Blown Engine and a Dumbass Rider
I picked up a bike roadside that burst into flames today! Ya….sucks to be him, especially since he had to pay for two roadside rescues in one afternoon! He should have left it at the shop we dropped him off at earlier. Yes that’s right…my boss picked him up 1.5hrs earlier on the side of the highway when his bike died. My boss picked him up and brought him to a repair shop but he just wanted to get the hell out of there so the shop boosted his bike and the kid left. KABOOM! The engine explodes and he is stranded again. Dumbass.
This time I had to go get him but when I arrived…the Police were there. They drove by randomly and started asking questions but something seemed fishy so they stayed to find out more about the rider and the bike. When I got there I saw the look on the cops faces and I know that look. It’s a look that only police or military people have when they think something isn’t right. As a former military person…I knew that look…something wasn’t right. I leaned into the window of the police car and told the officers that we had just picked him up a couple hours earlier on the highway and brought him to a repair shop but the rider refused to leave the bike to be properly looked at. That intrigued them and they asked for more details, which I provided. Bells are ringing for me and the cops…this bike may be stolen. When confronted with the truth, the kid quickly changed his story. Before I knew it…the kid was being frisked, his pockets emptied and he was thrown in the back of the police car. I thought he was done for and that I would be taking the bike to the impound instead of back to the repair shop that he had just left.
Well, his story about having just bought the bike that afternoon checked out so they let him go. Neither the cops or I could figure out why the kid felt the need to lie about everything that happened that afternoon (where he got the bike, how he got there, etc). The more experienced officer of the two, drilled him hard about lying to police though. They always know and once they suspect that you are lying…they dig deeper to find out just how much so.
Lying to a cop is a big no-no! In Canada it’s called “Obstruction of a Peace Officer” and if the lie continues…”Obstruction of Justice”. Yes…charges could have been laid.
This kid was lucky that he didn’t spend more time in that police car on his way to get finger-printed and that his newly purchased bike could have ended up in an impound lot. In the end…a lesson was learned – I hope anyway – that you never BS a cop. They are more experienced at recognizing it than you are at dishing it out and when a repair shop says you should leave you bike to be looked at properly…you don’t take off on it!
Dumbass
