I have an ex-police friend who is one of the good ones that left the force. He said the arrogance from some of these guys is untamed by the hierarchy, so that's why we see these Captain Planet examples. I still respect the police, giving them the respect they deserve. I was pulled over for an RBT (Epping Road, Marsfield, 11pm - down the road from the Ranch: which is one of their favourite haunts). They had the sign, there was 8 of them and it was an orderly slick operation.
senator wrote:Cut him some slack, working a sunny weekend, on the side of highway you would be full of attitude too.
Beside the point he shouldn’t be working alone on a RBT and his location in reference to car and cones wasn’t right, he should be standing by the car waving you into the lane marked by the cones ….. I guess another bad example of a mouth breather our tax dollars keep alive, this muppets don’t do justice for the real officers that actually do their jobs correctly and without attitude.
I find it best to say nothing at all when you come across of these “special ones” I recently got pulled over for using rear fog lights during heavy down pour on the M2 at about 5am a few weeks back. Coped an ear full the minute I pulled over as the officer quoted he couldn’t see my brake lights, after I pointed out the my third brake light is 2 foot long and ran along the top of the rear windscreen , he went ape shit and asked for my driver’s licence.
So I took my time getting my wallet from the centre consoled meanwhile Captain planet was getting soaked. He claimed he should be issuing an infringement and told me how lucky I was I wasn’t getting one…… I still said nothing…… waited for him to return to the car, waited a little longer and then finally took off when I noticed his car roll forward……… mean while my fog lights remained on as now traffic was building up and I had to re-join the traffic travelling at 100km/h…. he continued to following me (fog lights still on) for a few more k’s, whilst I cautiously used the brake pedal a number of times in order to maintain safety gap from the imagery car in front.