Don't try to outrun these cops!

[xs650mike]

Check this out.
http://www.pbase.com/wingman26/oklahoma_highway_patrol

[RS Thornton]

Now that is a great recruitment tool. Take that to the DARE presentations at the high school and see who signs up for law enforcement careers.

[mason79]

how about rola? isn't that faster?

moto rola

[wingnut]

FASTER? YES

as sexy? no way

[webbcraft2150]

And to think they get paid to ride 'em.

[JWSanders]

Never seen a busa with hardbags before. Looks pretty decent. All that wind resistance might drag him down to 160 or 170 though. That's just so sllllllooowww...

[bandet01]

i think the busa is a sexy bike and my next bike is going to be a busa

[GNEPIG]

Paid to Ride, Ride for Pay

.. the Fuz around here ride Beemers and Harleys, would be cool to see one on a Busa. would not be cool to see one pull up beside me while i was doin a top end blast

[Jerry]

Geeze. Here in Garfield County, the standard Sheriff's vehicle is a Ford F350........4x4, no less.

[DiverRay]

No matter what they use, the radio is far faster than any bike.
Ray

[mro]

Wonder how scoobes new toy would fair.

W/o full riding gear wonder just how hard the trooper is willing to push it?

Would imagine that he would just follow and wait for a crash.



mro

[strom]

Our cops have BMWs.... n00bs get F650 restricted to 35HP, otherwise they have newer GTs and RTs.
Across the border they have a few CBR 1000s, but if we stick to BMWs, K1200RS would be more suited.

Hardbags on the busa look like they came from Corbin.

LP

PS: Almost forgot.... MPs have guzzis.... old v35s and a few kawa KLRs.

[MAXIMAN]

Tax collectors crack me up. All the little gimmicks they use raise revenues via speed tax. If you didn't already know it speeding tickets are 1.3 billion dollar source of revenue annually.

I've been riding here for years and have never seen any OHP Busa on the road. So if they are out there they are few and far between. My concern is some stupid kid on a sport bike winds it up to 175 or 180 for a half a mile or so fully intending to slow right back down. But just in that short distance he encounters OHP. OOOPS...the chase is on and a some moron trooper decides to try and catch him. Now we have two stupid bikers and likely both will die.

Big loss? Not in my book.

If you knew he had committed some henious crime then you must pursue. But if you have no reason to believe it...then to pursue him is nothing more than big dick contest ....the ultimate cat and mouse game...an adrenaline high I'm sure the tax collectors LIVE FOR...if not die for it as well.

I suppose they felt they had to do something to put fear in high speed super sport riders. A friend of mine is a OHP trooper. He told me last year he was patrolling the Turner Turnpike headed west when he met a a blur at 150+. It was a sport bike of sorts...too fast to ID. He jumped the median and wrapped his Hi Performance OHP Camaro up as tight as she'd run. I believe he said that's around 160.

He vainly pursued the bike for several miles but the two wheeler was pulling away from him. They just happened to have the plane up in that area that day. The patrol plane ...a Cessna 182...got a visual on the bike and radioed back to Drew to inform him he couldn't keep up either. The pilot lost visual after several a few minutes.

I assume instances like this have spurred OHP to get a Hayabusa. I have no idea what they are trying to prove by using a Hay Bus to patrol with. Maybe they are going to prove once and for all that state troopers are as stupid as the idiots they are chasing at 185 mph.

Finally I will say this for the record. If some stupid egotistical cop injures or kills any of my family in pursuit of the "big bad wolf" speeder I will hire sleaziest, meanest... baddest lawyer I can. Then I will proceed to sue the living snot out of ... the officer personally...his superiors....the State of Oklahoma (or any other state)....or whatever city or county the officer works for. I will do everything within my power to financially destroy the people that allow and even condone this type of law enforcement stupidity.

