Rattle wrote >>> " it was this moment I wished I was a cop " in another thread today.
There have been several occasions I have wished I had a blue flashing light, most notably following a car through a part of London: going at 15 miles an hour, weaving from side to side - not only on the mobile, in his right hand, but emphasising whatever he was saying with his left!
When would YOU have liked to be a policeman?
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I'm sure there's plenty on Ebay and there's always PU to try to get you off the charge for when the BiB have a word.....
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When would YOU have liked to be a policeman?
Can't say I ever have really. But those discreet blues behind the front grille of the car, like the ones the CID and the Queen have, would be useful for sweeping mimser morons out of the way especially in London. Only the thought of how embarrassing it would be appearing in court for impersonating a police officer deters me from getting some fitted.
Perhaps it would be possible to claim in your defence that you were impersonating some other category of person not protected by a specific law.
'Actually I was impersonating the Duke of Edinburgh, m'Lud.'
'What, in those clothes? Nine months! Next.'
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When would YOU have liked to be a policeman?
Every time I get in the car! It also occurs to me that the BIB must see all that sort of thing when they are driving their own vehicles. I have always believed that the motoring community is guilty of more petty(??) crime than any other section of society!
FTF
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Every time I come down the road to my village.
There is a factory here and the HGV's tend to use the B road as a racetrack, I always thought their limit was 40mph, not 58mph which most of them do.
Oh for a blue light :)
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Followed a car today which was parked on the pavement (completely blocking it) outside the post office - in an area where no one else finds the need to do this. He pulled out without checking his mirror or signalling, drove at 15 mph, weaving over the road then turned right across oncoming traffic without mirror or signal. All in the space of half a mile.
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the joy it has brought....on the odd occasions i've been driving an unmarked Q car, in uniform, when someone has done something stupid, usually an oik.... and you beep the horn....then get a load of abuse and/or the 'coffee shake' hand getsure...
so you lift up the centre arm rest, press button 1 which puts on the alternate flashing headlamps, press button 2 which puts on the discrete blue lamps in the front grill, then button 3 which turns the sirens on (when you press the horn button)...and all of a sudden the aggression and potential road rage goes right out the window....amazing
option 4 is the magnetic 'kojak' light which plugs into the cigarette lighter, which you could open the electric sunroof, place it on the roof, then get the sunroof to do up again (mostly). The magnet won't work over 80mph though ...;-(
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Even though you are probably trained not to be pleased by the feeling of satisfaction that must give WP, I imagine it must be very satisfying indeed to put the wind up an idiot with an unmarked. Must be hard to remain emotionally unmoved. I couldn't for sure.
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Indeed a warm glow and a sense of satisfaction on behalf of all those people who have suffered similar behaviour and have just had to accept it. Its like seeing the school bully get their cumuppance :-))))))
Edited by Fullchat on 10/10/2009 at 20:08
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Westpig and Fullchat: enviable indeed. Warm glow doesn't begin to describe it.
Lucky so-and-sos.
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There are many occasions each day it seems when I wish I drove a Q car, but there was really only one occasion when I really really needed to drive one.
A foreign registered car was weaving from side to side in heavy traffic, when it suddenly lauched itself onto the pavement, and drove at high speed along the pavement for 100 yards until a side road at which point it drove at even higher speeds a further two miles followed by a UK car. I rang the police whilst this was happening and finally caught up with the UK car driven by a young women who was not very apologetic about her friend's behavior. Regretfully the police never caught the culprit who was lucky not have mown down several school children.
Oh how I wish I had a video camera installed.
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I was on the A556 towards M/cr on Friday and there was a right so and so who wouldn't move over to let others pass. I tried a couple of flashes, got the finger and concluded that the Mondeo 5mm off my bumper might be a bit more committed to the cause so like a waltzer at the regimental ball I gave way.
He gave it more flashing and got a very aggressive response from the problem driver.
This all continued onto the M56 and I left them to it and went past them but it was all still going on in my mirror until the arrival of two Q cars with the grille lights which produced some very subdued behaviour from the pair of them and a big grin.
For those who use this stretch the two cop cars were a Seat Leon R and BMW 1 series both gun metal grey
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In a former life I served alongside some of the long-haired (in fiction, only) soldiers from Hereford (though I was not one myself). The regiment had a collection of "sturdy" vehicles, all fitted with blues and twos, but in regular use.
One guy had "inadvertently" turned them on to speed his return from a distant meeting. Traffic plod did not recognise the plain-clothes vehicle some way from home (London, I think), stopped it, and he got put on a charge when the brown stuff hit the fan!
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removed at the author's request
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 11/10/2009 at 14:36
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in a recent documenbtary I saw, it was revealed that Russian plutocrats and general mafiosi (is there a difference?) can buy a blue flashing light for their car from the authorities for about $25,000 and can then use it as they wish.
I shudder to think what type of people would get themselves one if this crazy idea were copied in Britain.
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The one time I really remember it happening, the scrote got his comeuppance from a genuine copper just a few miles up the road.
Northbound m40 near Stokenchurch in my old mk2 Cav SRI in the mid 90's. I'm in lane 3 at an indicated 80 mph, overtaking a very long line of HGVs. Current plate BMW M3 comes haring up behind at 100+ and proceeds to stick his main beam on and sit centimetres from my rear bumper. I continue at the same speed and after a few attempts to get between me and the central crash barrier, the muppet uses the next weapon in his arsenal of appalling driving tactics, by dropping back and then speeding up main beam blazing, and braking just before hitting me. I have nowhere to go, apart from to boot it and reduce my overtake time. Why should I? I decide to ignore the idiot, complete my overtake at my current speed, and leisurely pull back into lane 2 once safely past the trucks.
As he comes past, he's giving me the hand gestures and all sorts as he screams off at well over a ton down the hill. I wished more than anything to be a traffic cop at that time.
2 miles down the road, he's on the hard shoulder with a real traffic cop, presumably who'd been sitting on the ramp towards the bottom of the hill.
I felt good for days afterwards. The temptation to toot and wave as I passed in lane 1 was almost overwhelming :-)
Edited by Webmaster on 12/10/2009 at 01:45
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in a recent documenbtary I saw it was revealed that Russian plutocrats and general mafiosi (is there a difference?) can buy a blue flashing light for their car from the authorities for about $25 000 and can then use it as they wish.
You'll frequently see black GL and S-Class Mercs in Moscow with the blue lights and siren. The owners don't pay $25,000 for them, that would imply a respect for the authorities which these people don't have. The reason other drivers get out of the way of these vehicles is the likelihood of a "discussion" with a heavily armed bodyguard if they don't.
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@ Westpig....don't worry, we all know that's what happens, no need to be coy!
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