The Police are Ignoring me!

[Jewrean]

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Perhaps a miscommunication here due to lack of explanation but:

The car that was slowing down actually stopped at one point in the middle of the road. I went to overtake and they MATCHED my speed so that I could not re-converge back into my lane.

As for the whole... police have more important things to do... stuff:

Like I said, I asked to be contacted because they said they would contact me. That's it. I just wanted them to phone me. A crime, no matter how big or small, should not go ignored entirely. The fact that the system of law that operates throughout our world is built in a way that allows crimes to be ignored at all is a flaw. Yes, it's not a perfect world... but rather than accept it as it is, why can't anyone recognize I'm asking people to STRIVE to make the world better? Demand justice!

Like I said, I have friends who are cops. I've heard plenty of stories of decapitation, brutal murders, etc. I get it. So phone / email me like you said you would and tell me my case is not being investigated... problem over.

 

[Jewrean]

Reading through your story...

It sounds like the 3 guys in front of you weren't old and you were driving up there boots, then when you went to overtake they put their footdown (i do this also just irritates me when people feel im going to slow). Once you over took them you stopped to yell at them... defeating the entire point of you overtaking then you get strangled for it? so you called the police...

You behaved like a douche, stopped to yell, got strangled for it, then grassed... classy.

Also you must have been hurling abuse for sometime at them to let someone stop their car, walk over to your car still hurling abuse? then let him get close enuogh to strangle you? what did you think was gonna happen when they got out the car and walked towards you?

You remind me of the kid at school that picks a fight looses then crys to his mum : /

My advise?, suck it up and learn from it and don't blame the police if they cba to investigate this trivial matter.

Wrong. Read what I wrote. Especially previous post.

 

[Jewrean]

I was referring to things like rape, murder, grand theft, shit like that. You know, shit you need the police to deal with.

Yes because ATTEMPTED murder doesn't cut it when it comes to real police work...

 

[Jewrean]

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The car stopped. You had to be there. They stopped and started and laughed like idiots. They were enjoying holding me up, this wasn't a 'new' driver. They tried to run me off the road.

I don't know how much clearer I can make it? I wasn't up their ass!

 

[Rastien]

Reading through your story...

It sounds like the 3 guys in front of you weren't old and you were driving up there boots, then when you went to overtake they put their footdown (i do this also just irritates me when people feel im going to slow). Once you over took them you stopped to yell at them... defeating the entire point of you overtaking then you get strangled for it? so you called the police...

You behaved like a douche, stopped to yell, got strangled for it, then grassed... classy.

Also you must have been hurling abuse for sometime at them to let someone stop their car, walk over to your car still hurling abuse? then let him get close enuogh to strangle you? what did you think was gonna happen when they got out the car and walked towards you?

You remind me of the kid at school that picks a fight looses then crys to his mum : /

My advise?, suck it up and learn from it and don't blame the police if they cba to investigate this trivial matter.

Wrong. Read what I wrote. Especially previous post.

I did read and now you have added more info as your intial info was picked apart. Sorry but this just he said she said. Honestly why even stop? just carry on driving... the way i see it if you drove by and nothing happend you wouldn't care. But you decided to stop and mouthed off got a slap "strangled" for it and want the police to acknowlege your problem?

Just ignore it and move on you seem a little bit obsessed with the problem : / i'm sure there are better things you could be wasting your time and energy on.

 

[Slaanesh]

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The car stopped. You had to be there. They stopped and started and laughed like idiots. They were enjoying holding me up, this wasn't a 'new' driver. They tried to run me off the road.

I don't know how much clearer I can make it? I wasn't up their ass!

Honestly, I would've just considered them IRL trolls. And what do we do to trolls? Ignore them, don't feed them. I can understand how angry you were(hell, I want to execute a person just because they didn't use their damn turn signal), but stopping the car and raging at them gives them what they want: A reaction.

It sucks they got away with it, it sucks the police didn't check into it(or did but came up with nothing). Not saying your at fault here. Next time, just remember: Don't feed the trolls. It just isn't worth the headache.

Best thing to do is just put this behind you.

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

The victim blaming in this thread is amazing.

 

[Omega500]

Reminds me of story one of my house mates who was studying law told me.

Guy rings cops and says 2 guys have broken into his garage and are loading there van with my stuff. cops said sorry there is no cops available at this time, or something like that.

15 mins had passed guy rings cops again and says, " Hi i rang about 15 mins ago to tell you some guys have broken into my garage and where loading there van up, well it dont matter now as i've shot them" and hangs up

few mins later a dozen coppers show up and chopper and dog units.
copper asks the guy thought you said you shot them (they had them cuffed) guy says thought you said no one was available.

 

[fletch_talon]

You are by self-admission guilty of endangering the lives of others, by almost getting into a head-on collision because YOU 'had to pass' someone driving slowly.

No matter how irritated you were, the car in front of you posed no danger whatsoever. In the eyes of the Law, you were in no way justified in almost getting into a head-on collision. You could easily have driven behind the other vehicle and gone about your day none the worse for it. *You* chose to *speed* to get around the other vehicle, and have admitted you almost caused a head-on collision.

He isn't guilty of anything.
The other drivers were driving below the speed limit, making it perfectly legal to overtake assuming it is safe to do so.
And it was (assuming the OPs story is accurate) safe to overtake, until the other drivers accelerated to prevent the OP from overtaking, which is possibly illegal (or it at least is against the rules as written in government guides/handbooks which says when being overtaken do not accelerate or decelerate) and dangerous.

As for speeding, you're making an assumption there.
If we assume the OP was travelling down a highway (as an example) there'd be a speed limit of 100kph. The other driver, going by the OPs story, was travelling 80kph. It would be relatively easy then for the OP to then overtake the other driver at the legal 100kph speed.

