christmas time is here

[puglover]

may i take this oppertunity to wish everyone on here including wives, girlfreinds, and rugrats the very best merry christmas they have had..... and please remember all to stay safe on those roads over this festive season

and especially to nick who without his time and effort there would be no site for us...

[steve_earwig]

Same to you and yours!

I dunno, I don't expect anything from Christmas, I just hope the car's ok, none of the animals get sick and the c/h don't go bang. Looking at the tv guide we're going to need to find something else to do but at least communism's finished and they don't cut the power off for Christmas day any more...

Oh look, Home Alone's on yet again. I wish just for once Joe Pesci would drop into Goodfella's mode and stab the little pr!ck with a pen...

[mjb]

I hate xmas.

Having to live off whatever crap out-of-date food they sell in the corner shop because the supermarkets are jammed all day (and night), and the worst part by far - having to deal with drunk drivers.

I'm not looking forward to the drive to/from Wolverhampton on Tuesday

[bargainbro]

I just hope the car's ok

Merry x-mas to you all...

Will be working a triple nightshift over christmas (going in tomorrow night)...so...wife and the boys are tearing the gift wraps at my parents 200km away.

Well at least I managed to escape from the "supermarket-madness", so I guess I´m doin alright. Just opened a can of ale and Hank Williams is singing "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" on my stereo....(the recording is in mono.Naturally.)

Enjoy the holidays, fellow car owners!!!!

[jameslxdt]

im a total scrooge too, i hate christmas, all i hope for this time is that i get the crappy d9 fixed

[neildavies]

Merry Christmas all.

Personally I love this time of year, and I probably won't be on here for the next few days (wait till I sober up again!)

Got a few pressies to open under the tree, and the car's asked for a wash!!

[steve_earwig]

and the car's asked for a wash!!

Ditto mine but it'll have to wait 'til the temperature goes above freezing (that'll be March then )

[TooT]

I just went to my local Morrisons to pick up a few bits.

I drove into the carpark, turned the car round and drove out of the carpark.

Mayhem

Merry bloody Christmas.

[steve_earwig]

My way: Buy everything a week before christmas, freeze stuff like bread.
Her way: Buy most things 4 days before christmas, get everything else on christmas eve. She won't be told either

[teamster1975]

Merry Christmas one and all
Just got back from the outlaws & off to my brother's tomorrow for Christmas day, looking forward to that having survived my wife's parents!
My eldest wants every toy on every advert that comes on the telly, my youngest started walking yesterday!
Have a good one everyone, however you celebrate it Let the beer flow!

[STALLED]

Great, I have to work XMAS eve - its going to be pure mayhem with everyone trying to get what they want at the last minute. I reckon its the night of the year where you could double prices and people would still pay it

Merry XMAS everyone and have a great new year,

From your Aussie 406 driver,

Joel

[DaiRees]

Great, I have to work XMAS eve - its going to be pure mayhem with everyone trying to get what they want at the last minute. I reckon its the night of the year where you could double prices and people would still pay it

Yup! I used to work in a jewellers, obviously totally mad at this time of year. One Christmas Eve a bloke came staggering in just as we were closing, he'd made his way from the pub accross the road when he saw the shutters starting to come down on the shop, nothing like last minute shopping, literally . Anyway he slurred "give me something for the wife butt...." and dumped a handful of crumpled notes on the counter. I counted it up, £400!, and asked if he wanted a watch, necklace, ring maybe? "I dunno, just give me something nice" . £399.50 for a gold necklace and he was on his way back to the pub with the advice not to spend the change all at once. I often wonder whether that necklace ever made it home, and if his wife thought it was a beautiful, well considered gift, or just hit him with a frying pan .

Merry Christmas everyone, one more sleep to go!

[steve_earwig]

You should have rushed into the wash room, ripped the chain off the sink and sold him that for £400...

[mjb]

I went to the tesco garage this morning. 200 yard walk yet I manage to get run over by a drunk driver. I get off the bonnet, open the door to smell the stench of morning-after and was about to drag the guy out and kick his head in when a copper comes over and throws me to the floor.

A bit of shouting later and the copper threatens to arrest me while the drunk driver drives off without the copper even turning his head to look at the reg

f*cking piece of sh*t copper scumbags


The amount of times I had to take evasive action yesterday was fun too. and not a single f*cking copper on the roads.

[V6Exec]

Sorry to hear that.

A few links/things for you to consider.

1) There was an accident - you were hurt
2) It seems that the person was not going to give their details and was therefore in the process of comitting an "arrestable offence"(paragrah 17)
3) You had the right to arrest the driver (subsection 4)
4) Somebody intervened to allow a drunk driver escape justice
5) Subsection 3 means that it is a rather serious matter (serious arrestable offence)
6) The IPCC and not the local force should investigate conduct matters that relate to serious arrestable offences

(*note PACE 1984 was updated by SOCA 2005, but statutelaw includes those revisions)

Hopefully you got the index plate of the car and the warrant number of the officer.