did) to which I said "No Worries" ... Well the bloke reads every question from a running sheet, regularly getting lost and requiring me to tell him which question to go to next ... WTF??

Chief Officer comes back and says we'll just take the dog around the car for a minute or so, if nothing on board then no worries you'll be right to go ... Next thing he comes back and spiels some carp about "We have sufficient concern to believe you are transporting illegal narcotics", so off to the inspection bay I go.

After telling the coppers there is NOTHING in it, one by one they all come over and try "Come on mate, you might aswell just tell us what you've got and where it is", I was dumbfounded to say the least (meanwhile other cars are allowed to continue through, all pointing fingers through their windows at us) ... One Copper eventually tells me "These Dogs are so well trained they could sniff the smallest amount from miles away" to which I replied "Wonder what they're growing on the farms out this way?".

For the next half an hour they unload all the luggage from the boot, and physically place the dog in there, several times on and over the front and back seats all the time almost goading him to half give them a sign ... By the time we're done I'm left to re-pack everything and they let us go, albeit regretfully and with icy stares still looking upon us as though our surnames were Barlow and Chambers!

So, 45 minutes lost, eventually get to a motel to discover that all of my work shirts and trousers etc were creased to buggery .. Was a humourus exercise for 10 minutes or so, and appreciate the value of what they're doing, but unimpressed with the treatment I received when clearly I was friendly and obliging.

at least it made the Hay plains interesting!!!...the most boring 130 km's in Australia

[JK]

at least it made the Hay plains interesting!!!...the most boring 130 km's in Australia

Too true, can't argue with that.

We were actually working a few places on the way with a final destination of the Gold Coast where I was meeting my sister who wears an artificial leg which I had in the boot of the car ... Nearly pissed myself laughing when the bloke opened the boot and that was the first thing he saw!

[am Bays]

at least it made the Hay plains interesting!!!...the most boring 130 km's in Australia

I take it you haven't done Larrimah to Tennant Creek 470 km, Wauchope to Aileron 280 km, Kulgara to Coober Pedy 400 km and the Coober Pedy to Port Augusta 540 km (bar the first 80 km and 60 km around Pimba) to often then Dutchy....

At least up until this year you stretch out at 2500 RPH in the Commodore 137 km/h in the NT (interesting to get over taken at 137 km/h by someone doing 150 km/h +) once you get over 2500 RPH watch the fuel gauge go down at a rapid rate!!!!

[Dutchy]

Nah have only flown up to Darwin....but as a kid in the early 80's I did the trek up to Alice Springs when the road was still dirt all the way up, with the family pulling a caravan with 6 of us in the Kingswood not going over 80k's an hour....there was some looooong days counting spinifex balls.......

[am Bays]

Nah have only flown up to Darwin....but as a kid in the early 80's I did the trek up to Alice Springs when the road was still dirt all the way up, with the family pulling a caravan with 6 of us in the Kingswood not going over 80k's an hour....there was some looooong days counting spinifex balls.......

Don't tell you had dirt all the way from Pimba!!!

Know that feeling, though, December 1985, 2 adults, 3 kids, one dog in a VC commodore roof rack and cargo area overflowing with Xmas sh!t and bags for four weeks in Adelaide. Dirt all the way from Coober Pedy to the Border save 80 km of the new road from Marla to the old Mt Willoughby Station turn-off, 60-70 km an hour on dirt, anytime you know you are happy to see Coober Pedy you know you've had a sh!t car ride.......

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

bus trips to Sydney Melbourne and Gosford. so boring.

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

I started following football in 1978.

Bandwagoner!!!

Better jumping on the Bandwagon than being forced into the Paddywagon!

[RustyCage]

This was in the jokes thread, posted by Strawb07 on Feb 28.

Northern Territory farm-hand radios back to the farm
manager.

"Boss, I gotta helluva problem here. I hit a pig with the
ute. The pig's OK, but he's stuck in the bullbars at the front
of my ute and is wriggling and squealing so much I can't get him out."

The manager says "Ok, there's a 303 behind the seat. Take
it, shoot the pig in the head and you'll be able to remove him."

Five minutes later the farm hand calls back.

"I did what you said boss. Took the 303, shot the pig in
the head and removed him from the bull-bar. No problem there, but I
still can't go on".

"Now what's the f...k'n problem?" raged the manager.

"Well boss, it's his motor-bike. The flashing blue light
is stuck under the right front wheel arch".

[Maddogmike]

Bad luck - The cops should be pulling over more P platers without having reasons. They dont need a reason at all. As mentioned earlier, the amount of idiot P platers killing themselves and others on the road is far too high.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

Bad luck - The cops should be pulling over more P platers without having reasons. They dont need a reason at all.

and how is that fair?
there are alot of people that are not on p-plates that drive like idiots to, should they also pull over people without p-plates for no reason?

[Maddogmike]

Yep - they have it in their power to, so I say good luck to them. Every life lost on the road is a freakin waste, so if they save one by pulling over someone not doing the right thing, or not having their car up to standard then unfortunately thats part of their job description.
Dont drive if you dont wanna risk getting pulled over...