Guess I won't be getting my alignment and exhaust fixed....
 

'Cause yesterday night I got a stupid fricken violation ticket from some asshole cop that didn't get his doughnut or something...

I was riding on the sidewalk, the wrong way, when there was like nobody around, and he ran up behind me and my friend in his car, almost smoked us, jumped out of his car, and proceeded to insult us...

He says:

"Do you go to school"

We're Like:

"Yeah"

He's Like:

"Well, it's a wonder you pass any of your subjects, 'cause you obviously can't read"

Ugh.... so we got a ticket each for

A) Riding on the sidewalk
B) Riding the wrong way up a one-way street (which is why we were on the sidewalk...)

So I owe the Crown $180 now... bastard cop...


Jeff

rx, bike, skateboard, blades ??

Bike :p: sorry, neglected to mention that...

RX wouldn't make it up onto the sidewalk, and I'm not a skater... so that kinda narrows it donw a little... :p:

BIKE!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!

Jeff...

I was thinking if you were riding on the sidewalk in your ReX you deserved it :) bike makes more sense. But then I get picked at cyclists that want to be vehicles on the road but ride on sidewalks, crosswalks, etc.

yeah, I don't want to be a vehicle, being a vehicle means more tickets... and we were only on there for a second or two, 'cause we were going to subway to get some food, and it's only a block up from the park, but the only street directly up is a one-way the wrong way... :(

Jeff

shitty beetles

and to top it all of it was like 40 degrees out, his car was blowing boiling hot air out from his a/c, and I had my full-faced helmet, shin/knee pads, a jersey, gloves, and arm pads on... :eek:

Im not getting my new muffler either, I lost my job, and I cant fund it anymore. Maybe that makes you feel better? I dont know. I also need a new radiator, new tranny mount, and new tires, so I think you're a little a head of me :(.

~T.J.

You were wearing a helmet and the po-po pegged ya?! LOL what a bastard! Did you let him drag you to the car while you were screaming?

Ok let me get this straight you just then came from a park on a pedal bike (no power) riding up a one way street on the side walk (no harm there) then a cop pulls you over on your bicycle you sit there and let him give you a ticket. While he was at it did he ask for your license and registration, come on just ride off YOUR ON A BIKE. :bash:

Well, I would've, but see, he pinned us in (my friend and I) and we couldn't move, Plus, our city's not that big, and he'd see us again most likely.. PLUS it's the law, an I don't feel like getting a criminal record, seeing as how I'm only 16.
And there was nowhere around there to run to, and he would've gone anywhere to catch us. We were right in the downtown core.

Oh, and it was uphill, and I can't ride uphill on my 42 pound mountain bike, in 40 degree heat, in all my gear.. I'd have a heart-attack :eek:

Haha, yeah, I was wearing a helmet, if I wasn't it'd be another $76 :eek:

But yeah, they're supposedly really cracking down on cyclists on sidewalks around here, and this cop missed his doughnut or something, so I got a ticket... Nice to know now...


Jeff

some cops well quite alotta cops are just str8 up a$$holes but there are still a few nice guys aroudn dont let them give you the impression that every cop is a hardass dink with a 2by4 stuck halfway up his ass

yeah, i know, but this one was a 63 year-old, chest-hair sticking out of every hole in his uniform, toupee wearing, hard-assed SOB with a 2x4 shoved so far up his ass it was poking out of his bullet-proof vest, youth-targeting BASTARD! heh... I'm all good now...

And to think I've done FAR worse in my RX-7, and never even had a speeding ticket...

Jeff

Having a law preventing anyone riding on a sidewalk is sensible. If you had kocked someone over and injuried them, you and your parents could have been up for megabucks. No more RX-7 in your lifetime! Perhaps that is a good thing if you drive it a stupid manner just because you never been caught.

If there was no one around as you claim, how the hell did you get caught? Perhaps not only can't you read but I suggest getting a hearing aid after you have paid off the ticket.

