MeefZah

I bought this a month or so ago and am not falling in love with it quite like I'd hoped. It's a fine motorcycle, not a thing wrong with it, I just don't particularly want it as badly as I did before I bought it. I'm sure some of you fellow bike whores can appreciate those feelings. 2002 Suzuki DR650S 5700 miles and counting Upgrades include: IMS 4.9 gallon natural color tank (OEM tank and petcock included) Renthal 7/8 aluminum bars TPI 2" bar risers 14-T front sprocket (OEM 15-T included) Moose rear fender bag Moose air filter Chain roller removed Safety switches removed New Yamaha WR 250 R mirrors (OEM ones available for swap out if you want) New Yamaha WR 250 R starter button and kill switch (more tucked away than the OEM unit) Acerbis Rally Pro II handguards Utah / Ricochet skidplate TPI magnetic drain plug TPI rear brake master cyclinder guard IMS Super Stock pegs Headlight off switch SAE / Battery Tender connector Newer battery Newer oil and filter (at 4700 miles) Brand new Cheng Shin 858 tires and tubes Carb air / fuel mix plug drilled out, screw set to 2 turns out; needle shimmed with 1 #4 washer, snorkle removed 2 keys Box of some OEM and takeoff parts ADV stickers, including the very rare Ohio ADV sticker! :lol3 Ohio title in hand, Ohio registration through December 2009, WV inspection through 2010. The bike runs and looks cherry. There are some scrapes on the right side barkbuster from a drop done by the previous owner. No other damage. Mechanically sound. Starts like right now, and pulls like a freight train. I'm in central Ohio, 40 miles north of Columbus. I'm happy to deliver it to 100 miles for free, and would go beyond that up to about 400 miles one way for a mileage based fee. $3000 The only trades I'm interested in involve those with Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses Grant, and other distinguished dead Americans. Below photos were taken 9-30-09, the bike was ridden in a light rain earlier today and some road dirt is visible on the DR. Sorry. It got way to cold to clean it before the pictures were taken. I can be contacted at markmeftah@yahoo.com Thanks! -Mark

Good post, rep to you.

It was pretty funny. I'm not sure how well it will do, though.

Holy...shit.

Now that's some funny stuff right there. Rep to you. Fitting, since a lot of cops are fiddle players, too (read: motorcyclists). Look at it like this, Luke. If you were riding around town in your Altima with no headlights, no rear lighting, and no license plate, would you expect to be stopped? Would you expect a ticket? The law is the law. Take it from me, someone who regularly tests the limits of the law - if you know what is right and you opt out of that, expect to take your lumps and don't be salty if you do.

I don't jet the goke? Why are you makinj fun of this link?

That's a cool tag.

From the article: "The patrol will fire him if he is cited with unbecoming conduct again within two years" Some advice: Time to start looking for a new job on your own terms, Jason. "Conduct unbecoming" can be anything, and it's already evident they want to fire you. Meanwhile, I'd lay low, take your dispatched calls / crashes, and write the bare minimum of citations to keep your bosses off your back. More contact with the public = more chances to get a complaint. Oh, and quit riding at 147 mph.

I sent you a text, Craig. Depending on when and where you meet, I may be in. I can take a personal day on EMS tomorrow.

So he was riding at 3x the speed limit in the city, illegally passing, and sounds like he was running from da man; all while wearing no gear. What a tragedy.

Hello! Happy divorce!

I'd sell the Strom in about a second if the 660 Tenere came here. I guess if any company "might" do it, it would be Yamaha, they brought over the FJR based on requests from the US. http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/yamaha-xt660z-tenere-2008/big_yamaha_xt660z_tenere_08_23.jpg

Sigh... now I'm tempted to ride there and snag it just so he can't. Way to motivate me, play on my disliking of him. Ah, hell, we should just bury the hatchet.

