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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: wheeliekev on August 15, 2006, 10:10:35 AM
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what are the police like in america with regards to riding like a twat, the english police generally want to give us points or ban us for almost anything, obviously there have been a few exceptions but not often enough, wheelies, stoppies and spinning the rear wheel are normally enough to wind them up even where the roads are clear or hardly used, its not like we do it close to traffic or in towns etc :grin:
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I recently was utilizing my modified hemi powered pickup truck to exceed the speed limit while traveling home from work.
An Officer came off an on ramp behind me and paced me for a good distance at 91 miles and hour.
When he pulled me over he was mad, took my license back to his car to write me up and came back and wrote me a ticket for 80 miles and hour (15 miles and hour over limit) and said he was a bike rider and didnt want my insurance company to drop my coverage because of the excessive amount over the limit, said he was a rider himself!
Very cool!
But my friends experience caught wheelieing and excessive speeding hasnt been good, hes paying $4200 per year for insurance and is going to get dropped for the next incident, no matter what it is.
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="wheeliekev"]what are the police like in america with regards to riding like a twat, :grin:
If you have been to any bikeweek/speedweek/biketoberfest, events here. You know what the Port Orange Police stand for! Turn around son your goin to jail!!! :duh: :boohoo: :beers: :motorsmile: :cop: :wtf: :suzmoto:
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Cops here frown on wheelie's and the like for sure. You just have to pick you time and places carefully, not wheelie past the Mayor's office etc...
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If you exceed the speed limit but don't seem to endangering anyone, most LEOs are fairly understanding. They have more serious matters to attend to. However, if you appear to be showing off, are out of control, or could be a danger to yourself or someone else, they will do what they are paid to do. Simply put, if you ride like a jerk, they will treat you like a jerk. I have a quiet bike, wear protective gear, and keep a low profile. That seems to help me ride faster without problems. Good luck.
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Well since I am the police I can tell you that I like to ride like a "twat" too. I usually don't get too pissy with people. When people are decent to me, I return the favor. I usually tell them to take their wheelies out in the country. They don't really belong in town because of the traffic volume.
Techically though, you can be placed in the pokey around here for riding wheelies. I look at it like this: You are only going to hurt yourself if you don't ride with some common sense around other traffic. A motorcyclist is not likely to injure the driver of a car in a crash.
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The drywall finisher @ the new house I'm tiling is the president of the Boss hoss club in the states. At one of their meets,they were doing burnouts and a couple cops came over. !st he handed out a ticket,but ended up throwing it out. He asked to see one done,so some guy labled"Crazy Larry" did one with a cammara man in front of him heading at the cop car. Had the back end going from 1 side to the other til he got up close and went off to the side. Another cop came racing in thinking they may need back up. The 1st cops said"You just missed it!"
All ended well. Dan
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I too am a police and I too ride like a twat sometimes. I like riding like a twat but I try to limit my twat like riding to places where I impact no one but me and the side of the mountain. Any fellow twat who shows similar restraint is likely to get gentle treatment when I am doing the police thing. Twats who display their excessive twatness in traffic seldom get any love. Moderate twatness is tolerable and treated with some restraint provided the twatness is accompanied by a significant amount of "oops, sorry about that." Any level of twatness accompanied by a shite attittude receives the utmost in police service and attention.
Twat is such a good word. I like twat. Why don't we in the states use it more?
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Starting to sound like a twats annonymous meeting, "Hi my name is B6mick, and I'm a twat. A recovering twat, but I'll always be a twat, but I'm getting by, just one twat day at a time." :motorsmile: :wink:
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Twat is a twat? :?:
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i think those twats you were talking about are female body parts
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ouch that hurt. :danger:
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="lucas"]Twat is a twat? :?:
??? Is there different types of twats? Or do you have to meet certain criteria for twatiness? The person riding side saddle, past me, on I 95, @ 108+, in truck traffic, last night, was a twat in my opinion! or was that a female body partiness? Is there nascar twatiness, John Force twatiness, or Moto GP twatiness???? :shock: :?: :duh: :beers: (http://www.siegarts.net/main/bilder_button/gallery/pictures/img/52.jpg)
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Well, speaking for myself, i'm just your general, all round, can only hurt myself twat. :wink:
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I have also found that if you keep your "twat" like riding to the backroads, which i always do. Then usually the cops just keep on cruising by.
