| Author | Message | ||
     Buellfighter |
In my high school days I received plenty of tickets, all well deserved. After growing out of that stage I haven't had any problems with city or state police. Owned a business that quite a few cops were customers and they are familiar with my bike and have looked the other way on more than one occasion (whew). There was this one time while driving my cage I got pulled over in front of my house for an infraction that he said took place over two miles back and decided to followed me till I stopped then flipped on the lights. Took it to court and the judge threw it out! I've got nothing but respect for the guys and gals that have to put on a bullet proof vest before they go to work! | ||
| Rubberdown |
Spike, guilty. I can't control myself. I thought the Springer Classic would help, but, sadly no. Yes, I felt like a criminal; a fleeing criminal. Please help me. | ||
| Spike |
Again, not trying to turn it into anything personal, but did you really feel like a criminal? Do you think you put the lives of others at risk? | ||
| Doughnut |
I like cops better then criminals. | ||
| Rubberdown |
Do I feel like a criminal? If I'm doing 65 in a 55 with traffic, then no. If I'm doing 100+ in a 65, then yes. I know people get pulled for going less than 10 over but it has not happened to me. I don't do anything that I believe, at the time, places the lives of others at risk but things happen and aggraveated speeding increases the likelyhood of an event. Getting back to the topic at hand, I've been pulled frequently and have not gotten a ticket in years. I hope to avoid it in the future. When pulled, I pull over immediately, shut down the bike, place it on its kick stand, put my license and papers on the tank, take off my helmet, and place my hands on the bars. When the Officer arrives I'm as nice as can be. He's right and I'm wrong. So far it has worked for me. I don't always agree with the traffic laws but that is an issue to be discussed with the legislature. | ||
| Rocketman |
You could be doing 300 or 3000mph anywhere in the UK and it is not a criminal offense. In fact, even though one can be sent to prison for a variety of motoring offenses, causing death by reckless driving for example, I don't believe any motoring offense is criminal in the UK with the exception of driving without insurance. I could of course be wrong, but I don't believe I am. Rocket | ||
| M2nc |
I do try to stay within a reasonable speed. I do find myself cruising the back roads at 70-75mph with the speed limit at 55mph. On main roads through I do try to stay within 15mph of the speed limit because I do know there is a big difference when you exceed that range. On the way back from MBIII I was dodging minivans on I-85 when I jumped on it to get out of the way of a faster minivan behind me while passing two others in the center and right lanes. We get to a bridge, I see there is an NC State Trooper and I was running almost 90mph with the trio of minivans. I thought for sure I was going to get it since I was in the left lane passing and leading the minivans, but you know he never pulled out. I could not believe it. I guess he could not tell which one of us four was going the fastest so he let it go, or it was too close to shift change to worry about. | ||
| M1combat |
My room mate got arrested on Friday (they kicked his door in) for a six dollar cab fare. I offered to pay the driver $20 AND the cab fare. He said "no" with a bitchy little smirk on his face. They were good cops, but for $6 I think they should have told the cab driver to stop by in the morning or something. The room mate was drunk and came inside to get the money to pay the driver. The driver drove away as my friend got out of the car. The driver left w/o the fare. There wasn't a "theft" IMO. The cops were alright but for $6 they kicked his door in... | ||
| Court |
>>>>I could of course be wrong, but I don't believe I am. Sometimes I think you are and you're not . . . it's a crazy mixed up world out there. | ||
| Ryker77 |
I've got an even better -- kick down the door story. My buddy was a Sgt in the Marines. He worked part time at sears as a mechanic. One day his paycheck was late. He made the commet "you'll don't want me to come back". He worked that day and nothing was said. He worked three more days and nothing was said. On the 4th day while at work (sears). SWAT pulls up with MP5's drawn. "Get on the ground". Could have called the base and requested he turn him self in. Could have walked in at sears and told him to walk out to the car. Could have called him and told him to turn himself in. But no--- macho wannabes probaly got a kick out of making a Marine "get down". Since they were to big of a pssy to be a Marine. Even better they kept him in jail for 30 days before they dropped charges. Wouldn't even let the unit keep him confined to base. Do you think he will ever like any cops? | ||
| Rocketman |
Well Court, you won't have been the first here to judge me.......and be wrong LOL Rocket | ||
| Court |
>>>you won't have been the first here to judge me.......and be wrong LOL Nor the last. You my friend are a human lightning rod. Face it....you're always going to have someone stirred up. It's why we love ya! | ||
| CJXB |
I offered to pay the driver $20 AND the cab fare. I kid you not I had a friend who took a cab here in Milwaukee and when he reached his destination he tried to pay with a debit card, driver would only take cash, who would have known. Cab driver would not let him out and drove him straight to the police station. The police wouldn't let him leave until he took his debit card in and got cash and paid the cab driver in cash, and no he wouldn't let the cab driver take him from there. The police told him it's not the first time that's happened and he felt bad about it, so he drove my friend to his destination in the squad car even though it wasn't really allowed !! Crazy Milwaukee cab drivers!!  | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Cabs take Debit Cards???? Wow | ||
| CJXB |
tried to pay with a debit card, driver would only take cash, Doofus....I mean Newfus, the whole point of the story was they Wouldn't take debit cards !! | ||
| Tramp |
some of my best friends are Cops. I can relate better to cops than I can to most citizens. Cops and 1%ers are among the few people I can really kick back with. My cop friends are respectful enough not to pry into my motorcycling life. I don't pry about about their job. rarely have I ever had issues with cops, and the rare times I have, they quickly resolved themselves. | ||
| Rocketman |