The things I would point out are first, it is never the cops choice to put himself in that situation. He is there because he has to be - having received a 911 call to a request for assistance. Having that obligation to respond means one of three things is going to happen: -Cop arrives and the situation is one where no one needs to be detained or go to jail or the suspect has already left; -Cop arrives and determines that someone is going to be arrested or detained for investigation and the arrest takes place without incident; -Cop arrives and makes that same determination but the fight is on. Mentality of the offender is a non-issue. The only issue is if the law was broken or not, and if public safety has been breached. A rational human being who has been exposed to news media and fictional portrayals of police officers would expect nothing less that to have force used against them if they resist or fight officers, or brandish a weapon. Does anyone who is reading this, male or female, big or small, black or blacker (just kidding, seeing if you are paying attention) not know what would happen if you stood in a parking lot with a knife and refused obvious orders from a uniformed cop to "drop the knife"? So, in this scenario, the cop is sent to Wal Mart on a report of a woman threatening others with a knife. The cop arrives in response to the request for help and sees a woman with a knife. Bystanders confirm, yes, this is the woman we called you about, it is not some other random woman wandering around looking for a bottle of A1. Cop determines woman is at the very least going to be detained for further investigation, and orders her to drop the knife. The woman fails to comply, several times over. The officer, who has to take steps to complete her task of detaining the woman while also considering her safety and the safety of others, takes the suspect to the ground and disarms her. It took longer to read than it did to happen. At what point does the officer have time to determine if the woman is mentally capable of processing what is going on? A doctor in a clinical setting might take hours or days to return with a diagnosis of dementia or mental illness. It is unrealistic to expect that a cop should risk his or her own safety to try and slow the action down to figure out if Aunt Lulu is off her meds or not. It's simple, really. Don't do wrong shit and you won't deal with the police in this fashion. Do wrong shit and you will. Do wrong shit because you don't know better or are crazy or have dementia, well that sucks, but you get dealt with the same way as if you do wrong shit for any other reason - because it is not the cops job to play social worker nor is it reasonable to expect that the cop takes uneccessary risks to deal with a situation. Recall the fireworks stand fire started by a retard (really, a retard) with a lighter, killed 8 people a few years back? Are those people any less dead because a retard started the fire? Should they have let him wander around with a lighter because "aw, it's just Corky with a Zippo, how cute...". What if a known arsonist walked in flicking his Bic? Would those people have handled it differently? Now the question - if they treated the retard like they did the arsonist, would they be dead now? If you need me to spell that out for you, I'm going to suggest you leave the little helmet strapped on and don't take any strolls into fireworks stores or Wal Mart lots.

And that's just online!

You missed the other option, are you hot, though?

Mmmmm..... about 1/3 says "welfare", 1/3 says "settlement from bullshit lawsuit courtesy of Byron L Potts", and 1/3 says "milking SSI disability for all it's worth and having mo' babies 'cause they gets me some moan-ey from da gubment!". "I'm Byron L. Potts... and I'm a law-yyyer". Yeah, I went to school at David Duke university. The Fightin' Lynchmen, they got good spirit but a shitty basketball team. .

You sound dreamy. I'm a Saggitarius. You?

What's funny is he is probably gonna presume I mean it's because he is (half) black, when in fact it is because he is holding a firearm. And that right there is what it all comes down to. As far as the welfare issue, have you been to a Wal Mart at 10:30 in the morning? You got two crowds there, soccer moms / MILFs and worthless dredges on society. I watched the video. I didn't see any minivans or hot moms walking through there, thus I must conclude the audience was composed of shitheads, losers, fucktards, and assmooks. Oh, and douchemongers. Can't forget the douchemongers.

Grand Jury on a rape case. I only beat old women down on days starting with "T".

Hey whats up... Ryan, is it? I believe we have a mutual friend, OPD119?

I'd probably shoot you based on your avatar. That looks menacing. Have you ever "fought" with a demented old person? I have, several times. Local nursing home has a bad habit of letting the Alzheimer's patients run amuck and when they can't catch them we gt the call. You can reason all day long but it's like pleading with a rock to go back inside and get out of the street. Ultimately, there is no other option but to get hands on, as gently as you can, but I'm here to tell you there are some strong fucking geezers out there. Age / appearance has nothing to do with it. I used the "welfare" line based on the fact that it was at Wal-Mart, but based on the vocabulary, diction, and general inappropriate use of English from most of the non white bystanders, I'm gonna hold fast to my statement. Ebonics makes good cell phone video, ye-yeeeah!

Some one called the police because the woman was brandishing a knife. The police have an obligation to respond. The police respond to find some elderly nitwit holding a knife, with reports that she has threatened others with it. The police ask her several times to put it down and she refuses. She gets put down so as to disarm her. She almost immediately gets medical treatment summoned by the police. An entire gaggle of welfare addled imbeciles is standing around judging the cop's actions and causing a bigger scene, prompting the ultimate mass response from other WPD and CPD officers. Did I miss anything with the facts? My assessment, after 13 years in law enforcement: I'm pretty sure when the officer went to work that day she wasn't saying: "I'm gonna find me some ol' bitch and fuck her up". She took the dispatched call and did the right thing to protect herself and everyone else. It wasn't pretty, but police work rarely is. What would you guys rather have seen happen? Someone else get stabbed? The officer get stabbed? The old lady start to cut on herself? How about a 8 hour standoff where the police tried to negotiate with someone who obviously has dementia? My impressions of the video, absolutely, the officer did the right thing. I'd have done the same thing, in fact, if the woman had been any more threatening - as in holding the knife raised up, yelling at me, I would have SHOT HER. As it was, I didn't percieve a threat imminent enough to use deadly force, but there is definetely a threat there. Those of you who scoff, or say: other cops wouldn;t handle it the same way, I suggest you grab a knife and randomly walk around parking lots of major US cities, then get back to us after the various take downs and arrests and break down what agency hit you where and with what. There is nothing that could have been done by police to make this look good, except maybe switch out the players: older black female cop takes down younger white female armed with a knife. 'Course, then, we'd never have heard about it.

You obviously don't know me the 16 hours a day I'm not a cop, then.

Interesting, and normally I'm off on Wednesdays, except, of course, for this one.