Should this resotre my faith?

Went for a ride with a bloke from work(on a VTR1000) this morning.
We were going through Launching Place about 7am.
On the big hill heading out of town towards Warbarton I wound the old Rex up a little early (before the speed limit said I was allowed to).
Out the corner of my eye I saw Mr Plod waving at me. I waved back & carried on my way.
Only to see some disco lights over my right shoulder a couple of hundred meters later.
We all pulled over & Mr Plod came up with a smile & says he wants to do a rego & license check.
So we go through the motions while my mate keeps looking at me as if to say is his he going to book you or what?
I even asked him what was around his neck & he shows me his new laser thing & says oh that is your speed just there...
77 in a 50 zone...Ooops.
This went on for a while & a cigarette later I said 'are you going to book me or what?'
Only for him to say 'No I know its hard to ride those things at such a slow speed without them farting & popping'
Even after I made a little funny about it coming up to Christmas & he should be raising funds for the up & coming Police Mans Christmas party....
He lets us go on our merry way.
We get to the top of Reefton & my mate takes his helmet off & he is as green as my Rex & runs off to the bushes to spread some fertiliser.
We decide to go back down Reefton & start heading home.
Then I see my old mate Mr Plod waving again.
This time I pull over as he has another Mr Plod friend by now.
I get off & say 'Have we met before?'
We have a laugh & I tell him about my mate 'Chucky' who is coming down the hill.
He sees I have been pulled over again & stops.
Mr Plod & his mate go over & get a bottle of water out of their bike & tell my mate to sit down & have a drink.
After he got some colour back in his face we rode off again.

What the hell is going on here????
Should this event restore my faith in our legal department?
I always thought we were only here for revenue?

Oh the Michillen man is my new best friend. PR 2's are very nice.

Wow, that was a copper in a very happy mood. It's good to see that sort of work happening. Awareness ahead of revenue, which is the way that these things should be done.

I will take a guess that a lot of the guys may hate giving fines for some things, but I'm sure there is at least a tiny bit of pressure to raise some revenue from above.

Yeah I am sure they have some kind of 'targets' to meet.

I would have gritted my teeth & taken the fine if I had to. After all I was speeding.

But I bet this couple of guys got better results & a lot more respect doing what they did yesterday.

He is definitely not related to the clown that reckons he followed me for 10ks lights and sirens blaring

But I bet this couple of guys got better results & a lot more respect doing what they did yesterday.

Better results? In what way? Did it slow you down for the rest of your trip?

How many other people got let off dor doing nearly 30 over the limit? And now that you've told all your mates about it, what about the poor copper who pinches one of your mates tomorrow for the same speed and then gets a moutfull of abuse because "My mate got let off yesterday for the same thing!!"

And if they start letting everyone off, how long until everyone is getting around doing 90 in the 60 zones? And what about when the coppers decide that it's all getting out of hand and they want to reel the speeding back in? Hell, listen to the whingers then!

It never ceases to amaze me that when people do something wrong and get a fine for it it's "Fucken coppers. Nothing but a bunch of revenue raising pricks."

Yet you get caught for the same thing and let off it's "Top blokes. Should be more like them"

Pfft.

They must have been from The Snowy Ride.
.77 cents would seem like nothing after being overtaken at $180 all w'end

(and Resotre is spelled restore )

Yeah it did slow me down for the rest of the day.
It also taught me to wind it up when I got past the 100k sign & not when it was in sight.
He got my respect by showing he had a human side & got got his point across without writing a ticket.
I admitted I was speeding & would have gritted my teeth & coped the ticket if it had gone that way.
If he had written me a ticket of course he would have been a ass hole. The guy at our hamburger shop has put up the price of his hamburgers, so he is a ass hole.
Any one who takes money off us is a ass hole.
If it happens again & I get a ticket so be it.
If its the same bloke who books me & gives me a ticket so be it.
But I will still remember the day he showed me he could prove his point without a fine.(But I will give him a razz, with respect)
He even admitted it was early in the morning & I was not doing anything stupid(except going a little to fast to early-obviously).

Oh well I am going down to buy a hamburger off the ass hole down at the hamburger shop.....




Thanks for the spelling lesson Steve

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Yaw wellcum

well there you go ...... I on the other hand was pulled on saturday at 115k in a 100k zone and i will loose my licence (agregate points),.....member of the force was very polite....... reason for speeding??......none had just been cruising around enjoying the day and not checked speedo.....................damn......................still ended up a good day.....xcept now no licence a 200+ fine and a sore/stiff old bod after 12hrs door to door meandering round gippsland including up to baw baw ...........hopefully get the option to be good for 12months as need licence for job ...........but that in it's self is double jeopardy in victoria




aardy your a bunch a pricks............... .........picking on us law abiding citizens