Policing NSW style
Before I start, let me begin by mentioning that the NSW (one of Australia's six or so, states) has the reputation as being one of the biggest police services & one of the most corrupt, in the world.
I was returning from a bike ride and have just had an interesting conversation with a police officer who was parked by the side of the road. As the pedestrian light turned green, I walked across the road and was almost knocked over by a car who ran the red light and clearly didn't care that someone had the presumption to actually walk across a road.
The policeman was just getting out of his police vehicle. The car was stopped in traffic about 15-20 metres up the road. The conversation went something like this:
A: excuse me - that guy just ran a red light and almost knocked me over.
Policeman: I didn't see anything.
A: aren't you going to do something?
Policeman: I'm not interested, why don't you report it?
A(incredulous): I'm trying to report it
Policeman: did you get his number?
A: he's just over there - the red car stuck in traffic!
Policeman: look I've had a tough day; someone almost ran into the back of me a little while ago...
... seeing this conversation really wasn't going anywhere, I decided to give up, and headed home. For the record, the police officer's name was Peter Halden and this incident occured about 5.20 pm local time.
There have been newspaper reports that many NSW policemen have second businesses on the side, as they work something like four x 12 hour days and then get six days off.
Not sure if they're the most corrupt police force in the world, but certainly the laziest!
A
I was returning from a bike ride and have just had an interesting conversation with a police officer who was parked by the side of the road. As the pedestrian light turned green, I walked across the road and was almost knocked over by a car who ran the red light and clearly didn't care that someone had the presumption to actually walk across a road.
The policeman was just getting out of his police vehicle. The car was stopped in traffic about 15-20 metres up the road. The conversation went something like this:
A: excuse me - that guy just ran a red light and almost knocked me over.
Policeman: I didn't see anything.
A: aren't you going to do something?
Policeman: I'm not interested, why don't you report it?
A(incredulous): I'm trying to report it
Policeman: did you get his number?
A: he's just over there - the red car stuck in traffic!
Policeman: look I've had a tough day; someone almost ran into the back of me a little while ago...
... seeing this conversation really wasn't going anywhere, I decided to give up, and headed home. For the record, the police officer's name was Peter Halden and this incident occured about 5.20 pm local time.
There have been newspaper reports that many NSW policemen have second businesses on the side, as they work something like four x 12 hour days and then get six days off.
Not sure if they're the most corrupt police force in the world, but certainly the laziest!
A
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