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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28385 Tucson Az Gender:	Where's a cop,... 07/04/10 at 10:54:21 ...when you......... Oh,.. there... ...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #1 - 07/04/10 at 10:56:21 Wouldna needed that one if he hadnt been there. Hows That for irony?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28780 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #2 - 07/04/10 at 11:38:58 being in lanes of traffic... there's more there than a cruiser backin' up over a cruiser.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #3 - 07/04/10 at 11:44:51 Scrapes on road make me think the bike slid under him.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28385 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #4 - 07/04/10 at 11:46:45 Yeah,.. those look like scrape marks in the road, in front of the bike... ...like the bike laid down and skidded into the car... ...but,.. I can't imagine the bike getting under there, without the car backing up and over... Maybe the cop was backing out into traffic, and the biker laid it down in a skid trying to avoid him?...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #5 - 07/04/10 at 11:58:48 Definite maybe there.
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Stimpy - FSO Serious Thumper Offline SuzukisSavage Int'l Division Posts: 1203 Germany - formerly SD, SoCal Gender:	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #6 - 07/04/10 at 16:24:38 Those cruisers weigh about 2 tons, poor bike.
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Midnightrider Serious Thumper Offline Alliance Member Posts: 3244 Winston Salem, NC	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #7 - 07/04/10 at 17:10:50 I woke up with one this morning
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Reply #8 - 07/05/10 at 07:16:13

Once again, a picture posted showing a police car in a bad situation. Had the car not been a police cruiser, the picture would probably not have been taken, let alone posted. Unfortunately, we have no more information. What happened? Was the cruiser stopped? Was the bike speeding? We don't have enough information to know. We don't even know whether the picture is current or old. This could even have been a "staged" picture, for all we know.

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Reply #9 - 07/05/10 at 07:27:07

No, we dont "know" exactly what happened. But, we can use our knowledge & experiences to make note of some details to give clues. The road is scraped up & the car is jacked up on the bike. L/R bumper is mis-shapen & fluids trail from the bike, so, Id say the odds of it being staged are exactly zero. Now, who was at fault? I see no clue that would help me start to guess. But, Ill stick to my point. That had the cop not been there to be the other 1/2 of the collision, its likely there would be no need for one. I call that irony.

Yea, its bad taste, downright tacky, to post a pic of a cop car in a questionable situation. Must maintain loyalty to the state, all hail the state! ( read & repeat as needed)

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Reply #10 - 07/05/10 at 07:40:36

I didn't say it was bad taste to post the picture. And I am not surprised to see it posted, even without amplifying information, in a simple attempt to make the police look bad. Indeed, the driver of the cruiser may have been at fault. In general, however, when a vehicle is hit from the rear presumptive fault is assigned to the rearward vehicle on the grounds of "following too close."

I was stationed in Turkey for a while. We were told, in the event of a traffic crash, that we would almost invariably be found at fault regardless of the actual situation, because "If you weren't here this would not have happened." That "logic" is precisely the same as saying the cop is at fault because he had to be there to be the other half of the crash.

As far as the odds of the photo being staged being "exactly zero" you have omitted the very slight chances of either a) a movie stunt: or b) someone shoving the bike under a police car just for such a photo.

And no, I do not believe "All hail the State."

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Reply #11 - 07/05/10 at 07:44:05

That "logic" is precisely the same as saying the cop is at fault because he had to be there to be the other half of the crash.

No,,, I didnt assign fault to the cop, I simply stated that had he not been there to crash into, the odds of the biker being in a spot that requires a cop would have gone down, dramatically. The thread title [played a role in my reply.

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forrest Serious Thumper Offline No matter where you go, there you are. Posts: 986 Kennesaw, Ga Gender:	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #12 - 07/05/10 at 14:51:04 With that logic, that if the cop had not been there the accident wouldn't have happened, if the motorcycle had not been there the accident would not have happened. Such an illogical remark. You could use that argument for every accident.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28385 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #13 - 07/05/10 at 14:57:24 We've sucked the funny right out of my post... ...
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Angie Senior Member Offline Anybody can be normal, where's the fun in that? Posts: 334 Iowa Gender:	Re: Where's a cop,... Reply #14 - 07/06/10 at 03:58:35 Serowbot wrote on 07/05/10 at 14:57:24: We've sucked the funny right out of my post... ... I was just thinkin the same thing. Lighten up peeps, geeze.
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