what the police plan for us

Is the MCN trying to become the Sun or something?

Originally Posted by bobbleheadbarne

any one seen this weeks MCN paper in it is a piece about the fuzz saying they will follow bikes on unmarked bikes and helicopters to catch us going little faster than what we should,
also new speed camara fitted on the tarmac dont know how they will do this and to top it off they will be doing more random stops saying they are trying to keep in with the biking comunity well what fookin next hey pc plod as your pillion

Haha! Seriously dude, there is no WAY on this earth that they will be wasting a resource such as a helicopter on a few speeders! They will be probably aware there is an ongoing operation due to the risk of fail to stops and pursuits but it costs FAR too much money to send a helicopter up for speeding.

Don't believe a word MCN tells you.

[yorkie_chris]

They might not send one up specifically for speeding but there were those 2 guys in north wales caught by one.

"DURRRR IM A POLEECE CHEIF!!!!1 SEND IN DE CHOPPAR!"

(what I love about this picture is the fact his hat is really really crooked)

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

They might not send one up specifically for speeding but there were those 2 guys in north wales caught by one.

The ones you refer to were riding like knobs and that's what they got done for. Speed was only part of their knobbery. The helicopter was up for something else when they were spotted.

Originally Posted by metalangel

"DURRRR IM A POLEECE CHEIF!!!!1 SEND IN DE CHOPPAR!"

Brunstrom is no longer Chief of N. Wales Police. The new guy has already 'abolished' mass bike pulls (so Bala now safe on Sundays?). Do keep up old chap

Having said that the N. Wales police chopper is used to target bikers if it is up anyway. I don't believe it is put up just to hassle bikers, but does so as part of SOP when in the air. You only need to look at some of the more candid entries in the 'Heli-blog' to see that, although you have to look a long way back to see any of those these days, they have learned to be more guarded in their comments

I know Tw*tstrom is gone, but I just love the pic and I'm sure he'd have leased an Apache from the MoD to catch speeders if he could.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Thingus

Is the MCN trying to become the Sun or something?

You all realise that was probably an April Fool article, right? He said with a note of hope in his voice...

[Drew Carey]

I generally agree, that I imagine the police would not send the chopper up just on the "chance" that there are bikes around. Or at least I would hope not.

However, as with what Lozzo says, if we speed, we face the consequences.

On a seperate note, a couple of years ago with Lily, Pete & Lissa we went to Abergavenny. At the time they had a small bikesafe awareness day on. They decided at one point to get all the police bikers in a big group shot for the local rag. All of a sudden, we noticed a chopper approaching.....some guy on the ground talking to the chopper on radio and then wasted approx ten minutes of fuel guiding the chopper into position low over Aber town centre so that it was in the background of the photo.

All the cops etc were laughing, most of the punters / bikers / Financiers of said chopper were stunned and appaled. Complete waste of money.

PS - Forgot to say......MCN does tend to print rubbish like this because one person says so. I beleive MCN Liam does write for the same company that do Ride / Bike / MCN etc (I seem to remember him saying he was doing write ups on SV / Gladius in the past). If so, please come and give your view point.

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by bobbleheadbarne

.....what fookin next hey pc plod as your pillion

No chance, they'd never be able to do a risk assessment that would allow that to happen....

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

You all realise that was probably an April Fool article, right? He said with a note of hope in his voice...

Yeh cus they only post bull**** once a year :P