RE: Police chase BMW at 140mph on M25

[Mitch2.0]

Bogracer said:

School boy error, always head towards the airport 'restricted airspace' to loose the chopper!

Or go down into a dried up concrete irrigation canal and hit the nitros; provided he's in an A-star and not an Apache he'll never catch you.

[k-ink]

mybrainhurts said:

Oh no..

Not 140mph...

On a motorway...

In the middle of the night...

How many people died..?

How much global warming was caused..?

Are we doomed...?

I'm going back to bed.

This. Big fking deal.

[Debaser]

Only 140mph?

[Black S2K]

BertBert said:

arkenphel said:

Sterile containment area? Just cal it a safe zone ffs...

Perhaps because with plod stopping a 140mph car by deflating its tyres is anything but safe? FFS

They should have used a marksman to shoot him dead at high speed. Otherwise, someone might have been killed.

Oh, hang on...

Still, they've got to have rules. Otherwise loads more zombies wouldn't have a job.

I saw a guy in a 3er being arrested leaving an M&S car park. Plod had managed to gridlock town whilst doing so & by not moving the obstruction for ages after. Well, if they have RFTs I'm sure they have a FRED that allows you do drive away whilst handcuffed...

[Gridl0k]

Debaser said:

Only 140mph?

It was badged M3, so he nicked it, only to discover the 316 that lurked beneath?

[Black S2K]

Gridl0k said:

Debaser said:

Only 140mph?

It was badged M3, so he nicked it, only to discover the 316 that lurked beneath?

Curse those M-Spurt tickboxes!!!

[dcb]

Debaser said:

Only 140mph?

+1

It's nothing isn't it ? Almost all BMWs will do that no problem.

I checked and even the current lowly 320i will do 146 mph.

You only have to go to the next model up, the 328i and you
are at 155 mph already.

He should have taken the handbrake off.

[Blown2CV]

I feel sure that the majority of owners of even vaguely fast cars have got up around that figure at least once. I used to work with a guy who was a volvo salesman in the 90s, and said to me matter of fact that he used to max every new demo he received. Admittedly this only got interesting with the advent of the T5 when you were talking limited top speeds, but it was that era. There are far less safe cars at speed on the mway than a repmobile beemer doing 140mph. Ask any TVR owner!

[EdM]

should have specced run flat tyres...

[Jayfish]

I still think they should let us have a free reign on the M25 1 day a year, boxing day 2AM would work, to set lap times

[KM666]

Nickellarse said:

Quick straw poll:

How many people have exceeded 120 on a motorway?

• cough* a friend of mine might've.

The fastest i've ever rode as a passenger is 160mph in a skyline.

[AngryPartsBloke]

p_nut said:

And in Germany this would be totally legal.

Bring on EU harmonisation.

Failing to stop for police is legal in Germany?

[mybrainhurts]

AngryPartsBloke said:

p_nut said:

And in Germany this would be totally legal.

Bring on EU harmonisation.

Failing to stop for police is legal in Germany?

HO HO HO...very good.

[Repent]

neilpurves said:

ster·ile   adjective
1. free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
2. incapable of producing offspring; not producing offspring.
3. barren; not producing vegetation: sterile soil.
4. Botany .
a. noting a plant in which reproductive structures fail to develop.
b. bearing no stamens or pistils.
5. not productive of results, ideas, etc.; fruitless
Not sure which of the above the police managed to achieve but I suspect 2 and 5?!!

[PiB]

Perhaps he was racing home after being offended at a dinner party where some lolly cut the nose off a fine chunk of stilton.

[Blown2CV]

PiB said:

Perhaps he was racing home after being offended at a dinner party where some lolly cut the nose off a fine chunk of stilton.

or racing home in shame after being outed as the nosing culprit

[sledge68]

Beware Motorised wker?

[carinaman]

Is it just me that finds this news piece and use of a library image of a Beemer a bit Northcliffe Press local news website like?

[y2blade]

mybrainhurts said:

Oh no..

Not 140mph...

On a motorway...

In the middle of the night...

How many people died..?

How much global warming was caused..?

Are we doomed...?

I'm going back to bed.

Think of the kittens...!

And the children...!

[2mad]

Should have let me known what part of the M25 he was on, i would have waved to him as i passed in the cerbera.