Go to jail

[PDoz]

What would be worse?

A the first shower at jail when everyone knows you're in for riding a scooter

B the police locker room after the other cops watch the footage

E-scooter rider reached almost 100kph before police chase along Canberra bike paths

Video shows officers on motorbikes pursuing James Cole at high speed on a busy road and bike paths as the 38-year-old tried to evade them.

www.abc.net.au

 

[PDoz]

C watching it at home with a beer in hand. This brain-donor went from a ticket to a jail cell for evading. Rule number with police contact is you can't make it better, but you can always make it worse.

Australia has a limited pursuit policy - the cops are required to call through chases and at various times in our history they have been criticised for stopping AND continuing . Arguably, this has resulted in a perception that running is a viable option . I can't imagine how frustrating this exercise was for those cops - they repeatedly slowed for oncoming risk , had opportunities to nudge the moron onto the grass ( they'd be criticised for that) , to top it off he almost got away - if he had successfully remounted and turned around, there was no way they could do a u turn on those bikes!

I almost feel sorry for those cops.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Started to ask if the perp really thought the cops would just give up. But there was clearly no thinking involved — not on the scooter, not even in court.

This part of the story kinda struck a chord:

Magistrate Richter told Cole he had little faith that he would rehabilitate himself.

"You are way beyond the age which I expect men to appear before me driving scooters and doing stupid things," the magistrate said.

In fairness, my wife fully expects me to keep doing stupid things at 74. And I don't disappoint.

 

[DaveMatthews]

What a freakin' idiot!

 

[tomjasz]

Luna Scooter?

 

[PCeBiker]

Am I the only one that's impressed by the fact that something like this can even go almost 100 kph?

"Mr Bodel said his client was experiencing serious mental health problems at the time of the incident,"


This guy is crazy too,..
Blew my mind !!!

 

[rob feature]

Rule number one with police contact is you can't make it better, but you can always make it worse.

This needs to be somewhere near the front of the human operator manual

 

[PCeBiker]

Unicycle are common here. These guys were from a navy ship. They were traveling 50mph at minimum because they caught up with me on my 35mph Bafang.
They had CAC identification.

That's cool !!

I never road a unicycle, but I had one of these in the 70's,..

A unicycle is just a Pogo Stick with a wheel.

I could probably figure it out??

 

[PCeBiker]

- if he had successfully remounted and turned around, there was no way they could do a u turn on those bikes!

I can easily do a 3 point turn on my 90 pound ebike, and could do it on my 450 lb motorcycle with no reverse gear.

I almost feel sorry for those cops.

Yeah,
If they can't push their motorcycle backwards 4 feet on level ground, then I feel sorry for them too.
They shouldn't be chasing bad guys.

 

[PDoz]

I can easily do a 3 point turn on my 90 pound ebike, and could do it on my 450 lb motorcycle with no reverse gear.



Yeah,
If they can't push their motorcycle backwards 4 feet on level ground, then I feel sorry for them too.
They shouldn't be chasing bad guys.

As a motorcyclist, surely you recognise that's a 650 lb DRY weight BargeMW , with a wheelbase longer than the path is wide. Our bike cops get trained well, but turning those things around on that path would have given mr moron a decent head start.

 

[sc00ter]

I'm curious how much battery kick scooter guy had left. Wind those things out and the battery drains pretty fast. Also liked that awesome helmet scooter guy was wearing. Designed to look just like a woolly hat. That was a great watch, thanks for posting!

As to the original question? A. Your'e in this jail prison with "real" criminals. Granted, jail isn't prison but it still sucks.

That downhill on a skateboard was crazy! At least he had a helmet.

 

[PCeBiker]

Australia has a limited pursuit policy -

Canada does too.

My friend and his buddy each had a Honda CBR900R about 20 years ago. They would race down highway 401 into Toronto at 3 am.
The challenge was to see how fast they could pass a cop at a radar trap.

Their record was 287 kph.