What you can't see in the picture is the cell phone in his left hand that he is using to identify the illegally fast and powerful e-bike.
I guarantee you that any estimate you'd make of any armed crimes in, say, Amsterdam would be wildly higher than the actual figures.Dutch police dispatcher: Armed burglary in progress near you-respond immediately
Dutch police officer doing ebike testing: Can't attend right now, as I have an ebike on my testing machine and I think the owner has 50 Watts more than he should have.
Dutch police dispatcher: but there's been reported 'shots fired'
Dutch police officer doing ebike testing: shots fired nothing.....this guy has derestricted his ebike! I'm putting the cuffs on this guy as we speak.
Dutch police dispatcher: Armed burglary in progress near you-respond immediately
Dutch police officer doing ebike testing: Can't attend right now, as I have an ebike on my testing machine and I think the owner has 50 Watts more than he should have.
Dutch police dispatcher: but there's been reported 'shots fired'
Dutch police officer doing ebike testing: shots fired nothing.....this guy has derestricted his ebike! I'm putting the cuffs on this guy as we speak.
Apparently the government there has solved all the other problems in the country and can now move onto trivial s*ititsn ot trivial anymore then having cars speeding in the us is trivial.
its not trivial anymore then having cars speeding in the us is trivial. they have infrastructure designed for bikes you et training as a kid and a license. riding fast would cause issues for others. inc its flat how much power do you need to go the speed limit? in America its f*ck others I got mine who cares if it hurts you.
Perhaps you can get off your moral high horse and realize, if possible, that what I posted was meant to be humours.The dutch community decided last century to take cycling safety seriously, and now have one of the worlds best safety records for both cycling and vehicle accidents.
We should take notice of what they do and respect it, and perhaps you could do a little bit of self reflection on your own countries statistics, and, say , gun related violence?
Except, armed burglaries and "shots fired" incidents are extremely rare occurrences in the Netherlands... Maybe they're on to something we're missingDutch police dispatcher: Armed burglary in progress near you-respond immediately
Dutch police officer doing ebike testing: Can't attend right now, as I have an ebike on my testing machine and I think the owner has 50 Watts more than he should have.
Dutch police dispatcher: but there's been reported 'shots fired'
Dutch police officer doing ebike testing: shots fired nothing.....this guy has derestricted his ebike! I'm putting the cuffs on this guy as we speak.
Perhaps you can get off your moral high horse and realize, if possible, that what I posted was meant to be humours.
Just by chance, is your first name Karen?
Perhaps you can get off your moral high horse and realize, if possible, that what I posted was meant to be humours.
Just by chance, is your first name Karen?
It is an interesting fact related to the Netherlands, and their now defunct company Van Moof. The guy that started the company was all for making high power and high speed e-bikes, and was vocal about "how evil the EU was regarding the power and speed restrictions". He had to conform to the rules after the police in several West Europe countries started confiscating illegal Van Moofs.The dutch community decided last century to take cycling safety seriously, and now have one of the worlds best safety records for both cycling and vehicle accidents.
I live in Canada, not the US.i assumed that it was MEANT to be humorous, but coming from someone in a country with 23 times as much gun crime as the Netherlands, it really isn’t funny. especially considering that 9 children were shot today at a Super Bowl parade.
and guns aside, given the very low crime rates of all types of the Netherlands, perhaps there is something to the whole “make rules and follow/enforce them thing?”
You're no mate of mine, Karen.The rest of the world sees your post in a very different light to how you think it appears.
But I'll happily be described as being on a moral high horse - that implies I'm considering the morality, and to be completely clear , thankyou.
As for the Karen reference, this may be a cultural difference but in this part of the world Karen complains it's unfair when the generally accepted social rules are applied to her ? Take a selfie , mate.