My First Impound

[turbo_brian]

I love threads like this, funniest thing, an actual cop comes in to tell of a moron he has pulled over, impounded, and taken off the streets for obvious stupidity and dangerous driving, not to mention driving on a suspended licence (that's an immediate date with the magistrate), which also voids all insurance meaning if he hits your car, you are stuck with the excess and repair costs plus inconvenience while off the road.

Yet after someone removes this fckwit from the roads and tells us, we get the children and cop-wingers come in saying stupid shit like "are you happy, you where obviously stinging to impound the car" and just talking bullshit about the cop's job.

Story Time: When I was 17, I gave my daddy back the Mazda 323 he gave me, and bought myself a turbocharged Cordia. I joined the Brisbane Redcliffe racers and each night after work (at Pizzahut) I would cruise over to the group, and we would begin racing up and down the main drag, all night long, sometimes until day-brake the next morning.

We had burnout comps, races, and where just generally crazy. Cops would come, we would run, someone would get pulled over and raked, but the rest of us where out of there and back within an hour or 2.

I was done several times, ended up loosing my licence, but drove anyway. Ended up getting done, taken to the station, charged, released, notice to appear at court. I managed to rack up 7 of these before I was denied bail, locked up for the night, and a court session held on Easter Saturday to face the magistrate immediately, and be told if I was going to be lcoked up perminantly or given bail.

Closed court session, the magistrate's 6 yr old boy on 1 side with his wife, my parents at the back of the court (mother crying), me in sexy brown tracksuit (police issue lock-up clothes), 4 of the regular police officers that had caught me the 7 times prior, and it wasn't looking good for me. After a 4 hour court session, going through everything, I was given bail, an 18month suspended sentence (stay out of jail, but 1 thing wrong, and I am completely gone), and I had the unprecedented requirement from the magistrate that my vehicle be sold before the registration expired, or de-registered and taken off the road perminantly.

I left the court house with my parents, hopped in a mates car and was driven back to my place. Parents asked if I wanted to keep the car at my place to sell, or hand it to them to sell, and I kept it at my place. a few hours later, I called my parents to come and get it, as I was still tempted to drive the car.

My Dad was pulled over 4 times driving my car back to their place, because the police knew if they caught me driving, I was 1 less menace on the roads for a very long time.

Now, 10 yrs on, I have been on the roads again for 8 yrs, had a court overturn my licence suspensions, and I have since been a good boy.

I own a GTR, and before that Twin turbo Soarer, Nissan 180sx, and turbocharged modified Mazda 626. I have full respect for the police because they are there to do a job, some cops go over the top and that's just life, but the majority of the cops out there are there to help. I do volunteer work with the State Emergency Service, so I get cool toys on the car now, like flashy lights (I go direct to SES jobs with equipment to barrier off unsafe areas while a crew are in transit), I get radios, and all other cool stuff, but I now use my driving abilities for good of the community, rather than racing at night with a bunch of hoons.

For a cop to tell me they took a guy off the road doing almost double the speed limit in a shitbox, I shake their hand, for a dickhead to say he had an attitude, I shit on you mate!

Graeme, well done!!

[SABBAi]

Graeme, teh interwebz heroes are envious...

[KURAUN]

Lolz punz...

not intended

[Player_Hater]

ignore the blind and the inexperienced...

good job graeme .. keep up the good work ..

[Johnny]

the porsche was abit over the top; he probably just wanted to give it a squirt, a car with that much power will hit that speed in 2 seconds and has brakes the size of planets to quickly slow down.

the shitbox would have killed a small child that ran into the street or the roadworkers even with plenty of reaction time.

[KURAUN]

doesnt matter if its got the power and brakes, many of the cars here do

even yours has them

its the fact that it shouldnt happen at all

and that graeme is doing hes job to stop it

[TracidTrax]

it amazes how some one with a suspended license can do some thing as stupid as going almost double the speed limit and attract so much attention to themselves

[KURAUN]

exactly so why do people bitch about it when Graeme was only doing hes job and saying pretty much how stupid the person is

[dezz]

I wouldn't worry to much about what a flog who lies about how he lost his license, and tells people he was going faster than he actually was, has to say about anything...Anyone thats proud of something like that (even though they didn't actually go that fast) is clearly an idiot

[Jack-]

Good to see you impound his car, he got was he deserved. I didn't have the balls to drive while my license was suspended, if I got caught it would only cause me more shit having to go to court and what not. Man, was that a learning curve for me - never speed again.

Hopefully the guy takes something out of it and thinks twice next time, not only for his own safety but for everyone else on the road.

[jakez88]

damn what a thread this turned out to be...

Clutch your a tad out of it aren't u...a cop that is a member here even before he was a cop and use to own a 33 gtr just decided to tell us what happened that day he was in the job. It probably is a useless thread and he probably didn't have to tell us about it but the fact is that he did and it was about taking a reckless driver that had a suspended driver off the road.

Whats so bad about that? alot of people on this forum post useless threads to... including me...but the only useless thing in here are your useless posts.

if anything this guy deserves our support as a fellow import/skyline driver and a person that is looking after our roads.

[RBJ3T]

Geez Greame. You certainly opened a can of worms mate. lol

I say the dumbass in the rolla shouldn't even get his car back at all. D!ck heads like that kill people and should not be on the road.

