‘Don’t bullsh** me’: P-plater’s argument with cop divides internet

A P-plater’s reaction to being pulled over has sparked a mix response online after the cop claimed he was travelling over 90km/hr.

A heated argument between a red P-plater and a police officer has sparked a mixed reaction online after the driver denied he was speeding and accused the cop of ‘bullsh***ing” him.

The inexperienced driver shared a video of the tense exchange on TikTok, explaining the cop pulled him over after he caught up with him on a NSW highway.

“Move to the back of the vehicle,” the officer is heard telling the driver at the start of the video.

“Don’t touch me,” the driver said as the officer ushered him to the side of the road.

The cop then asked the driver how fast he was travelling, to which the driver responded: “90km/h” – the legal limit for a P1 provisional driver.

“You believe you were travelling 90km/h?” the officer asked again.

“I was,” the driver confirmed.

The driver then questioned if the officer recorded his speed on a radar gun, to which the cop confirmed: “I don’t have you on radar”.

“I was going 90km/h,” the driver claimed.

“Unless you’ve got any proof of it or anything like that … I wasn’t breaking any speed limits. I’ve got my P-plates on, you’ve dragged me out of the car on the side of the road … you were up my a***. You were doing 140km/h.”

The officer claimed the man was travelling above 90km/h. Picture: TikTok

The officer said he did not use a radar gun to record the speed. Picture: TikTok

Tensions continued to rise when the officer questioned how the driver could have caught up with the police officer when he was travelling 110km if he wasn’t speeding.

“What I can’t understand … [is] if I’m travelling at 110km/h and you were travelling at your legal speed limit which is 90 as a P1 drive, how is that you have managed to stay with me?”

When the driver suggested the reason he caught up to him was because of traffic, the officer claimed he was travelling on cruise control at a speed of 100km/h.

“Don’t bullsh** me man,” the driver responded.

“Just because you’re a cop doesn’t mean you can speed … There are three things that p*** me off and one of the biggest ones is stupidity,” he continued. “Just because you’re a cop doesn’t mean you have the ability to abuse your power the way that you do.”

The pair continued to argue before the officer said he would send the driver an infringement notice and handed him back the keys.

In a caption under the video, the drive claimed he performed an overtake “at the legal speed limit” before the police officer pulled him over.

He also claimed the officer tried to unlock his car from the outside and removed his keys “without informing me of what I [had] done wrong”

“I have tone and attitude towards the officer because of the patronising and belittling way he approached me and my passengers.”

A spokesman for Sydney Criminal Lawyers told news.com.au a police officer can legally issue a speeding fine without the use of a radar, in what is known as ‘estimates of speed’.

However, they said it can be contested in court.

“Section 79 of the Evidence Act 1995 requires that in order to give an opinion (such as an estimate of speed), a police officer will need to establish that he or she has ‘specialised knowledge’ based on ‘training, study or experience’ for estimating speeds travelled by motor vehicles.”

They added the “officer will be subject to cross-examination by the defence during which the veracity of his or her estimate will be called into question.”

The TikTok video sparked a mixed response online, with some praising the driver for standing up to the officer.

“Good on you young fella for not admitting or acknowledging anything cos he has zero evidence to back his bs claims,” wrote one person.

“Well done for standing up to [a] wanna be plain clothes warrior,” said another.

However, others argued the cop was in the right and called the driver out for his attitude.

“Why argue when you know you were speeding,” read one comment.

“The police is in the right the guys is admitting to speeding by saying he was staying up with traffic,” said another.

“You failed the attitude test right away. Police will always go hard once you’re carrying on,” another person commented.

News.com.au have contacted the driver and NSW Police for comment.