when was the last time mr/mrs plod wanted a word

[Welly]

I've only been pulled once (oo-er). The year was 1992 and I was driving my Dad's Ford Onion 1.6i ghia, I had an early version of Mrs Welly in toe and was driving at about 40 through town late at night.

They went to breathalise me at the roadside but then started mumbling to each other and routing around in their patrol car and then just sent me away I think they had ran out of bags (this was he clear bag/crystal era I think) and also had a more pressing call come in on the radio

I had drank a pint of Red Stripe about 30 mins earlier and was cacking it

Oh and the seats in the Onion went wayyyyy back! cheers Dad

[teamster1975]

I remember the first time I got done back in 1992; I'd only been driving for 3 months and I got pulled for doing 96 in a Fiat Uno Diesel! (Believe me, it wasn't possible even going down hill )
I got a good bollocking from them but they let me off with a producer, top blokes
(It didn't help that the OS tail light was out, but when they pointed it out I flicked the light cluster & it came back on )

The most embarassing was being pulled for doing 35 in a Daihatsu Move


He asked me the engine size & I said 800cc, the tosser did a double take
I got an SP30 for doing 35 in a 30, what a prize w@nker

[Welly]

You should have just floored the baby and roared off!

[teamster1975]

That car should have been in the Wacky Races
It was a gutless turd

[Welly]

It was a gutless turd

...and that's being kind to turds really.

[teamster1975]

It was a gutless turd

...and that's being kind to turds really.

[puggy]

last time was several years ago on the M20 for doing around
125mph got a weeks ban and £165 fine although must say the
2 plod that stopped me were very polite

[Welly]

last time was several years ago on the M20 for doing around
125mph got a weeks ban and £165 fine although must say the
2 plod that stopped me were very polite

I think we have a winner!

[ianst28]

about 12-18 moths ago i was driving down the motorway when i noticed a plod car doing 55 in the slow lane
so being the carefull driver i am i went past him @ 65 and just knew that he was gonna pull me he stuck to my tail till i came off the motorway 2 junctions down went round the roundabout and hey presto he lit up like a xmas tree . i pulled over to the side of the road and got out the copper gets out and says to me is this your car sir yes i answer
"reason i've stopped you is the car is showing up uninsured sir"
"well thats interesting cuz i know it is"
"do you want to jump in the back of our car and we'll discuss it off the road sir"
"well no really i dont want to i'm supposed to be in work in 15 mins but i guess i have no choice give me a second while i get the docs for the car"
"ok sir"
so i get in the car and give this copper the docs for the car and he rings my insurance company to check everything my insurance company come back to him with no that policy was cancelled 10 days ago
at this point i pitched a huge fit in the back of the police car demanded that i was allowed to speak to the insurance company to find out what the hell they were on about and protesting my innocence all to no avail
i then said to the copper am i being arrested "no" he says fine let me out of this sodding car so i can use my phone and find out what the bloody hell is going on and have a ciggy
i get out of the car and spark up a ciggy by now i'm properly seeing my arse ring my insurance company and let rip on them only to be told your wife rang us and cancelled the policy 14 days ago saying you'd got it cheaper elsewhere "my exFU*&^%G wife you mean???" i scream yes sir she had all the details and so we cancelled the policy well would you like to explain to theis officer what you just said and explain exactly wtf your going to do about it
the officer refused to speak to the insurance company and stood waiting for me to calm down and said listen mate if i was on my own i'd follow you to your work and tell you to get it sorted then come back and give you a producer but i'm not on my own i have to get the car taken off the road

so i'm sat there watching my car being taken away seeing my arse like you wouldnt believe and the copper says hey at least it was us that found out and not after an accident yes i had to admit
anyway to top it all off instead of the car being towed being an end to the sorry matter i ended up in court listening to this coppers evidence sayng that i had become very aggressive and agitated and had basicly lost the plot
my insurance company don't keep recordings of telephone conversations because they're a small broker so i couldnt prove that it was actually my ex who cancelled the insurance all i could get from them was a letter saying that they confirmed that the policy was cancelled by phone

thankfully the judge was kinda ok the police cps whoever wanted me banned for it but the judge said that although i had admitted that i had commited the offence there were mitigating circumstances to the offence and that i had had the car insured 1hr after the offence he wouldnt ban me but gave me 6 points and a hefty fine of 400 quid

anyways just thought i'd get that off my chest for those who wonder do i wish my ex dead well tbh no i want her tortured first

[teamster1975]

Ouch! That's sh1tty justice Ian. She'll get hers one day.

[STALLED]

Speaking of no insurance...

Friends brother went overseas for 6 months and told his brother that he could drive his 2.4 Manual V6 Audi A4 (Nice car!!!)...

Anyways, we needed to do some errands and the 406 didn't have enough petrol in it and he offered to drive. Drove all around Sydney and then on the final stretch home we noticed that there was a police car following us for a while. If we changed lanes, he would change lanes with us!

A couple more KM down the road we have noticed that he threw on the disco lights and pulls us over. Kept us waiting in the car for 5 minutes until another cop car rocked up and they all got out. I was kinda worried that the car was dodgy or something like that - maybe it was something his brother had done, thats why they pulled us over?

Police officer comes over to the car and tells my mate "Did you know your car is 3 months out of registration and insurance"....."Oh Sh*t"...

So the police then proceeded to write my mate out a $1000 AUD fine, unscrewed the numberplates off the car and make us call a tow truck. The police officer was a nice bloke though, we tried telling him that he only had to drive down the road and that he would get it sorted but the police officer wouldn't let him because there is now a record of him being pulled over and if an accident did occur without registration and insurance - he would be liable which is fair enough!

So whats the moral of the story - make sure that the car has a valid registration label before your brother goes overseas!