|
Attitude towards the policeMercdan68
@forddan68
Club Retro Rides Member 68
|
|
I got pulled so many times back in the 80s the local police knew me by first name But couldn’t keep up with how many times I changed car usually once a month! The old Lenny Henry joke Can you identify yourself? Cue a look in the mirror “yea it’s me!” Never went down to well😂
|
|
Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
|
|
|
|
|
|
I get pulled every time I fly in to the UK as my details match some one they don't like, Usually armed response but last one was 6 plain clothes, I am always polite and now carry a copy of the other blokes details as its quicker to be nice and prove who I am quickly rather than hang about to be finger printed etc.
|
|
It will come in handy even if you never use it
|
|
|
|
|
Hmm, I've never been pulled over.
My driving instructor was a former police driver and seemed nice enough, plus he encouraged me to carry some speed on roundabouts because they are "fun". I still think about that occasionally but am quite conscious of the back end getting shifty - RWD 60s cars with relatively skinny tyres.
Obviously if I wasn't white and very middle class by appearance I would likely have a totally different experience, as some of my friends could attest.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pretty sure one of our local cops let me slow down to 129 before he pushed the button once. He wrote me up of course but he was friendly about it.
|
|
|
|
|
Attitude towards the policeballbagbagins
@ballbagbagins
Club Retro Rides Member 164
|
|
Been stopped twice and both times rightly so. Police were very nice to me.
Have had two poor experiences with them in non-car related settings though.
|
|
|
|
stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,842
Club RR Member Number: 174
Member is Online
|
Attitude towards the policestealthstylz
@stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member 174
|
|
Can confirm, I've only ever been stopped once and stealthstylz was in the passenger seat. You are not the only one. Been at least once a week since I was 17. 25 times in a week is still the record. Funniest thing is even after several court visits I've still got a clean licence after all this time. 1 speed awareness course in 18 years of driving and I foot it everywhere.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I was driving to the shops in my 2CV6. My son (then about 3 or 4 years old) loved to stand on the rear seat and feel the wind in his face (roof down of course) We got pulled over, my son not wearing his seat belt, not in a booster seat, I was not wearing my seat belt. I told the officer that we just enjoying a bit of driving as it was beautiful weather. He asked why my son was not in a seat wearing a seat belt. I asked him,if I would get a discount on my expected fine, if I came up with a great story. He had a giggle and gave me 1 fine for not wearing my seat belt.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In my youth as a cheeky lad, I recall being pulled by the rozzers in my Cav Gsi, it had a really rourty Maxnex exhaust on it and several other mods, induction kit etc. I was crawling at the time maybe doing 15 or 20 mph so was a bit bemused at being stopped. Copper "Your car is a bit loud son" Me " I don't think so" Copper "It is definately too loud" Me " Is has a BS Kitemark on the tailpipe, take a look. Completely road legal" Copper has a look and returns "must have a hole in it then" Me " yes it does" Copper "its illegal then" Me "no its not" This went back and forth for a bit until he became very annoyed. I then asked him "how will the exhaust gasses get in and out if there are no holes in the exhaust?"
He didnt like that one bit, I found it funny.
|
|
|
|
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: 11,714
Club RR Member Number: 34
|
Attitude towards the policeDez
@dez
Club Retro Rides Member 34
|
|
I once got accosted in a petrol station filling up, by some miserable old c-t of a copper because my car was ‘too low’. It was on air. It was aired out, because why would you have a car on air and not park it so. I asked him what the requirements were for minimum ride height, and when a car became ‘too low’. He said didn’t know but preceded to go on for quite some time about it being dangerous and how I should ‘lift it up a bit’. I’m always polite and tend to play it a bit dumb to see how much they know before coming out with anything, but he seemed to think it was perfectly ok to be lecturing me on something he freely admitted he knew nothing about (not the first time I’ve had this with the police by a long stretch) which irked me somewhat. Once he’d finished I said something along the lines of ‘ok if that’s what you want officer’, reached in and flicked the switches on the dash and raised it to full height. His face just dropped and he stood there open mouthed, whilst the other really young copper who had been left to fill up the car whilst he came to talk to me was in hysterics. He just walked off and got in the car and gesticulated angrily to the young copper That they needed to leave immediately....
