Cops aren't suppose to lie... but...

Cops aren't suppose to lie but they do... what's your story???

Wichita Kansas 1983 GPz 550... hand made Morowaki 4 into 1...
http://www.fox302.com/userdata/netters2/files/ShopPics/Larrys1981GPz550.JPG

I egged a Wichita cop on once by going 0 to 40 (speed limit) in 1.2
seconds from a stop light... dicey but I asked for it...

The cop drops his bear claw in front of the Quick Trip and starts a low
pursuit of my GPz550 down 4 lane Broadway...

He was blacked out against the darkness but I still could track him in
my mirrors thanks to the street lights...

Finally he fired the "Oh Shit" light... my only infraction was according
to him... straight through exhaust...

I showed the ticket to my friend... who happened to be the local
Kawasaki dealer... who services all the city's Kawasaki Cop Sickels...

My friend smiled and pull a KZ1000 Cop Sickel exhaust from the parts bin
and said "if your straight through exhaust is illegal, then so is his"

Sure enough you could see straight through the exhaust... I saluted him
and packed it away in a brown paper for my court date...

There I sat with a judge... the prosecutor and the cop... I was shaking
with anticipation...

The prosecutor proceeded to build up the cop as a "expert motorcyclist"
and before he could go into my infraction I objected to the Judge that
the cop was not an expert...

The judge was amused enough to ask on what bases...

I pulled the exhaust out of the bag and challenge the cop to identify
the motorcycle part...

The prosecutor jumped up in protest but the cop grabbed his arm and
whisper into his ear...

The cop was smiling... the procreator was smiling... I was smiling...
the Judge tossed his arms up and motioned for me to proceed...

"Can you name the part..." I asked the motorcycle expert...

"Yes your Honor, it's a KZ1000 Kawasaki Police bike exhaust" he beamed.

"Correct your honor but if my straight through exhaust is illegal then
so is the city's KZ1000s"

Before the Prosecutor could jump up and objected... the Judge motioned
for him to sit down... then the Judge motioned for me to bring the
chrome KZ1000 exhaust to the bench... He tips one end to the lights and
peers straight through and gives it back...

The Judge announces unless the officer had anything else to being up he
was going to dismiss the charge...

Prosecutor and motorcycle expert got into a huddle and stated a bold
face lie "yes your Honor Mr. Lovisone was speeding in excess of 90 mph"

Before I could object the judge motion for me to say seated...

Judge "you mean to say that Mr. Lovisone was speeding over 90 mph down
residential Broadway?"

Nervous Prosecutor "yes your Honor, excess of 90 mph"

Judge "I don't believe you... you're free to go Mr. Lovisone... not you
Mr. Prosecutor or Mr. Motorcycle expert... I wish to have words with
you in my chamber"

The judge must have been harsh because it didn't end there... no sir...
the motorcycle expert cop would stop me every time he saw me...
regardless... and would call me "Kenny Roberts" and proceed to chew my
ass out that he was right and I was wrong in court... I countered that
he was some motorcycle expert because he couldn't get the facts straight
that Eddie rode Kawasaki not Kenny...

Well as you can imagine after 3 years I grew weary of the same
routine... in fact nobody would ride with me for fear of being
stopped... for nothing...

I was so relieve the day I haul my ass free of Kansas within hours of
retiring never to return...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
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Were you flying out of the air field adjacent to Boeing
Military Airplane in Wichita?
I had an analysts contract there for two years in 89-91 as
the B1B bomber was being'
tested... each day they would load it heavier and climb
steeper..at the end that baby
was loaded so much it shook buildings a mile away, and the
climb was at 45 degrees,
then under full load they would bank that baby wings
perpendicular to the ground
while still in the steep climb..almost impossible to
believe unless I had seen it..day
after day for a few months... then some crashes later on
level flight grounded them.

Did they ever figure out what the problem was?

I have an 11 x 17 numbered print of the B-IB hand signed
by the crew of thier plane at an open house they had just
before I left...I gave to my brother in Sacramento.

I was around when Air force 1 (and its back up) were being
outfitted and still with the green plastic film over the
fuselage. (they ran the first iteration of the milivolt
avionics in the same wire chases as the line voltage down the
starboard side of the plane to the flaps and landing gear)...
an exciting maiden voyage no doubt. For some reason they did
not use the same american technicians that outfit the other
planes.... they used all green card guys from india...
Our guys had even tried to warn of the signal interference
problem being built in but to no avail... go figure I
guess. in the end the signal wiring had to be re routed
down the other side of the craft.



Phil Scott

 

Is this a true story that happened to you personally?

how can you have stories left after all this time on rec.motorcycles?

