Nick
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Jan 22, 2006 11:34:03 GMT
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Yes it curse word me up bigtime, was in the transit van, and had been erm experimenting with traction on a wet/icey roundabout did a coupple of goes round and then pulled off, cos i noticed a silver car following me quite close behind, my friend said oh yeah that will be an undercover police car then, i was trying to convince myself otherwise, but a silver volvo s60 following me very close behind was pretty obvious what it was  anyway about a mile after the roundabout the blue lights came on...uh oh..i thought fudge it i'm gonna be done under police traffic act 101. driving like a nobhead. anyway i got out and i figured the odds of me getting away with it were slim, but the guy gave me a stern talking to i admitted and didnt try any corny lies, and he just said. "we could do you for driving without due care and attention....mind how you go sir" and then they f*cked off.. scared me sensless, but i was really quite chuffed it was nothing worse, i guess they appeciated the fact that my nob driving was away from any houses and was at .1am and no other cars were about. anyway nioce to know that not every policeman/woman out there feels the need to screw you over at every opportunity. |
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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Jan 22, 2006 11:35:19 GMT
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Good work there to the DFR's.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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Jan 22, 2006 12:07:37 GMT
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youve popped your cherry, congratulations  I'm in treble figures, and have been done for wreckless driving.in my stupid younger days, something I'm not proud of. always remember, less points= bigger dafter car. handy tip for the future, if they ask if youve been drinking reply "i havnt had a curse word al night drinkstable". ;D |
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Jan 22, 2006 12:37:30 GMT
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The chances are low but there are upon occasion good egg cops about, once got a lift home just for the hell of it  either that or the targets were spot on. So nearly got done tooling the still battered xr2 when the curse word ins company sent it back worse than b4, apparently he was transporting a prisoner and didnt bother to do me. yay  as cocacola says though they definately read the car. touch wood, i've been invisible nearly in the sapph. |
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Jan 22, 2006 12:41:04 GMT
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*looks at watch* "how long is this going to take officer? your wife is expecting me" classic
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impmann
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Overcoming stupidity is the greatest challenge left to mankind
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Jan 22, 2006 13:35:03 GMT
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I once got stopped for doing 93 mph in a 30mph zone many years ago...
The copper didn't stop p1ssing himself laughing, as he couldn't believe a Hillman Imp (well, matt purple battered Sunbeam Stiletto) could go that fast. He let me off saying...
"I won't spil your moment of glory. DON'T DO IT AGAIN!"
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My mate, who was in the car, was furious as he had been done earlier that day in his 1275GT Mini for 45 on a 30 road.
ARF!
There are a lot of decent coppers about. Sadly there are also some fascist b*st*rds too...
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1964 Hillman Imp
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(And a few projects dotted around the country)
Just cos something is good for you doesn't mean its good for everyone - for example Marmite does not make good Dog Food.
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Jan 22, 2006 13:55:07 GMT
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I got stopped for going in the coppers own words 'over 90mph in a 30' damn that charade was fast. It was a dual carridgeway, and a series of good luck meant that i got away with it, first of all he was going in the opposite direction so no accurate speed reading, he was also on his own so it was his word against mine. The car was immaculate, and just as he was going to take my details and my licence something came up on the radio, he said 'get out, this time youve been lucky'.
HOLY CRAPOLA that was a close shave, i sold the car shortly after. Replaced it with a car that feels and sounds fast but it actually slow!
For anyone that knows swansea, it was the road that goes past the hospital towards oystermouth road, shows how fast the charade was!
I really don't condone wreckless driving, and I'm well past doing silly things like that now. But police are generally ok, they seem to know the difference between an enthuseast (sp?) and a boy racer and take the situation accordingly.
J
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Jan 22, 2006 13:59:58 GMT
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either he was jealous or there was nobody about......
lucky one......
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Jan 22, 2006 14:16:52 GMT
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I got pulled over once for drifting into a junction (it was dark, quiet and wet, hadn't really expected it), waiting parked up on the inside of the junction was a full blues and twos patrol car, which promptly slewed around and followed me for a bit and pulled me over. (Well, so would I if a white blur going sideways at 25mph with it's headlights on went past me!)
Copper gets out and comes up to me, young looking bloke and goes "Bit slippy out there tonight, and I know this is rear-drive, so take it easy......" and then proceeds to query me about the car and wether it was mine or not, couldn't quite believe myself there ;D
I never really provoke my car or do stupid things on the road mind, I just happened to catch a damp patch. Honest, guv' ;D I prefer to keep the drivin' nice and cool, and let the Corsa and 206 drivers run out of talent instead.
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Jan 22, 2006 14:32:49 GMT
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But police are generally ok, they seem to know the difference between an enthuseast (sp?) and a boy racer and take the situation accordingly. J I really wnt to believe that and hope its true, at the time though my mk1 xr2 was borderline boy racer/retro classic, and with then bumps cant of looked good at all. so i was lucky, he said it looked like 'starship enterprise' going up the dual carriageway, which still makes me smile! ;D |
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Jan 22, 2006 15:25:21 GMT
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The difference isnt really in the car its in the driver, boy racers will try and prove themselves as drivers anywhere, the high street is a drag strip to them. Where as an enthuseast (sp?) will drive according to the conditions, an empty back road at 1am that you can see is clear is a totally different ball game.
starship enterprise hehhe, the story from sterling moss is funny when he got pulled over and the policeman said to the driver 'who do you think you are, sterling moss?' er actually yes! hehehe
J
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Jan 22, 2006 15:33:28 GMT
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'Morning squadron leader, having trouble taking off are we?' ha ha ha dry UK copper humour.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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Jan 22, 2006 15:39:18 GMT
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MWF
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Jan 22, 2006 15:47:59 GMT
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When a friend of mine put throttle bodies on his Cavalier he was pulled over the next day by an officer wanting to know why it sounded so good.
