When the local BMW club turn up to your breakfast meet.

"Leon711" (leon711) 02/25/2018 at 12:49 • Filed to: None

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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 12:53

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Just tryin’ to keep a low.. uh.. profile?

LOREM IPSUM > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 12:55

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Leon711 > LOREM IPSUM 02/25/2018 at 12:56

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No tickets! These folks were here for breakfast at the café. They just finished escorting a 78m long electrical transformer through the countryside.

Leon711 > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 02/25/2018 at 12:58

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There was a second X5 behind me, everyone moved around slowly and quietly whilst they were around.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 13:02

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hey... that club has a chapter over here too

not the most popular club round here

LOREM IPSUM > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 13:05

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Leon711 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/25/2018 at 13:10

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Fortunately these guys weren’t here to do any ticketing, they were just getting breakfast after helping escort a 78m long transformer from the local port to the countryside.

Svend > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 13:12

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We’ve four (or rather had) BMW X5 ARVs, but in the last two months our constabulary managed to crash two of them.

This one was intentional after a police chase through the city.

This is the more recent one after they got caught out by the snow.

No injuries but suffice to say the officers will be on cake duty for some time.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 13:18

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i guess even bimmer drivers/riders gotta eat sometime :p

Klaus Schmoll > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/25/2018 at 13:24

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Yeah, I’ve seen the around as well. Must be some international thing like Hells Angels or the Mongols.

Leon711 > Svend 02/25/2018 at 13:26

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Sounds like these folks need re-education on the basics of snow driving. Four wheel drive does not help you turn or stop.

Leon711 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/25/2018 at 13:27

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It’s a shame they didn’t mingle with us after breakfast, it’s a good way to humanise police.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 13:30

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eh they’re mostly all right (cept for the moustachiod biker cops.... well... they’re mostly ok too.... but they always have to give you a lecture on top of the ticket...... i hate lectures...)

Svend > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 13:32

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There is a chance one was driven by my former Superintendent as he’s an AFO, he can’t drive for shit. He’s a total dick.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 02/25/2018 at 13:36

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Wow, that second ons is a bad one!

Leon711 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/25/2018 at 13:38

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I try not to have to talk to them, but I’ve been on the receiving end of a lecture or two in my time.

Leon711 > Svend 02/25/2018 at 14:00

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Ah! I didn’t know you were on the force, in my head I thought you were in the Army. We’ve all had a supernintendo (or equivalent) that was a dick, I can sympathise.

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/25/2018 at 14:06

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Ye’, it was responding to an incident when the driver lost control and rolled on the motorway just south of the city just after midnight.

Svend > Leon711 02/25/2018 at 14:15

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I wasn’t police, and I certainly wasn’t army (my family would disown me, lol). Ambulance tech, county, St. John and private ambulance officer. We trained with some forces.

He’s a total dick. Watched him treat a tib-fib fracture on a biker. Used a D size cylinder of entonox when it was less than quarter full (empty in no time, you never run gas less than 25% full as you risk damaging the cylinder head), he got another cylinder. The patient begged him not to move his leg. Only well, he didn’t but when you move someone to a spinal board you move them up and across in a diagonal to maintain neutral spinal alignment. The rest of the patients body moved and he kept hold of the leg. Meaning the patient screamed out in agony. He allowed his arrogance to rule, ignoring the patient’s needs.