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tuff
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bentleigh,vic
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after having a cop car following me for a bit on the way home it got me thinking ,
who starts to get worried when cops are behind you just sitting there lookin at your car? and goin the same way as you god dammit?? i did tonight cause my car is too low and has stockies on the back ,,just driving along thinking if they are gonna pull me over and give me a canary or something or whateva how bout you guys
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Formerly mad_ed_wagon
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dandenong Nth
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every time i see a cop car i get worried, i just dont like being any where near them
and usually drive like 10km under the limit when they around
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: newcastle
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i normally dont give a toss, if im doing the speed limit and a cop pulls behind me ill change lanes and wont slow down till i see lights flashing.
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Social Disaster
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brisbane Southside
Posts: 728
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I had a cop follow me for about 30 mins in a rural area at dusk (not many cars around). I was very nervous and trying to think of why he was tail gating me because he was very close... Then he signalled me to pull over and I was thinking "Here we in go..." and he told me to turn my high beams off :P I was too nervous to even notice them on! I let him pull bach out first and let him get a head start before I took off again! Guily conscience?!
Oh, I have to add - I try to get right behind the cops when driving. More often that not, they drive a bit over the limit and get a clear path through traffic! Fastest way I get to work ;)
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Filling up
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I just try to drive normal, you know refraim from driving on the footpath, dont use the emergency lane to overtake. I have had several police cars I beleive do a U turn and follow me for awhile but maybe I am just being paranoid.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Tauranga, New Zealand
Posts: 1,488
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I've got nothing to worry about. Well me XA isn't registered but I still don't get pulled over. I guess I have an innocent face.
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Regular Schmuck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5,640
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I normally overtake them, can't give a futz in Sydney. They do the speedlimit, I do a limit below the tolerance. After owning hoony V8's the last 4 years now, I've only been pulled over at RBT's and have been waved away of 2 of them when they spotted ricers in other lanes.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 13,372
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I usually drop a bit under the limit just to be sure. I had a cop follow me all the way back from the coast and it was a pain in the ****.
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Blueprint Beast
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne Berwick AUSTRALIA
Posts: 1,077
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Isn't it funny how our driving habits change when the coppers are about. lol
Cheers John
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tuff
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bentleigh,vic
Posts: 635
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cops hate P platers :p
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I dont change my normal driving habits at all. In my old pulsar I would have, drive 2 or 3 kays lower, be very very cautious, and would still get pulled over... Now in the EF I don't even get a second look from them. They mustn't like pulsars
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Driving my Tickford T3 Wagon in Sydney
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Yeah, slow down, being a p plater it is to easy to loose my licence.
Had a few cops pull me over for odd things like high beams on rural areas, one of my p plates fell off and the cop pulled me over and said that I wasn't displaying them.
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No longer driving a Ford.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Thing is, I honestly think that less people would drive like tools (tailgating, turning without indicating, running stop signs and red lights and so forth) if we saw more marked police cars on the road, and I think part of the reason many people react the way they do when they see one is because it's not a regular occurrence.
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Regular Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Norwest Sydney
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My friend is a idiot driver and I will not go with him again, but anyways late at night, we were passing in the other direction a paddy wagon in his pulsar and he decided to floor it to 100 in a 60 zone!
By the time the paddy wagon done a U turn, we were long gone... |
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GRRRRRR
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 73
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I found as soon as the bright red p plate came off the rear windscreen they lost complete interest in me.
I've been off p's for about 5 years of so and i have been pulled over once. While on p's i was pulled over in ANYTHING!!! Didn't matter if it was the bog stock fairmont or the stupidly over powered 302 windsor cortina they were always keen. Nearly every time it was for licence checks and minor crap like that. |
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Slide Baby Slide
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: SA - The Drift State
Posts: 2,662
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I just drive along on the limit, cause if they want me. They will get me. If they start following me, i just turn up and down heaps of streets (at the speed limit) to make sure there after me
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Location: Morayfield
Posts: 23,136
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Just imagine being a copper, who isn't involved or interested in traffic violations. They've got a marked work car (more police visibility on the roads), and they've got to get to an appointment/meeting/whatever.
It would take longer for them to get to their destination, because of all the paranoid drivers dropping 10 k's off their speed. That holds up all the surrounding traffic... no-one wants to overtake a police car, even at 61 k's! Paranoia rules! |
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Regular Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
Posts: 336
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Yeah being followed by police is pretty nerv racking I imagine.....