|
|
|
|
andyborris
Posted a lot
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Posts: 2,165
|
|
|
Pretty sure one of our local cops let me slow down to 129 before he pushed the button once. He wrote me up of course but he was friendly about it. I'm guessing you don't live in the UK?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I past a plain car going in the other direction he spun round chased me and caught up as i parked in my work car park, i was going quick but he couldn't prove it and they tried very hard to be my friend to get me to admit how fast i was going but i kept replying 30mph officer in a very polite manor ...we both knew i was lying, i would say my car was rat look but as it was probably 1997 or 98 they were just called sheds but it was 200bhp turbo and i was flying back from the garage with my sandwich and crisp meal deal for lunch, they kept me for my hole lunch brake with all my fellow employees looking and laughing at the canteen window...come on how fast were you going you must have been doing 70 ..no no 30 officer...he then noticed i had remold tires and still trying to be friendly said really remolds on a turbo ..but they a guaranteed up to 100mph and i can only do 70mph...i got a 7 day document producer and a 10 day inspection producer but no speeding ticket no new friends and no lunch..
|
|
|
|
gezzard
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 614
Club RR Member Number: 69
|
Attitude towards the policegezzard
@gezzard
Club Retro Rides Member 69
|
|
For added retro Ness I had yellow headlight bulbs in my Renault 5, got pulled over and explained that yellow headlights weren't illegal ( as far as I know) he wasn't sure what to say, so let me on my way.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pretty sure one of our local cops let me slow down to 129 before he pushed the button once. He wrote me up of course but he was friendly about it. I'm guessing you don't live in the UK? New Zealand mate so yeah, metric. Speedo was on 140 when I spotted him coming towards me. I sort of knew him cos small community. Good bloke. He was chief of the local Volunteer Fire Brigade for a while too.
|
|
|
|
stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,842
Club RR Member Number: 174
Member is Online
|
Attitude towards the policestealthstylz
@stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member 174
|
|
I past a plain car going in the other direction he spun round chased me and caught up as i parked in my work car park, i was going quick but he couldn't prove it and they tried very hard to be my friend to get me to admit how fast i was going but i kept replying 30mph officer in a very polite manor ...we both knew i was lying, i would say my car was rat look but as it was probably 1997 or 98 they were just called sheds but it was 200bhp turbo and i was flying back from the garage with my sandwich and crisp meal deal for lunch, they kept me for my hole lunch brake with all my fellow employees looking and laughing at the canteen window...come on how fast were you going you must have been doing 70 ..no no 30 officer...he then noticed i had remold tires and still trying to be friendly said really remolds on a turbo ..but they a guaranteed up to 100mph and i can only do 70mph...i got a 7 day document producer and a 10 day inspection producer but no speeding ticket no new friends and no lunch.. The cops round here say some hilariously aggressive stuff when you won't admit to something. The funniest is always the (along the lines of) I had to do 120mph to catch you type of thing. Errrr....yes. I was doing 70mph ossifer if you'd have also been doing 70mph you would never have caught me would you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I remember another occasion when courting my now wife, I was enjoying her company at hr folk house one midweek night to around 2am. I then left to go home and jumped into the Cav turbo (yes I liked my Cavs) and was doing 60 in a 40 (I know young and silly) right on the outskirts of town I met the rozzers heading into the town and I never thought a lot of it, around a mile or so out of town I noticed a car gaining fairly quickly and assumed it must have been them. So........................
I gunned it, took then on a merry dance for about 20 miles of country lanes before I was confident I had lost them, then headed home, stuck the Cav in the hay shed and took the tractor up to the drive in front of my folks house to make it look like a car couldnt have came in. popped my head into the folks bedroom and said, if the police come to the door, I have been in my bed since 10 OK, mum just sighed and said OK. Was in my bed maybe half and hour when they came flying by the house in their Xantia, but they never came in.
Was on the bevvy the next weekend and spotted the local copper on the beat, being drunk and foolhardy I said, did I see you in the Xantia on Tuesday night? he looked confused. Then I said, slow as feck isnt it? He was very unhappy indeed.
