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I have the Bridgestone BT45. They have about 5,000 miles on them and I am guessing about 2,000 more.

Hey Matt.....this is an old thread I somehow managed to revive from June '09.

Dont feel stupid though bro, I'm the idiot startin' this tard moment;)

I was just excited to see a post on a topic that I have a little knowledge of. Maybe someday I'll look at all the information before jumping in. Until then, you revive the dead shit and I'll continue to chime in!

I personally would suggest doing a very nice prep job yourself by using a palm sander and 320grit paper and scuffing as many crevices as you can get to and take it to macco.

They are capable of doing decent work as their painters arent terrible they lack in the prep area due to the fact that theyre paying someone minimum wage to sand and tape your car.

If you want to help to make sure they get paint everywhere take taillights out door handles out ect ect. Tape it off with quality masking tape not just cheap brown or tan as solvents will penetrate through.

+1...Maaco does a good job for what you pay. If you are prepping it yourself, go as cheap as they have. If you want to skip the work yourself, pay for their best job (still cheap) and let them do the work. The prep is the most important part.

I heard about this video, but haven't see it.. that was funny! What a idiot! And why was everyone wanting him to not get tasered?? He had it coming! LOL

Because unlike the firemen, nobody likes the police!

That was awesome!

I've been riding religiously for the last couple of weeks. It is usually nice in the evening and freaking cold in the mornings. It was in the upper 30's this morning, but is was still a great ride with proper gear.

i talked with a retired sheriff. He told me that there are "performance standards" no quota's. Basically if one guy there is writing 10 tickets a week, and two other people are doing 9 and 4. Well the guy that is doing 4 has to improve or he will be forced to either switch loactions or other means.

I did forget to mention earlier that we (Columbus) are actually discouraged from "stacking" or writing multiple charges. Again, they can not order us not to just as they can not order us to write tickets. Again, we don't have quotas, we are free to write as many tickets as we want.

Bingo. Speeding is illegal too, but I'm sure you've done it.

You have to fix the real problem, and that is that police departments control their own revenue stream. Go back to ticket revenue going to the state, not the municipality and PD's having a standard budget like the fire department and you'll see this issue go away. While we're on the subject, eliminating the batshit crazy asset forfeiture laws wouldn't be a bad thing either.

The amount of militarization in American police forces is incredible, and they spend like the DoD to boot.

You are correct, the city does get our money. However, the police department doesn't get anything. It all goes into the general fund which we don't see a dime of. If a cruiser is totaled from a drunk driver or an officer has an accident, the city gets the money and we don't get a new cruiser. The general fund is what the mayor uses for his "pet" projects.

the officer who wrote the tickets pretty much told me im not actually in trouble....he wrote me up for every little thing he could imagine and then flat out told me that hes not going to show up to the court date...and he didnt, so i got off with everything

he wrote me up for no turn signal (which i did use my signal), no headlights because i turned them on while i was leaving the gas pump instead of turning them on before i put the car in gear, unnecessary squealing of tires (which i think was BS anyways, it was pouring rain and my tires lost traction for half a second in a rwd mustang....i think that may be it, but im not sure...i just know he was finding everything he could....interrogated me about where i was going, if i had been drinking, why im out so late, etc etc etc.....dude held me up for 20 minutes on the side of the road for basically nothing....then he told me at the end of the stop that he is not going to show up to court and that if i fight the tickets i will be good to go....and he wasnt lying, i didnt get hit with anything

It is funny, usually when an officer does that, he is hitting you with everything he can so that you will fight it and he will get court time (I think that is BULLSHIT!) (writing tickets for that reason, not court time). He wrote you what on paper is about $375 worth of tickets. You of course are going to fight it in court, and he gets court time for showing up. Was it one of our freeway cars by any chance?

There are a lot of officers that are "stat" driven. Meaning, they feel that they look like a better officer in other officers eyes. It drives me nuts to hear "I had 4 felony and 15 misdemeanor arrests this week!" WHO GIVES A SHIT! I am a public servant and my job is to help protect the people of my city. Granted, making felony arrests does aid in that, but it isn't everything. I am a cop and proud of it! And the vast majority of officers are good cops also! However, there are a few shit-heads in every department that make us all look bad. It only takes ONE bad cop to make the public forget about all of the sacrifices that ALL of the good cops have made. I am guessing that most of you dont' know that so far this year there have been 58 officers killed in the line of duty (on track to be a record year). Of those, 27 have been murdered (gun fire). However, I bet most of you know that one officer from our department was caught by a news crew watching porn on his personal computer in his marked cruiser (not saying he is a bad cop, actually just the opposite. Only illustrating a point). We shoot ourselves in the foot sometimes.

Back to the original post. Quotas are illegal.

Sorry for the rant!

i had a westerville cop tell me that they dont have "quotas" but that he is "supposed" to write a certain amount of tickets per month

also heard from a columbus cop that they have to write a certain amount of tickets...i got pulled over once and the columbus cop wrote me 4 or 5 tickets all for BS and then flat out told me if i contest them in court he wont show up so i wont get in any trouble.......asked another columbus cop about that and he said theyre supposed to write a certain amount of tickets, and that as long as they write them theyre in the clear, they dont actually have to stick

The officer that told you this is full of crap. I work for Columbus and only write tickets if absolutely necessary (multi-car accident, OVI,...etc.

Quotas happen way more often than most people want to believe.

I'm really suprised that the ruling went against the city. Good Stuff!

Quotas are illegal. I have heard of small town/municipalities that rely on tickets as a source of income "suggesting" that a certain number of tickets be written, but quotas are illegal.

