What's the story?

Came across this whilst wandering around the i-web,

JP spilled the beans on this one. The copper you can see is not the
rider who parked his bike there - that bloke stormed off in a strop
before the picture was taken.

Also, the prat who did stick his bike there was on his regular route and
knew the road works were there and still rode straight into it.

According to JP.

*yawn*

from the same site, here's someone trying "do a Platy" on a TL1000R

I've had a web-search and can't find anything that relates to it. Does anybody
know the story as to why the fark a CoL [1] bike cop would end up in such a

I remember scanning the article from the paper
way back when it happened:

spot?

It was in the newspapers a couple of years ago.
Cop didn't see the cones and rode into the concrete.

There is a page here with that pic:

Some good close cornering riders on the video.
There is another site out there with a lot more pics of the bike in
cement, but a web-search doesnt reveal it.
Alan.

Ta

[1] Well it looks like a CoL but I'm prolly wrong.

Back about 2000. Cop took a turn against an advisory sign and
ended up in a new-laid trench-full of cement. I understand he copped a
lot of stick from colleagues, and poss. some discipline from the
higher-ups. It was in (some of) the papers.

Been around for a long time, that - the first time I saw it, it was
obviously a scan from a newspaper picture.

I'd assume the copper rode the wrong side of the cones at roadworks
and entered a deep patch of wet concrete.

He has probably been transferred to here:

when I did my London bikesafe day in May 2004 they showed that picture, and
went on to explain that the very same bike was going to be out and about
with us that day......