Thread: Look out for all the coppers on the road

Think it might've actually been a bald coot.

All-black and larger than its cousin, the moorhen, it has a distinctive white beak and 'shield' above the beak which earns it the title 'bald'. Its feet have distinctive lobed flaps of skin on the toes, which act instead of webs when swimming. It patters noisily over the water before taking off and can be very aggressive towards others.

Simon

and what I want to know is how is all this knowledge relevant to this thread? was that shag seen on his mobile while driving?

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Soooooooo...........we hope all this birdy knowledge is not from Olsen's Expurgated Version of the Book of British Birds (you know....the one without the gannet)

Ah, thank you.

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Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Brian...are you actually able to say anything that doesn't have a sexual connotation?

I wait with baited breath.....

What are you trying to catch?

Ron (waiting with bated breath)

Originally Posted by CaverD3

Highway patrol can be a different breed from other cops. I have a friend who when working at a police station a new probationary constable when reporting to the desk on his first day, a highway officer who followed him in gave him a ticket for failing to indicate when he turned into the entrance.

Having said that have had another one stop behind me with lightswhen I was changing a tyre just to stop me getting hit.

I guess after some time in the job, you'd do whatever you could to avoid seeing this sort of thing.

Originally Posted by Panda

Driving back from Campbelltown, there were 3 coppers standing next to their police car, took one look at me in the Series III, & I swear their heads nearly swivelled off their necks. I'm sure they were tossing up whether to follow me & pull me over. I wasn't speeding or anything, so I wasn't worried, just amused!

Could be they were just curious!

One of the members of our MV club sent this pic. Had to laugh, but I'd guess you'd be passing bricks too at the same time. He wasn't busted, they just wanted to know "what the hell is that"? What I want to know is how do you see lights and hear sirens when you're driving. And if you do drive for several kilometres before pulling over, just how do the HP think the're going to stop you?

You could be right there! About 5 years ago, also driving in Campbelltown, I got pulled over for a RBT driving the SIII. (The only time I've ever been pulled over in the SIII actually). The copper was very amused, laughing merrily & calling me the "crocodile lady", though where he got that from I have no idea, seeing as the Series III has painted "The Green Goanna" on it.

Would have been a classic being pulled over driving a tank!

Originally Posted by 303gunner

Could be they were just curious!

One of the members of our MV club sent this pic. Had to laugh, but I'd guess you'd be passing bricks too at the same time. He wasn't busted, they just wanted to know "what the hell is that"? What I want to know is how do you see lights and hear sirens when you're driving. And if you do drive for several kilometres before pulling over, just how do the HP think the're going to stop you?

Originally Posted by ATH

Two colleagues of mine had sons go straight into this mob and one says he has seen his son’s cop's licence which advises them that they "are not required to obey any traffic regulation while driving their Police vehicle"!
Nothing about when in pursuit or going on an emergency call, just do what they like and don't bother setting an example to the driving public of how it should be done.

I think I'd be asking to "SEE" this advice on their licence before I believed it.

In a previous job, I worked closely with WA Police, traffic and other , and this description of their "driving rules" doesn't ring true with my experience.

Police and other emergency services drivers are allowed to contravene certain traffic rules, only under strictly prescribed conditions, with the main proviso that - "ONLY WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO". If a copper drives through a red light or onto the wrong side of the road and has an accident with another vehicle, then the copper is in the wrong, because it was obviously not safe to do so.

I have actually seen this instruction to police myself (not as reported second hand by someone's dad), as I had to observe the same conditions as part of my own job - where I was also allowed to contravene some traffic rules under the same conditions.

In my case, I was a Pilot Vehicle operator, escorting oversize loads. Accredited Pilot Vehicle operators in WA have some of the same "rights" as police and other emergency services drivers in certain circumstances.