Open Carry

[imntxs554]

The day we were aloud to OC this is what a person took a picture of. A Constable Law Enforcement Officer on Horse Back on I-37 by Refinery Row.

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[Peter Laidler]

Open Carry........ For the benefit of us English..... Is that the open carrying of pistols? Is that a rifle he's got?

[vintage hunter]

Is that a rifle he's got?

No rifle, it appears to be a radar speed gun. He's checking the speed of those vehicles passing by.

[Peter Laidler]

I thought of that - but............ What can he do about it if he's on a horse!

We have the same situation in England. The nation is knee deep in all sorts of crime - I mean REAL crime - and the cops seem hell bent on catching speeders. Cameras in unmarked cars, unmarked motorcycles, hidden in hedges. on poles, hidden in horseboxes and trailers......

Some of the unruly ruffians around these parts have taken to using a battery drill to drill a hole in the bottom of the yellow speed camera boxes and then filling them from below with that x60 volume hard setting industrial foam. Truly wicked I'm sure you'll agree. Apparently these miscreants have no regard to the fact that such action totally destroys the internal camera and electronics at a cost of £40,000. Such naughtiness in such financially straightened times!

[Gil Boyd]

Ah............but they have cameras looking at the speed cameras now, as they take £25,000 to replace with tax payers money

[Paul S.]

I hate speed cameras. I got two speed camera tickets in two days the last time I was home (Sydney). Both were hidden on inside bends on a downhill run where you would naturally pick up speed.

[CINDERS]

Set the cruise to the desired legal limit and there ya go no fines, me in the stupid indestructibly days going down a steep hill shot past a mate on my bike he was doubled up on his FJ1200 Yammie doing an genuine 240KPH I went past him just like he was standing still I was on the wrong side of the road as he had the centre line irresponsible - yes, do it again - never a moments stoopdity for fractions of fun. But like most personnel only put up stuff I have done and survived including hitting on a bike 2 roos (1 I hit was at 140KPH on my ZIR MkI , sheep, owl, gallah, rabbits, pigeons, 28 parrots, dogs, 2 cars, 3 prangs after imbibing. One prang by car was 5 days before we were to be married the car driver failed to stop at a stop sign on my Rt I woke up jammed under the car looking at the diff my fiance had a dress on skidded past the cars rear on her knees. I rolled out could not get up my 1976 z-900 was totaled as I had to throw it away to avoid a T bone accident which would have killed us. I was in fine form severe grazing as I only had a t shirt and jeans on (boots but thank goodness) I passed out again woke up ED at the hospital to hear my fiance screaming which upset me as though banged up as I was with grazing a split left knee I thought she was in a real bad way as I do not remember seeing her in triage.
Story she told me later why she screamed when they did the light test in my left eye was fully dilated non reactive and the right eye reacted to the light not a nice thing to be told to her just days from our wedding possible severe brain damage, Cath was also a trained nurse and had nursed severely injured bike riders herself.
Anyway it was a wedding with a difference as most of the bridal party was a mess, my best man had to have his wisdom teeth out that day, my brother (Groomsman) had strained his back moving my furniture to Harvey from Perth anyway we got married had seven good years together have grown ups and grandkids lifes just grand as you can hand then back, anyway I survived, enjoy the site and thoroughly love this site and those in it.
I did peg my VF-1000R to 250 KPH and in standard trim with Pirelli silver dots on it clocked a 11.81 @117mph standing 1/4tr mile at Ravenswood dragway. Hope you enjoyed a small snippet of things done by CINDERS still going semi strong........
Have a good day

[vintage hunter]

What can he do about it if he's on a horse!

Reminds me of the Dukes of Hazzard episode where Boss Hogg gave Rosco and Enos horses because they'd wrecked all the patrol cars trying to catch Bo and Luke.
Believe it or not in the mid '80's the Podunk town of Backville, S.C. equipped it's police dept. with DIESEL VW Rabbit's for patrol cars. Those things were so slow till they had bug marks on the back glass. They finally came to their senses a few years later when robbers knocked over the bank and got away because those slow VW's couldn't keep up with the get away car, a Pontiac Tran Am that was a dead ringer for the one Burt Reynolds drove in the First Smokey and the Bandit movie. A highway Patrol buddy was involved in the chase and told me later it showed up their Crown Vics too but it couldn't shake the little Mustang GT interceptor the SCHP had recently got. The driver lost control on a curve in the neighboring county and that brought the chase to a screeching halt.

the cops seem hell bent on catching speeders.

Oh boy Pete you've done started me to ranting about law enforcement now. I sometimes believe catching speeders and writing seat belt violations are just about all they're good for, but every one in a while they do something worthwhile. Most of the times when I've needed them they were just about as useful as the tits on a bo hog. You have to guard your property around here or else some lowlife thief will have it. The cops seem to care less. When called they act like it's a huge inconvenience to get up off their fat arses and do their jobs and show up with surly attitudes. They ask a bunch of irrelevant and sometimes down right insulting questions like what you paid for the ''missing' item or what it's scrap value is, make accusations that make you feel like the criminal, then to make it look like they're doing something they'll maybe take a photo or two, take a statement, fill out a crime report, and that's as far as it goes 99% of the time and they seldom ever recover your belongings.
A month or so ago some teen age delinquents were wandering the community busting glass bottles and building fires right in the middle of county dirt roads and beating up mailboxes. When they destroyed mine and left 3 unattended fires burning in the road that could have spread onto my property I called the sherrif's dept to do something about it. The dispatcher seemed reluctant to send a deputy out because I didn't actually see it happen or who did it but I raised enough hell until she finally did. A pair of deputies got there about 45 minutes later. One, a young fellow in his early 20's with a sarcastic attitude, looked around for a minute or two without ever getting out of his vehicle said something to his overweight female partner to the effect that my troubles weren't worth them responding to and left. I showed her the footprints, my destroyed mailbox and the still smoldering fires. She waddles around a bit gathering ''evidence'', took a couple photo's of the footprints and damage to my mailbox then proceeded to give me a cock and bull story that building fires in the middle of a public road wasn't a crime and the most they could charge the miscreants with was vandalism for destroying my mailbox, but only of they were caught in the act, and the chances of that happening were very slim. I was advised to buy a new mailbox and forget about it. End of story as far as the law was concerned.

[CINDERS]

He can go cross country as having 4 x 4 with a carrot dangled in front for extra boost....... Yes Paul and they say they never hide them Ho Ho Ho bullsh*t, one lady in Perth ran a camera over as she said the flash scared her, they nearly pinned the $65,000 replacement cost onto her she was lucky not to have had to pay it so think again before you throw a brick at one?

[Gil Boyd]

Now had that low flying Tri nation fully armed Tornado loosed off its missiles in the rolling hills of Scotland, when two Traffic Policemen were carrying out speed checks with a hand handheld radar gun...........things might have been very different today. True Story