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Jun 20, 2019 20:32:29 GMT
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got to thinking off the back of the .... forum.retro-rides.org/thread/209804/plod-loud-old-cars ...thread , whats the wierdest/scariest/daftest/most insignificant things you have been pulled by pc plod for? i'll kick things off with my most surreal encounter. back in the day ('89-'90 ish) , i was cruising the mean streets of west cornwall in my '79 2.3 granada party/havoc bus. clocking a blue and white escort pulling out of a side street onto my tail , i waited for the inevitable tug a couple of miles down the road. "i have stopped you as your rear number plate is not very legible". "oh really" says i in my finest innocent tone ,"well they are quite old" (being pressed ally ones). i didnt have the heart/balls to tell him that i took the shine of them myself with a sheet of 400 grit for that very reason! i think i flummoxed him totally when he went around the front and asked "whats that?"..... "ummm...its a bull bar". well what do you do when you are given a free range rover one but whang some 2x2 box up the chassis legs and buzzy stick her on! his attention was then turned to the lamping lamp....spot light on the top of the o/s wing. "whats that for?" ...."shining under the bonnet when it breaks down" which was partially correct but its major function was actually to fill the sodding big hole left where the ariel had rotted through the wing. by the time we had gone through all this and he had a general prod and poke , pc confused sent me on my way without even mentioning changing the number plates. result.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Jun 20, 2019 20:37:12 GMT
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Dropped a girl I was seeing home about 2 in the morning, got tugged a few minutes later, purely so he could have a look at my Astra as he used to have (a real) one. Surreal having a proper car chat at 2am while the ociffer rolled a fag and lit up.
Also slid my Sierra around a very quiet roundabout once, got pulled, and the officer ran over, said "that was impressive, but stupid, don't let me cat h you again", ran back to his car and sped off, the Gods were smiling on me that day. Didnt listen, wrote the car off about a month later. Always learn the hard way.
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,950
Club RR Member Number: 174
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Jun 20, 2019 20:47:12 GMT
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Been pulled over (and sent to court in some cases) for stretched tyres, too much negative camber, car too low, music too loud, exhaust too loud, not slowing down for roundabouts (within speed limit), wearing a balaclava whilst driving, allegedly drifting round the motorway roundabout near my house, following a police car and driving a car with no glass. Still get stopped 3-4 times a month, used to be 15+ times a week.
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Jun 20, 2019 20:51:34 GMT
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Waiting to pull out of a side road one day, two police officers walked around the back of my car (a maxi). I notice one of them look in the back of the car, they then knocked on my window and told (ordered) me to pull over. "we have concernes over what may be in that box on your rear seat" Puzzled, I looked on the rear seat and saw my snooker cue case on the back seat. I told them what it was and they clearly didnt beleive me, so I opened the door and asked him if he would like to open the box himself. He did, and found my carbon fibre snooker cue. They thought it was a gun case, and I got a right telling off for having it on show. And then asked me what the car was etc etc Other than that, speeding, driving with black/silver plates on a 1991 MG Maestro and not wearing my seatbelt.
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MiataMark
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 2,971
Club RR Member Number: 29
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Jun 20, 2019 21:08:43 GMT
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Drifted (that wasn't a word back then though) a MK4 Cortina round a roundabout and was stopped to be told "just because the limit is 50 on the roundabout you don't have to prove it" (or similar words it was a long time ago).
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1990 Mazda MX-52012 BMW 118i (170bhp) - white appliance 2011 Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TD52007 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon JTDm
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tdk
Part of things
Posts: 958
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Jun 20, 2019 21:15:11 GMT
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Speeding; In UK (bollocked and let off), Belgium (fined), France (let off), Germany (let off twice, fined one), Italy (fined), USA (110mph and let off, posh accent helps) and Morocco (bribed the copper). Probably missed a few. Clean UK licence, though
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,790
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Jun 20, 2019 21:22:28 GMT
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Out of all the cars I’ve had, nothing attracted the filth more than my senator. Bizarrely, an ex-CID car! It ran on lpg and was airbagged. On the whole, it was fairly tidy looking.
