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

[ianst28]

got stopped last friday evening driving home from work in a hurry
i knew it was going to happen as soon as i saw the traffic car and as usual i was the last to see it so i was doing just over 80 when i realised
to be completly honest the young lady who was diving aforementioned traffic car was great she just had a quiet word with me and told me to slow down


so i was wondering when was the last time you spent some time at the side of the road with the bizzys ????????????

[teamster1975]

I came off my bike last May (caught a diesel spill in the pissing rain on a roundabout )
To cut a long story short I was very lucky, there was a highways agency lorry coming round as I came off and they blocked the roundabout to help me up & shift the bike; plod arrived a couple of minutes later to do their bit
Bike was written off, I bought it back for £400 & fixed it for £50 (Alternator cover, gasket & oil)

Touching wood as I type this, don't want to tempt fate!!!!

[STALLED]

4 weeks ago...

Got pulled over for speeding on the way to a mates house. Wrote me a ticket for $241 and 3 points off my license!

[Eric]

I got pulled in a random check a few months ago.
Copper asked my name, wrote my reg down, checked the tax disc then let me go on my way

[steve_earwig]

Most of the time the patrol cars here are parked outside various bars, sometimes they have a purge though (presumably because someone's coming and they're told to look busy) and pull cars in: I've been pulled in 4 times for checks. The first time I was on my bike, the guy soon realised his mistake though, his face dropped when I said "hello". Last year I got pulled in twice on the same day, the second time I asked the guy why and he said it was because I was driving too quickly - like I drive like Stirling Moss down the high road. Besides, both times I was between other cars doing the same speed but they left them alone. I have a feeling these weren't local cops as they know exactly who I am, I also sport a green numberplate which marks me out as a forigner.

When they pull you in here they have a plastic disk on a stick with the word "Stop" on it, which the locals call a kuhača - cooking spoon. Due to their miniscule income they're very amenable to a 200Kn note that may inadvertantly be inside your paperwork as you hand it over.

[DaiRees]

Errrrrm, 1990, doing reverse donuts in the college car park in my Talbot Solara, proper told off!! , then 1992 stuck my Fiesta in a ditch on a very quiet bit of gravel road (must have been just after the rally GB that year, I think I was trying to be McRae), kept the power on and pulled it out, got out to check the damage and imagine my surprise when a patrol car appeared behind me, we must have been the only 2 cars up that lane all day! Once he realised the car wasn't nicked he was great and just took the piss for 10 mins, even helped me to kick my wing back into shape .

That's it really, couple of other spot checks in the Nova and Fiesta days but nothing for about 15 years or so .

[mjb]

I got The Works when I had a blowing exhaust on my tubby. License, Insurance, MOT checks, bulbs, tyres, breathalyser, everything... Towards the end they nearly arrested me for my attitude towards them. Wonder why.

This was in xmas week IIRC, so while they wasted half hour giving my car the work over, there were plenty of drunk drivers on the motorway just 50 yards away

[Welly]

I got The Works when I had a blowing exhaust on my tubby. License, Insurance, MOT checks, bulbs, tyres, breathalyser, everything... Towards the end they nearly arrested me for my attitude towards them. Wonder why.

This was in xmas week IIRC, so while they wasted half hour giving my car the work over, there were plenty of drunk drivers on the motorway just 50 yards away

Oh good it worked then

I phoned them up and told them to look out for a tubby estate with a dented bonnet. I said you liked canabis etc and liked to keep some stock to sell to friends and what have you. I also stated you liked Stella quite a lot and drove really close to lorries all the time.

I bet you can laugh now looking back eh?

[Blue406]

I was stopped for a random roadside stop and breathteast when coming home at 2am sometime between Christmas and the end of the year in 2006.
They were out to catch all those drink drivers that return home from festive parties. Fortunately I had just serviced my car, so it was all in tip top condition, save for a rumble exhaust which was getting replaced a week later anyway.
They let me on my way with no comment.

Back in 2003 I was heading alone a 30mph dual carriageway section in town at 01:30am in the morning, having just stocked up at a 24hr Asdas for a loooong road trip to Wales. I was so busy chatting to my co-driver, I didn't realise I was doing 45! Then I saw the traffic police officer signal me to pull into the bus stop he was standing in. I made my apologies, admitted I wasn't paying attention, did a breathtest and was sent on my way with a verbal warning.

[Blue406]

I got The Works when I had a blowing exhaust on my tubby. License, Insurance, MOT checks, bulbs, tyres, breathalyser, everything... Towards the end they nearly arrested me for my attitude towards them. Wonder why.

This was in xmas week IIRC, so while they wasted half hour giving my car the work over, there were plenty of drunk drivers on the motorway just 50 yards away

There is no sense if giving the rozzers attitude. Be relaxed, friendly, complient and above all; patient. They can only deal with one person at a time. Attitude will only make the Rozzers follow the book word for word.