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my one day build...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 177
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driving around in a car that could get defected in a second i always hated seeing the cops, but now it's a little better, i always hard a bit of a chuckle when i see noone overtake a cop car, even when they are going 50km/h
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Werribee, Victoria
Posts: 1,141
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i always used 2 get shecked out as a p plater, not with no p's car is low as and havnt had a problem, but if they are sitting on the limit i will not pass, if they are driving 5-10kmh under, ill pass em, the speed limit dont change just cos there around,
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own the road
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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i just turn the music down a bit and drive normal. only thing i really worry about is if they pull me over just cos im on p's.
but been on p's for over a year now and still no random roadworthy inspections.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melb
Posts: 247
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I usually stay on the speed limit but make sure I don't speed down hills, esp when I have cruise on, I have quite often been paced by unmarked cars, and in this case I don't I don't change anything, and pretend I don't know they are there, and they usually give up after a few minutes.
Once, running late on the way to work, I was flying up a certain road near knox and I was doing about 20km over the limit and as I was approaching a new commodore, he pulled into the next lane, and my initial thought was "thanks mate, i can go straight through past you now". It was only a second later that I noticed the red and blue lights behind his tinted rear window. He was gonna pull behind me, get a speed reading and book me I figure. I didn't pass him after that.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Geelong
Posts: 13,123
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i dont do anything differently.
ive got nothing to worry about so i treat them as just another car on the road. why get worried? have you got something to be worried about? |
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Parts bin special
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Narre Warren, Vic
Posts: 8,275
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I drive quite sensibly (sticking to speed limits) but I still slow down that little bit more when I see a cop. Even still, cops tend to ignore my car. It's just another really tidy and well looked after EA. The only exception was that about 3-4 months after I got my P-plates (in 2002) I did let my speed go up to 115km/h in a 100km/h zone. Sure enough, an unmarked cop car... $200 fine and 1 demerit point (these days, it's 3 for that offence). That incident made me a better and more sensible driver.
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Low and Loud
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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I crap myself practically everytime I see the cops. They seem to in my area target ANYONE who's a P plater or has a doneup car. But Thats just everywhere im told.
I am normally pulled over at least once a fortnight around my area. The cops seem to love my car :S, Allways get "random licence check, Random RWC check". Seems to be the P plate does it. I actually forgot to put them back in my car one night after driving my mums ea for the day and the cops didnt even look at me once when next to me in traffic (shrugs). Mind you I was packing myself for forgetting the P plates.
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I Like To Shake It
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,012
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The cops around my way know me and the car, and leave me alone.
A couple of times I have even been pretend breathalyzed. Cop... "Dont worry mate, if ya driving a car like this, you wouldn't have been drinking" Me... "Damn, wish I had those drinks now" Cop... "What" Me... "Only joking" Cop... "Oh, ah, okay see you later" Regards Paul
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V8 Rock'n'Roll....
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Never worries me. If I do nothing wrong they won't pull me over. I even had one bloke wave his finger at me just after I got the XR, (there wasn't to many on the road in Sydney then) while playing in traffic. Quite a few used to give me the "thumbs up" when the XR8 was brand new.
I won't slow below the limit like some others do, makes 'em think your hiding something. Besides, if it's a 110 zone and they want to sit on 100, they deserve to be passed.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Carrum Downs, Victoria
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I worry when driving a stock car and when I am in the LTD I expect to be pulled over, there is nothing wrong with the car but I just expect it.
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No longer driving a Ford.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Personally the reason I drop to a couple of km/h under the limit is simple, speedo error. I can't be 100% sure that my speedo is 100% accurate, so dropping to about 2km/h under the limit means I know I'm not going to be booked for speeding, simple as that. Personally, I would welcome more marked police cars on our roads, for the reason I stated earlier in this thread, also because it would mean a lot less people would take the risk of driving unregistered and/or obviously unroadworthy vehicles - I remember reading recently that part of the reason so many people drive unregistered vehicles is because they think that as long as they are not drawing attention to themselves, they are not likely to be booked for it. So if there were more of a visible police presence on the roads, people would be less likely to drive vehicles they really shouldn't be driving. That's what I think, and if you disagree, you are welcome to say so, as long as you can do so in an intelligent manner. ![]()
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