Ha ha, candidates for this years Darwin awards, I hope the driver will be charged with careless driving.
jono2912,
Apr 20, 7:51am
I thought training would of been ongoing anyway.
ct9a,
Apr 20, 7:52am
"safer communitys"
rus_the_dallas,
Apr 20, 7:58am
New billboard for Tui!
thejazzpianoma,
Apr 20, 10:26am
The level of driving from our Police is appalling. You only need to look at the proportion of cars that are in the panel shop at any given time. Here in Tauranga where there is just a modest fleet its unusual not to see a couple in for repairs at any given time.
There just seems to be a blatant disregard for road safety among a sub-set of officers. I have had to take evasive action on three separate occasions that I can think of due to completely unnecessary and incredibly dangerous driving from Police. None of the instances appeared to be due to officers needing to travel fast "under urgency" just blatantly stupid behaviour.
richardmayes,
Apr 20, 11:07am
From all that panel damage, you'd almost think the cops spent their days confronting unsavoury characters and villains, huh Jazz!
Here in Wellington, the constabulary have a habit of cruising around the central city at 30-40km/h. If a red light gets in the way, BAM! the disco lights go on, stright thru the red light, then the disco lights immediately go off again and it's back to cruising along at 30-40km/h. More in the evening. This is extremely blatant and it's the one and only behaviour that undermines my otherwise high regard for the Police.
johnf_456,
Apr 20, 4:05pm
At the end of the day they are only human.
r15,
Apr 20, 5:30pm
so i too should run red lights and crash / damage cars at a proportionally high level!
therafter1,
Apr 20, 5:58pm
Lined himself up nicely LOL
johnf_456,
Apr 20, 6:14pm
Nah but all humans make mistakes.Not saying its right but mistakes do happen.
klrider,
Apr 20, 7:15pm
You are so FOS
dent,
Apr 20, 8:11pm
I belive that the police cars are uninsured. Not worth the cost to insure them apparntly.
compchick,
Apr 21, 3:28am
After seeing one go flying through a set of lights coming off the motorway in South Auckland completely sideways naaawww they don't need retraining in skid control :DI was sitting in Wendys couldn't quite believe what i saw I'm faaairly certain he had his lights flashing >_<
richardmayes,
Apr 21, 5:30am
Great comment! Go you!
kyokei,
Apr 21, 12:05pm
Been living in central Wgtn for a few years and the last time i saw a copper do that was 6 - 7 years ago!
elect70,
Apr 21, 12:18pm
Cop told me its recorded every time the flashing lights are switched on & cop has to recordthe reason .
richardmayes,
Apr 21, 12:28pm
Lucky you!
Last time I saw one was about a month ago, doing a sneaky left turn from Customhouse Quay into Whitmore Street through a red light.
Most blatant one I've seen was a right turn off Whitmore onto Lambton Quay through a yellow ( a pretty late yellow, it went red just after he crossed the line.)Most normal drivers could and would have stopped for that one. Cop couldn't be bothered stopping, but had plenty of time to switch on the disco lights to make his yellow light running "legit".
wrong2,
Apr 21, 3:05pm
cops are just ordinary guys
they LOVE hooning as much as any of us here
they are NO different
gunhand,
Apr 21, 3:09pm
Especially considering how young most of them are these days, there still growing out of the hoon stage.
wrong2,
Apr 21, 3:15pm
21 years old - 6 weeks of training
just a flaming puppy
& he has the right to take my wheels & "educate" me over what is dangerous & what is responsible
its a joke
marmatt,
Apr 24, 7:57am
give them some tissues hahaha
ola_bitchola1,
Apr 24, 8:08am
haha i saw that on Monday as i was coming back from work in masterton its a straight piece of road not sure how he lost it car was really munted
flitt,
Apr 24, 8:14am
HA! Look at all the pitchfork clutching rabble in here.
'unnecessary, Careless Driving, lack of training, appalling police driving, hoons.'
Desperate!
therafter1,
Apr 24, 8:15am
+ + + + + + + + + ONE
flitt,
Apr 24, 8:20am
The above exert is a massive clue as to what kind of a numpty driver is in this thread making judgements about the officer who caught him.
And he got a +1 above lol.
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