Traffic police - whats the truth

Scania580

A question for you...????
Are people with issues ...i.e. chips on their shoulders automatically drawn to being a traffic cop...?Or does the job sour them that much that they just become angry and rude ??Im driving 22 years for a living and have no convictions for any offence driving or otherwise.I just find the hostility and bad manners shown by these people to joe public hard to take sometimes.In my opinion this type of hostility is more about insecurity in themselves than a reaction to an incident.....:rolleyes:
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MaceFace

Scania580 wrote: »

A question for you...????
Are people with issues ...i.e. chips on their shoulders automatically drawn to being a traffic cop...?Or does the job sour them that much that they just become angry and rude ??Im driving 22 years for a living and have no convictions for any offence driving or otherwise.I just find the hostility and bad manners shown by these people to joe public hard to take sometimes.In my opinion this type of hostility is more about insecurity in themselves than a reaction to an incident.....:rolleyes:
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I would say its down to two things:
* Cops generally have a superiority complex due to the power they have
* The people they deal with are generally never in the wrong not matter what they do.

Cookie_Monster

TBH I say in my experience its pretty much 60% nice people, 40% arseholes, like most jobs

JimsAlterEgo

generally find if you are pleasant and courteous towards them you won't have an issue - saying that like us all they can have bad days too

Jip

Out of the 3 or 4 times I've been stopped by the traffic corp, all on bikes, they've all been very decent bar one was who an arsehole from the outset. I would imagine the attitude of most of them reflect the attitude of the motorist in question to them, be pleasant to them and for the most part they'll be the same to you.

one2one

Seriously guys, you think a traffic cop just patrols, you should see what they deal with on a daily basis, fatalities, armed & dangerous drivers, everything! If I had to arrive at a scene of an accident to find someone dead I would be in a pretty $hit mood too.

I, like others have mentioned, have been stopped, and if I am decent to them, they are to me.

donvito99

As with every organisation there's going to be bad apples.

Unfortunately, some people still see fit to generalise, probably due to one isolated experience.

-Corkie-

Hows it goin like the original po im on the road a lot of the time. I have a few friends in traffic and many more in ags. I have to say a lot of them are sound except for one arsehole i met one day on a bike he was tc. He started talking to me through his helmet and when i told him i didnt understand he started roaring "can you fcuking speak english". I am as irish as the rest of ye but i flipped and got on and fcuked him out of it. I really went mad i took his number and rang about him. I never met anything like it. Scania 580 was wondering had some of them a chip on their shoulder well this fella had a rock.

Cookie_Monster

malcox wrote: »

Hows it goin like the original po im on the road a lot of the time. I have a few friends in traffic and many more in ags. I have to say a lot of them are sound except for one arsehole i met one day on a bike he was tc. He started talking to me through his helmet and when i told him i didnt understand he started roaring "can you fcuking speak english". I am as irish as the rest of ye but i flipped and got on and fcuked him out of it. I really went mad i took his number and rang about him. I never met anything like it. Scania 580 was wondering had some of them a chip on their shoulder well this fella had a rock.

you may understand english but you certainly struggle to type it!

-Corkie-

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

you may understand english but you certainly struggle to type it!

Im better without a crate of miller cookie monster. Id hate to met him now:D:D

Scania580

Interesting!:rolleyes: