So, i got pulled over this morning for having an expired plate. No problem. shaZam! happens lets move on.
So the cop starts giving me shaZam! for having my plate bent a little, and implying that I am knowingly driving around with an expired plate and trying to hide it.
Then he looks at me like some punk kid and says: "you'd better have insurance on this thing".
So I go from forgetting to renew a sticker, to some punk running from the law?? :?
So he saunters to the car, comes back with a $110 ticket for expired plates, and tells me: "I'm sure YOU know how to fight these".
WTF?? Am I the freaking spawn of Satan now cuase I'm on my bike? Do all people on motorcycles get treated like this when they get pulled over??
I've never been treated like that when in my car. I was even on the expressway when he pulled me over, and I pulled off and turned off onto a side street so neither one of us would have to stand on the expressway.
Now I'm in a bad mood, cuase I was late for work. :x
All you young punks ruin it for us older folks :nono:
Hehe, jsut kidding
I bet he was just mad cause he wasnt out riding sround on his bike
that's why my friends run away from cops.....well they have fast bikes and know the roads very well, but i wouldn't recomend running on a GS hehe
all you got to do is agree with the freek....."yes sir, i will sir" bla bla bla
btw, can you fight a expired plate? what excuse would you give?
More lousy day info...
well, is started last night, we went out to celebrate a friend of our getting her masters. My wife had a slight disagreement with too many amoretto sours, and needless to say, we were up until almost five last night nursing a queasy stomach back to health :oops:
So this morning was started on 3 hours of sleep...then the cop saga....
then I go to renew my plates at lunch. I go to the automated kiosk at the mall...oh wait, they don't take Bike renewals. So I have to drive to the Minstry office to renew...in line for 20 mintes....
then it looks like it's going to rain, so I go and drop off my bike to get my Truck, and proceed to lock my helmet, gear, wallet KEYS in the truck! :o
Wow..thankfully we didn't take my wife's car back last night and the keys were only about 4 minutes away, so I was able to get back into the truck!!
Geeze, I still have 4 hours of work to go....I think I'll crawl into a hole a hide for the rest of the day!
:(
Sorry to hear that man. When it rains it really pours
Not all cops are bad. I've waved to some before realizing who they were and even got a return nod or wave and a smile.
Just have a beer when you get home and curl up in bed :cheers:
i have had several instances of pre-judice from cops, but also have had some really cool ones. One time I had a motorcycle cop pull me in my old truck (72 chevy) for going 32 in a 25.... he was a real duck
last month I got pulled and ended up going to jail, for a warrant that was not valid... but the cop that pulled me (65 in a 45) was real nice, really didn't want to arrest me, but had to, he dropped the speeding ticket when he found out about the old warrant, gave me a pass for not having a valid tag (expired 14 days earlier) etc...
I guess just like anyone else, some cops will stereotype people, there are members on this board that hate harley guys, suv owners, republicans, democrats..... all of that crap is stereotyping.
somebody once said "can't we just get along?"
sorry about the bad experiences, though... just remember, anything you survive only makes you stronger...
(except good sex, then your weak as a kitten but happy as hell!! :) )
As a cop, all I can tell you is that there are those of us that are professional and don't take our jobs personally, and then there are those of us that are idiots. We are just as human as the public that we encounter, so you are bound to run into a cop that's an ass.
That doesn't make it right, mind you, but it's the way people are.
I won't get into a long winded rant about my job and the lousy attitude I have to deal with on a daily basis, but understand that I will help a person out when I can. Sometimes, however, I have no choice but to write a citation or make an arrest. It's a job, and I do it.
Anyway, sorry you had a bad experience. Hopefully you won't have something like that happen again.
Maybe he was just sour from the 10 other bikes in a row that maybe ran from him and was frustrated and irritated ..... has dealt wih a million attitudes he gets from just doing his job every day and was venting on you a bit.
My last 3 times pulled over I got a warning on two fo them ( speeding..) this was some time ago...but still I got lucky...I was polite and wasn't arguing ( he had me and I was speeding...)... The one cop complimented me on my bike ( My ZX11)...The other saw I was having a bad day and let me go...the one that ticketed me was a State cop....( he seemd surprised I didn't just go to warp speed and leave him behind..)..
Anyway... put the day behind you....
Be careful out there.
As long as you have guys like GRU's friends out there, it's gonna happen, you just have to live with it, and bite your tongue.
Thats the price I pay... ... ... coolness.
-Anti 8)
Quote from: ifonlineAs a cop
ooo a cop in GA... can you put in a good word for me? :mrgreen:
he was probably just grumpy because he didnt have any doughnuts yet that day. **ck the police, **ck, **ck, **ck the police. :guns:
i hate cops.....knock on wood...never pulled over on my gs though....f%$k 'em anyway
I guess I've been kinda lucky on my bike (except for actually getting pulled over); I speed way too often and have had quite a few tickets: Unlike getting pulled over in a car, I get treated really well on my bike. Both times, I ended up talking to the cop about riding for a few minutes and each time I had my speed "reduced" on the ticket. The second time the officer even said, "I knocked a few kilometers [/hr] off for you, you ride a motorcycle now and need all the demerit points you can get."
