This is impolite, but it'll be the only time I do it.
When I read the agressive tone of what is suposed to be advice, I want to skip the entire post. You would do the same, the same way I skipped the part of your earlier post that was useless since all it did was say "I don't believe it - show proof - your friend's an idiot etc" in a few different ways.
Now on the subject.
[correction btw, the cop owns a 929 , not R1]
I am a bit tired so bear with my defective memory and therefore obligation to do this the long way (you asked for it):
Yeah Swoop great idea. Write into his senior Officer and get the bloke in strife all over an idiot decision to lend him the bike and his idiot decision to ask for it.
It's an idiot decision to lend the bike, even considering the cops were making rounds for supposed stolen parts etc at this 80+ riders' meet, but incidentaly incomparably idiotic to take a civilian's bike he was suppposed to only "try" and not throw into a ditch (at least for his own sake).
Forget this bloke may be called to place his life on the line to save yours or your "intelligent" girlfriend.
That has nothing to do with it.
Forget the BS he has to put up with on a daily basis from lifes a-holes to ensure your day is a happy one and peace free.
Same thing.
Most cops go into the job wanting to make a difference and to put some emphasis on their own lives ...
Yes...
...so that one day they can look back and think they didnt waste it all, pi$$ing it up against a wall or climbing the corporate ladder stepping on other peoples toes.
That's the cop's responsibility, not my friend's.
It takes about 4 years on average before a Cop starts getting cynical about why he/she chose the job they did. In 6-10, most have left the Force as people like your "Intelligent" girlfriend prefer to screw them rather than use plain ordinary God given common sense.
Ok , that's understandable, but o/t too, and when common sense is something we consider (can't remember the adjective for this Zzz), the officer is the one with the bigger deficit. Forget letting an officer in uniform that you do not want to provoke (as you pointed to and common sense implies, you don't want to make any bad assumptions at the wrong time) onto your 10k$+ bike in the middle of the night with plenty of witnesses if something did go wrong to defend your truth.
At 10 years and over, those of us who remain rarely give 2 hoots what your problems are as you all start to sound the same. Throw in people like Swoops "intelligent" girlfriend and you see why the Cop who has you by the short and curlys on the side of the road, doesnt really give a damn why you were speeding, or how hard you have it in life that you had to take that item without payment.
pff.. Paranoia or biased belligerence, now it's both off-subject and personal & undue grudge. You apply generality to a specified given case.
Its a simple Road accident. Not Murder 1. Your friend is insured and he's just as responsible for it happening as the Cop was. Why did he get insurance in the first place?
He is responsible for giving permission as asked to an officer in uniform to take his bike for a try. Asked officer if he was serious, told yes. Cop goes screaming off, few seconds later people (cops and riders) are running to over there, he does too and sees the bike wrong side up. Cop had no helmet, thrown ~15ft, uninjured.
Who is more responsible? Don't be biased, don't look at your badge but instead put yourself in his place.
Tell your friend that a Cop in Australia thinks he should start acting like a man instead of some pansy wuss out to screw some bloke over a simple irrelevant prang cause the easiest thing to do is threaten his livelihood.
That's not it. He talked to the cop, and finds him an ok guy that's against the wall, at least, but wants his bike back. Is that wussiness?
Fill in the insurance papers. Speak to the Cop in person, [...
done...
not act like a Big girls blouse or some hissy fitting female and start taking some responsiblity for his own stupity.
ignoring the first sentence half, it sounds like taking
some responsibility for the wreck means letting the person (cop or not) who himself made the bike go from normal condition to totalled off with no responsibility. And this because he deserves sympathy. That's not the question. He is reponsible for wreckless driving (for example) but obviously the officers that were on the spot and witnessed it did not and will not write him a ticket. That would be fairness. So we are already on the side of the officer as to fairness and responsibility.
The question of what the insurance will do, how much a repair or replacement would cost is already quoted above, now the question of how to get his bike back without (if possible) having to pay with probation and rate hike that are from someone else's accident, or wait forever while the guy who rode the motorcycle into the ditch has to pay the reparations
and also his own life's costs, like everyone else on this planet.
Im sure, that if your friend does things the right way instead of that shi**y way described above, he will get what he wants or a satisfactory result without having to screw some bloke out of a job that you yourself wouldnt want on a good day.
He's not trying to screw the cop, etc. I repeat myself.
If there is more flaming on the way, forget this whole thread; it is not worth typing on this keyboard forever like this uselessly.
