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Police officer pursuit on BMW
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globalrider
Alps Adventurer
As well as countless other drivers and pedestrians
I think we should volunteer him for mine sweeping duty in some war zone...on foot. Boom...damn, so that is where that sucker was buried.
tourunigo
New member
Excellent video and quite riveting to watch. To the above point: My wife, Mary, is a 4'11" co-pilot and we have a '92 K1100LT. A long reach for this lady! Cure: mounted a cruise peg on left side, half way up the frame, and she basically does a two-step walk up the side from foot peg to cruise peg aaaaaaand over. - Bob
ricochetrider
Out There Somewhere
Interesting!
Nice Vid, and kudos to the officer/rider. It's reasonably well known that, even if you MIGHT outrun a car or bike, you'll never outrun a radio. Unlike some posters, I'm not much of one for advocating either beating up on, or taking civil rights away from people.
For point A, it IS the 21st century. Cops beating people up unnecessarily is SO 1973. It really is NOT their job. Kudos to these guys for doing their job well and acting professionally.
To address point B- rights... While I couldn't agree more that there are many problems with the American Judicial System, none of them are going to be solved by stripping US citizens of OUR civil (and other) rights.
Just remember these rights serve YOU TOO. The fact of Civil Rights is one of THE primary differences between the USA and many other countries. It is the very foundation upon which this great nation was built. To suggest that civil rights are not deserved.... Or needed?
Well. Maybe someone who holds himself to the absolute letter of every single law on the books can afford to be so careless as to think they don't need, and will never need their rights... But I doubt very seriously if that person exists in the real world.
Anyway, thanks for posting that video!
Nice Vid, and kudos to the officer/rider. It's reasonably well known that, even if you MIGHT outrun a car or bike, you'll never outrun a radio. Unlike some posters, I'm not much of one for advocating either beating up on, or taking civil rights away from people.
For point A, it IS the 21st century. Cops beating people up unnecessarily is SO 1973. It really is NOT their job. Kudos to these guys for doing their job well and acting professionally.
To address point B- rights... While I couldn't agree more that there are many problems with the American Judicial System, none of them are going to be solved by stripping US citizens of OUR civil (and other) rights.
Just remember these rights serve YOU TOO. The fact of Civil Rights is one of THE primary differences between the USA and many other countries. It is the very foundation upon which this great nation was built. To suggest that civil rights are not deserved.... Or needed?
Well. Maybe someone who holds himself to the absolute letter of every single law on the books can afford to be so careless as to think they don't need, and will never need their rights... But I doubt very seriously if that person exists in the real world.
Anyway, thanks for posting that video!
ponch1
Ponch
There's a difference between rights and law. Just saying. May be it's better to say that we act according to our own will, limited only by the same and therefore equal rights of others and not according to the tyrant's will, which can be law. Someone said something like this before and they understood liberty better than most of us.
ricochetrider
Out There Somewhere
I'm OK with that- but still not OK with the police beating up on people, or with denying U.S. citizens the premise of civil rights held forth within the U.S. Constitution.
Just Saying.
ponch1
Ponch
I'm OK with that- but still not OK with the police beating up on people, or with denying U.S. citizens the premise of civil rights held forth within the U.S. Constitution.
Just Saying.
I never implied that it was ok.
ted
Dum vivimus vivamus
It probably has something to do with the difference between a hefty fine, loss of license and perhaps a short stint in county lock up, and an almost guaranteed quite lengthy prison sentence.
