We’re all for police officers pulling over motorcyclists who drive on the opposite side of the road to unlawfully bypass traffic on regular lanes, but one should always practice some common sense in these cases.

Jumping out from a line of stationary cars like a jack-in-a-box and waving a baton to a scooter rider who is approaching at speed, is neither clever nor particularly safe…

This incident reportedly occurred in the city of Sochi in Russia, which is set to hold the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014, and from what we see, while bruised, both the traffic officer and the motorcyclist lived to tell their tale of pain.

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