Two memorable ones-
1. Filling up with lpg at a filling station in the centre of town. Patrol car pulls up at the pump opposite. Older grumpy copper driving, rookie in passenger seat. Grumpy gets out, looks across at me and says ‘I don’t like how low your car is’ (it was aired out). Without saying a word, I look at him, lean in the open drivers window and flick the switches, airing both ends up. His jaw drops, rookie is in hysterics still sat in car. Grumpy turns round and goes to fill car without saying another word. Rookie comes to talk to me for ages about the merits of lpg for his bmw.
2. Leaving same filling station quite late at night, probably after midnight. It’s On a traffic light controlled crossroads and I pull straight out across a patrol car waiting at the lights. As I do this it does a massive backfire as it’s not warmed up fully. Patrol car jumps the lights to follow me. Don’t get 100yrds before I’m pulled. Two women coppers get out, the driver shouts shouting and screaming at me before I’m even out the car about my car being a dangerous death trap. They call for traffic, who are over 40 miles away up the a14 near bury (this is in Ipswich). They blue light it down in a fairly impressive time to come and deal with this automotive miscreant who is obviously out to up their nuns/kittens scorecard that night. Apart from it goes very wrong for the female copper, who really hasn’t calmed down at all in the 20 mins or so it takes them to arrive. The traffic driver spends less than 30 seconds looking at the car and then properly lays into her in front of me for wasting their time, and making herself look a total idiot pulling me over and dragging them in to deal with it. In the meantime I’m showing the other traffic guy the air system and how it works, and he loves it. I’m sent on my way with an apology from the traffic guys for wasting my time!
(I did also get pulled another time in that car for inadvertently racing an off duty copper on the a130. Bit of a case of sour grapes though cos he couldn’t keep up! Didn’t end up with anything for that one either...)
The other bad pull I got was in my freshly lowered legnum. Trade insurance so wasn’t showing on the MID, had been taxed not 10 mins before so was showing a untaxed as well. That copper really went to town trying to do me for something, even rang my insurance company to check modifications were allowed. Tried to do me for everything from being uninsured, to HIDs as an undeclared mod, to tyre stretch. He was traffic and Had his C&U book out and everything. He was pretty curse word when he had to let me go as nearly an hour of trying to find something to do me for.
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Jun 20, 2019 21:26:05 GMT
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Early 90's, I'd been up to Scotland for a few days with a good mate who had family there. I had some hopes of doing a bit of hunting but we ended up doing a lot of pubs and sampling lots of different single malts in a bar overlooking over Loch Lomond. Heading home; somewhere along the M74 a motorway patrol car signalled for me to pull over, which I did, he'd noticed I had no tax in the windscreen. The tax disc holder had fallen off and was on top of the dash, this was speedily remedied and he sent us on our way. If he'd glanced into the back of my Stag he'd have noticed a couple of (loaded) double-barrelled 12-bore shotguns on the back seat. (Oops!) Loved that car; Triumph Stag Mk 2 by Chris, on Flickr
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Last Edit: Jun 20, 2019 21:58:54 GMT by MkX
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,790
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Jun 20, 2019 21:33:16 GMT
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Also got pulled on a130 in my dickhead low satin black b4 Passat. I clocked an unmarked car had been following me since Southend, so I was taking it easy. He finally pulled me at Woodham ferrers, and said he ‘didn’t like how low my car was’ and wanted to look for ‘dangerous modifications’. I just turned the wheel to full lock, showed him the less than a week coil overs and said ‘does that look like it’s been done properly to you?’ And he let me go.
Also been pulled a few times for dodgy plates, (they don’t like pressed ones round here, even if they’re 100% legal). Only got done once on a car I’d only had 2 days, I knew they were illegal and had already ordered replacements.