Trying to learn all this new stuff on it. Never even had a texting phone before, just flip phones. Anybody have any tips or apps or anything to pass on?

If you haven't done it yet, get advanced task killer (you'll need it to shut all that crap down) and anti virus. Both are free in the app store.

Bump.

Still have them? P.M. sent.

im not the asshole here...u dont like what im doin...thats fine dont like it...but if ur gonna sit behind a computer screen and talk shit, ur just a punk....dont glorify it....and have all ur little internet buddies chime in and say how much of a dumbass i am, bc u wouldnt say that to my face kid, i would smack ur nerdy fucking glasses right off ur face and kick ur bitch ass CBR over. why dont u sell cbr, get out of mommys basement and get a life.

Did you live on the west side of Columbus by any chance? I miss THAT GUY! :ban:

I have been a licensed CDL driv with Ohio State for roughly 3 years now. In that time I have seen and heard some weird and funny things. The beginning of the quarter is usually the best time for these type of things.

Yesterday started off like every other day, boring, slow , and quite. About an hour before I was getting ready to come home one of OSU's finest gets on our radio channel and calls out for our supervisor. These calls arent uncommon but we usually don't get to hear what is going on. My supervisor tried doing a private call to the officers radio which apparently failed. The officer not wanting to bother using a land line decided that discretion would be thrown out the door and discuss the issue over an open radio channel that every bus driver, passengers, and a former driver who records all the transmission could hear. The officer was looking for either bus number 2506 or 2605. My boss explined that 2605 didn't exist and 2506 was in the shop. The officer seemed more than irritated at this point. So he asked where the campus loop south bus was. This was a very odd question because we have multiple busses on that route. Trying to be as accommodating as possible my boss has every driver call out which bus they were in and where they were on campus. The officer had two of the three busses stop where they were so that officers could search the busses. When I got back to the garage I found out that the officers were looking for a guy who was masturbating on the back of the bus. A concerned patorn called the police with the wrong bus number which caused a good portion of the frustration. Sadly they were unable to find the guy.

I came into work today thinking that there wouldn't be any good excitement for a while after the events of yesterday. Yet again I was proven wrong, about 20 min ago one of our older female drivers called my supervisor notifing him that the guy was in the back of her bus masturbating. Last I head he had her stay where she was so that he could call the police.

I will try to find the link to the radio transmissions from yesterday.

Sorry SJC I think some of your coworkers are a little behind the ball if they don't notice that there is more than one bus on a route and openly talk about sensitive information over an open channel.

Just out of curiosity, why is that conversation an issue on the radio? It isn't like he said the guy was "punching the clown", "poppin' his pud", or "committing genocide" at the back of the bus. The most it would have been was "masturbating" on the bus, which is a "professional" transmission. And it doesn't sound like he even said that since you didn't find out what he was talking about until you got back to the garage.

This will be our 2nd trip this year. www.ridgetopmotel.com is where we have stayed. It is an older motel and the owners are awesome. The motel is located in Bryson City. We are going May 19-22. There is a small diner in Bryson City (cant remember the name). There's an Italian Rest. also in town that is good.

A buddy from back home and I are trying to get it together to go this same weekend.

so if we're driving a tow truck, can we tow their tow truck from their lot and make them pay to get it back?

sounds like a job for xzibit

From the way it was explained to me, I would say yes! You have one???

i believe that shamrock towed it themselves without anyone telling them to. The sidewalk there is owned by gateway. I checked with their office in the parking garage if they called in a motorcycle to get towed away and they denied it. I cussed out shamrock pretty good lets just say

I want to preface this by saying I have never read the law myself. That being said, I was talking to one of the detectives from our Auto Squad and he informed me that the way the way the law is written is basically: as long as a TOW TRUCK picks it up they can come to your house and tow it from your driveway then charge you to get it back. It has never been done as far as he knows, but it could happen.

You can't use deadly force to protect property, but you can be damn sure that if someone tries to take my trucks from my driveway they will be getting a West Side Shotgun (Louisville Slugger) to the back of the head!

Stock!

if you dont have anything to hide then you dont have anything to worry about.

same thing you tell me when you wanna nose around my car.

You are correct.

if you dont have anything to hide then you dont have anything to worry about.

same thing you tell me when you wanna nose around my car.

You are correct.

That is sorta funny.

I like that idea turning the situation back around on the filmer rather than all these stories about cops confiscating equipment for no just reason. Turnabout is fair play.

I like to believe that the vast majority of officers from our department operate above board and wouldn't take someones camera. However, I was really surprised that it worked.

So, we were working Friday night and some knucklehead whipped out his video camera and began filming us (must have thought he was going to get some good police brutality footage). Another officer assisted him out of our scene and asked him what he was doing. The upstanding tax payer informed us that he was exercising his 2nd Commandment right to video the police doing their job. Since we didn't have a copy of the Constitution nor a King James bible to varify his claim, we chose to take him at his word. Then we decided if he had a 2nd Commandment right to video us, then we are surely protected also. So, another officer whipped out his camera and began shooting video of him shooting video of us. Then the upstanding citizen was told if he didn't leave the video of him videoing us would be on youtube in under 10 minutes. Apparently that is enough to scare a drunk hoodrat because he left.

If someone has a copy of what is protected under our 2nd Commandment rights, will you please PM me with it. I don’t want to look like a fool again not knowing what is a protected action.

I'll be working, but I am going to see if I can get away for a few.

This was a person on foot checking parking meters with the neon vest on in the campus/short north area. I was told they can't run my tags on the little ticket machines they have, that's why she should've asked to see the registration. I guess it doesn't matter either way. Is there no wiggle room for someone who paid for their registration and the sticker came off?

I'll PM you.