Dramatic 'Hard Stop' on M6 Southbound today, 28/11
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Around 5pm ish near J13/14 from memory??
Car screams up in Lane 2 like a proper yob only for it and two or three others light themselves up with Blue lights everywhere boxing in a car in L3..... Really dramatic but in L3 of the packed M6, must have been quite a bad guy?? Looked very high risk to me with tons of scope for a multi car pile up?? Guess it was a serious wrong'un??
Anybody know anything?
Ps - never seen it in person before and brilliantly executed.... We were the last car that got through pre the stop as it happened right beside us.
Car screams up in Lane 2 like a proper yob only for it and two or three others light themselves up with Blue lights everywhere boxing in a car in L3..... Really dramatic but in L3 of the packed M6, must have been quite a bad guy?? Looked very high risk to me with tons of scope for a multi car pile up?? Guess it was a serious wrong'un??
Anybody know anything?
Ps - never seen it in person before and brilliantly executed.... We were the last car that got through pre the stop as it happened right beside us.
Slaav said:
Around 5pm ish near J13/14 from memory??
Car screams up in Lane 2 like a proper yob only for it and two or three others light themselves up with Blue lights everywhere boxing in a car in L3..... Really dramatic but in L3 of the packed M6, must have been quite a bad guy?? Looked very high risk to me with tons of scope for a multi car pile up?? Guess it was a serious wrong'un??
Anybody know anything?
Ps - never seen it in person before and brilliantly executed.... We were the last car that got through pre the stop as it happened right beside us.
Wow !Car screams up in Lane 2 like a proper yob only for it and two or three others light themselves up with Blue lights everywhere boxing in a car in L3..... Really dramatic but in L3 of the packed M6, must have been quite a bad guy?? Looked very high risk to me with tons of scope for a multi car pile up?? Guess it was a serious wrong'un??
Anybody know anything?
Ps - never seen it in person before and brilliantly executed.... We were the last car that got through pre the stop as it happened right beside us.
Is your fav' punctuation a question mark by any chance?
Slaav said:
Around 5pm ish near J13/14 from memory??
Car screams up in Lane 2 like a proper yob only for it and two or three others light themselves up with Blue lights everywhere boxing in a car in L3..... Really dramatic but in L3 of the packed M6, must have been quite a bad guy?? Looked very high risk to me with tons of scope for a multi car pile up?? Guess it was a serious wrong'un??
Anybody know anything?
Ps - never seen it in person before and brilliantly executed.... We were the last car that got through pre the stop as it happened right beside us.
I reckon either they'd gone over 80mph or forgot to tax their car... Car screams up in Lane 2 like a proper yob only for it and two or three others light themselves up with Blue lights everywhere boxing in a car in L3..... Really dramatic but in L3 of the packed M6, must have been quite a bad guy?? Looked very high risk to me with tons of scope for a multi car pile up?? Guess it was a serious wrong'un??
Anybody know anything?
Ps - never seen it in person before and brilliantly executed.... We were the last car that got through pre the stop as it happened right beside us.
sherbertdip said:
Wow !
Is your fav' punctuation a question mark by any chance?
How could you tell?? Is your fav' punctuation a question mark by any chance?
It was all very dramatic and there didn't seem to be any sort of rolling road block building a buffer zone behind the stop. All three lanes were then effectively stopped but I guess the BiBs wouldn't want cars flying passed whilst they were running around splitting the donuts up between them.
My wife before I met her (7 years ago) was stopped with one of these highly aggressive rolling road blocks in her car. She was then forcefully removed from the car at gun point.
Turns out someone had just used a similar car to hers in an armed robbery 10 minutes earlier and they were taking no chances. Strange they were looking for four big blokes and one women doesn't really look like four big blokes, thankfully one of the more intelligent police officers removed the handcuffs and explained what had happened and why. I still have a chuckle about it but I don't think she saw the funny side of it at first.
Hey ho police make genuine honest mistakes and she held no grudges.
Turns out someone had just used a similar car to hers in an armed robbery 10 minutes earlier and they were taking no chances. Strange they were looking for four big blokes and one women doesn't really look like four big blokes, thankfully one of the more intelligent police officers removed the handcuffs and explained what had happened and why. I still have a chuckle about it but I don't think she saw the funny side of it at first.
Hey ho police make genuine honest mistakes and she held no grudges.
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