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Postby Cahuna » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:55 am

Good coverage of the Police doing silly things on the Targa Rally on TV3 last night, and it's made todays newspapers

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10352409

And even more amusing was the quote in todays Targa Tales (from the Targa website):
Targa Tales wrote:We have a new road safety message from the New Zealand Police “Do as we say not as we do”. Yesterday the reports of a Patrol Car getting airborne on one of our stages (photo’s to come) proved that Pig’s Can Fly and after SS18 they proved they could also swim. A local cop from the district decided to offer some help by driving his Patrol Car through to check 4 trouble. At the start of the stage he was heard talking to some officials about his talent as a driver “Yeah Right”. As he came down the hill to our infamous left hander across the narrow bridge, opposite from our Hospitality Villa. He completely over cooked it and speared straight through the fence and down into the creek. Needless to say his ambition to be Police Commissioner floated down the river.
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Postby FXGTV » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:29 am

Hahaha, i wonder if he got a ticket :P
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Postby Gadget » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:44 am

*Falls over laughing*
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Postby Leon » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:01 am

Two years back, I spent a day in the targa zero car (first car through on road closure) which was a police car. That was fun. The cop was a very good driver, and a pretty cool guy as well.

We dragged him up to Levin the day after the Targa (it finished in Wellington) and made him enter an autocross (no, not in the Police car). We stuck him in about half a dozen different peoples cars for drives, and we practically had to pry him out of my Corolla GT with a crowbar at the end of the day. He even set some fairly decent times, for a first time competitor.

He went home vowing that he was joining his local car club.
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Postby Muzzie » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:14 am

Any pics up yet?
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Postby 2LTR Rona » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:31 am

Muzzie wrote:Any pics up yet?


from the above Herald link :wink:

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Now that is GOLD :lol: :lol:
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Postby RomanV » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:37 am

Haha, classic. :lol:

What was he thinking?!
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Postby Santa'sBoostinSleigh » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:40 am

RomanV wrote:Haha, classic. :lol:

What was he thinking?!

"im a wicked driver big headed cop" :?:
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Postby XS1V » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:42 am

Haha funniest thing i have seen all week!!
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Postby bad20v » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:48 am

Baaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
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Thats about as good as NZ'z top cop getting done for 97kph in a 70 zone the other day!!!! :lol:
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Postby 2LTR Rona » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:49 am

Has been a bad week for the boys and gals in blue :lol:
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Postby Cahuna » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:24 am

The cops on the event are generally very good value. A couple of years back they had a former competitor, Mike Bish, driving the 999 (sweeper) car. He was almost impossible to keep up with as we (in the results chase car) followed him through the stages - even though our car was a VR4 (albeit with a wally driving it - how we stayed on the road a few times I'll never know 8O ) and Bish just had a standard issue Commodore.
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Postby DJ » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:31 am

2LTR Rona wrote:
Muzzie wrote:Any pics up yet?


from the above Herald link :wink:

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Now that is GOLD :lol: :lol:


HAHAHAAHahahaaha haha guahahaharhhrahra~! :lol: :lol:
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Postby JT » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:00 pm

It's not suprising actually, very funny though! The cop car that cleared stage 3 on day one was setting a good pace and we were suprised he stayed on the road at the corner we were watching.
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Postby RomanV » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:10 pm

The best part, is the guy in the background in the second picture down..... Woohoo!! :lol:
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Postby Cahuna » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:22 pm

... and a couple more articles, with new pics :)

http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3658524&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3459598a6003,00.html

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Postby RomanV » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:36 pm

Dont worry, tax payers money will fix that right up. :roll:
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Postby Santa'sBoostinSleigh » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:49 pm

conflicting stories everywhere!
-about his name, intersection shape, condition etc

and that doesnt look like a 10m decent to me, more like 3m below road level!
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Postby eightytrueno » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:45 pm

haha. i think thats cool he was getting into the spirit of things anyways
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Postby V8MOFO » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:57 pm

the poor bastered. That would really suck. :oops:
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