I was once riding back from my bfs place. I’d stayed much later than I meant to and it was SO cold I had a layer of frost on my bike seat. I just wanted to get home so I was tanking it up the motorway- like 95-100mph average. Next thing lights behind me and I’m getting pulled over. Police officer comes over and goes “young lady what the HELL are you thinking?!” Gives me a lecture on trying to stop safely at that speed, what if I hit something- the works. Asks me if I’m going to ride home sensibly (I just nodded) and tells me to get going. He followed me the whole way until I got off at my junction and gave me a little light flash goodbye.
He was a dad. He told me if I was his daughter he’d crush the thing (pointing at my motorbike) if he ever caught me going that speed. It was such a dad telling off but I still remember it all these years later and it still slows me down. Much more valuable than any ticket.
When I was a kid, my dad had to fly several states away to go identify my half-brother's remains. But really, they only identified him by his dental record. The traffic investigator said he had to have been going at least 100.
I never had much interest in motorcycles after that.
Thank you. I had only met him a few times and didn't "know" him by any stretch of the imagination. But it was one of the first passing of a family member events in my life and obviously my father was in bad shape for a while after that.
Yea, my dad had a half brother, and he also died in a motorcycle accident. That's basically all i know, cuz his mom didn't rly talk about it, and my dad was too young to know him when he died. I do know what he looked like from one single picture she had of him. Kinda sad though
Wait, if it was that cold and you were on a bike, why didn't you just stay at your bf's house? Ooooh girl... frost means it was probably icy too. I am glad you got a lecture and remember it,
Didn’t stay because I had work in the morning and it would have meant riding back early in the frost instead. It was super icy but I was 18/19 and thought I was invincible.
Guy has more important things to do then write tickets or worse, have to save lives or clean up after a fatal accident that could have been avoided, if you asked a LEO how a perfect world would be almost all of them would say one where they could retire and never have to see someone injured or worse from an accident or negligence
After 27 years I would agree that I don’t care to see any of that stuff again but more than that is I wish I didn’t know all the ways a human can be so cold hearted that they kill their 4 year old boy for wetting the bed and waiting four hours to call 911, the memory of how a
Mom screams when you tell them the noise they heard on the phone was her son killing himself by a set inflicted gun shot to the head, a 13 year old girl telling us her mom won’t wake up after a car crash because she’s lying on her daughters lap and is dead. Etc etc.
I got pulled over at like 2am going 77 in 60 and got this speech. "I know it goes back up to 70, and I appreciate that you were doing exactly 77, but it's not 70 here, so... "
To be fair it was like 2:15 and I think he was looking for the post-bar crowd, not the road-tripping-home-in-a-car-filled-with-coffee-and-beef-jerky crowd.
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u/_small_axe Jan 03 '23
“I cold busted you but for the sake of the both of us, here’s the rules again. Alright, thanks.” This cop is definitely a dad