Friday, September 21, 2007 - 05:50 pm, by: Ben Daniel(Lexustt)
Let me start off by saying I dont have anything against cops, they are members of society who have a role to fill. They may pick on a few of us import drivers but at the end of the day they are here for our benefit. I usually dont receive any vile treatment from them and when pulled over I give them the respect they deserve... But today my opinion may of changed just a little bit.
Im on my way to work this morning at around 5:40am, theres a fair bit of traffic on the freeway and im just cruising along with my music on and cruise control set. Im entering the tunnel but notice in the emergency lane a cop car who is signalling to jump into traffic. Im sitting in the right lane and there is a car in front of me and a car behind me. Next thing I see in my mirror is the cops turn his lights on and get right up behind the car thats behind me... he starts flashing his high beam frantically and the guy moves over. When this happened I instantly thought "F*ck, hes gonna pull ME over" sure enough he comes screaming up my rear end with lights blaring and frantically flashing his high beams, I cant move over because I have a car just in front of me and the car that was behind me is now sitting to my left. The cop is sitting so close to me that if I had to brake he would of hit me. Its early, i didn't sleep well last night and im starting to get worried about the situation I was in... I flicked on my indicator to shift to the left lane.. the guy after a little bit slowed down and I moved over. The cop proceeds to the next car and does exactly the same thing... goes right up his ass and is flashing his high beams and im also now in a better position to see how close he is getting which is needless to say dangerous. Anyways, this cop doesn't wait for this guy to move over, he decides he wants the lane im in and without warning jumps over... I swerved, locked up my brakes and nearly hit the wall... the guy behind me also locks up his brakes and nearly hits me. The cop then tears off up the tunnel continuing his sweep but towards the end turns off his lights and just pulls over to the side of the road as he exits the tunnel. At this point im fuming at the blatant abuse of power he has portrayed and the fact he nearly caused an accident or 2. I thought these people were meant to lead by example while out on the road ??? I guess not. I was pissed off... usually if it was some knob who didn't know how to drive i brush it off but because it was a police car and was obviously doing it because they were bored or just because they can is what really made my blood boil. I came very close to pulling over and grabbing their badge numbers and reporting it considering tunnel surveilence would have it on film but I figured by pulling over while pissed off I might just wind myself up in the so I kept on going...
/end rant.
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I've seen cops do all sorts of dumb things on the road that civilians would be easily pulled over for. Not to bag them out or anything but it's not the first time it's happened.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 01:11 am, by: Dave Billings(Waveman1717)
I find that most cops were high school drop outs, the ones always being picked on, loners, or had no social life so they have a vendetta when they put on the badge for pay-back time.
Far out, report it Ben. If you got the exact time when it happened you can probably get Main Roads to send the video off somewhere... or perhaps Today Tonight will be happy to go with this story.
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