[John]

Have we got the lawyer for you

That's two lawyers, actually. First, we have Jim "The Texas Hammer" Adler, and Brian"The Strongarm" Loncar. Between those two, who would have a chance? Everytime I see one of their commercials I just picture The Strongarm walking into the courtroom, swinging the Texas Hammer over his head. There is a town just to my west, called Richland Hills. They have a high performance Camaro to patrol the 1/2 mile of freeway that cuts through a corner of town. The town primarily has just 30 mph residential streets, and two major thoroughfares. Why do they need such a fast car, when a Crown Vic will do. Hell, they can't even transport prisoners in the Camaro. If they have sombody they need to take to jail, they need to have one of the Crown Vics transport them.

[MAXIMAN]

Re: Have we got the lawyer for you

Originally posted by John
The town primarily has just 30 mph residential streets, and two major thoroughfares. Why do they need such a fast car, when a Crown Vic will do.

Don't ask me. I think it's a incentive to keep cops on the force. It makes 'em feel better about their job maybe.

Ya know I don't care what they use to enforce the law...IF IT'S NEEDED. But some of that crap (read Hayabusa for patrol) is an absolute waste of my tax dollars.

I hope to God I never need the HAMMER. The thought of losing some one to the idiocy of a cop is sickening. But if I do...

While I'm ranting let me tell you another story of an encounter I had with some idiot on the Kansas State Patrol a couple years ago.

I took I-35 north from Oklahoma headed for Omaha. My oldest son, his wife and our beautiful granddaughters live there. I was on the interstate near Newton, KS running about 81 or 82 mph. It was bright sunny day and the road was perfectly dry. The traffic was very light...as normal with Kansas on week days.

I was going north and met a south bound trooper at mile marker 29. He hit his lights and braked but couldn't get across the median. There was a good 3 feet of snow in the bar ditches from a storm the week before. He turned off his lights and continued south. My feeling was "Too bad sucker. You lost that one." I hit resume on my cruise control going right back to 81-82 mph.

I know this road well and I knew the nearest overpass/exit was 4 miles back at mile marker 25. So even if he did by the time he flipped we'd be a good 7 or 8 miles apart. I had no doubt he wouldn't be goofy enough to come after me. For crying out loud I was only exceeding the limit by 10 mph. I wasn't going 150!

To make a long story short he did exactly that. He must have been under his quota for the month. But here's what really concerns me about this officers judgement and pisses me off simultaneously.

I continued north on the interstate at 82 mph. At mile marker 40...some 11 miles after the encounter my V1 barked once on Ka. The direction finder point squarely to the rear of the Navigator. I looked puzzled. If this was the same officer coming after me he must be driving far in XS of 120 mph....FOR 11 miles!!!

A few seconds later the V1 barked again on the notorious cop frequency. This time I slowed to 72 mph and drove another mile. Sure enough after 13 miles the same Kansas State Trooper pulled along side...then got in behind and hit his lights.

He got out and ask to see my license and insurance. Then he told me He just clocked my vehicle at 72. But ... he had clocked my my vehicle at 82 mph back at mile marker 29.

I said "WHAT!?!?!" "Mile marker 29!?!?!?....that was 13 miles ago!!! You've been in pursuit of a speeding vehicle for 13 miles?!?!? Are you sure it was me?"...then I added "13 MILES!?!" with mouth wide open in amazement.

He had this real stupid look on his face. He should have. What he had just done by travelling at 130 mph for 13 miles was absolutely absurd. He should have had his ass fired for endangering the public that way. My mere 11 mph over the limit is maybe a little risky. But his 130 mph pursuit was a flagrant violation of public safety...the very thing he has sworn to uphold! All for what? To stop the "big bad wolf" speeder and collect $130 in taxes?

What a stinking scam this whole speed tax system is in our nation. It obviously has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with egos and taxes.

Anyway....after I pointed out the absurdity of his pursuit (in a calm respectful manner I might add) he gave me a warning for expired insurance verification.

That is precisely why I say...if a cop ever...EVER...injures, maims, or kills any of my family doing something stupid like driving 130 mph for 13 continous miles (actually 21 miles by the time he turned around) to stop someone for simply exceeding the limit by 10 or 12 mph I will "go for the throat!" There is no call for doing something so utterly stupid. You'd think the Kansas State Patrol would train their people to have better judgement.