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Jun 20, 2019 21:53:04 GMT
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I once got a 7-day wonder in the 90s for driving slowly around a deserted Clacton Town Centre slowly at 2am (Mini only had a single-box big bore exhaust and was not quiet). Apparently there'd been a few reports of dodgy behaviour so I totally understood why. Just to make sure the Police were up to speed, because I lived pretty close to the town centre, and the Police Station was 24 hrs manned, I went home, got my documents and had them back at the station within 7 minutes... I've also been pulled for "driving carelessly at a junction" (no signal either) - just a ticking off, Headlight bulb out (traffic car followed me 3 miles down the A120 before tugging me), wrong lane at a roundabout on the wife's birthday (oops! Got a 7-day wonder again) but my favourite had to be being pulled by a motorcycle cop after going through an amber light. This would normally be a standard affair, but I was already parked and helping my Mum out of the car. He was alright that guy - he asked if a knew why he was talking to me and I replied "Yup - the amber light - I deemed it unsafe to stop due to the car close behind me". He advised me to try to keep to green only and buggered off
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Samage
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,467
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Jun 20, 2019 21:54:35 GMT
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Just once, wasn't in a retro car. I'd had my 2004 Clio less than a week and as such my car wasn't showing as insured on the police database (apparently at the time they only updated their records once a week as opposed to using the live MID system they use now). It was, of course, and I showed him proof. Copper accuses me of carrying false insurance paperwork, rings the insurer, is promptly proven wrong.
He's not best pleased by this and he and his mate go over the car attempting to find a defect they can do me for, without success. As luck would have it, they were called away to another job just as searching the interior was being mentioned. I had nothing to hide, but from their attitude I wouldn't have put it past them to have planted something.
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Last Edit: Jun 20, 2019 21:55:24 GMT by Samage
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Jun 20, 2019 22:11:48 GMT
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the best one was my white early corsa B. built it at the time when the 'Euro look' was the in thing, so it was lowered a lot on big clean silver steels, low profiles(had potential to go a lot lower) - coincidentally this locally was a big thing when I passed my test! was cutting through Sidcup to get to my mates , admittedly was doing 35ish in a 30 on a big clear road, and clocked the police wagon too late to slow down, copper turned around and caught up with me, started doing all his checks along with 6 other offices all jumping out searching me etc ! everything came back okay to which the fattest officer in existence said he could not "get his fingers between the arch and wheel" to which my reply was is that the correct way to check for the correct "fitment" between wheel and tyre ? 4 chubby fingers? to his dismay I slipped my hands clearly between the wheel and arch stating " well it passes MY test here" copper told me to get a f*ing move on and to de lower my car (LOLOL) the next week I bought a e36 touring which was aptly slammed on the ground lower than anything and didn't get the tug ever again lol
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,790
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Jun 20, 2019 22:21:52 GMT
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I’ve been followed and bizarrely not pulled a few times, mostly in Ipswich. ‘64 Pontiac lowrider, 4 pumps 36v. 455ci on open headers. Was cruising round the one-way system 6 up, had been hopping it not 10 secs before. Patrol car appears at a side road road just ahead so I stop hitting the switches immediately (as technically that’s an offence to do whilst moving). I just so happen to be at full lift at the front and almost full drop at the rear. The car is very difficult to drive like this, one because you can’t really see where you’re going, two because the positive camber on the wheels makes the steering super light. I crawl past at 20mph with the rear bumper lightly dragging the floor, they pull out behind me and proceed to sit right on my for what seems like forever, most of the way round the 1-way. Just as we get to a bit where I’m convinced they’re gunna pull me as they can pull me over without blocking the road, they curse word off! Was rather relieved about that one! Also had a riot van full of coppers clock me going the other way in my chopped, channelled fenderless Hudson pickup with diesel exhaust going up the roof. They spin it round behind me at the roundabout I’ve just come off, and hoof it up the road after me at obvious speed. Again I’m expecting to get pulled at the next set of lights, where they pull up next to me- to just have a couple of coppers hanging out the van window taking pics and giving me the thumbs up!
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Jun 20, 2019 22:38:02 GMT
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I have just been pulled over for no insurance in the daily, the insurance started on the first of this month and for some reason it's not showing on the data base luckily i had the email confirmation on my phone otherwise it could have been a lot more complicated
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Jun 20, 2019 22:39:11 GMT
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there was a moment when I thought i was going to get pulled. Had a Maxi, looked like a right mess, odd colour door, dent in the tailgate and front wing, side trims missing, patches of primer here and there. Had a copper follow me for about 2 miles until i got to a set of traffic lights. As he pulled up next to me I didnt dare turn and look, but as I did, sheepishly, the cop in the passenger seat smiled and gave me the thumbs up. I can only assume they checked me details while they were following me, saw it was all legal and thought it not worth bothering with.
