Look out for all the coppers on the road

**Marika** · 10th March 2009, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by Panda

Yea, I feel for the coppers having to work over Christmas, by & large they do a good job & I for one certainly wouldn't have the patience to deal with the general public in their situation. It amazes me these cops shows you see from New Zealand (I think), whereby the wrongdoers, shall we say, always try to get out of it & deny total responsibility. There are so many total ******* out there. I seriously couldn't deal with them. So they have my admiration for that aspect alone.

I also don't envy the poor coppers having to attend bad accidents, must be bloody awful. And, despite years of experience etc, must be very hard to switch off at the end of a bad shift & be "normal". And I reckon I have bad days!

Nothing to what they have to contend with.

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!

Thankfully I rarely drink & certainly don't drink & drive, so that never worries me. And as far as speeding goes, well, the Series III has enough problems getting up hills, so the only time I'm at risk of speeding is when she eventually gets wound up, or trying to get some speed going down hills before a whopper of a hill coming up, so I don't lose too much speed, or in a 60 or 80 zone.

In any case, it was just a reminder to watch yourselves & not do anything daft over the holiday period, like end up losing your licence, or worse still, having a bad accident & ending up in hospital or dead. (Subtle ain't I?)

Panda the heads would have turned not to chase you but just to dream at your series three LOL I WANT ONE TOO
I have a ser 1 disco 86 Rangerover a series two disco now I want a ser three

**clean32** · 10th March 2009, 11:23 PM

I do an massive amount of miles in a week and have done so for many years, mainly city but twice weekly trips out as well ,
I feely admit that I was a better driver at the age of 34 and doing 90 000 klm a year to now at the age of 44 dong 60 000 a year.
Most of those miles are done talking on a cell phone and as I don’t like hands free or blue tooth things ( for a number of reasons) I just use a plug in ear peace with a wire to the phone.
My biggest problem is creeping. Truck out of Adelaide at 2am for a 930am appointment in port Lincoln and at least 4-5 times on the trip I will be thinking “ the roads a bit ruff” look down at the Speedo and eyeball the needle hovering around anywhere from 150 – 180klm. (Ford Ranger 3ltr TD will wind off the clock auto)
Any way, last trip I cruised though port Augusta at high way speeds and got flashed at 4am. Of course the ticket arrives on the bosses desk so he decides to have a bit of a chat, now getting a lecture from some one only a few years off his P plates was a bit hard to take. So I fired off with the I will not be here for much longer with my creeping ill lose my license soon and that will be the end of it.
3 days latter the GM is down and he tosses me the keys for a Coon car only comment was “ it has cruise control” and I am thankful for that.
Second part. I am an unlucky driver. Not in the sense of having accidents but I see a lot and am often first there. Even last Saturday. kid and the misses off to the kids farm at Handoff? We decide to come back though birdwood and down the gorge ( boy is asleep and we get some chat time). Coming down the Gorge on one 180 curve I spot a bike down up against the Amco. Flashers on stop 30 yards down the road, run back up. To late, no vomit, no smell from behind, eyes to shiny ( dry) no pulse not in fetal position, another car stopped I asked the driver to also check for pulse. He tried his best but not his thing. ( do something even if its wrong) straitened the guy out started CPR but I did know it was useless, stopped lent over felt the pipes on the bike they were only Luke worm and the bike wasn’t making any noise like ting ting so I knew I was way over the 3 minutes and I was getting Knackered and no one else was going to help, its actually not an easy thing for most people to be able to do. Ambo turned up 30 minutes latter the cops and rescue. Filled the abo with what I had done. Gave the cop my card and got out of there.
Since Xmas that was my 3rd speed related death and the second time I had tried CPR unsuccessfully. Apart from the Bike none of them were what you would call excessive high way speed accidents but all of them were due to misjudgment or inattention, the extra speed just made it not painful but deadly

**Panda** · 11th March 2009, 04:26 AM

Well they'll have to keep dreaming, 'cause I'll be driving my old girl to the grave!

Most people say they want one, until they actually have a drive in mine. They generally tend to change their minds pretty quickly after putting up with the noise, smell, heavy steering, lack of turning circle and dodgy suspension for a few clicks!

Years ago I broke down in George Street in the city (not a good place to break down!). There was no fuel coming from the line to the carbie, & luckily I had a spare fuel filter, so started to change it there & then. It was a bitch of a job & took me twice as long as a bloke would have as I'm not very mechanically minded, but eventually fixed it. Meanwhile, this bloke who was standing watching asked if I'd sell it to him for $10,000.00.

I said laughing "sorry, she's not for sale at any price - it's a Rover thing, you wouldn't understand ..."

Originally Posted by Marika

Panda the heads would have turned not to chase you but just to dream at your series three LOL I WANT ONE TOO
I have a ser 1 disco 86 Rangerover a series two disco now I want a ser three

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