TheMadScientist
Supercharged
I had an incident with a neighbor this evening. I live on a dirt road and the speed limit is 30 mph. She was probably going 65 when she went by my house. She is a habitual dumbass. So I get on my R3 and pull up in front of her house and sit there. She comes out and first thing out of her mouth is are you threatening me? I say no. I want to talk about consequences. If your negligent driving leads to you hitting and killing one of my kids I can't promise what I will do. She threatens to call the police. I say please do. She gets my tag number. I say why bother, you know where I live and give her my house number.
About 40 minutes go by and an officer show up at my door. At first he looks nervous then I invite him in and he relaxes. The first thing he asks me is "You own a Triumph?" Anyway this lady calls the cops telling them her life is in danger. The two officers of my home town are busy with a "real" call as the officer puts it. He had to come from several towns over about 35 miles away at high speed because he thinks somebody's life is in danger. He gets to her house he sees where I pull up. He sees my foot prints and that I never get off the bike. She tells the cop she works for a lawyer and knows the law and wants to press assault charges. He ask her did he threaten you? No not really. Was he raising his voice our yelling? No. Was he on your property? No. He tells her she can't press charges. She proceeds to tell the officer he doesn't know the law. He tells me not to worry but explains If I threaten to punch somebody and am capable of doing it and don't do it, that's assault! Well he was pissed that he put people's lives in danger for a bogus call. He wanted to talk about the Triumph. We walked out back to look at the Rocket. He loved it. He wants a speed triple but would consider a Rocket. I asked him what he had he said a Buell and Harley. When he said Harley he said it with disgust. I told him to sit on the Roc he said he shouldn't . He said she might come by and see him sitting on my bike.
The point of this story is our common interest in motorcycles made things easier. He told me some things that would make things easier kinda off the books. No worries.
About 40 minutes go by and an officer show up at my door. At first he looks nervous then I invite him in and he relaxes. The first thing he asks me is "You own a Triumph?" Anyway this lady calls the cops telling them her life is in danger. The two officers of my home town are busy with a "real" call as the officer puts it. He had to come from several towns over about 35 miles away at high speed because he thinks somebody's life is in danger. He gets to her house he sees where I pull up. He sees my foot prints and that I never get off the bike. She tells the cop she works for a lawyer and knows the law and wants to press assault charges. He ask her did he threaten you? No not really. Was he raising his voice our yelling? No. Was he on your property? No. He tells her she can't press charges. She proceeds to tell the officer he doesn't know the law. He tells me not to worry but explains If I threaten to punch somebody and am capable of doing it and don't do it, that's assault! Well he was pissed that he put people's lives in danger for a bogus call. He wanted to talk about the Triumph. We walked out back to look at the Rocket. He loved it. He wants a speed triple but would consider a Rocket. I asked him what he had he said a Buell and Harley. When he said Harley he said it with disgust. I told him to sit on the Roc he said he shouldn't . He said she might come by and see him sitting on my bike.
The point of this story is our common interest in motorcycles made things easier. He told me some things that would make things easier kinda off the books. No worries.