Amusing misuse of a police car.....
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A mate of mine, his dad was on the front pages of the newspapers back in the days of the Toxteth* riot, as he was the first officer to fire CS gas into the crowd, and was pictured taking aim.
I digress. He lived backing on to the local bypass.
If you went around at lunch time on a sunny day, he'd be sitting in the garden, with his feet up, with a loud speaker sitting on the bonnet of the car about 15 foot away, having told control, he was parked up watching for speeding motorists.
I digress. He lived backing on to the local bypass.
If you went around at lunch time on a sunny day, he'd be sitting in the garden, with his feet up, with a loud speaker sitting on the bonnet of the car about 15 foot away, having told control, he was parked up watching for speeding motorists.
- Toxteth, as in a marriage of the 2 words: Toxic and Death.
NinjaPower said:
Just remembered an incident when I helped out the plod...
I was down at the beach one day walking the dog with my girlfriend, when we went to drive out of the car park, a Ford Focus estate police car with a lady PC driving entered it.
There were no other cars around and all she did was drive in a big circle at the end of the car park to come back out again, and I was watching in the rear view mirror thinking "She's going to get that stuck" as she had strayed off the main hardcore surface of the car park into the deep and soft pea-gravel round the edges.
Sure enough I watched her Focus sink right into the gravel and get stuck!
After I stopped laughing, I thought I should really lend a hand and reversed up to find the poor PC nearly in tears as she told me she was fairly new to the job and only started going out on her own recently, plus she had just moved to Cumbria from East London. She was absolutely beside herself at the thought of having to ring the station, get b
ked, and endure the never ending piss-taking about getting a car stuck.
I got the tow rope out of the van, and pulled her out.
She was really quite grateful
How grateful ?I was down at the beach one day walking the dog with my girlfriend, when we went to drive out of the car park, a Ford Focus estate police car with a lady PC driving entered it.
There were no other cars around and all she did was drive in a big circle at the end of the car park to come back out again, and I was watching in the rear view mirror thinking "She's going to get that stuck" as she had strayed off the main hardcore surface of the car park into the deep and soft pea-gravel round the edges.
Sure enough I watched her Focus sink right into the gravel and get stuck!
After I stopped laughing, I thought I should really lend a hand and reversed up to find the poor PC nearly in tears as she told me she was fairly new to the job and only started going out on her own recently, plus she had just moved to Cumbria from East London. She was absolutely beside herself at the thought of having to ring the station, get b
ked, and endure the never ending piss-taking about getting a car stuck.I got the tow rope out of the van, and pulled her out.
She was really quite grateful
Someone I knew worked as an on scene accident investigator - attended a closed motorway and after doing the necessary at the scene, had a chat with Volvo T5 driving traffic officer about whether they could see if his new Merc coupe speed limiter worked. Queue the pair of them blasting off up the closed motorway stretch until said limiter did its thing - poor Volvo was some distance behind in the end, and reported that the roof bars had something of a poor influence of top speed! Confirmed that the Merc did indeed appear capable of 155mph.....
Video of Police messing about in a car(Israeli,not English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cZ54r3dGSw
Shocking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cZ54r3dGSw
Shocking!
i used to know a lad who went on holiday up north with his wife around new year, was driving over snake pass (is that right the bad one?) in snow, he got to the end heading west to find coppers turning people round as it was impassable.
he did say he thought it was quiet on the road.
laughed and joked with the coppers, then had to tow them out as they were stuck. they'd been sent up in a diesel astra or escort to close the road.
i used to work with a guy who was ex essex BiB and he told me all sorts, not least of them testing 4x4s for traffic. when asked about towing a loaded hgv blocking the road to safety, the guys from toyota, nissan and jeep all said no way. the guy from land rover asked for a thicker tow rope and he would have a go. the range rover managed to get it just past the line to get the nod. they then did over 100k in the same car without a problem apparently.
he did say he thought it was quiet on the road.
laughed and joked with the coppers, then had to tow them out as they were stuck. they'd been sent up in a diesel astra or escort to close the road.
i used to work with a guy who was ex essex BiB and he told me all sorts, not least of them testing 4x4s for traffic. when asked about towing a loaded hgv blocking the road to safety, the guys from toyota, nissan and jeep all said no way. the guy from land rover asked for a thicker tow rope and he would have a go. the range rover managed to get it just past the line to get the nod. they then did over 100k in the same car without a problem apparently.
I remember a fellow GMP officer being told to get the van and take a prisoner to Northwich nick as he was wanted there.
About 5 hours later he phoned to say that 'Norwich' police knew nothing about the prisoner so what should he do with him.
He was not a happy chappy, firstly, he had to put petrol in the van, then he got loads of stick off the rest of us and was also refused any overtime pay.
About 5 hours later he phoned to say that 'Norwich' police knew nothing about the prisoner so what should he do with him.
He was not a happy chappy, firstly, he had to put petrol in the van, then he got loads of stick off the rest of us and was also refused any overtime pay.
Derek Smith said:
A sergeant in Beds took over a shift and on night duty was told that the habit was that while a neighbouring division covered for them, they would have a ‘mess night’, a dinner for all the shift.
The night was chosen and the night before the divisional minivan, two shotguns, and torch were taken by the sergeant and the chef to a golf course, the intention being for jugged hare.
They were quite successful but then a call came over the radio that the sound of firing was reported in their general area. In order to calm things the sergeant got on the radio and said that he was on scene and approaching people with shotguns.
Cars came from all over, it being a quiet night. Greens and fairways, not designed for heavy braking and sudden turns, were sacrificed and one patrol car got stuck in a bunker to the extent that they needed more than a sand wedge to remove it.
The divisional super attended from home and the sergeant discussed matters whilst three brace of rabbits quietly bled in the back of the minvan.
No real harm done, apart from to the golf course.
Derek, when is the sequel coming? The night was chosen and the night before the divisional minivan, two shotguns, and torch were taken by the sergeant and the chef to a golf course, the intention being for jugged hare.
They were quite successful but then a call came over the radio that the sound of firing was reported in their general area. In order to calm things the sergeant got on the radio and said that he was on scene and approaching people with shotguns.
Cars came from all over, it being a quiet night. Greens and fairways, not designed for heavy braking and sudden turns, were sacrificed and one patrol car got stuck in a bunker to the extent that they needed more than a sand wedge to remove it.
The divisional super attended from home and the sergeant discussed matters whilst three brace of rabbits quietly bled in the back of the minvan.
No real harm done, apart from to the golf course.
South Yorkshire Police was in financial trouble in the 70s. Well in reality it was the council that had no money so nobody else did.
This resulted in a strict mileage limit per shift on beat cars. Something like 15 miles.
Allegedly one very quiet snowy night 12 miles were put on a Chevette pratting about in an empty car park. Rest of the night hoping it stayed quiet.
So yes more waste of non existent public money. Perhaps could have saved up and bought Barnsdale Bar services a new doughnut machine.
This resulted in a strict mileage limit per shift on beat cars. Something like 15 miles.
Allegedly one very quiet snowy night 12 miles were put on a Chevette pratting about in an empty car park. Rest of the night hoping it stayed quiet.
So yes more waste of non existent public money. Perhaps could have saved up and bought Barnsdale Bar services a new doughnut machine.
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