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Posted: 9/26/2005 2:16:41 AM EDT

Berlin cops can't handle BMWs

Beamer ban for bad-driving Berlin bobbies

21 September 2005

BERLIN - Police in the German capital are such bad drivers that they are losing their beloved BMW squad cars after having been involved in too many crashes, media reports said Wednesday.

At least 22 of the leased BMW 5 series estate cars have been totally demolished in accidents since the force took delivery of the vehicles in December 2002, said the Berliner Kurier newspaper.

Over 60 per cent of the crashes were the fault of officers behind the wheel, the paper added.

As a result, Berlin's cops are being downgraded in motor world and will in the future drive the slower and less sexy VW Touran van.

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:18:44 AM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:30:46 AM EDT

[#2]

Doh!

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:32:52 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

+eleventy billion

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:34:31 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
www.motorweb.no/artikler/nyheter/2003-04-05/2003-04-05-VW-Touran-06.jpg

Doh!

That sucks!

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:41:57 AM EDT

[#5]

They will be the butt of many jokes overseas

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:33:46 AM EDT

[#6]

It could only be worse if they were mandated to have a magnetic soccerball stuck on the rear door.

Kharn

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:41:48 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
It could only be worse if they were mandated to have a magnetic soccerball stuck on the rear door.

Kharn

For the children!

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:50:48 AM EDT

[#8]

bwhahahahahahha

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:56:43 AM EDT

[#9]

Too bad they couldn't at least something cooler like that deisel Toureg.

Posted: 9/26/2005 10:37:31 AM EDT

[#10]

"I be da only one proffeshional nuff to handle da BMW 5 series"

Posted: 9/26/2005 10:55:38 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Doh!

Now they'll wear pink hats and there will be no lights on the car, one of them will hang out the sunroof yelling "wooooooooooooo wooooooooooooooo" and yelling, "Pull ova! PULL OVA!!"

Posted: 9/26/2005 10:58:31 AM EDT

[#12]

Thats 22 in three years, for a department the size of Berlin's. That doesn't sound that high, really.

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:23:45 PM EDT

[#13]

To go from a Bimmer to a Mommie Van!

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:25:50 PM EDT

[#14]

(nelson) Ha Ha!(/nelson)

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:27:06 PM EDT

[#15]

They'll now be driving Mommy Assault Vehicles!

Posted: 9/26/2005 2:27:27 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Thats 22 in three years, for a department the size of Berlin's. That doesn't sound that high, really.

It is, considering that it takes at LEAST nine months of rigorous training just to get a BASIC drivers license in Germany.

g a y

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:13:32 PM EDT

[#17]

Give 'em all Crown Vics!

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:20:02 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Give 'em all Crown Vics!

It is one thing to punish them, but anothing entirely to torture them. Show some compassion.

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:23:03 PM EDT

[#19]

Remember to laugh from a distance. There are still no established Police brutality statutes in Germany. They can beat you until their arms get tired, and then the kicking starts......

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:34:05 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Remember to laugh from a distance. There are still no established Police brutality statutes in Germany. They can beat you until their arms get tired, and then the kicking starts......

Like this?

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:36:28 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:

Remember to laugh from a distance. There are still no established Police brutality statutes in Germany. They can beat you until their arms get tired, and then the kicking starts......

Like this?

www.lvlife.com/2002/04/images/riots.jpg

www.nevadacure.org/home/Local/James/James1Jpg2.jpg

Yeah that was a terrible case, a nice young man beaten for laughing at the rims on the police cruiser... "Are you serious with those?? Comeon, they look so gay!! heh-heh... Wahaasyahhahhh!! ouch!!! ahhh?!!!!!"

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:38:32 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:

Remember to laugh from a distance. There are still no established Police brutality statutes in Germany. They can beat you until their arms get tired, and then the kicking starts......

Like this?

Yeah that was a terrible case, a nice young man beaten for laughing at the rims on the police cruiser... "Are you serious with those?? Comeon, they look so gay!! heh-heh... Wahaasyahhahhh!! ouch!!! ahhh?!!!!!"

nah, he was a POS and kinda deserved a beating, but still...........

Posted: 9/26/2005 3:51:03 PM EDT

[#23]

Damn, the rest of the world truly sucks.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

Posted: 9/26/2005 4:01:03 PM EDT

[#24]

So in an urban city with a population in the millions, the police have totalled 4 cars per year, thier fault, for the past 3 years. They change cars based on that? It would make sense if there were 4 officers there.

Did they ever think the VW van will take longer to stop once the brakes come on.................... making crashes MORE likely not less.

Of course they could deal with the 14 officers invovled in the crashes directly instead of punishing the other 99.9%..................................

Posted: 9/26/2005 5:38:11 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Now they'll wear pink hats and there will be no lights on the car, one of them will hang out the sunroof yelling "wooooooooooooo wooooooooooooooo" and yelling, "Pull ova! PULL OVA!!"

Soooo wrong, yet soooo damn funny.

Kharn

Posted: 9/26/2005 10:01:04 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Thats 22 in three years, for a department the size of Berlin's. That doesn't sound that high, really.

It is, considering that it takes at LEAST nine months of rigorous training just to get a BASIC drivers license in Germany.

g a y

Yeah, let's not forget that either.

European driver's training is sooooooo superior to American driver's training.

Posted: 9/27/2005 3:05:17 AM EDT

[#27]

I would quit. no way would I go from driving a chick magnet to driving a chick's car.

[station]calling car 54 your wife called said bring home some milk and eggs and the dry cleaning she left in the backseat [/ station]

Posted: 9/29/2005 12:05:30 PM EDT

[#28]

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