 

Bags... they weren't wrecks but actual flying examples read Watson's
Whizzers...
http://www.indianamilitary.org/FreemanAAF/FE NUMBERS/Watson Numbers.htm

One of Messerschmitts 262 is on static display Planes of Fame Chino...
http://home.monet.no/~oddbass/262siste.html


The

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.co.uk/watson888.html

They concluded that

You ever hear of Fordism???
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=73&category=locations

"Henry Ford Willow Run produced 8,685 B-24's before it closed in 1945.
When the final plane, christened the Henry Ford, rolled off the line, he
let it be known that he wanted the plane named after the workers who had
built it. The name of Henry Ford was erased from the plane and the
workers autographed the nose.

Willow Run was but one plant of one company. General Motors and
Chrysler also did their part. Former automobile plants built everything
from tanks to bombs to guns. In just the first 18 months after Pearl
Harbor, 350,000 people came to the city of Detroit to work in defense
plants. Automakers and their suppliers produced $30 billion worth of
military equipment from 1942 to 1945.

Detroit truly was the Arsenal of Democracy. As Walter Reuther had
predicted, "Like England's battles were won on the playing fields of
Eton, America's were won on the assembly lines of Detroit."


You could say that the world copied Americas mass production techniques...


Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
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Kinda scary how the US hardly makes anything anymore. Manufacturing has
been gutted. Everything I see at Wal Mart is Chinese. All our
expertise as burger flippers and courtesy greeters won't count for much
when it counts.

 

Lagsy, you've had one beer too many!

 

I

Where's your keyboard made Charles???

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

"Charles Soto" < wrote in message
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Try to stick with things made by WHITE men do Ya?
Phyloe

 

Life is sweet!

ceh

 

SNIP

This from a liberal...omfingghu! Well don't look at the chip in your computer or anything else
for that matter...

You do that sparkly...not much choice out here. It's shop at the ranch supply, Ben Franklin(the
7-11 of dept stores) or Wally world....
--

You can't hate what you never loved...
Nefarious Necrologist 42nd class
Some people ride, some just like to show off their butt
jewelry once in a while.
Dum vivimus, vivamus
<3 )3~~ <3 )3~~

 

We still make some chips here. The IBM Power5 & Apple G5 are all made
here, as are some Athlon64 chips that IBM does for AMD.

 

Yeah, but 99% of the chips in any PC is NOT made in USA. Sorry and the same thing goes for most
other consumer electronics. Only solution is not a viable answer...no trade outside of the
americas.

 

I complete relate to your attitude, but don't share it. I don't mind trade
outside the good 'ole US of A. What I do mind is _unfair_ trade.
Government subsidised businesses, competing with 3rd world labor, etc...
I personally try to buy American whenever possible, but even then, you're
not 100% sure that made in USA tag isn't printed in China.

 

[snip Larry's excellent story about how he and a reasonable judge
exposed and dispensed with one of the many crooked cops on this earth]

Well, I think everyone remembers my post about the questionable Texas
DPS Trooper who wrote me a bogus speeding ticket in a rural, deserted
area of Midland County. He cited me for 91 mph (36 over the 55 limit
-- conveniently the maximum amount listed on the no-contest pay
schedule). The Garmin GPS under my seat cowl, however, revealed that
my maximum speed had only been 82 mph since resetting the device
during a fuel stop 30 minutes before.

Dealing with crooked, uninformed cops from time to time is an
unfortunate part of the riding experience for all motorcyclists. I
will say that West Texas cops are better than most about using good
discretion on lonely country roads, but there are bad apples in every
barrel, it seems.

Stay sharp and use those radar detectors, folks. Don't allow youselves
to be taxed by state-sanctioned bandits.

Regards,

Tim Kreitz
2003 ZX7R
2000 ZX6R
DoD #2184
http://www.timkreitz.com
http://superbikeblog.blogspot.com

 

****, I'm glad I live in LA. The cops here don't know, or care, who you are.
Unless your black or Hispanic, of course.

Friday, is it?

Thumper

 

Alzheimers.

Thumper

 

They're okay with me. There's not enough of 'em on LA Freeways. either.

Thumper

 

Reread that...I never said we ought to do it. Merely pointed out that was the only way to make
sure you never use them evil nasty foreign chips... Personally I could give flying **** where
the parts come from. Do they meet spec? Are they durable (a toddler or young rambunctious dog
being the tester) Reasonable price? That's all that should matter to anyone.


--

You can't hate what you never loved...
Nefarious Necrologist 42nd class
Some people ride, some just like to show off their butt
jewelry once in a while.
Dum vivimus, vivamus
<3 )3~~ <3 )3~~

 

Because I a ratio of 6/38... that's 6 years in reeky to 38 years riding...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

^^^^^^^^^^
Heh. Pun or Freudian slip?! ------+

Like with all people, there are good cops and assholes. Not to mention
cops who are "just having a bad day." Unfortunately, any profession that
involves having power and the ability to legally use force against others
will invariably be attractive to people who get a rise out of *mis*using
the power given them.

-Andrew