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Video: Furious cyclist dresses down Aberdeen police officer who ran red light – but does he just have it in for the police?Aberdeen Police officer (via Kevy Goffing Facebook video)

Video: Furious cyclist dresses down Aberdeen police officer who ran red light – but does he just have it in for the police?

Officer admits that he “accidentally went too far forward”
by Alex Bowden
Sat, Feb 16, 2019 16:36
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The Scottish Sun reports on a video uploaded to social media in which an Aberdeen man rants at a police officer for going through a red light. Suggesting that he would be in court for it if he’d done the same thing on his bike, the man describes the manoeuvre as “fucking unbelievable.”

The video was uploaded by Kevin Goffin.

"I stopped on my bike. I was not doing anything wrong. It was a joke,” he said. “Took a photo and they went right through the red light.”

As you can hear, Goffin was pretty unimpressed.

“I’ll happily admit, right. I’ve accidentally went too far forward,” says the driver at one point.

Here’s the photo taken by Goffin just before the confrontation.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

#police#in#aberdeen thinks it’s ok go through red lights joke min

A post shared by Kevy Goffin (@kevygoffin) on

 

Goffin, it transpires, served a six month sentence in 2017 for violent conduct towards a rival football fan. He launched a tirade of homophobic, violent, and intimidating abuse at officers when he was arrested and it rather seems that he may not be an enormous fan of the police force.

His Instagram page features another confrontation with a police officer – this time over parking on double yellow lines at a bus stop.

We cannot of course be sure, but we’d suggest that Goffin’s motivations may lie in an area other than road safety.

Asked if he was pursuing a vendetta against the police, he replied: “I got the jail for arguing with the police, nothing to do with the football. The Glasgow jail is a dump. Sending me to camp is nothing, just banning me from watching my team play.

“And they went through a red light. What if someone was there as the lights were at red? That’s what they said when I was on my bike, taking me to court for that. What a joke.”

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Alex Bowden

Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.

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duwie | 5 years ago
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And people wonder why all the good coppers are leaving the Police. It's because of gobby twats like motormouth, who I've no doubt would be the first to call them, because he's taken a brave pill, gobbed off to someone else and they're about to put his lights out. I for one am grateful for the job all the emergency services and armed forces do, with no thanks from any of us. 

 

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only1redders | 5 years ago
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I lived/worked in Aberdeen for a few months a number of years ago on a secondment from our London office. Got a phonecall one day and whilst I could hear that the man at the other end of the line was Scottish, I genuinely couldn't understand a word he was saying. I thought it was a prank, but thought best to transfer it back to reception so that someone who could understand him could deal with him. Obviously, it wasn't a prank - was a (and apologies to locals if I get this wrong, or an offensive term - because this is what the guys in the office told me afterwards) teuchter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuchter

He may as well have been speaking Mandarin. There was no chance I could get my head around what he was saying

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cbrndc | 5 years ago
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So Mr Goffin went through the red light so he could draw up alongside and berate the police for going through the same red light 

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ConcordeCX | 5 years ago
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It's good to see this. I'm glad I live in a country where people can have a go at the police like this and not get shot or beaten the shit out of, or banged up.

Also nice to see the embarrassed policewoman doing her best to be invisible.

 

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Hirsute | 5 years ago
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Does anyone have a translation of the video?

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PaterAnt replied to Hirsute | 5 years ago
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hirsute wrote:

Does anyone have a translation of the video?

Watch a couple of series of Rab C Nesbitt to learn the language. 

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EK Spinner replied to PaterAnt | 5 years ago
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PaterAnt wrote:
hirsute wrote:

Does anyone have a translation of the video?

Watch a couple of series of Rab C Nesbitt to learn the language. 

 

That wont help, Rab C was a Glasgow character, this is Aberdeen, need to learn the Doric for that

 

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EK Spinner replied to PaterAnt | 5 years ago
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so worthwhile, I said it twice

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oceandweller | 5 years ago
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To be fair, police driving, IME, isn't quite as wonderful as the police would generally suggest. I've done advanced driving courses & tests (not IAM but similar, a former employer required them as a condition of being allowed to drive on business) & I regularly see police cars doing things I would've failed on, objective mistakes like driving too close to the car in front, stopping over the stop line at junctions, failing to use dipped headlights in bad visibility during the day, etc.

I'm not at all anti-police but I'd like to see the police generally setting a better example to other drivers. Just saying...

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