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Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:58 pm
by Twodiffs
You are f**kn joking..anyone see the recovery on the program tonight?
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:59 pm
by Big

yep.. what a tool.. maybe they need some training.. in recovery..

Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:03 pm
by marmel
Recovering from the bull bar is bad enough but why loop it round the very outside bar???
Surely they should have had enough sense to loop it around the centre closer to a mounting point?
Vehicle won't be that flash now anyway unless that was all freshwater pouring out of it.
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:05 pm
by Twodiffs
I can understand that there would be some urgency in getting the vehicle out but faark...not knowing Pajero's that well wouldn't there have been a factory recovery hook underneath?
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:08 pm
by Twodiffs
And once again looping the other end over a towball

- admittedly it wasn't a hard snatch. Would have loved to see how the other 4wd got stuck!!!!!!!!
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:13 pm
by kiwipete
It just goes to show how little the uneducated understand about vehicle recovery.
As soon as he placed the rope on the bulbar I said to the wife, "not there it'll rip it off" and it nearly did!
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:40 pm
by Crash bandicoot
golden rule of water crossings? get out and walk it first.

Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:42 pm
by nzlux
Crash bandicoot wrote:golden rule of water crossings? get out and walk it first.

He should have made the police man walk it….
The video is here, at 17:50 is the recovery
http://tvnz.co.nz/highway-cops/s2-ep13-video-6026345
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:43 pm
by FORGE1
Haha saw this. What a joke. Wouldn't have been a "successful" recovery if it snapped and hurt someone!!!
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:56 pm
by Cameron
had to laugh. silly buggers.
it would've been mostly fresh water.
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:58 pm
by tweake
they need their arses kicked. cops get trained in 4wding.
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:10 pm
by Big
tweake wrote:they need their arses kicked. cops get trained in 4wding.
Indeed..

Just shows you how competent our beloved Police force actually are..

Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:51 pm
by hamboy
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:19 pm
by andy3542
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:12 pm
by Ralfie
Big wrote:tweake wrote:they need their arses kicked. cops get trained in 4wding.
Indeed..

Just shows you how competent our beloved Police force actually are..

Actually the police officer had nothing to do with the recovery.
As an officer in a patrol car as opposed to 4WD he wouldn't have been training in 4WD techniques.
It was the vehicle owner, a private individual, who got stuck, attached the rope and managed the recovery. Can't blame the police for the errors of his ways.
Re: Highway Cops TV1 tonight
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:34 pm
by Big
Ralfie wrote:Big wrote:tweake wrote:they need their arses kicked. cops get trained in 4wding.
Indeed..

Just shows you how competent our beloved Police force actually are..

Actually the police officer had nothing to do with the recovery.
As an officer in a patrol car as opposed to 4WD he wouldn't have been training in 4WD techniques.
It was the vehicle owner, a private individual, who got stuck, attached the rope and managed the recovery. Can't blame the police for the errors of his ways.
Quite right you are..

my error ..