Wow... I didn't think you could get popped for biking the wrong way on a one-way street!

I kinda like the "dual citizenship" that biking offers... on the one hand, I get to use the roads. On the other hand, when the roads are torn up or there's just too much traffic or the road gets dangrously narrow where I have to ride in the rightmost 2 feet which is a guaranteed pinch flat from the potholes, I can bunnyhop up onto the sidewalk and get past safely.

It's also a great way to quickly get through right (or sometimes left!) turns at busy intersections. Just pop up on the sidewalk and don't even worry about traffic :)

Technically cycling on the sidewalk is illegal here but I've never had a problem with it - not even the police officers that work as corner guards in the AM, ferrying kiddies across some intersections. I'd chat with 'em on the way to work waiting to cross a particularly nasty intersection and they had no probs with me being up on the sidewalk.

Peejay-perhaps I am a little sensitive because of two recent accidents on sidewalks, one on a bike the other with a skate board causing serious injury. In one involving an old lady it resulted in a broken hip, and we had to fly her 400 miles by air ambulance to a major hospital. for a hip replacement. Not only was it devestating for her but the husband was bedridden and needed his wife. Think what the damages claim may end up as, and who will be sued.

I suppose its acceptable at times in some circumstances. Like you I get on well with the Police who I find are generally reasonable.

Interestingly, if Keaponlaffen was going down the sidewalk the wrong way, what way was the police car going to come up behind him?

Oh, I always give wide berth to pedestrians! In fact, one time (back when I was a sidewalk rider full-time) I rode up onto some lawns (suburban area) to avoid these two Little Old Ladies and I did not see a deep hole, neatly mountain bike wheel sized, that was grown over with grass and mown smooth. Flip! Executed a perfect tuck-n-roll and unclipped from the pedals just in time to send the bike flying into the next house's lawn.

First thing from one of the LOL's was "Are you okay? You crashed REALLY well!" :D Hey, I have lots of practice :) (I tend to go through helmets a lot...) Only damage was I tweaked my handlebars (imediately ruining that $70 bar) and bent one of my long-L bar-ends. 5 minutes with a hacksaw and I had 3" long stubby bar-ends, good thing too as they were much lighter that way and I could not afford yet another $70 lightweight handlebar :)

I was riding on the sidewalk, the wrong way, when there was like nobody around, and he ran up behind me and my friend in his car.

Doesnt that mean he was driving the wrong way up a one way street, if so you could get him in trouble. I know here that cops can get in big trouble if they go faster than 130 or 140km i think....so if i am doing 140km and they catch up to me they should get into more trouble than me.

He came off of a street perpendicular to the one-way that is 2-way... City planning isn't that great around here. He had his lights and siren on, so he's allowed going up the wrong way...

But, this is the first time I've heard of any of my friends getting nailed for this stupid by-law that they passed back in'98 or something, and we've ridden downtown a lot.


Paul - We don't ride like madmen on the sidewalk, and we either ride off the sidewalk, dismount, or leave a large space margin for pedestrians when we see them. I have a speedo on my bike, and at the time we were ging a whopping 3 km/h (walking speed or less). Oh, and by "No one around" I meant no pedestrians. There were about two cars (one was his), and two people walking about half a block down. The sidewalks here are about 6-8 feet wide in most sections downtown, and there's only 85,000 people living here, and not many of them go downtown, so there's always lots of room, and not much problem...

Anyways, I gave the North Shore dispatch a call and they were quite disappointed in the cop's composure (we are talking RCMP here, the supposed "Good guys"), and the staff seargant there didn't like the idea of us getting the whole $180 fine, because it was our first offense, so he might step over the liuetenant's head and remove the one-way thing from both my nd my friend's ticket...

Jeff

man... a $180 (i guess that'd be about $110usd) would be for doing like 10 over, having a taillight out, and no trash bag... that's a really steep ticket for riding your bike on the sidewalk.

yeah, you're telling me... :(

Jeff