They've stopped you for a reason, they want to check it out. Attitude will not solve that.

[steve_earwig]

I made my apologies, admitted I wasn't paying attention, did a breathtest and was...

...nicked for exceeding the speed limit and driving without due care an attention (you lucky, lucky... )

One of the stupidest things I've ever done was go the wrong way round a roundabout, I also lost it on the other side, hit a curb and bent a half-shaft. It was 4 am but the unmarked cop car going the other way turned round and had me anyway. I wasn't over the limit, just bored, and they let me go, just saying I'd done enough damage to my car but they'd be watching out for my car. So I wobbled off home, fixed the half-shaft for £10 and flogged it. Hey, you're only 18 once, right?

I got pulled up driving my 2.0S mk5 Craptina, mainly because it looked like total crap - lots of different colours and primer. "Why is the roof of your car dented?" "Because I was dancing on it when I was drunk." These two coppers were out to get me for some reason, I'd just lit up a fag before I got pulled over and one of them accused me of blowing smoke in his face, so I stamped the thing out, worrying that maybe they'd do me for littering or something. They checked the car over (even turning the stereo on to see if I'd been listening to Ozzy or something) and, when they couldn't find anything at all wrong with it, they made me turn out my pockets, read a very private letter in my wallet and made me explain what every one of my keys fitted. After about half an hour they let me go with a producer.

I was once pulled over by a very cold looking copper just before Christmas and breathalized. Unsurprisingly the lights stayed green but, unperterbed, he started to say "even though this is a negative result I still feel that you've been drinking and I would like you to accompany me.." and I realised that the poor bloke had been bunged out on foot for some reason and he was freezing and looking for a ride back to a hot cuppa at the nick, so I said "please don't waste your time and my time, I don't drink." and he let me go.

Why is it that, when you get breathalized they always shout at you to blow harder, so that you feel like your head's going to explode?

I got pulled over in my first Tiger, when the copper asked me how fast I was going I said "a bit over 30" so he said if I didn't say how fast I was going he'd nick me for driving without due care, so I said "about 70...". He had a look over my car, asked loads of questions about it, and let me go.

The last time I got pulled up in GB was a Friday night, I was doing nights and out in my BT van and, despite all the other drunken idiots on the road, they had a go at me for speeding. As if.

[Blue406]

I made my apologies, admitted I wasn't paying attention, did a breathtest and was...

...nicked for exceeding the speed limit and driving without due care an attention (you lucky, lucky... )

Well, they we're after all the asshole boyracers drag racing on the dual carriageway strip. I was small fry and not worth the paper work.
Legal car, legal driver, legal everything except the speed I was doing. So they let me go and prepared their keep net for a bigger, jucier fish ;)

Personaly, I think my honesty also helped.

[steve_earwig]

I got followed by some to$$er of a copper named KERSLAKE through Cambridgeshire and into Suffolk. I was driving my first 16 Valve but I could see him lurking so I held back for miles until I saw him pull off, then I gave it a bootfull and suddenly the bugger's right behind me with all the lights going and everything. Nicked for doing 102mph on the A11. The bastard even accused me of racing some BMW I'D NEVER EVEN SEEN! And this was read out in court!! And the twat was telling me his Carlton GSi was faster than my car (as if) but he never, ever, exceeded the speed limit in it. Anyway, I hobbled into court on my crutches and managed to get away with an SP30 and a big fine. Small fry

[TooT]

Pulled for driving my Sprinter at 56mph in a 60 zone. Vans are only allowed to do 50 in a 60 so i was given 3 points (SP10) and 60 quid fine, This was on a quite road on a dry and sunny May day in 2004. They must of had some targets to hit the twats

Other than that every few months i get the pulled for random checks (07 van FFS) by my local VOSA man, i swear hes got it in for me but he just wont give up till he finds something yet there F reg Transits rotten through driving about

[mbell666]

been pulled bout 3 times (all when i was driving a taxi) for speeding got away it every time.

The best/worse one was bout 55mph in a 30. Was sat night about 3 am and i was out on very edge on the pennines. Was heading back to town, it was quite foggy, saw a 4x4 turn on behind me, though nothing bout it and carried on at steady 40 through the fog. Got to the next village and fog lifted and i picked up bit of speed.

Half way through village looked in my mirror theres the police 4x4 with the blues going. Doh! pulled over, they came over to the car one was ok but other was bit rude and and barked at me "why where you going so fast?". I just replied "i am trying to earn some money", i think this shocked them a bit as they where expecting some bullsh*t excuse.

They got me in the back of the 4x4 where i explained i was a poor student (was 21/22 at the time) and was just trying to get some money for uni. I needed to get back to town if i was to be in time for another fare. after long lecture they gave me a producer and sent me on my way.

luckily when i produced the doc's the woman on the desk didn't notice the insurance company had put the wrong reg on the docs (reversed a couple of the numbers)