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Originally posted by 80s freak
This is a very sad situation for everyone involved. My heart felt sympathies go out to the family of the killed man and the injured biker as well. I do also feel sorry for the copper, yes, he will have to live with the fact that his own stupidity killed someone. If it was me in the coppers shoes I think I would have resigned from my position to try and preserve some of my own sanity if nothing else. I don't believe that the punishment fit the crime either. To have not seen one bike is bad enough, but to have missed two means he pretty much turned infront of a car as far as number headlights go.
My real issue with this whole thing is the newspapers bias in their reporting of the accident, To make no mention of the injured rider let alone actually give a report of his/her injuries (they didn't even mention if it was a male or female rider), did the riders know each other? Will someone have to live their life having seen there best mate killed and feel guilty because it wasn't them? The paper/journalist obviously wrote the artical siding with the anguish of the copper.
I personally have had dealings with the plod from both sides of the fence, I have dealt with some truely human coppers and some amazingly arrogant, egotisical self important fucktards. Unfortunitly the fucktards out numbered the humans about 5-1.
It does seem to me that alot of the police force tend to see themselves as above reproach from the rest of society. Hands up everyone that has seen cop cars parked illegally (I have witnessed them parking in a motorcycle only zone to j-walk across the road to sit in Hudsons coffee shop for nearly an hour, lucky all our coffes were safe), cruising down the tram tracks instead of in a lane, hitting the lights and sirens to go through a red light then turning them off after they have crossed the interection. These people are supposed to be pillars of society, setting the example of how to behave, they wonder why the public don't respect them. Maybe they need to look a little harder at the picture they are painting every day.