The Police (dont'cha just love em)

[Huey]

Found this on RunRyder, still larfin lol

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYbu5DJA1U]YouTube - Orange County Police Car Chase - Benny Hill Themed[/ame]

Tim

[JohnJ]

Oh Boy That cheered my day up no end - Cheers :)

I do think though they could have done with a few more troops on the ground, I mean that lone female could of got right out of hand and where would they be with only half the state police force on the scene :rofl:

[Dannyyy]

:patriot:

[David Drew]

Love it!

Classic.

David

[gramey]

:)Brilliant, being a traffic cop I laughed my **** off at that, to be fair at least they usually have enough cops, just ask O.J. Simpson!
Phone over here and short of reporting an armed robbery your unlikely to see a copper for hours. Numbers help, 25 000 coppers in London - 64 000 in New York, can't afford more coppers/nurses/doctors/teachers (delete as applicable) as too much of our taxes go to keeping immigrants.:(

[Huey]

[quote=gramey;392918]:)Brilliant, being a traffic cop I laughed my **** off at that, to be fair at least they usually have enough cops, just ask O.J. Simpson!
Phone over here and short of reporting an armed robbery your unlikely to see a copper for hours. Numbers help, 25 000 coppers in London - 64 000 in New York, can't afford more coppers/nurses/doctors/teachers (delete as applicable) as too much of our taxes go to keeping immigrants.:([/quote]

Glad you enjoyed it, big respect for the job you do, and a nice reminder that coppers are human and have a sense of humour too.

Big thanks to one of your colleagues in Peterborough this week, could have cost me my licence (speeding, late for the train) but let me go with a warning, a very gratefull bunny.

Tim

[Tim Procter]

Brilliant.:D

[gramey]

:)Huey, it's a bit of double edged sword really, you get to see and deal with some gruesome jobs that you hope most people will never see in their lives. The plus side is where else do you get paid to drive a T6 Volvo and ride a motorbike on sunny day's. In the current weather I've been beasting about in a 4.4 V8 Discovery, see not all your taxes are wasted!!![IMG]http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/testvb/images/icons/icon10.gif[/IMG]

[Huey]

[quote=gramey;393001]:)Huey, it's a bit of double edged sword really, you get to see and deal with some gruesome jobs that you hope most people will never see in their lives. The plus side is where else do you get paid to drive a T6 Volvo and ride a motorbike on sunny day's. In the current weather I've been beasting about in a 4.4 V8 Discovery, see not all your taxes are wasted!!![IMG]http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/testvb/images/icons/icon10.gif[/IMG][/quote]

I'm jealous now, lol

[gramey]

:)You won't be jealous for long as I retire on 3 rd February this year and I'll have to give up doughnuts and remember I haven't got any woo, woo's to get me home quickly when I'm late for my tea!!! Nah, only kidding on the last one.
I'll have to worry about speed camera's and traffic jams like everyone else, life's a bi*ch!:)

[dam74]

[quote=gramey;392918]:)Brilliant, being a traffic cop I laughed my **** off at that, to be fair at least they usually have enough cops, just ask O.J. Simpson!
Phone over here and short of reporting an armed robbery your unlikely to see a copper for hours. Numbers help, 25 000 coppers in London - 64 000 in New York, can't afford more coppers/nurses/doctors/teachers (delete as applicable) as too much of our taxes go to keeping immigrants.:([/quote]

You guys do a great job.

[gramey]

[quote=dam74;393080]You guys do a great job.[/quote]

:)dam74, That's funny I thought we were the one's everybody hated, " Haven't you got better things to do?", " Yes but in your case I'll make an exception". Worst one is "Police Speed Cameras", so we cop all the flack when they're run by the council and operated by their civilian employee's.

In all seriousness there are good and bad in all walks of life, just have to treat people as you find em, sadly for some it all seems to be a big ego trip wearing a uniform.

The police actually used to be well thought of and respected until the politicians and human rights people turned decent folk into criminals and criminals into victims, 'Poor lad comes from a dysfunctional family, he was abused as a child, he suffers from ADHD, it's not their fault they're alcohol/drugs dependent', you get the picture. Twat someone with a cricket bat for screwing your house and you end up in clink, now what was the definition of justice?

Still time to get off my soap box and get my coat, enjoy your flying whenever that next happens.:)

[dam74]

Gramey, well when I had rolled my car I had a decent lady Traffic Officer from the Cosham Branch in Hampshire, who handled my case. She was very polite and caring and made a few phone calls to check on my well being. They didn't decide to prosecute even though I'm sure they could of, so I was a very lucky man.

The emergency services attending and the vehicle recovery company said how on earth did I survive given the state of the vehicle. A family friend in Oz commented at the photos of the vehicle and asked if I had an argument with a Rhino.

[gramey]

:(dam74, all too often these day's there's pressure on us to prosecute drivers or put them on driver awareness courses or give them a ticket. Fortunately some still exercise discretion and don't play the numbers game, you didn't hurt anybody else but hopefully if it was the result of human error a lesson was learnt. Your car's smashed up, your insurance is going to go up, do you really need a kick in the b*lls from the police just to put another tick in the box of statistcs for the government?
You've paid a price for your mistake, you've walked away thinking the police aren't so bad after all and the officer has done her job and helped you. If on the other hand the police had prosecuted you, your view of them would be different, see afore mentioned kick in the groin, and all because according to the government guidelines a prosecution would show up on their stats saying what a great job we're doing.
Good on the lady cop who's got some common sense, it's getting in very short supply.
Got to go, off to have fun in the snow on a night shift!:)

[Rctintin]

Gramey, cant we tell you are near retirement! A copper with a great attitude to life:)

I know alot of local cops (friends, not for the wrong reason!) and one of my best mates is a city of London PC, and every year a group of us (8-10) go on a trip to Europe (Switz, Italy, France etc) on our motorbikes and have a real laugh. You sure can tell the ones in their 20's are so ****y and sure of themselfs, that is until they try to keep up with the bike instructor and me chasing each other around the mountains!!

I was taking the mick out of my mate last night who was having tea with us, as he had to work this morning at 7am. His first job was to drive coppers to different stations around the Forest of Dean in the snow as he was the only PC who is qualified to drive a 4x4 in the snow!!

If I had my time again, I would have joined, but at 41,I'm to old to start at the bottom now ;)

Enjoy your retirement, hope you get loads of flying in.