In slow moving traffic this morning I was passed by a car with blue flashing lights on the roof and sounding a siren. The police? A doctor?
Somehow I doubt it. The vehicle was a K reg Shogun, blowing out clouds of filthy black smoke. The siren was was not the normal sound for our area, and the driver turned it off as soon as he passed the queue I was in. Can you but blue lights and sirens on ebay these days?
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Yes and yes but don't let the age of the car fool you.
Up until a few years ago, Merseyside ran a knackered old Astra GTE.
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I dont know about the legality of it. (I do actually) but maybe retained fire crew (a blind eye is turned in some areas) or coastguard , mountain rescue or similar. And yes you can buy these on e-bay although they try to stop it...cheers...Keo.
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Coastguard unlikely (nearest beach 60 miles ish!). Mountain rescue plausible, though they usually have proper 4x4s. I still lean towards a cheeky local chav type person.
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Could also have been a fire officers vehicle.
I have seen a number of normal cars parked outside the local fire station with blue lights on top.
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Could be a 'First Responder' - not sure how widely they exist, but in our area (West Cheshire) there are several dotted about who aim to get to scene of a medical emergency faster than an ambulance or paramedic fast respone vehicle.
They're volunteers, funded by donations, with some support (training, equipment etc) from the local heath authority.
One lives near us and uses an oldish Mondeo Estate, but it's looking more and more like an 'official' paramedic fast response vehicle.
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There are lots of 'agencies' in existence that are not generally known, who deliberately use older vehicles that blend into their surroundings.
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Blending, with blue lights on top?
JH
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Blending, with blue lights on top?
It probably had a detachable magnetic blue light on the roof and lights in the grille.
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Spooky!
I too was passed by an older shogun with blue lights and a siren yesterday afternoon. But it was following a police car and a fire engine. I assumed it was a senior member of the fire brigade.
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Wern't in South Manchester were you Wally?
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