Thread: Is it worth reporting this to the police?

Originally Posted by Treads

A police officer told you to "<expletive> off"?

Plenty of times

In all honesty probably best to let karma have this one, nothing will happen, you can't identify them







Personally I'd of followed them afterwards, to have a friendly chat as to why that sort of behaviour is not ok

Hence why I have my sports cam running on my bike when out riding!

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Originally Posted by Tank

Ron, a waste of time mate,
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So unless you have an incident in front of a bunch of Nuns who will go to court for you and maybe a video of the incident, forget it, sorry you came across this moron, Regards Frank.

Even having a bunch of nuns is not always proof.

Years ago I worked on a primary health care unit for the Dept. of Health in Sydney's Kings Cross. One night a "street kid" sat on the bus talking to myself and the counsellor, together with two "Sisters of the Good Shepard order" nuns.

Several days later the kid came up and told us he had been charged with an assault that happened during the period when he was on the bus with us chatting. Even though he had two Dept. of Health employees and two nuns as witness, the court would not dismiss the charge untill all 4 of us appeared in court to testify in person.

This was delayed because one of the nuns was at the Vatican in Rome when the case was heard. Had he not appeared for one of the hearings, he would have been guilty of "failure to appear" an imprisonable offence even though he was not the perpetrator of the assault.

I had a similar thing happen while my wife was was on the back off my zxr 750, tried to overtake a old bloke in a jaguar, he swerved to try and knock us off, not once but three times i pulled up to him to give him a mouth full and the old ***** said he was his right to try stopping me overtaking as he thought i was speeding.

About 18 months ago the missus and I made statements to the Police regarding a truck drivers lack of skills. When initially reported (late at night) the Police told us to come back the next day to make statements. I suspect that they thought we would not bother, however we did.
The officer that took the statements said a ticket would be issued to the truck driver which he could pay (an admission of guilt) or contest (requiring a court appearance, not likely).
We never heard anything further about the incident.

Originally Posted by Treads

A police officer told you to "<expletive> off"?

Yep.
Oh, by the way, Victoria police do not have officers. America do.
I have found in my dealings with the police I tend to get the ones with attitude.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Oh, by the way, Victoria police do not have officers. America do.

Umm, okay. I wouldn't know I guess Yes, technically it is 'Police Member' - although the current trend is that 'Police Officer' is used, even in many govt publications.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I have found in my dealings with the police I tend to get the ones with attitude.

What a coincidence....

Hi Ron , I think there is plenty of advice here regarding wheather you should report the matter to the police or not , so i'll just keep out , But Just to say that I'm glad that you are ok from that implication.