Police bling

Nowadays, with the hindsight of maturity, I would probably endorse the Thumper/bonfire method – simply because it might save you the cost of a half-decent bottle of red. But it’s all evolutionary really, back then my response could reasonably be described as being toned down … but that would be off topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Steamer

I didn’t know either so sorta filled in some time researching….

This might be a stupid questions…but what is a Stanley Steamer?

cop attitude also helps.

only had one ‘nasty’ encounter with act police.

at a xmas rbt roadstop a fat sergeant took exception to the stanley steamer and started shouting things like – stop him , get him to the side of the road’ gesticulating wildly to the underlings and SHOUTING everything.

he naturally defected me, even though i showed him the engineering certificate. he told me i was ‘interfering’ and did i want to be charged.

he was rude and objectionable. i suspect he was showing off to some new recruits. or he might have been having a shit day and as ive found with women, you dont provoke upset people.

i raised his behaviour with a friend who is a cop and he id’d him straightaway and said he had form.

anyway, i just copped it, drove through the dickson RTA sheds the next week and went on my way.

most of my other dealings with act cops have been ok – bar the defects they plague me with.

i swear they have a quota.

None at all. Go back to work.

Hasdrubahl didn’t like Lee Kuan Yew receiving an honorary doctorate from the ANU as he ran an autocratic state but doesn’t have a problem if police “pull you out of the car at gunpoint” etc. Of course no hypocrisy here!

I wouldn’t know – I don’t speed.
Where I come from, if you speed:
They shoot your tyres out
pull you out of the car at gunpoint
spread you over the bonnet face down
shout loudly in your face, threatening to do nasty things to you.
-You wouldn’t want to be rude & impolite.

Maybe we need more of that here.

Although I have noticed that the cops are a lot more polite now they have audio recorders (at least in NSW).

That XR8 doesn’t excite me much. I don’t know why they don’t just use base model Falc/Commy, given they don’t seem to chase people above about 160km/h anyway.

The language you use is more an issue when you try to convince a speed camera not to give you a ticket.

Nothing like a good contemporary story, Ingeegoodbee.
He was probably pissed because he’d come across numerous people who had the attitude of “…he could write me a ticket and save his sermonising for someone who gave a shit…”

ive used the thumper method, many times, most successfully.

its all about tact.

“It is well known in the general community that the best practice for trying to convince a Police officer not to give you a ticket is NOT to be rude and impolite.”

I don’t know vg – When I first moved to Canberra, about 20 years ago I got pinged for doing 115k at the Glenloch end of the parkway. The cop that pulled me over unleashed a stream of pompous shit about “What the f@%k did I think I was doing” with the usual road safety bullshit peppered with obscenities, when he finally stopped to take a breath, I simply asked if he’d finished wasting my time, he could write me a ticket and save his sermonising for someone who gave a shit – he carried on a bit about how much trouble I could get myself into, but got vague when I asked him about specifics. Then he wrote me a ticket for exceeding the speed limit by no more than 15km/h (that end of the parkway is a 90 zone – I was doing 115 … do the maths).

How is that arrogant?

It is well known in the general community that the best practice for trying to convince a Police officer not to give you a ticket is NOT to be rude and impolite.

But what would I know?

neons and a fully sick sub woofa

Well I love it! It just needs some underbody neons…

It’s just an XR8 with a new graphics pack. Big deal.

They are a cheap car when you are talking a fleet discount included, and has the grunt to safely get to an emergency job.

Actually lucky to see an XR8 around, they almost got banned a while ago due to engine stalling issues.

‘If he was impolite he wouldn’t have talked himself out of anything’

That is one bloody arrogant comment!

Or maybe ‘bust a cap in his ass ‘cos he was dissin my ride’.

If he was impolite he wouldn’t have talked himself out of anything

C’mon VG… he said he was polite.

I love the efforts people go to. More like hot air and bravado – he probably said something like “yes sir, no sir, sorry sir”, while thinking – “I was ’bout to pull out my 9mm and put a cap in him”

“and i politely told him to f-off because they were OEM”

I bet you didn’t

I don’t like it, the colour or the size.

Besides, I like my police cars designed for comfort, especially in the back seat, they should have Humvees or limos, you know, something you want to get into, without having to have a fight about it, locking up the roudy drunk would be a lot easier if there were a fully stocked bar fridge.

And for speed a style, A lotus or Ferrari, what 14 year old car theif wouldn’t want to stop if he had the opportunity to hop in a faster car.

Could save lives!

To bad about the rapists, there must be days where a cop wouldn’t wonder what for.

semi slicks ?

if its grooved, with tread to the adr approved depth – he can kma.

amazing.

im awaiting my ‘annual’ roadworthy. its been over a year since the stanley steamer was ‘defected’.

do afp get a uniform allowance ?

Main Force Patrol…when the gangs take over the highways, remember they’re on your side.

Clothing allowance? wtf?. Can’t even claim boot polish as a tax deduction (well that’s the excuse I use for my scuffed boots anyway)

Maybe they’re trying to get in with the “fully sick” crowd?

Certainly flashier than the unmarked one I saw on Adelaide Ave this morning – looked like a plain blue Ford.

He’d stopped someone, presumably for speeding. Thing that amazed me, the cop looked like he’d just come off a building site or something…don’t they get a clothing allowance?