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Jun 20, 2019 23:29:28 GMT
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I used to get pulled up a lot in my XC Falcon wagon just because it looked a bit (okay maybe a lot) rough. One time I was on my way home from something fairly important (I forget what) and I got pulled in a suburban street. From behind all the copper could see was a beat up old car and maybe my long blonde hair. When I got out in my three piece suit and nice shirt and tie his whole attitude changed, he started calling me sir like he meant it and came very close to apologising for wasting my time. Another time I got pulled on my way home from a Church group meeting. As I was waiting to turn left at a major intersection two cars came along and turned left into the street I was waiting to turn out of. They both looked like boy racer cars so I didn't give them a second thought until the second one peeled around and followed me. Still thinking nothing of it I wound the old six cylinder three speed out a bit in second gear which probably made it sound louder than it was and just as I was dropping it into top the red and blues came on behind me, it was a mufti car. The wof (mot) on my car was only about a week old and they couldn't find a thing to book me for. Just recently I got pulled up several hundred miles from home in my current daily EA Falcon wagon for a non-functioning brake light. Total Bullplop because we were cruising on the open road and I hadn't touched the brake for miles. The copper wouldn't have been able to see whether my brake lights were working until he flicked his red and blues on behind me and I had to brake to stop for him. Told him a story about getting a bulb in the next town and didn't get written up, didn't even check the lights myself, and the next week the car passed a wof so the lights must have all been working then.
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Jun 20, 2019 23:33:16 GMT
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Pulled over for excessive speed in a 1981 Plymouth Voyager, that means he didn’t clock me but knew I was above the limit. He then searched every nook and cranny of the van and ran the serial numbers on my racing bikes in the back. Another time; I was 17 and stupid, same van I got pulled for speeding - late night in east moline Illinois. He invited me to sit in the car while he wrote the ticket for 84 in a 65 although his radar said 113. He pointed at it and said don’t let this happen again. I haven’t since
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Jun 20, 2019 23:50:44 GMT
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You must have got a good cop. I had a similar experience once. Was doing an indicated 140+ in a newish Holden Colorado when I saw the cop car but he was a GC and waited for me to slow down to 129 before he pushed the button.
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Just because I was 17 and my Escort was bright orange. It would have been around 1990-91. They'd just pull me over and say something like "you know how many of these get stolen".
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Years ago in the middle of nowhere between Pretoria and Johannesburg they had a bit of a blitz on drink driving,speeding etc. Idiot copper jumped out in front of me to pull me over. It was 2am in the morning and I couldn’t be arsed. Bit of a dodgy area too at night,and given South Africa’s penchant for crime,there was no way of telling at 130kmh wether or not it was actually a real cop or not. So I just put my foot down and carried on. Ten minutes later got pulled by a motorcycle cycle cop and given a bollocking for not stopping. I just responded by saying an idiot in a hiviz jacket jumping in the road in front of me at 2am in the morning doesn’t necessarily register as being a police stop,but on second thoughts,it probably was,as they were the only ones stupid enough to jump out in front of a speeding car. Got escorted back to the roadblock site. Motorcycle cop then tried to insulate that I had admitted to speeding. Argued the toss that ‘ a speeding car’ was a figure of speech,not necessarily actually speeding. Moving on they wanted to know what we were doing,to whit I answered we had all been on the pi$$ and were now going home. Great delight as the boys in blue got out their breathalyser kit. Three attempts later they were well annoyed as it showed naught. Asked again what we were doing there. Reiterated on the way home from being on the lash. Asked directly,had I been drinking. No,was my reply,as I was nominated driver that night,but the rest of my mates in the car were all pi$$ed asarseholes...😂😂😂. Told to stop wasting there time and go home. They were not amused . Did a u turn and carried on, only to be pulled immediately and fined as it was a double white line I had crossed. Barstewards 😡
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