Everyone has had bad experiences with cops...but you can't say "f%$k the cops" or "I hate cops!" That's just not fair to the good cops. How can you hate a whole group of people based on 1 (or a few) examples?? I've been burned WAY more by women than cops...but I still love women. :mrgreen:
Quote from: passive357he was probably just grumpy because he didnt have any doughnuts yet that day. **ck the police, **ck, **ck, **ck the police. :guns:
hahahaa, i feel real paranoid when i'm on heathers gs, cause i know there's nothing i can do about tickets but pull over, always looking over my shoulder, and there are times when i'll pull over on my bike, but if i'm cruising down a familiar road, and a cop thinks i'm gonna pull over just to listen to him be a duck forget about it, i'm gone,
if they were fair, chances are i'd pull over a lot more often, but chances are 90% they're gonna be a duck and accuse me of stuff just because i'm on a bike, and it's not worth it,
for example, the last time i got pulled over, i was coming home from heathers house on my bike, i pulled up to a redlight off of a side road, and there was a cop sitting on the side of the road maybe 15 feet behind me, watching for someone to go speeding by on the main road, but i pull up to the light, and he pulls right behind me and i know it, no huge deal, i get followed constantly, the light changes, i turn left on the main road, stay in the right lane, and accelerate about as slow as i can, as i do every night, cause i never know who's behind me, i figure pull in the right lane, let them pass me, when i know there isn't a cop, then i'll ride normal, but in the right lane, i get maybe 100 feet down the road, i'm only going 30-35, and he'd still behind me, all of a sudden his lights are on, so i pull over, he asks for my liscence, before i'd give it to him i wanted a reason for being pulled over, and he tells me it's cause he couldn't read my liscence plate, that it was bent up too far, so i give him my liscence, and get my little disposable camera out from under my seat, because i've taken plenty of pictures of the back of my bike, because i
KNOW you can see my plate perfectly in pictures with the flash, so anyway, i start taking pictures, and he flips out, telling me i'm not allowed to take pictures of my own bike, and that my plate was too hard to see, so we're standing 10 feet behind my bike, arguing about it, cause you can read my plate perfectly, he goes back to his car, and about 45 seconds later he comes back out and rambles something about "you plate has to be reasonably visable to and reasonable person...." so at this point i know he hasn't even bothered to put my name in the computer, he spent the whole time searching for the law about liscence plates, adn then memorized it so i'd think he knows what he was talking about, we argue about more, he threatens that i'm gonna argue myself out of a warning, oh well, power trip, after i started taking pictures he didn't bother giving me a ticket cause he would've looked like an ass in court saying you couldn't see my plate, and then i pull out the pictures, he said i was making a bigger deal than it had to be by taking pictures, when i wasjust protecting my own ass, i say he made a bigger deal out of the situation by wasting 20 minutes of my life over that, not to mention i would've been home by then, instead, as soon asi start to pull away, it starts raining, but yeah.....cops like that are why i don't bother to stop anymore
I've said it before I try to give the police the respect their position deserves, but when someone is and A**HOLE they don't deserve respect. I've only been pulled over once on my bike, expired tag, and the cop was really cool and let me go. However after that lady backed over my bike I was talking with the officer who made the accident report when this other jerk-off cop, campus police, pulled-up to give me a hard time because I hadn't put the new sticker on my tag, it was in my wallet. Karma was on my side, though :mrgreen: . The bike didn't want to crank, cause it'd been on its side. When it finally cranked I had the throttle wide open, I heard you're supposed to do that with a flooded engine, my bike belched out a HUGE cloud of blue smoke!! right in that dumb piece of crap's face :nana: :nana: . My roommate and I had a good laugh about it after the cops left.
Quoteooo a cop in GA... can you put in a good word for me? :mrgreen:
Sure... just give me a description of your vehicle, your tag number, and while we're at it, your license number... ;)
Quotehe was probably just grumpy because he didnt have any doughnuts yet that day. **ck the police, **ck, **ck, **ck the police.
Quotei hate cops.....knock on wood...never pulled over on my gs though....f%$k 'em anyway
THIS is what I was talking about in my earlier post. Ho hum...
On topic... I had an interesting experience this morning. I was in uniform (I wear khaki-type pants, a polo shirt with a sewn-on badge, and a gun, a real badge, and a cell phone on my belt) and I rode my bike to work. I wear a jacket, helmet, and gloves while I'm riding my bike.
I went to the eye doctor to get new contacts, but showed up about ten minutes early and the store wasn't open. So, there I am, waiting for the store to open, standing near my bike. I'm still wearing my jacket, and my helmet and gloves are in my hand. The sales people show up to open the store and look at me in an odd manner. I can't quite describe it, but it doesn't seem like they are interested in me waiting outside the store. I suppose a guy who rides a bike must be trouble.
Anyway, I get into the store and remove my jacket. Now they see that I'm a cop, and their attitude changed completely. I just laughed it off as several shallow-minded people working in an eyeglasses store.
Ian
Quote from: ifonline
THIS is what I was talking about in my earlier post. Ho hum...
what about FTP's? are they ok?? :)
Of course. ;)
hey it's hard NOT to speed on a motorcycle... the diference between 55 and 70 is quite a bit in an average car... but on a bike it is like 1 second of absentmindedness........
When i had my busa i wound up going 100 or more often without noticing it... though i was at 60-65. i have had my gs500 up to 120 and it rattles you to death... the busa just hunkers down and begs for more... i swear 90 feels like 40 on a side street! :thumb: