Thank you a nice cop

[harewood]

i did not have a good date on Saturday, after i dropped her off in ladysmith. I just rushed home.

I forgot there is certain section of ladysmith is 70km/h zone.

I was flying like at least 100km...

i got pulled over, so cops asked me if i am from here, i said NO.

asked me if i was drinking, of course not.

he told me he gonna just give a warning ticket this time.

otherwise it would be a disaster to end my weekend eh? supposed to be 196 dollar ticket.

[All Ages Music Concerts]

Wow! Good on you and the cop! There are nice ones out there and then again it also depends on your attitude towards them! Yep you were very lucky!! Good thing you were not drinking that would be a different story to tell!

[harewood]

yes, i guess how you talk to police can make quiet different.

to be honesty, i knew that section is 70km/h, but when there is no vehilce on the rd at 2am, everyone might speed up....this is still no excuse for speeding .

guess what, they just had an accident today, someone got killed .

http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/95805829.html

Published: June 07, 2010 1:00 PM
Updated: June 07, 2010 2:00 PM
A car accident on Hwy. 1 just north of Ladysmith has left one man dead, said Staff Sgt. Roger Plamondon of the Ladysmith RCMP.

The man died at the scene of the accident, Plamondon said.

The accident happened around noon today (June 7).

The pick-up truck was southbound on the highway north of Oyster Sto-Lo Road when it passed a van during a rain storm, Plamondon said.

“The vehicle proceeded to move back to the slow lane when it hydroplaned and entered the ditch,” he said.

An eyewitness said the truck was exceeding the speed limit, Plamondon said.

[Geoff]

Nice to hear some better publicity about the police on here for a change.

[harewood]

cops here are cool here. if you have ever visited developing countries.
where i was from, if you got pull over, the best friend of yours is benjamin under your driver licence, ps: other currency can't help ya.
otherwise you are asking for your own trouble.

in many countries around the world, cops are same as gangsta, no difference.
Canadian should feel lucky that government, police are not corrupted.
have you wonder why they put "police is here to help you" into new citizenship guide book.
because many immigrants like myself, usually do not trust police to start.

[All Ages Music Concerts]

Big difference here in Canada than China. In Canada you cannot just buy a drivers license like you can in China! Our ICBC rules on international licenses need to be reviewed and treated as the same as Canadians that drive in this country. There should be no exceptions to the rules. We all drive on Canadian roads and it is a privlege to be able to drive on the roads by way of showing you can do it by the appropriate road test. Not by buying an international drivers license in foreign countries and then being able to drive here without question. This really raises an eyebrow for me.

One of my students from China has his license bought in China by his mother, had my other student bring it back to Canada as he just happened to be going back to China for a holiday. So my second student got his drivers license without question. Then he tells me he got a $350.00 fine for going 120 miles per hr on Bowen Road.

I looked at him and said *are you kidding me*. I am surprised you are still allowed to drive!!!

[harewood]

i have never driven outside of U.S and Canada....i learned driving here in Nanaimo.....with young driver canada like most of youth here.
but most of people usually judge my face and think i am exchange student=no English=poor driving.
This is a good thing, I hope most of people underestimate me in my life. it's always nice this way.

ok, don't give me a lecture please, Canada like other developed countries, for example U.S simply a Rome, old and fat, you will never see GDP growth double digit, not in you and my lifetime. if most of us wanna retire with enough RRSP money, go and take a look BRIC . stop believing what you have heard, other countries are shithole, people from there don’t respect rules. without third world countries, where are you going to put your retired money at to pay you dividend, of course some places have no rules.

not all asian purchased driver licence ok? most of us have to work like you, have to make RRSP contribution, have to own a home from scratch.

[RyanCoffey]

I would agree. Cops tend not to get the recognition they deserve.
Of course, there will be those who got into the job because they have power issues but the thing is that most of my interactions with the police (limited to speeding and the odd chit chat about me and my martial arts classes in the park) and from how I've seen them deal with others, they're usually really good at not overdoing it.

I'm sure that a lot of this is due to a very long list of rules about what they're allowed to say and do in a wide variety of situations which are strictly enforced. I'm also sure that it must be very frustrating to know that you could do so much more if it wasn't for all these restrictions. But all in all, the system they have in place seems to make sense in that it's an earnest attempt to improve the lives of citizens by balancing the need for protection with the feeling of invasiveness that would accompany unnecessarily high "protection" like we see in so many countries like our neighbours to the south and more so even further south from what I hear.

But the real reason i respect them is because even though they make pretty good money, I would NEVER want their job. Every day they are out there dealing with people who hate them because they're a cop or because they're a cop who's scaring the person accused of doing whatever. Even the people who called the police and want them there are having a really bad day and are putting their stresses on the officer's shoulders. Yuck. And then, since what the police are doing is so high stakes, if they ever screw up (while under all this pressure) major problems for themselves and others may ensue. People can even die in some cases. It might even be the police officer who gets it.

So yeah, thanks to any police officers reading this. I'm glad you're out there doing your job because it's not one I would want but we all need your help sometimes. Just try to remember that a lot of the people you meet every day are good people, it might just be hard to tell at that moment. I say this because I have trained (in combative martial arts) with many a police officer and some have told me how they start to see the world as a result.