And even then whilst not strictly within bounds of the law, its pretty much commonly accepted that if someone is travelling at 90-95 you can speed as required in order to pass them, once again provided its safe to do so.
If this wasn't the case main roads would consistently be backed up by caravans being unable to maintain the speed limit.

But all that is irrelevant. If the OP broke the law, so did the other driver and whilst the OPs behaviour was common practice the other driver's was malicious and dangerous.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

2) You're advising never to stand up to a bully.

No, he's really not. He's advising that the scenario you ended up in was your own design and ill-advised.

So... if someone came up to you and punched you square in the face... you would say nothing?

I would probably hit back. However if three hudlums got out of the car with the intent to hurt me, I'm pretty sure the last thing going through my mind would be "look at all these bullies I need to stand up too".

 

[fletch_talon]

After a failed suicide attempt, a cop tried to cuff my 17 year old girlfriend. Technically, this is what he was supposed to do (She was under 18 and tried to slash her wrists, technically that counts as knife crime). I stopped him, he chilled out and asked her to sit in the back of his car (With the door wide open) and calm down.

But because he reached for his cuffs, because of his general aggressive manner, I reported him to his higher ups. I got a few phonecalls, letters, signed things off, did a phone interview and he was put on suspension for being a moron. That is how things should go and it made me happy that in the UK you can ***** about things like that, even though he technically did nothing whatsoever wrong, yada yada.

Wow...
Congratulations, you got a guy put on suspension for doing his job which involved protecting your girlfriend (even if its from herself).

You even specifically state that "technically" he did what he was supposed to do, what he has been told to do in such situations, and yet you're proud of the fact that he got shit on for it.

If you'd gotten the established procedure changed so that he wasn't "technically" required to handcuff attempted suicide cases then it'd be a whole different thing.

Too bad if your girlfriend found something sharp on her way to the car, then the cop would get shit on for not following procedure.

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And now when I re-read the post I see that there is the easily missed reference to "aggressive manner". Try placing more emphasis on this point in the future, it strongly changes the moral of the story.

 

[Saltyk]

The victim blaming in this thread is amazing.

I'm inclined to agree. I also find that a lot of them failed at reading comprehension. It was perfectly clear in the opening post that the people in question were driving under the speed limit, and when he tried to pass them, they sped up to prevent him from doing so. Something that was perfectly safe, became dangerous when it became potentially deadly due to oncoming traffic, which wouldn't have been a problem normally.

As for why he stopped, he didn't say, but I can imagine. He almost died. I would pull over, too. Sounds like they pulled up behind him and walked up to his window. When, still in his car, he went to yell at them, they removed his car keys (according to a later post) and strangled him.

Seriously, I don't blame him for anything.

 

[ElPatron]

Come to Portugal.

You can shoot at police cars, lose them in a pursuit, get caught later and because you were not actually caught during pursuit you can just leave the police station after they are done with you.

Your problem is police not doing their job, our problem is the police not being allowed to do their job.

This is why plan on carrying a loaded revolver in my vehicle at all times. The legality of my plan does not outweigh the satisfaction I would have with splattering some random douchebag who tried to attack me's brains across the ground. I'm not entirely sure if it should.

Does your state allow you to carry a gun in your car? I don't think any place in the US where you would be prosecuted for defending your property (vehicle).

Okay, maybe in NY you would.

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You do understand that cuffing someone is the most natural thing? I'm 176cm tall and somewhat skinny, like your sister I don't pose that much of a threat, but it's the protocol.

Oh, he said a dickish thing. That sure is worth a month of suspension. I wouldn't be surprised if he just stopped caring and now won't risk his life knowing his work is unappreciated.

 

[madster11]

You did it wrong.
When you're overtaking and someone speeds up to stop you from overtaking, they are making an attempt on your life.
Act like such. Merge INTO them, run them off the road and fuck the consequences if they die. It's no different than if they tried to push you in front of a train and you managed to grapple them in front of it instead. If you hit a B-double at a closing speed of above 100km/h (this is a 50km/h zone), you will die. Doesn't matter what car you're in. Act as such.

This happened to me once. Went to overtake red p-plater doing 85 in a 100 zone, he sped up with his 2 mates in the car flipping me off.
The dickhead braked hard when he saw i was about 5cm away from his car and not slowing my merge. Sat up my arse after i was in front of him, i decided that there was a good chance that shadow in front of me was a person and i acted as such - i stomped on my (brembo) brakes, he ended up swerving off into some dirt.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Here's some advice for you:

The police don't give a shit. You might as well forget about it and move on.

You're welcome.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Couldn't you have just ran them off the road like an American?

I...well....yeah but....damn your logic. That is what I would have done.

 

[not_you]

Edit: What's with all the people berating the OP? It's not like his response was hugely unreasonable. He almost got killed. He was angry and upset and obviously wanted to vent at those assholes. It might not have been the best idea but it was still understandable. Don't act as though he deserved to get beaten for that. The police are still obligated to fucking do something about it even if it was a slightly poor judgement call on the OP's part.

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Mostly this...
Except... how is it OP's poor judgement?
The guy was going 20Km/h under the speed limit, he had every right to overtake them...
Law states that if you're being overtaken, you cannot accelerate abruptly or purely because you were being overtaken at the time... IT'S A FUCKING QUESTION TO GET YOUR LICENCE!?!

And if I was nearly killed because of some dick who couldn't drive I'd want to pick up the nearest heavy object and beat the shit out of the guy...

OT: Yeah, cops are lazy... I mean, in Queensland the pizza has a faster response rate... THAT'S how great they are...
Or at least how great the pizza store is anyway... now I'm hungry... -.-