I reckon it's great a coppa is giving us the downlow on the streets from the other side of the fence. I am also looking at joining the force and would be royaly pissed if someone said you shouldn't be on SAU. Passion for driving goes deeper than the clothes you wear you closed minded f*cks.......... go back to school. I bet half of you can't even reach the pedals of your fathers car.

Hey Greame keep the info coming and if you can try and convice the other boys on the force that we aren't all hoons. We just love to drive. The best time I have atm is when i start my liner up and go cruisen. Yeah I love drifting and love to boost but only in the factories or on a country road. Not in the burbs. You gotta be crazy doing that sh!t around the streetz. Then again it is very hard not to launch when when old Bazza pulls up in his fully sick VN SS just begging to be blown off the road. lol

My 2 cents.

Kane

[BigDirtyJase]

damn what a thread this turned out to be...

Clutch your a tad out of it aren't u...a cop that is a member here even before he was a cop and use to own a 33 gtr just decided to tell us what happened that day he was in the job. It probably is a useless thread and he probably didn't have to tell us about it but the fact is that he did and it was about taking a reckless driver that had a suspended driver off the road.

Whats so bad about that? alot of people on this forum post useless threads to... including me...but the only useless thing in here are your useless posts.

if anything this guy deserves our support as a fellow import/skyline driver and a person that is looking after our roads.

amen to that jake

I think what I'm waiting for is for someone like Clutch to post up on here WBM'ing (Whining, Bitching and Moaning) that he got his car impounded for doing something stupid..then I will have a right royal laugh

I don't mind if Greame is telling us what happened...the man is doing his job and he is happy to let us know what is happening (or going to happen)

At the end of the day...it's a people like the guy that Greame pulled up that tag us all hoons

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

i stopped reading about half way down page 2. as i dont know were all the tension came from ? and its just kinda annoyed me with all the 'technicalities' goin on about who said what , and what who ment.

anywho

good story his car should be crushed, he dont care about his life, or others, why should he be incontrol of a deadly weapon i.e 1200kilo's of steal flying around

good job mate!

[arep3]

ive been pulled over by Graeme and would be happy to say that he is 1 of the best cops ive spoken with.

Considering that im also a member of the State Emergency Service with a RCR (Road Crash Rescue) accredited unit and attend car crashes on a regular basis, I have to deal with the Police on a regular basis.

Graeme has done his job. its as simple as that. at least the bloke in the Corolla didn't wrap himself around a pole / tree/ car or pedestrian.

[33gtst]

Im with clutch a tad here.

After re-reading the post a few time I feel like im detecting a certain pleasure in this activity by this uniform member, granted the punishment does fit the crime here but the manner in which its posted, and i cant pin point exactly why, but it just seems well, a little bit silly.

I am not one to hate on police, and have nothing ill to say of police, but find the posting by a uniform member stating his desire to impound to "TBH I have wanted to impound a vehicle so I can learn/know what I am doing in future." Now should this have read to aid in the reduction of crashes like the one in clayton(or any other major ones known to the locality), I'd be on your bandwagon...but to post that.

[eMsta]

end of the day, one less idiot driver.

From what i have read from the forums (in the last 3 years almost - since i joined) - Graeme has been helping sau out by trying to get the police to understand us better. Him saying that he wanted to know the correct procedures is a valid point - the opportunity presented itself, and he took care of it then and there. Shouldnt take it the negative way guys.

[KezR33]

Now, 10 yrs on, I have been on the roads again for 8 yrs, had a court overturn my licence suspensions, and I have since been a good boy.

I own a GTR, and before that Twin turbo Soarer, Nissan 180sx, and turbocharged modified Mazda 626. I have full respect for the police because they are there to do a job, some cops go over the top and that's just life, but the majority of the cops out there are there to help. I do volunteer work with the State Emergency Service, so I get cool toys on the car now, like flashy lights (I go direct to SES jobs with equipment to barrier off unsafe areas while a crew are in transit), I get radios, and all other cool stuff, but I now use my driving abilities for good of the community, rather than racing at night with a bunch of hoons.

Nice post.

I recently did something really, really stupid. Something I would not normally do, but was peer pressured into, and consequently got busted for. I'm due to appear in court in a months time or so, been dreading it ever since the event.

This post reassures me though, despite everything, even if worst comes to worst (and my case is not where near as bad as the one you described) things will end up okay, and that I don't have to give up my passion for imports just because of one lapse in judgement.

[MP_R33]

damn what a thread this turned out to be...

Clutch your a tad out of it aren't u...a cop that is a member here even before he was a cop and use to own a 33 gtr just decided to tell us what happened that day he was in the job. It probably is a useless thread and he probably didn't have to tell us about it but the fact is that he did and it was about taking a reckless driver that had a suspended driver off the road.

Whats so bad about that? alot of people on this forum post useless threads to... including me...but the only useless thing in here are your useless posts.

if anything this guy deserves our support as a fellow import/skyline driver and a person that is looking after our roads.

Could not have said it better myself!

[omega36]

i got pulled up the other day near ftg for apparently smoking weed or something ? :s got my car checked n shit i was confused because i was just parked and my windows were fogged up a little.

haha this made me laugh! thats so random