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  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    1 month
    Far out...
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    1 month
    Even the cops have knobs in the force.  Just a bully rgardless of the uniform.

  • fatbat
    fatbat
    1 month
    Massive knob

    To pick on a bloke for a luggage rack and camera mount is pathetic and embarrassing. Nothing to do with road safety 
  • B0nes
    B0nes
    1 month
    Calling it a knob is a bit of an understatement.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    1 month
    Gotta wonder what makes some pricks tick.
  • 408
    408
    1 month
    You meet a lot of arseholes in life but the ones in uniform are tricky to deal with and there are plenty of them.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    1 month
    Quoting 408 on 11 Mar 2025 12:41 AM

    You meet a lot of arseholes in life but the ones in uniform are tricky to deal with and there are plenty of them.

    Trying to juggle the power imbalance and your own dignity is the tricky bit, I've got it wrong before and had to listen to loonies yelling and talking to themselves all night, I've bit my tongue a bit since then but when you get an aggro arsehole it's a battle to be civil.
  • 408
    408
    1 month
    Quoting 408 on 11 Mar 2025 12:41 AM

    You meet a lot of arseholes in life but the ones in uniform are tricky to deal with and there are plenty of them.

    Quoting Hilly on 11 Mar 2025 01:03 AM

    Trying to juggle the power imbalance and your own dignity is the tricky bit, I've got it wrong before and had to listen to loonies yelling and talking to themselves all night, I've bit my tongue a bit since then but when you get an aggro arsehole it's a battle to be civil.


    You summed it up well.
    I spent the night in a cell by myself and then in the morning, upon release, I went down the road to the hospital out-patients department and got my nose stitched up.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    It does seem to vary state to state. I left Victoria in the 70's rode north to Qld which was in the Bjelke Petersen era and supposedly a police state.
    I found then that the Qld coppers were much easier to get along with, far more inclined to warn rather than fine for stuff like that blokes serious crime of riding with a luggage rack while on a probationary licence. Nothing's changed my mind since. Had my occasional run in since up here, but got to admit that I could have made things worse by being a smart arse with a big mouth.
    And even when things go bad, overnight in the old Tewantin lock up was much better than spending a winter night in the old Pentridge prison remand yard cell because no police station lock up space was available.
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