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Nick
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hahah brilliant, its nice to know every now and then we can get lucky and get away with stuff, a mate of mine got pulled overafter a slight police chase, he luckily got away with saying
"i thought i was being chased" and he got the reply " you were" haha
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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YES! That is how they are round my neck of the woods They don't go pulling people over for little things and they are trying to get the real problem causers i.e. no licence/insurance/M.O.T and driving under influence of drugs! These problmes have become very common round where I live/work so fair play they are trying to do something about it! |
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the story from sterling moss is funny when he got pulled over and the policeman said to the driver 'who do you think you are, sterling moss?' er actually yes! hehehe J damon hill tells a similar story,he got pulled for speeding and the copper asked him 'who do you think you are? nigel mansell? |
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Years ago I overtook a car at a junction because he'd been crawling along at 30. Next thing it was blue lights and sirens from the unmarked Carina behind me. Got a bollocking and was charged with careless driving. Bloody frightening to be honest, but I got the car's reg and I rang a detective I knew who used to get a Fiat Uno surveillance van serviced at the garage where I was working. Told him exactly how stupid I was and gave the reg of the unmarked. He told me not to be a fool on the road again and that the unmarked was driven by detectives from outside the area who were in town for a court case, and promised I'd hear no more about it and I never did.
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hahah brilliant, its nice to know every now and then we can get lucky and get away with stuff, a mate of mine got pulled overafter a slight police chase, he luckily got away with saying "i thought i was being chased" and he got the reply " you were" haha Done that too early one sunday morning in a Micra on the twisty roads of Yorkshires outback! ;D ;D ;D quite scary at the time, had a car full too. |
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Jan 23, 2006 10:14:20 GMT
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How you deal with them when they tug you helps. A lot of the hot hatch drivers are so full of attitude they have to give the copper a mouthful etc etc so thats going to get you in worse stick than you started off in for a start. Traffic cop on another forum I use said when peole ask him why he isn't out catching murderers he points out theres 300 murders a year in the UK and 3000 people killed on the road each year. So don't try and get smart with that one either. I got off with warnings for everything I ever did just because I was polite and penetant. Two exceptions to this were the time the copper ran out of paper to write everything down on and decided I wasn't worth the bother (I was driving a Transit rented in Loughboughou, a trailer rented in Warwickshire, car registered in Leicestershire on the trailer and I'm from Nottingham and was stopped down in Bedfordshire, with a mate from Coventry and one from Lutterworth, having picked the car up from a workshop near Milton Keynes. He was on two pages with all the addresses. Offenses were basically no number plate on the trailer, one brakelight out on the trailer, car was registered at my mum's address not mine, failure to stop when indicated by a police officer (I couldn't see him following me with his blues on for apparently 3 miles until he overtook me) so then he said that was driving without due care & attention. Oh, and everything I said made it worse. And then he gave up. He looked like he was about 17 years old, and seemed really ****ed off with me. Anyway, we walked out of that one. Another was couple of years ago in Loughborough, in the Mini, and about 1 am driving back from a mates house. Followed a cop car for a bit, then he pulled over, we passed him and then he came after us from behind and put on the blues. So I get out and am dead polite "Is there a problem officer" and he's shouing and acting up like I'm a serial murderer he just cornered, get in the back of the polcie car NOW!!!!! and all this, ciffs on. What heinous crime had I committted? Well one headlight was a little bit dimmer than the other one. Just a bad earth. Real OTT. Said I was lucky not to get a ticket, blah blah blah. Again, he was like about 12 years old or so he looked anyway. I got a producer and a 14 day notice on the headlight. Best one was I was driving through Leicester (down Aylestone Road area) in the Ventora years ago (early 90s) and I passed a cop senator at the side of the road and it came roaring out after me, blues and sirens, shot past me and pretty much handbraked across the road to stop me. Mad. Thought I was really for it. Anyway this really sweet brunette WPC gets out and says she can't see the tax disc, so I stick it back up properly in the screen and she spots I've got a broken glass in one of the auxillery (inner headlights) and says I need to get it fixed, says "are lights for these old cars hard to get then" and I said, "no, I'm just lazy." So I flirt with her a bit (couldn't get her number off her though  ) and she says "well, I'll let you off but if a bloke copper pulls you and you won't get out of a ticket with him so easy." LOL She was nice. |
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either that or the targets were spot on. So nearly got done tooling the still battered xr2 when the curse word ins company sent it back worse than b4, apparently he was transporting a prisoner and didnt bother to do me. yay 
as cocacola says though they definately read the car. touch wood, i've been invisible nearly in the sapph.
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) and she says "well, I'll let you off but if a bloke copper pulls you and you won't get out of a ticket with him so easy." LOL