| Author | Message | ||
     Johnnymceldoo |
Read this thread: http://www.kawasakimotorcycle.org/forum/main-lobby /111893-soccer-mom.html#post1660028 I roll up to a red light second behind a soccer mom from h**l ,in the SUV ,talking on the cell phone and touching up her makeup in the rear view mirror . The light turns green , she readjusts the rear view mirror as she starts to move forward and sees me , on a KZ1000 Police , dynamites the brakes in the middle of the intersection and puts her seat belt on . I almost collected her bumper , leaving only a small rubber smear . Yes there is more . facing us at the light is one of the county's finest who does a u turn behind me and lights me up . As I look behind me the woman again dynamites the brakes , this time I do touch her bumper solidly (still no damage to the bike) and the county cop rear ends me just hard enough to push me into the soccer mom's bumper the third time . The cop barely pauses long enough to ask if I'm ok on his way to the soccer mom's SUV where he gets her paper and starts to walk back to his unit . The soccer mom struts back to me still on the phone to get my license number and keeps repeating it on the phone . Now it gets real deep . She is on the phone to 911 reporting a hit and run by a motorcycle , mine ?! As the cop returns she demands into the phone that I be arrested for repeatedly rear ending her SUV and I would have run if the cop wasn't there . At this point the cop answers his hand held radio and begins to make sense of all of this . The cop starts writing first one citation then another and another as the woman continues her demands on the phone . Finally the cop attempts once , twice , three times to get the woman's attention . "Can't you see I'm on the phone !" she shouts at the cop . "M'am if you do not hang up the phone now I will be forced to take action " says the cop . That did it . He then asked her to sign the citations for reckless driving , failure to wear a seat belt and talking on the phone while in control of a moving vehicle with out a hands free device (a recent and confusing law here ) . She of course starts screaming at the cop . "I'm not going to sign anything without my lawyer present" she says . In a near whisper the cop says to me as he walks toward the woman "just what I've been waiting for" . Our soccer mom adds resisting arrest and assaulting an officer to the list on the way to the back seat of the cop car . No we're not done yet . The cop apologizes for lighting me up when he should have passed me before turning on the lights and siren . he asks me if he could please write me an equipment violation for a tail light that he will later admit could have happened when bumped into me . I get it and accept , adding that if it was in his power to tell me when this woman was being arraigned I'd like to be there . I realize having to fight this woman to the ground and all the way back to the car is going to need a witness and tell him so . The cop looks visibly relieved as we wait for a tow truck for the SUV . No , we're not done yet . The tow truck arrives with another unit as back up and traffic control . As the tow truck begins to hook the car a man stops and jumps out of a car he thought he had put in park demanding that the SUV and woman in the back of the first car be released immediately , as his not in park car continues into the second cop car . These two are cut from the same cloth . The now identified husband ends up in the back of a third car . DUI , resisting arrest , assaulting an officer , reckless endangerment and whatever else . No , not yet . Still at the same intersection the husbands car and the second unit have been removed and all that is left is the tow truck driver finishing his statement stemming from the husbands assault on him . The cop tells me it probably isn't necessary to write me a violation for my non damaged tail light as the tow truck driver starts out into traffic . Before the tow truck driver can get up to speed a woman , in an SUV , with out a seat belt ,on the telephone, rear ends the soccer mom's SUV being towed not 50 feet from where the cop and I are standing. Almost done . Aid units are dispatched and arrive for the woman's head injuries and as she is being loaded into the aid unit all she wants to know is where her cell phone is . OK , last bit . The scene is finally cleared of all vehicles and participants except the cop and I who are now on a first name basis . As we are pulling away we both hear the screech of rubber back at the intersection . There isn't the usual accompanying crash but I notice that the cop never looked back as he pulled away . I really don't know that it belongs here . I don't really think there is a moral to all of this other than It used to be the little old lady peeking out from between the steering wheel and the dash going 20 mph under the speed limit that scared me. Now and forever it's the cell phone talking , SUV driving , makeup fixing , soccer mom from h**l that scares the daylights out of me . ~kop | ||
| Limitedx1 |
thank god your ok, and i hope that biatch got some hefty fines. people like her will never learn regardless, so i hope they at least tax her, lol | ||
| Oldog |
I don't know wheather to laugh or cry | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
What a C..... you fill in the rest | ||
| Nevrenuf |
that was to funny. need to get an update when kopcycle goes to court with the cop. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
My brain hurts from trying to read that. Where the F did that guy go to school? However, if true it is a riotous story. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Wouldn't have been a story if he was a good enough rider to avoid a soccer mom in a van. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
DD, oh yeah I forgot that part too. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Yea - and let he who is without co*k-up cast the first aspersion too huh. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Ya lost me, bro. What is a co*k-up? Please translate to NY outer-borough slang. Me not so erudite.  | ||
| Teeps |
At least you got the satisfaction of knowing that "a cop was there!" when you needed them... | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
sounded like a popcorn moment for the motorcyclist  | ||
| Slipknot |
You should make a passionate plea in court that you fear retribution from the woman and her husband and plea for the court to give both of them serious time in jail. Also, some sort of restraining order if the prosecutor thinks you are justified. Your statements in court are just as important as the police reports and should be practiced at home, in front of a mirror to get the right effect down pat. If these people are seriously slammed the resulting media coverage (and please, give the media a heads up for all court dates) will do a lot to save a life. Cameras in the courthouse can make a difference in the sentence. On the other hand, if the •••• looks like Sarah Palin, angle for a knob job. | ||
| Court |
WOW. . . unbelievable! I'm seeing this become a bigger and bigger problem. I heard last week that some federal agency is in hot water for suppressing data showing that cell phone/make up driving is more dangerous than DUI. Wow. . . glad you are okay! | ||
| Ourdee |
Wish it was close to me. I would go to court to watch with you. Keep us posted. | ||
| Prof_stack |
GREAT story! Couldn't have been written better. Truth is stranger than fiction. On a more serious note, it IS time to ban all cell phone usage in vehicles. There are just too many people who think they can hold the phone in one hand and drive well with the other. Too many cars, too many inattentive drivers, and an ever increasing number of risks for us riders. | ||
| Danger_dave |
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coc1.htm | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Wow! That is so great that the cop was there to witness and enforce the law. So often, I see dumb crap over and over where there is no negative repercussions for the tools involved. I drive/ride to work over a good distance and have seen: Black escalade swerving from left lane to center so harshly that it picked up a rear wheel. What was she swerving to avoid? well... nothing. People running red lights randomly. Some guy parked in the breakdown lane on a divided highway facing the wrong direction. I have no idea how or why Some guy in a corolla on a sunny winter day chose to slam into a snowbank and telephone pole. The road was DRY. It's like he wanted to kill his car???? I guess those corollas are a handful at 40MPH. | ||
| Nutsosane |
Two weeks ago my wife and I swore off using the cell-phone while driving. Wouldn't ya know...life is just fine without it. A very simple thing to give up and the benefits could be life-changing. NUTS | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
While reading that story I was hearing the theme song to Benny Hill in my head. Thanks for the laugh  | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
DD, thanks, it's sort of like our "f**k-up" here in the US and A. | ||
| Danger_dave |
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| Danger_dave |
'let he without f***-up cast the first aspersion' is better alliteration too. It's one of the rules of a Dave Design office. | ||
| Slaughter |
Awesome story... and folks, Brian (the OP) was just reporting it for our entertainment. The OP on the Kawi forum is in Auburn, WA - Brian is in Ohio. ...but does warm my heart because it truly IS a sense of justice. (and humor) |
