BenB
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 08:16 PM |
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Police choppers
Just watched (for my sins) Sky Cops on BBC1 (you would have thought it would be on Sky  )...
Does anyone else get knarked about the stupid sentances given to these idiots?
Drive dangerously for 30 minutes, ram people off the road, generally put people's lives in danger.... 3 months in prison.... I'd charge
the idiots with attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
Either that or replace
with
that would be one short car chase..... A good way of getting some unwanted debris out of the gene pool if you ask me....
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onzarob
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 08:21 PM |
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I totally agree
I get tired of hearing he got a 5min suspended sentence and free B&B for month
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bonzoronnie
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 08:24 PM |
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Now that is what I call a real police helicopter
Live ammo I trust
Ronnie
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BenB
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 08:32 PM |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8&feature=related
OMG!!!! Spewed beer all over my monitor!!!
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Miks15
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 08:39 PM |
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That chris rock clip is hilarious!!!
seen it before but still gets me everytime!
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turbodisplay
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 08:46 PM |
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Did everyone see the bit where the police car overtook in front of a oncoming transit, when chasing the 4x4? The transit had to stop quite
sharpish.
So far i`ve had 3 police cars put me in danger,
First on a country lane a WPC overtakes just before a blind sumit, I stopped from NSL so hard that the last 10mph I locked the wheels (the first 50
mph was textbook stopping). Essex police.
Second a police car came at me on a one way road, causing me to mount a curb. Met olice.
Third on a country lane, blind sumit police car overtakes a muppet the stopped at the wrong time to let them overtake. (not so much the police fault)
Essex police.
I don`t wish to be negative but standards of police driving seem to be getting worse.
Dose anyone find the same or am I just unlucky?
Darren
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chrisg
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 09:27 PM |
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I post this without comment for your education
Don't do as I do, do as I say.....
cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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BenB
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 09:35 PM |
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Did anyone see the Newsnight enquiry into speeding off duty coppers?
They found none off them had been prosecuted.....
They asked why, Plod HQ said "cos we can't identify who is driving".
They asked for the photographs, and were told "we can't hand them out in case the police officers are identifiable"...
WTF? Are they identifiable or not? They're suggesting they can't be identified by other coppers but might be identifiable by Jo
Blogs.....
Stinks like the biggest pile of BS since Bush's foreign policy
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 1/2/08 at 10:54 PM |
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Was that the program where they were chacing the White astra for ages?.
He span out going round a corner and was facing head on to a police car and stopped in the road, he just managed to get moving again and the police
car hesitated.. he should have rammed him there n then and that would have been the end of it. (and in the real world the criminal should have been
made to pay for the repairs 2 the police car).
He then continued on and down a side street he got stuck as somebody was doing a 3 point turn or some manouver and he stopped and then rammed them.
He'll have had no insurance or whatever so the owner of the car he rammed will have had to claim on their insurance for it and cost them a
packed! all because of this idiot.
I was thinking if that was me who'd been hit i'd be inclined to continue and chase the ba*tard down and ram him off the road... my car
would have been wrecked anyway and my excess is that high it would hardly be worth bothering about.
Then I woke up and rememberd I'm in England and i'd probably have got charged with all manner of offences.. probably attempted murder
while the little punk got off with a 6 month ban on a liscence he didn't have!. *sighs*.
Another that got my temper up today..
As heard on Radio 1 so I could have this the wrong way round but thats now how it sounded.
A Woman driver killed a Cyclist that jumped a red light... yes the cyclist jumped the light.
But she got charged with death by dangerous driving... hang on a minute he jumped the light, ahh but she just happened to have sent a text on her
mobile!.
Admittedly wrong but just who jumped the light and who would have setill been alive today if they didin't regardless of somebody sending a text
or not.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7220000/newsid_7223300/7223312.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=7223312&bbcws=1
A harsh and horrible view from me I know and i'd hate for that to have been any of my family or friends... or really anybody at all... But in my
eyes jumping the red light is more of an offence and more dangerous than texting.. and I aren't condoening texting, there is just no need
atall!.
[Edited on 1/2/08 by MkIndy7]
[Edited on 1/2/08 by MkIndy7]
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Peteff
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| posted on 2/2/08 at 12:05 AM |
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ahh but she just happened to have sent a text on her mobile!.
How can you send a text and be looking where you're going? She would have seen him if she had not been driving without due care and speeding
even though he was in the wrong. Unlike American police, the British police are not allowed to ram vehicles deliberately.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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BenB
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| posted on 2/2/08 at 12:21 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
How can you send a text and be looking where you're going? She would have seen him if she had not been driving without due care and speeding
even though he was in the wrong. Unlike American police, the British police are not allowed to ram vehicles deliberately.
In the states they don't just stop at vehicles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLTos7N4gSM&feature=related
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 2/2/08 at 04:54 AM |
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Maybe its time they were allowed to ram them then.. its silly how long some of the chases go on for and how Dangerous they get. If you are failing to
stop for a police car and speeding away then your obviousley in the wrong... even if its only for not stopping.
On the mobile front,
IF you've a 1 in 10,000 chance of being involved in a fatal accident driving on the road and using a mobile increases this chance by 50% thats 1
in 5,000.
And if jumping a red light which is there to stop you and highly likely to cause an accident its say a 1 in 1,000 chance of a fatal accident.
Who took the biggest chance and comitted the worst offence? would the story have been different if it was another car involved and not a cyclist?.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 2/2/08 at 08:57 AM |
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I was sat behind an area traffic car the other day, the area car was at the front of the lights. The lights in question are a cross road and the road
on which I was sitting is a 2 lane one way street, the other roads are two way.
Our lights go from red - to amber - to green. The driver of the police car selects gear, releases the hand brake and is just about to drive off when a
speeding car (blue Subaru) travels from left to to right across the junction. A definite light jump and right in front of the police man and probable
speeding as well.
Three guess's what action the police car took.
Yep NONE.
I guess that when it comes to jumping lights, unless its a camera'ed junction OR there is an accident with serious injury or death the police
aren't interested because its to difficult to prove.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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MikeLR
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| posted on 2/2/08 at 11:42 AM |
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Interesting article in Telegraph this morning--
"Ban for 70mph who gave speed camera the thumbs-up"
Shows photo driving through speed camera at circa 70.
Halifax court banned him for six months and fined £400.He has been removed from public duties anf faces a misconduct hearing.
This is what I really liked "His conduct fell well below what we and the public expect of our officers"
I wonder if he will be able to resign and keep his full pension entitlement ! isnt this what usually happens
Mike
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K999NNY
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| posted on 2/2/08 at 01:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by turbodisplay
Did everyone see the bit where the police car overtook in front of a oncoming transit, when chasing the 4x4? The transit had to stop quite
sharpish.
So far i`ve had 3 police cars put me in danger,
First on a country lane a WPC overtakes just before a blind sumit, I stopped from NSL so hard that the last 10mph I locked the wheels (the first 50
mph was textbook stopping). Essex police.
Second a police car came at me on a one way road, causing me to mount a curb. Met olice.
Third on a country lane, blind sumit police car overtakes a muppet the stopped at the wrong time to let them overtake. (not so much the police fault)
Essex police.
I don`t wish to be negative but standards of police driving seem to be getting worse.
Dose anyone find the same or am I just unlucky?
Darren
You've just been unlucky. Wouldnt happen in scotland  .
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