Tramp, on the one side you make out you're some modern day motorcycling hero that cops love. Probably because you're always helping out with 'toy runs' and motorcycle safety courses. Yet on the other hand you're some bad dude on a motorcycle who cops know not to fcuk with. Gimme a break. Being a 1%er isn't a figment of ones own imagination. It's a gift you were born with and it equally applies to the likes of Oscar Wilde, Larry Flynt or Lord Nelson, perhaps, and not just some tit on a bike who's read too many Peter Cave novels. For my benefit, please do me the honour of explaining what makes you so great, as I know I am. Rocket | ||
| Tramp |
I wish i understood that post, but I feel even better that i don't, rocket. Clearly, you have a wit which exceeds the ken of my own loggerhead noggin. Some of my best friends are cops, what's so odd about that? there is far more similarity between cops and 1%er clubs than most folks realize. Incidentally, I've never participated in a toy run. The only reason I don't get blown sh*t by cops is because I'm pretty much a gentleman in dealing with them, I respect the badge even in those situations where I'm not too excited about the bearer, and I say 'sir' or 'ma'm'. many of my cop friends ride with me, and, last summer at our bar where I tended, cosntantly, the cops and 1%ers got along famously. In the cases of the cops and the 1%ers who I count amongst my friends, the one thread of consistency is that they're each men, first, and cops or 1%ers secondarily. maybe THAT's the concept with which you're having trouble, rocket. either way, it's your problem, not my own. Life in either world seems to be less like the TV shows portray it. | ||
| Panic |
there is far more similarity between cops and 1%er clubs than most folks realize Uuhhh.. both groups have a high proportion of violent psychopaths as members? Both groups are certain that the law doesn't apply to them, and behave suitably? Both groups invent, and believe, fantastic lies about themselves? Both groups have far greater loyalty to other group members than to the public? Both groups rely on violence as a useful argument when criticized or embarrassed? Yes, quite so. | ||
| Jersey_thunder |
yo, you guys see those "BUELL UMBRELLA GIRLS!! " NICE UMBRELLAS!!  JT | ||
| Rocketman |
Sorry Tramp but I just don't buy the cops and 1%ers are friends thing. I certainly don't have a problem with it. Sure there are exceptions, but acquaintances is probably more true. The point of my post where you're concerned is your need to make out on the BadWeB that you're some kind of expert on the matter of back patch clubs, almost as if you're a member yourself. Go read your other cryptic topic you started earlier then ask yourself what you're trying to prove here? As for 1%ers, most of the back patch members I've come across strut around with a massive chip on their shoulder and an attitude that says 'don't approach. I'm bad'. What I find rather ironic, and ridiculous, about back patch clubs is the lack of freedom from the club once you're a member. Once you're in they got you. Me, I'm just like Oscar Wilde, Larry Flynt and Horatio Nelson and a few others. A real 1%er, and nobody but me owns my soul. Rocket | ||
| Blake |
Did you forget about... SATAN?  | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
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| Seth |
"...Sorry Tramp but I just don't buy the cops and 1%ers are friends thing. I certainly don't have a problem with it..." Two of the few remaining groups where loyalty, trust, and camaraderie among it's ranks is still a prerequisite for membership. Not all 1%ers are criminals; not all officers are saints. | ||
| Rocketman |
And not all 1%ers and cops are friends by a long chalk. Are you guys nuts? You're implying that outlaw motorcycle clubs and cops get along. Or am I just reading this wrong? Thank god I ain't in a motorcycle gang, for fear of being called a cop lover. That's some pretty weird street cred you got going on.  Rocket | ||
| Tramp |
rocket, i know this might sound difficult to believe, but i know of several instances where both are actual siblings. I was wondering where you're from, where clubs are so constrained, and I see you're from england. things are far different in your country than they are in mine, both in terms of police and in terms of motorcycle clubs. America is a country based upon a certain wild west freedom wherein pat garret and billy the kid are better defined by their similitude than their divergence. your own views are likely well-thought-out...based upon your own experiences in your own country. america is far different. doc holliday and wyatt earp, y'see..... for that matter, the club charters in canada are far different from those in america. as far as purporting to be an expert, well, jeepers, rocket....i only post what I know, firsthand. not sure I was ever cryptic about it, as much as i was being tactful. if it makes you feel any better, though, i'll gladly simply not bring anything about cops or patchholders up, again. anything for you, rocketman. how 'bout them METS? whoops- forgot. england..... | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
C'mon!!!!! Nobody thought the pic of spiderman with the squirrel humping the back of head was funny???? | ||
| Seth |
Spidey gettin' dry humped by a squirrel was very funny! . . . . . . . ...man I love this new font!  | ||
| Tramp |
Oh, so it's NOT just this computer showing this font. I like it, too. everything looks more direct..... and, yep- the Spidey thing is a scream. did you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds? | ||
| Rocketman |
Well over here HA are more into putting on motorcycle shows and events as their legitimate front. Other than that you never really hear or see them. Not like in the old days when the Windsor Chapter and Buttons ran the land. Now those Windsor boys were real hardcore  Satans Slaves are probably larger in number over here, who are rivals of HA. We have the National Chopper Club (NCC) too, or as some prefer, Naughty Childrens Club. But they're kinda like a custom bike club as opposed to an outlaw club, where some members are more interested than others in displaying a bad (stupid) attitude rather than building custom bikes. Either way, what I find laughable about back patch clubs is how they all wash their clothes and shave their beards into works of art these days. Even the Deaths Head is squeaky clean. As for cops and 1%ers, siblings is possible, but I get the impression you're talking on a large scale when you say both factions get along. That's just not true. Not here and not where you are, I don't believe. Talk all you want Tramp, but I don't get why you make out back patch clubs are your average friendly bunch when they're not, and you're always quick to jump in their defense. Rocket |