About 3 weeks ago I came around a nice corner in TN with my knee on deck and about 20-30 over the limit, as soon as i settle in and look on through, there is a TN highway patrol looking dead at me. Now while I probably deserved 1 for that, he didnt bother giving chase. I didn't run, but rolled to the bottom of the mtn. and sat for a few, when I headed back up, he was sitting there. I parked and proceeded to talk to everyone there, he never approached me. I chalked it up as my lucky day and went home.
I think having gear on, having a clear road, and being in control of your ride helps make their minds up sometimes.
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Twat, neat word!
I'm also a po-po, and I can say I also occaisionally drive with a certain amount of twatiness, usually WAY out of town, with NO other traffic around. If I catch someone else doing so, i am usually pretty lenient. However, if someone decides to do the twat thing on busy roads w/ traffic everyhwere, and i get 'em, they usually aren't happy. As a CO state Trooper, I see way too many bad crashes involoving motorcycles and heavy traffic.
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You guys are using unrealistic examples... "way out in the boonies."
There's nothing like riding a big fat wheely past a school bus full of kids.
Of course, when you get caught, you will get a misdemeanor (exhibition of speed) and booked.
The po' ain't givin' me no love no mo'.
:boohoo:
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There are plenty of back roads in Texas and Oklahoma to play with nobody around. I've never had any issues, then again, don't usually see them out in the country. In Arizona, they like to chase bikes and are generally hard on bikers.
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Well I was out a few days back taking my kids for a ride around the block and got pulled over. I did not end up with a ticket form the police but, was told I cannot take my kid for a ride and needed to walk him home. This is stupid. I was in my subdivision off of any main roads and letting my kid enjoy something I love and got busted. God Bless the USA. After getting home I looked up the Law and I was missing DOT helmet for my kid. I had him put on his bike helmet for the ride around the subdivision. My fault. Please we were just tooling around the block. Can’t the police find better things to do?
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="silvershadow"]Well I was out a few days back taking my kids for a ride around the block and got pulled over. I did not end up with a ticket form the police but, was told I cannot take my kid for a ride and needed to walk him home. This is stupid. I was in my subdivision off of any main roads and letting my kid enjoy something I love and got busted. God Bless the USA. After getting home I looked up the Law and I was missing DOT helmet for my kid. I had him put on his bike helmet for the ride around the subdivision. My fault. Please we were just tooling around the block. Can’t the police find better things to do?
Kids don't know what's good 4 em! so the law makes you do it! In FL all riders in back must have the skid lid if worn at all! (http://hayabusa.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif)
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Here in NZ we have an open road limit of 100km which is about 60mph. Basically if you are doing 5 km over the limit you get a ticket for $100.00. For every 10km over the limit above that you get fined another $100.00 up to 140 km then it is instant loss of license for 6 month and often a court appearence with associated fines and somtimes confiscation of the motorcycle.
Our traffic police have absolutely no sense of humor and pull bikes over routinely for no reason other than to check registration etc.
I was passed by a speeding car on the open road a while ago and guess who got pulled over. It took some convincing the traffic oficer that it was actually the car the was law breaking and not me. Put a real damper on the trip.
The government says that it is not about revenue gathering. However in my role as a paramedic I know a number of police officers and they say otherwise but that is another story.
Moral of the story is ride wise.
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"amboman" said:
The government says that it is not about revenue gathering. However in my role as a paramedic I know a number of police officers and they say otherwise but that is another story.
Here in the US, the various law enforcement agencies are accused of having quotas, to which these agencies vehemently deny. If this is true, why is income from traffic citations included in government budget plans? Talking to LEOs I know, they tell me there is no specific quota number, but they can get in trouble if their superiors feel they aren't writing enough tickets. This may not fit the legal definition of a quota, but it sure implies there's an unwritten one.
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Up here in my neck of the woods, cops are usually generous with you if you don't make them chase you. If you pull over immediately, I have seen some officers let people off with a warning and a "thank you for not making me have to chase you" type of thing. Of course, it always depends on what it was you were doing. If its a little excess speeding on the open road, it can pass, but if you are being wreckless in traffic, they're gonna nail you.
