My Trip Home/ not trying to Bash police but sometimes they ask for it

yeh i totally get your point. i know i shouldnt have done that. police officer or not. so fair enough. it was just a emotional reaction.
let me clarify though, there wasn't really any room for him to get in front of me in the first place. he would really be squessing to get into this gap, i just slightly adjusted my speed so that he wouldnt even try it. he hadn't put his indicator on either so its not like i blatantly cut him off. looking back at it i know i shouldn't have done it.

regardless of that i feel that the manoiver that this cop pulled was dangerious. even in a police chase, in a marked car, with sirens on, it would have been to recless. in a unmarked car, no lights and trying to catch a car that was only going 10 over. thats just stupidity

You're making the assumption that he was only pulling him over for doing 10km over the limit...

Car could have been stolen, or the cop may have thought that the guy might have tried to get away if he saw lights and sirens coming. Who knows.

I'm happy to give cops a bit of leeway generally. They do a bloody tough job, and spend 90% of their time dealing with the bottom echelon of society.

If you like, there are apps available so you can listen to police radio. If you listen to that for a while, you'll know what I mean!

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Originally Posted by Tobes_WIR35

You're making the assumption that he was only pulling him over for doing 10km over the limit...

Car could have been stolen, or the cop may have thought that the guy might have tried to get away if he saw lights and sirens coming. Who knows.

I'm happy to give cops a bit of leeway generally. They do a bloody tough job, and spend 90% of their time dealing with the bottom echelon of society.

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Excellent...

I was talking on my mobile phone whilst driving three years ago. The unmarked car 4 deep in grinning idiot cops crossed two lanes of traffic and cut me off, forcing me pretty much into a ditch. I had my mother in law in the front and two of my smaller children sitting in the back seat.

I shouldn't have been on the phone, cops should't have nearly caused a very nasty accident to show off to their mates.

How much do cops make anyways? ;-)

p.s don't get me started on customs officers.

Semi related, Vic Pol are now being taken to court for 'conduct endangering life' by civvies who were used as a road block in their cars to stop a high-speed pursuit. One guy had his 2 young kids in the back seat and got rammed by a commodore at ~60kph after the clipped another civvie car.

I was tailgated by a black commodore last summer up the Mooroduc highway (the one with all the roundabouts). i stuck to my guns and obeyed the speed limit, I even took photos and dialed 000 because I thought 'I've done something here to piss this nut-bag off and he's probably going to shoot me the first chance he gets alongside me!' but I couldn't recall anything. As I was connected, I gave the rego of the car and this guy was all over the back of me, to the point that I could only see windscreen he was that close. Amazingly, I got a 'huh.....' over the phone and a response along the lines of 'I recommend you drive to the nearest police station if you feel unsafe, otherwise, please continue on....' Just as the phone disconnected, the car magically backed right off, then suddenly went flying past in the right lane. I had been in both the laet and right and this guy would not go past no matter what lane I was in so I thought "I'll get a good hard loook at you, you piece of sh*t" and guess what, it was an unmarked car with a jerk-head that looked like he was just out of nappies.

I went to frankston police and reported the sonofabit*h too sighting that I felt intimidated and genuinely frightened for my life, I then gave the number plate of the car and the guy paused. The cop was from that station. The arseh*le had seen GTI on the rear of the car and was just goading me into exceeding the speed limit. i didn't actually believ that cops did this until it happened to me.

I was a passenger in a Police car once. Being the honest kind, I was usually also a little naive, believing everyone else was too.

The Senior Constable in the driver's seat drives straight through a red light.

Me: You right there?
Him: (quote} I am a Police Officer. I can do anything I want.

His real reason for driving like a blue penis? He had free entry to the nearby Entertainment Centre concert. Billy Joel was on. No crime prevented that night.



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i always assumed that there was going to be issues like this.
but i didn't think it would be as seemingly wide spreed as it is.

and i guess the cop in my story could have been responding to something else. but personally, i highly dout it

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Originally Posted by gavs

The arseh*le had seen GTI on the rear of the car and was just goading me into exceeding the speed limit. i didn't actually believ that cops did this until it happened to me.

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Of course they do, see it all the time.
I tend to just pull over when a cop sits on my ass.
Sometimes they drive on looking for their next prey other times they stop behind me
I get the question 'Why did you pull over ?'
The response 'I figured I'd deal with you before you forced me to break some road rule'

Dunno what you guys do to attract them, but I drive a bright red GTI and I do about 30,000km per year and have never experienced anything like that from a police officer.

It would appear that there are a few here that don't like police. Hot tip. There are some places on this planet that pretty much have no cops at all! Go there and you can do whatever you want, and others can do whatever they want to you.
Meanwhile, don't forget, when it hits the fan, who you gonna call?