Cop Pulling Over Phone Users

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  • Stel
    Stel
    10 years ago

     

  • keith
    keith
    10 years ago

    Nice work, hope they all got booked !!

  • perthhog
    perthhog
    10 years ago
    in perth by the looks of it good shit as far as I am concerned
  • Independant_84
    Independant_84
    10 years ago
    A mate of mine got hit bad by an asian woman on a mobile phone . She run up the back of his bike knocked him off and then hit him again before she realized what day it was.
    Stuffed his back and shoulder for life not to mention his bike and gear.
  • Rains
    Rains
    10 years ago
    Good job, Police! This fear of getting caught is the only way to stop these morons who text & drive. The "need" to post continuously Facebook, Twitter etc has caused a huge increase in their numbers.
    Just yesterday I had pulled up at a red light in my car, a delivery truck pulled up behind me, I could see the driver's (young man) head down, laughing at some joke, hands furiously typing away. I was bracing myself for a rear ender. That moron was a professional driver!
  • Bonkerz
    Bonkerz
    10 years ago
    Seems every fourth fucker you go bye has a mobile glued to their ear, wandering all over the road, so whatever the cops are doing (if they are) isn't working.
  • the_mongrel
    the_mongrel
    10 years ago
    There should be 20 of these blokes in every city, whose only purpose is to hit mobile phone users.
  • Veteran
    Veteran
    10 years ago
    Does anybody know what the penalty for using a mobile phone is whilst driving ? I would hope it would be pretty costly, considering the damage that can result of being distracted at the wrong time. There really is no excuse, with bluetooth, voice mail, etc. I was going to say that bike riders generally don't "multi-task", but as I was writing, an ad came on tv with some dude embedding an iPad in the tank of a bobber: what the fuck is it with technology and "staying connected"? Am I missing something, do you need to post a selfie on Facebook to enjoy a ride these days ?
  • FLIPDOG
    FLIPDOG
    10 years ago

    good on em for bustin up dickheads on phones but, IS THAT A GO-PRO OR SIMILAR MOUNTED TO HIS HELMET ????? fucken oath, I'd say.
    Thought that was in fact illegal........I hear riders are being booked for exactly the same thing....

  • steelo
    steelo
    10 years ago
    Wouldn't have thought go pro. Those plastic cases kill sound.
  • Independant_84
    Independant_84
    10 years ago
    Last i heard in nsw it was 3 points and a $250 fine. Yet that still doesn't deter them .
  • Stel
    Stel
    10 years ago
    the camera he's using is a Drift Ghost. I've got one on my helmet (for safety / evidence)
  • Harleynut
    Harleynut
    10 years ago
    Well done, hope there's more of it.
    A couple of years back a, I passed a P plater who was driving on a 2 lane divided road near where we live. He was doing 90 in an 80 in an area that has claimed the many lives. As I passed by his open driver's window, I noticed his eyes were fixed on a phone he was busily texting on below the bottom of the steering wheel. I screamed "GET OFF THE PHONE YOU DUMB F**K OR I'LL SOVE IT UP YOUR A**E!" The bloke near soiled himself, dropping the phone under his feet and I continued the tirade when we stopped at the next set of lights. He was literally crying when I left and I was expecting a later visit from the police for road rage, but DIGAF? Nope. The kid'll hopefully remember the incident and what I drummed into him when we pulled up, pointing out HOW he was going to feel when he killed someone's father/mother/son/ daughter/sister brother over that text. Holding hands and saying please just doesn't work with them.
    I do remember reading that there was a phone signal interrupter that was developed not so long ago that would render a cell phone incapable of sending/receiving when it's in a car and not using the handsfree option (could still use emergency). Where did this technology go and why isn't it being fast-tracked into use?
    Wondering if impounding the vehicle AND phone would act as any deterrent. Probably not. 3 weeks ago watched a bloke in a suit about 60yo driving a new Merc convertible in heavy traffic doing 90kph with his phone up to his ear for about 10km. I was in the cage and he was a couple of cars away or it would've been on. Apparently he didn't know that Merc's aren't exempt.
  • southwind
    southwind
    10 years ago
    well done WA police - flood the streets with cops on unmarked bikes and make WA safer for all the two wheeled community.
  • Darrin
    Darrin
    10 years ago

    What interests me most about the mobile phone while driving issue is that, while many non-riders moan about noisy Harley riders blah blah blah, we see first hand how driver inattention due to mobile phone use leads to cars not noticing we're there or cutting into our lane and so forth. Most of my fellow riders take those observations to heart and we do not use the phone while driving. Maybe we need to put more cagers on bikes so they can learn why a mobile phone while driving is not a good idea?!

    PS: I read one study on inattentional blindness (as cognitive psychologists call it) that used eye tracking devices, and also measures of reaction times in simulated road situations, to measure whether all distractions are created equal. That is, many cagers say "oh, there is no difference between using a phone while driving and reaching for your coffee or fiddling with the stereo or kids screaming in the back seat". Why legislate against this one distraction, is the motto. But the studies showed that mobile phone use led to much greater "eye displacement" (from the road) and slower reaction times than any other distraction, by quite a wide margin. They could, of course, have  just asked motorcycle riders about the bulls*** we see from cagers on phones!!!

  • Wimbo
    Wimbo
    10 years ago
    Fantastic Video. Too many "Experts" on the road with fucking mobiles.
  • Rocky2010
    Rocky2010
    10 years ago

    Great to see that they are doing something like that and I think its a great idea to try and get those dumb ass drivers off their phone whilst driving. Its sad that society has turned into a bunch of moroons and they let those mobile phones rule their lives now. There should be something done to render mobile phones useless whilst driving in a moving vehicle.

    Last year a friend of mine was killed when a person in another was texting whilst driving that person then drove on the wrong side of the road without even noticing till he hit my friends car head on and killed her.

    Mobile phones do not rate very high with me even before my freind had the fatal accident.

  • gadget
    gadget
    10 years ago
    I agree, get these morons off the road , im a postie and there are many times when I have nearly been hit by some peanut either talking, or texting on their phone
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    10 years ago
    Pulled up next to the bike copper in town yesterday and said gidday to him! I had checked him out prior from a few car lengths behind and sure enough he was having a gander at all the cage drivers checking for them being on the phone. It great to see them pinging the bastards at long last - a driver using their phone is a very scarey thing on the road!
  • Soapbox2627
    Soapbox2627
    10 years ago
    I found it great that the copper I pulled up next to at the lights was also looking at all the cars for phone activity.
    I had to tell my missus to hold on a sec from talking to me, I was on the Bluetooth, she was home.
    darn scala system, makes a mockery of the law
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