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"Ride like a twat?" :grin:
Not sure what a "twat" is in the other parts of the country, but in the south it's . . . it's uh, part of a girl's . . . you see ladies have . . . well . . . I like twat, myself! :grin:
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Ya, let's switch the terminology. Twat is, after all, a beautiful thing to all us heterosexual types. Now, a short distance from said twat we have asshole. Usually a dirty, dark place. I think anybody who wheelies past a schoolbus has definately gotta be an asshole, a fool and definately not someone who thinks a lot.
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Twat is, after all, a beautiful thing to all us heterosexual types. Now, a short distance from said twat we have asshole. Usually a dirty, dark place.
Oh, surely we can find a... middle ground, here. 'Taint likely we'll please everyone. :lol:
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Twat are you guys talking about? I cun't understand a word you're saying.
Johhny Knoxville on SNL's HillBilly Er: "I need to see a doctor immediately."
Receptionist: "What seems to be the problem?"
JK: " I accidentally nailed a 2X4 to my ABC."
Recep: "ABC?"
JK: "Yeah, you know . . . my ass-ball connection?"
Recep: "Room 2C" :shock:
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"Red01" said:"amboman" said:
The government says that it is not about revenue gathering. However in my role as a paramedic I know a number of police officers and they say otherwise but that is another story.
Here in the US, the various law enforcement agencies are accused of having quotas, to which these agencies vehemently deny. If this is true, why is income from traffic citations included in government budget plans? Talking to LEOs I know, they tell me there is no specific quota number, but they can get in trouble if their superiors feel they aren't writing enough tickets. This may not fit the legal definition of a quota, but it sure implies there's an unwritten one.
I've worked for two different agencies in my 8 year police career, and known cops from a dozen more. None of them have quotas. I have never heard of anyone at any level of the department talking about traffic enforcement in terms of generating revenue. Sure, if you're a patrol officer and you don't write any tickets, you can get in trouble. But that's because you're probably not doing your job, part of which is enforcing traffic laws. Trust me, if I went a whole shift without writing a ticket I would have to be actively ignoring the dangerous driving I see all night. I personally tend to only write tickets for dangerous stuff like running red lights and unsafe lane changes (i.e. stuff that gets motorcyclists killed!) or criminal stuff (DUI's, suspended DL.)
It's also worth remembering that in a lot of cases, the government employing the guy writing you may not get a dime from the traffic fine, especially if he's a city or county cop. Everywhere is different, but in some places only the state benefits, in some the state and the county, in others all three.
Bottom line... if you don't want a ticket, don't ride/ drive like a twat.
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Just remember these officers are hired by you and other taxpayers to protect "twat" riders from injuring/killing others and yourself.
You want to play, then don't complain when you have to pay.
Or, you could run for political office and get laws changed.
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what are the police like in america with regards to riding like a twat:grin:
TWAT, as I recall, was a widely used "BRITISH" term, I for one commonly
used several times a day durinig my first 11 years of life in the U.K. Only when I came to Canada, I found it hardly ever used. Again, it was used amongst those other famous Brit terms like, TWIT!, BOLLOCKS!, PILLUK!, WANKER!, SOD!, ROTTER!, ARSE! and GIT!
twat [ twot ] (plural twats)
noun
Definition:
1. a highly offensive term for a woman's vagina or genital area ( taboo )
2. U.K. a highly offensive term for somebody regarded as unintelligent, worthless, or detestable ( taboo insult )
Mid-17th century. Origin ?
Of course I also heard "TWAT" was what you call a "Pregnant Fish" back in the day!
A poem printed around 1660 by the scurrilous poet "Anon" :
They talked of his having a Cardinal's Hat,
They'd send him as soon an Old Nun's Twat.
and on that note: Just exactly when did we move off topic? :stickpoke:
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Ya know, it never ceases to amaze me why people who insist on messing with the bull end up getting the horn.....and then complaining like hell about the whole thing.
As numerous posters have mentioned: Don't do stupid shite in front of cops or in the midst of traffic. Pretty simple stuff.....right??? :wink:
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What a fantastic and colourful language we Brit's have :grin:
"TWAT" i must admit to using this alot but my favorite has to be "WANKER" and while saying it you've got to hang on to the "W" to have full meaning to the person your saying too. :lol:
If any of you guys have seen this years UK version of Big Brother there's a guy on there who has tourette's syndrome and quite often blurts out "WANKERS" , i know this isn't p.c. but it is very fookin' funny.
:toofunny: