Everyone, just go and watch Fight Club and get it out of your system. Sheesh

This is very common in critical cases. For instance burn patients will often get a police escort to the nearest burn center. Highways may also be blocked off by other cruisers (RMP's) in such a situation. Police also regularly are involved in making helicopter evacuations possible roadside. Furthermore, some of these evacuations are done by police helicopter. In fact, if you live in the state of Maryland (and some others as well), and are critically injured on your bike, it well may be a State Police Officer that saves your life, as they are the primary helicopter medics in that state. Paramedics, EMS's and Firefighters can't save your life or nurse your injuries after a crash without the help of their fellow Law Enforcement Officers.I could go on, but I think the point has been made.

I still think this is the best anything ever said...

:lol:

If everyone who proclaims to hate police officers so much were the real-deal 1%'ers they would start walking up to random officers and punch 'em in the belly. They're all talk and likely weak cyclists.

living in maryland, I can tell you that I doubt too many cops would go out of their way to save someones life. I had some friends that made a hobby out of wandering around behind shopping centers late at night to catch cops sleeping in their cars, and then report them... Just because they're trained to do so, does not mean that they are doing it.

No way man..their bellys are too damn huge. Those lazy fat asses can EAT!

The first page of this thread has a neat collection of the biggest ******s on these forums. Can't believe the **** some of you people say. Has the BikeSnobNYC blog inspired you guys or what?

Original poster, nice story, sounds like a cornball 80's movie scene. I have a few similar, but unfortunately none involve messed up cop cars.

that hipster didnt come to a complete stop at that stop sign

ill pull him over on that grassy shoulder

http://www.speakwell.com/well/2006au...ema/fatCop.jpg

/\/\ That officer has more than thirty years on the San Francisco Police Department motorcycle force. He has my respect.

Well it def takes effort to become such a fat hog.
An inspiration to us all.

These guys do it day in and day out. In the Sate of Maryland, if you crash your bike and are critically injured, a Maryland Sate Police Paramedic will be the person trying to save your life:
One such example, note the patch:
http://www.mspaviation.org/graphics/suction.jpg

And another:

From: The MD Cost Dispatch

Police: Helmet Saved Five Year Old’s Life
Cara Dahl

Staff Writer

07/27/2006 BERLIN – A 5-year-old Berlin boy came home from the hospital this week after a collision with a utility trailer on Monday that nearly cost him his life.

The accident happened on Esham Avenue in Berlin on Monday afternoon. The child was riding a motorized scooter in his yard, with his mother nearby. The child entered the street and lost control of the scooter.

“He just barely cleared the driveway when he was hit,” said Berlin Police Officer Matthew Corbin, who responded to the 911 call. “He entered the roadway and apparently he hit a trailer. The van [towing the trailer] was southbound on Esham Avenue.”

The accident was the result of an unfortunate set of circumstances.

“Apparently, he laid the scooter down and he slid into the trailer,” said Corbin.

The child hit the back of the single axle utility trailer, which was carrying concrete blocks and bricks, according to Corbin.

“The trailer passenger side tire did run over the child,” Corbin said.

The driver, a contractor working on the Franklin Knoll development, is not at fault, Corbin said.

“He couldn’t avoid the collision. The child came out into the road when [the van] was pretty much past,” Corbin said. “No charges are going to be filed against the driver.”

He added, “It was preventable but we’re not going to charge anybody in this. It’s just an unfortunate event that occurred, and hopefully they’ll learn from it.”

Neighbors administered first aid to the child until the ambulance arrived on the scene. A Maryland State Police medivac helicopter airlifted him to Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

Corbin said that he could not comment on the child’s injuries, beyond what he himself had seen.

“He had a lot of road rash over the majority of his body,” Corbin said.

Berlin Police Chief Arnold Downing said that the child suffered a collapsed lung and abrasions to the head.

“If he didn’t have a helmet on, he would be dead today, that’s from the doctors,” said Downing.

Corbin said that children 16 and under are legally required to wear helmets when riding any kind of bike, but that compliance is “extremely poor” in Berlin.

“Helmets save lives,” said Corbin. “Children have bike accidents all the time. The main cause of serious injuries is head trauma.”

The child, originally listed in stable condition at PRMC, is now recovering at home.

/\/\ BikeForums police-bashers...please make nitwits of yourselves by poking fun at the noble officers like the Maryland State Trooper medics story, as graciously shared by acoldspoon above.

he should have beat up the guy that hit the kid

edit: with a ulock

great cop video http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/4553

the problem i have with police is that in most cases they are there to protect property and not people's lives

You do realize that your local Police are also your first tier of Emergency Medical response where you live, don't you? The very same people you just slighted are the Paramedics who may be scraping you up after your next crash. As well, your local Disaster Medical Team (DMAT) has members of both the Nassau and Suffolk County police forces. I've worked with members of LI Law Enforcement a number of times. You have some real lifesaving Cops near you.

My dad has been a cop for 40 years. Now Cheif. In that time I have met a lot of his co-worker. Some geat guys, some total jerks w/ serious problems. Bottom line is that when REAL trouble comes your way, no matter how tough you are on BF, you will call the cops. Everyone does. What you get is luck of the draw.

Say what you will, think what you will, but the following is a fact. As a Paramedic, there were lives I've saved specifically because of the team work Police Officers provided. From basic scene safety, to roadside traffic control, to initiating CPR, to controlling a violent situation so I can render aid to someone who's been the victim of violent crime, to working side by side locating survivors while doing Disaster Search And Rescue, there are lives I couldn't have saved without the help of Law Enforcement Officers.

hear hear

edit: also a big L O L to the cop bustin out that ladys windas

yes i do realize that some cops save lives and perform those things. but some cops are total *******s and beat the **** out of people and give people a hard time for no reason. neither is true for all of them but it happens

a while back without going into too much detail me and a friend of mine were riding dirt bikes, my friend broke her leg. when the cops and fire department and paramedics showed up the medics and firefighters were friendly and professional. the cop was threatening me and my father and saying he was going to "throw our asses in jail" for letting someone unlicensed drive a motor vehicle on my property. this was upstate NY. he also went over to look at my friend without saying a word to her and then he looked at the bike. did not show any sympathy towards her. the firefighters and medics were telling me "don't worry about them they're all *****holes"

so i was doing something illegal letting someone ride a dirt bike on my land without a license. who hasn't? i'm just saying that some are pieces of **** and others are nice. i usually don't end up with the nice ones though and typically have found them to be more protective of property rather than human beings

Well, some people are asses regardless of their job title. Cop or no cop i think we all know people that are relentless jerks.
Cops get a bad rap a lot of time i think because they cant make everything all better, all the time for some people that need it.
There are also cops that beat down innocent people, kill innocent people and many other terrible things. Giving all cops a bad name in many people's eyes.
In the end i think were all intelligent enough to know cops can do good and they often do. Often under terrible conditions. Cheers to those guys.
I know all that stuff and i still hate cops for the things that have happened to me because of bad people who happened to be cops.

In my area the EMT's are not cops. The only time I have seen cops escort an ambulance is when it is a cop down situation. In this situation, a dozen cops will walk into the trauma room and insist that the injured cop get priority, even if there are much sicker patients in the ER.

VA is a sore spot even for me, following the VA State Police roadside stops of Emergency Services responders to New Orleans from New York and New Jersey. I experienced it, it pissed me off, it pissed my K9 off. Even so, I will be as objective as possible. This is in light of also having worked with some other good eggs from your state.

I will say this, and I speak from first hand experience in a metropolitan hospital ER and trauma center. Some officer shootings are critical injuries that require immediate surgical intervention. This will require a trauma team and while it may appear to conflict with sick patients, it may not, as most modern hospital settings are designed to handle trauma medicine separately from cardiology, respiratory, etc. Yes, an officer down situation can be unnerving for a hospital staff, yes professional courtesy can be abused. But it is often a somewhat friendly while tense situation where officers, nurses, medics, and docs, who know each other are pitching in as fellow members of the Emergency Services. This can be a little too subtle to grasp, and diagnose, from the radiology department. If OTOH, the professional courtesy is being abused, or if there is outright bullying, I wouldn't be so quick to only blame the Police. The Chief Attending, Attending, and Head Nurse, have a lot of responsibility too in these situations. Short of them being placed in immediate physical danger, I'd put the blame squarely on your Emergency Department if patients are endangered by a badly handled offer down situation. I have some Emergency Medical contacts in your state. If you let me know what hospital/s you are referring to, I might be able to comment more specifically on the state of the hospital's Emergency Services integration and how often the Police aid EMS. I will say that in VA there are Police Officers trained as EMT's (and Paramedics). Just because they aren't wearing the patch, doesn't mean they aren't EMT's.

The part of Virginia where the cops have started writing Draconian $3,000 traffic tickets. Hopefully these newly enacted fines will be for driving violations only, and not for pedaling a bike past a church driveway.

So, I was out riding a trail in St. Louis and came across a lady with a flat tire. She didn't have any tools/tubes with her, so we used a friend's patch kit... The patch held for a while, then the tire went flat again. To our delight, a police officer rolled by in his Ford Explorer. We stopped him and asked for a lift back to the trail head (2 miles-ish), to which he responded "the only way I am going to let anyone in my car is if they are in handcuffs". He proceeded to roll up his window and drive off. This is exactly the behavior I expect out of cops these days - they are willing to give out speeding tickets to generate revenue for their department, but they aren't willing to help people who need it.

What ever happened to "protect and serve"?