|
|
Last Edit: Oct 3, 2020 21:25:54 GMT by henspeed
|
|
andyborris
Posted a lot
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Posts: 2,165
|
|
|
Couple or 3. Had a Alfasud Sprint, I gunned it away from the lights, overtaking the cloth cap in front who couldn't go faster than 15mph on the 30mph road. Hit about 60 mph when I saw 2 motorbike police on the other side of the road, one was giving a ticket to another driver, the other pointed a radar gun, (a very new toy then!) at me. Then he started waving his arms at me, I pulled over a good few feet down the road, he turned away and immediately started to rummage in the bikes pannier, obviously to get the ticket book. I thought "he hasn't really looked at me, he hasn't clocked my number", 1st gear and away. And that was that. Every day can be a school day, even for the police! Porsche 944, booted it onto the A2 from M25 slip, hit about 110 mph. As I did this, I saw a police car on the roundabout above the A2, so as I crested the brow of the hill, I slowed to just below the speed limit and a few minutes later, 2 officers in a police car were giving me dirty looks from the fast lane as they slowed from about 130 mph. Then they sped away, probably a bit grumpy because a little bit of pleasure from chasing down a Porsche had been denied, feel sorry for the next driver who got pulled! Returning home in the Triumph one night, I backed into a packing space in front of the daily driver, it was a bit tight and as I did so, I ever so gently touched the front of the daily, just as 2 officers drove past. They stopped and the very young one in the passenger seat opened his window and said, " excuse me Sir, do you know you've just hit the car behind?" I replied " it's OK officer, it's my car". He then replied " that's alright then Sir" and they drove off happy. I can still imagine him in the canteen later, telling the funny story of the old feller who backed into his own car and one of his more experienced comrades asking him "did you check?" then the rest falling about with laughter when he admitted that he hadn't!
|
|
|
|
stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,842
Club RR Member Number: 174
Member is Online
|
Attitude towards the policestealthstylz
@stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member 174
|
|
My first court visit was when I was 17. I'd been DJ-ing in Wakey and a lady wanted to share my company after I finished so I was driving home at about 4am and for no reason I could fathom a silver Astra with 2 men in started tailgating me and weaving all over the road behind me, flashing the headlights etc. I thought it was something to do with said lady and gunned it. Hit the limiter down Donny Road so 132mph in 30 and 40 zones, Astra disappeared so I went home the long way round the lanes. Got home and the Astra was sat at the end of the street so I flew past, shot down the drive and ran in the house (to get my dad/brother as I assumed there was going to be a fight). My dad was in the kitchen looking angry asking why I'd run from the police. Got arrested and charged with several offences. Went to court and the judge asked what was going on so I explained the events of the night (plain car, plain clothes, no blue lights, no I.D shown etc) and he turned to the cops and asked "Is this true?" to which they confirmed. He then laughed, got very cross at them and made them apologise before finding me not guilty. Was a marked man after though.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I love the way this is turning into how i got away with.. so i another have one
As youths ( sob oh my god 30 years ago) we used to just drive all evening and see were we ended up one time 2 of us ended up driving round Milton Keynes and i had no tax ( sorry ) and noticing a police car following me and thought i was about to get stopped.. mmm what to do .. I stopped in the middle of the road got out and went to the police car now stopped behind me and said i'm lost trying to find the ice skating could you help they said yes gave me directions i thanked them got back in my car and drove off as they turned around and went the other way. My reasoning i explained to my amazed friend was they stop me i'm done for as they will check things i stop them they might not and it worked but never tried it again.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Apart from an incident in Oldham where I failed to indicate when turning right in a right turn only lane, they have never been anything other than polite. The one in Oldham must have been having a bad day because he ranted like a lion when the situation didn't warrant it. I was polite in return and he eventually calmed down and gave me a 7-day wonder.
I don't think I've ever got away with anything but I did once spend half an hour with a police rider talking about Capris after a stop.
At the end of the day, they are just people doing a difficult job that I wouldn't want to do. I try to be nice to everyone because life is too short not to.
|
|
Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
|
|
|
|
|
Many years ago in my Cav SRi I was followed home late at night by an unmarked car. Got a bit suspicious and scared as I had no idea why they were following me.
Started doing some random turns just to check they really were following (they were) and then booted it hard down some of the side roads at 60mph + (was quite scared at that point as it was the 90's and lots of drugs in my area) - eventually got almost to my door and did not want to give away my address to whoever was following me, so slammed on brakes in emergency stop & popped the remote boot release thinking what can I use as a weapon to defend myself? Leapt out of car and ran to boot as 2 uniformed officers emerged from the following car.
Almost collapsed with relief, so immediately laid into them saying I was terrified and why on earth did they not put their lights on so I knew they were police - I would have stopped straight away. Laboured the point a lot as I was fully expecting loss of licence for evading police in high speed down side roads/reckless driving etc.
They must have felt quite guilty as they apologised and let me go after a few mins of chatting.
Still no idea why they followed me in first place.
|
|
|
|
|