a top copper

Hi all

Riding home from work about 6 am I was heading north on Kelvin Grove Rd (60
zone)(Bris) at about 80 km/h. When I got to the area near the start of the
transit lane where the cops regularly loiter, I slowed to 70 and started
scanning, couldn't see any on the centre island, no camera van on the left
nature strip, crap! cop bikes parked up the side street.

Suddenly a bike cop darted out from the centre island where he'd been hiding
behind a tree waving and pointing. I thought 'fair cop, copper' and started
to slow and drift left then realised he was pointing past me at the four
wheel drive behind me!

What a top bloke, I thought I was going to receive my annual speeding fee.

Brett

 

Heh I had one the other day coming through the Bus lane. It's zoned 60 but
can be safely navigated easily at 80+. This cop jumps out from the side of
the road behind a parked car and I think I'm gonna be a couple of hundred
poorer when he looks straight past me to the car behind me Hehe sucked in
cager.

 

Maybe it's seasonal cheer? I was following a bunch of turkettes in a dumpy
Jap car east along Parkes Way one evening last week, they were riding the
brakes and went slower and slower as they turned into the slip lane to get
onto the Commonwealth Bridge, then went even slower around the 270 ascending
off-ramp... I thought they were running out of fuel, or had the handbrake
on, or something, and were going to pull off, so I moved wide and passed
them on the outside before we got to the exit from London Circuit... only to
find Mr Plod, bike and car, parked at the top of the ramp on the bridge.
Oops.

Mr Biker Plod waved me in, gave me an earful about passing on the outside,
checked all my paperwork, and then HE BELIEVED MY STORY about the turkettes!
He was in a good mood though, he and his carful of mates had stopped to
investigate smoke rising from shrubbery in the median strip: "It's a bomb!"
he said. If so, it was too far from PH to be of any relevance.

He brushed his booted toe over two or three grains of gravel outside the
edge-line on the bridge, warned me about how dangerous gravel could be, and
waved me on. I'm going to miss ACT coppers in Brisneyland.

Gary

 

In my last encounter with the plod, a few weeks back, I was getting an
earful about the way I had been driving my car until he looked at my
licence and saw that I was a rider. Then his tone changed to "you bike
riders are usually more careful than that" and with that I was on my way
again.

Nev..

 

A M A S I N G S T O R I E S

 

Fantastic article that one. Google are taking over the Internet, and but
unlike M$, they'll be welcomed with open arms. Isn't that how Hitler did it?

 

Sort of, he had a private army of paramilitary thugs that made sure everyone
opened their arms.

Gary

 

Are you? You must have quite a lot by now

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