The busies - not all bad.

[pete]

Just as I arrived home this afternoon I drove the car straight into the garage, fumbled to get out (I'm too tall) and then was a tad surprised to see a police man standing in teh garage behind the car.

"Afternoon".

"Errm hi?"

"Do you know why we've stopped?"

"Nope" (I'd just driven down our road at a very conservative pace, concerned about someone tailgating me).

"You pulled out in front of us at the roundabout, did you not see us?"

"Nope. Sorry. I'm knackered."

"We had to brake. Don't worry we aren't going to do you, we aren't after decent folk like you."

"Oh OK. Thanks."

"We could though. Careless driving."

"Umm OK."

"But we aren't after folk like you. Bye."

"bye".

<Door on garage closes. both of us now stood there in the dark.>

"I'll let you go now," I say opening the door.

Not all bad.

[robin]

You live in an alternate reality.

I would have been inclined to keep completely silent and still the moment the lights went off and see whether the policeman was still there 5 minutes later

[renmure]

You live in an alternate reality.

I would have been inclined to keep completely silent and still the moment the lights went off and see whether the policeman was still there 5 minutes later

Or just as the lights went off, mention you are about to have liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti for supper and watch them run away

[rossybee]

One of those scenarios where your attitude and response shapes the outcome

[BiggestNizzy]

Decent ?

[pete]

Decent ?

He mentioned it twice.

[Ferg]

The pleasant ones are those who don't follow up with the 'I could if I wanted to' line. We all know it, to state it is unnecessary.

No offence to the blue lights on here.

[bertieduff]

I got pulled yesterday...passed them travelling in the opposite direction through town, saw them about turn and sit at a discrete distance a few cars back for a couple of miles. Just had that sixth sense it was me, so pottered along making sure I was driving like my auntie... but sure enough, few overtakes and blue lights etc...now, at this point I glance at my passenger seat. Hmmm...not good. I have a new number plate I'd just picked up to put on my trailer; reg. no. is for one of my other cars, so probably looks like a falsie, plus a crow-bar and a claw hammer (I was breaking up old wooden pallets for the fire earlier, and didn't want to leave them lying in the driveway so stuck 'em in the car). Just glad I'd left the sawn-off shotgun at home.

Can't complain: just doing their job etc, but got ticked off for not carrying my drivers license (technically not illegal, was told, but can still get you a £1000 fine if the DVLA stop you?), and also because I hadn't stopped in the first available safe space (which was marked 'ambulance only' outside the local cancer hospice!). No mention made of the offensive weapons, fortunately: they were just too awe-struck that my '96 corsa had only 60K miles on it to notice that the new tax disc, ordered on-line, hadn't appeared yet!

Anyway, they'd stopped me because "it's just the sort of car drug dealers are using". Now, I always had visions of dealers in pimped-up black Rangies, M5's and the like. I guess the recession must've hit all areas of the economy pretty hard.

Thinking I'll have to ditch the shed at this rate: been pulled three times in the past year for no good reason, other than it's a pukey turquoise colour.

Oh, hang on, maybe I just saw their point...

[scott_e]

<Door on garage closes. both of us now stood there in the dark.>

"I'll let you go now," I say opening the door.

I love that. Its comedy sketch worthy.

[robin]

got ticked off for not carrying my drivers license (technically not illegal, was told, but can still get you a £1000 fine if the DVLA stop you?).

Can anybody shed any light on that - sounds like BS to me - I think you have 7 days to produce, assuming they can be bothered to give you the relevant ticket? DVLA already know whether or not you have a license, unless they don't know who you are, in which case they won't know that the license you gave them was somebody else's ...

Cheers,
Robin

[tut]

No way they could get away with that.

There are times when you have to renew or change your licence, just done it and it is now every three years for me, or could have lost it, but you are still licenced.

tut

[j2 lot]

It is NOT a legal requirement to carry your driving licence. It is a legal requirement to produce it when required, but you have a stipulated time to do so ( 7 days).

[scottishselise]

Not the first time recently I have heard very mixed messages from police officers

[rossybee]

It is NOT a legal requirement to carry your driving licence. It is a legal requirement to produce it when required, but you have a stipulated time to do so ( 7 days).

I'm 99.9% sure this is the case.

[scottishselise]

This is correct rossybee