What have you got away with ?

What have you got away with ?

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R33dk

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74 posts

112 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Who on here has been caught doing something , motoring related or not, by the Fuzz and then somehow managed to get away with it ?

Was talking to an long time friend an we were reminiscing of times when being pulled by the plod for speed / driving related offences for them to then just send us on our way.

Reckon a few good stories could be dug up here.

Ladies and Gentleman ... Fire away!

Dk

Snollygoster

1,538 posts

138 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Caught speeding on the motorway at 11pm doing 105mph. Had my tail in my hands, very apologetic. I said I was more than happy to take my punishment as no excuse.

To my surprise, they let me off as I wasn't drunk or on drugs, and knew I was in the wrong. He said a good talking to in this case would be fine; and also the fact he said he was on the of his shift, and said reporting a 100+ is a lot more paperwork than just a on the spot fixed penalty might have swayed his mind.

Reflecting on it, very lucky indeed.

Chicane-UK

3,861 posts

184 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Got my first vaguely sporty car in about 2001 - and was promptly caught racing on the city ring road late at night against some guy in a Peugeot 205 GTI. First I knew of it was when I saw the blue lights rapidly approaching in my mirror - almost crapped myself as I had never even come close to a brush with the police and I knew I'd have to answer to my folks! I was doing over double the speed limit so could have easily gotten a lot of points or even a ban.

Amazingly the police went past me and after the Peugeot driver... got away with it or so I thought. Unbeknownst to me I ended up taking the same turn off and as I pulled round the corner to some lights, the officer walked round the street corner, saw me and gestured and mouthed 'Come here!'

Got a stern talking to, but in return I was suitably humble and respectful - and I guess the roads were deserted which helped my case. He just told me to never let him catch me driving like that again or he would give me points.. and duly bked, I drove home like a grandma.

Very lucky to deal with a reasonable guy - could have had a lot of points (or worse) tied to my license for years.

R33dk

Original Poster:

74 posts

112 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Very lucky on both occasions there by the sounds of it.

Thumbs up to reasonable coppers aswell.

FakeConcern

336 posts

136 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Late at night in a 1275GT coming up to Crystal Palace caught up a crocodile of traffic following a police traffic car at 30. I turned off, zoomed along a parallel road to come out in front & speed up the hill to the palace TV towers. As I got to the top I could see the BIB speeding up behind me & then the lights went red at the top of the hill. When they went green again, I turned left & was flashed to pull in by the BIB. As one of the officers looked over the car (all in perfect order) the other spoke to me about how hard it had been to catch up to me & I must have been doing at least 50MPH in a 30 (I was doing at least 70!) etc. I was polite, yes Sir no Sir etc. & they let me off with " drive carefully" This was in about 1984.

RobM77

35,349 posts

233 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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I was caught in my Citroen AX GT with, and I quote the policeman, "my rear wheel a foot above the ground" taking a roundabout at full pelt. I managed to talk my way out of it. Another PHer was in the car at the time and he constantly reminds me of this!

I also once raced an unmarked car off the lights in my Celica Carlos Sainz. I got pulled over for it, but of course there was nothing he could do as I didn't break any laws!

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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In my early 20s me and my best mate were on the way back from a local pub - it was a 5 minute drive on the edge of a small town, not a massive journey by any means.

I'd been on soft drinks and he'd had maybe 2 pints; it must have been a school night. A minute or two after leaving the car park he burped and made a stupid comment about Buck Rogers little robot sidekick (Twiggy?) and at that point in time, following on from an equally random and childish conversation in the pub, it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. You know how when you find something so funny you convulse? It was that, except I was trying to drive. My eyes were streaming, tears were running down my face and I could barely breathe.

I had to stop the car in the middle of the deserted road as I was in no fit state to carry on. I couldn't see for starters. Seconds later, blue lights appeared behind us. There was no way I was prepared to tell the truth about why I'd parked blocking one lane of the highway; 'Sorry officer, my mate burped and it sounded like a midget space robot from the 25th century so I immediately had to stop driving.'

I got out and started walking towards the patrol car, wiping my eyes. The puzzled looking officer was looking at me and asked if there was a problem. I made an excuse about contact lenses giving me grief hence the tears and that we were only a few minutes from home. I was expecting a breath test or even a cursory look over the car (it was a mint Mk1 Cabrio Golf and we were 2 young lads, out at night, in a typical provincial market town). I guess he thought I looked pathetic enough and sent us on our way.

It's not particularly exciting, thrilling or dangerous but it's the only example where the police haven't taken anything further.



Edited by Phil303 on Monday 24th November 23:12

PinkRinse

365 posts

168 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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About a week after I got my Fiesta ST, I was out for yet another drive. A 40mph dual carriage way + a willing Clio driver = about 60mph. Suddenly the Clio driver falls away beside me & I look in my rear view mirror to see a traffic car right behind me. I am crapping myself as I slow right back down to 40mph & they pull alongside me.

I'm mouthing "Sorry! Sorry!" & as I look over the passenger side policeman is laughing his head off, raises his eyebrows as if to say "Yes... Quite... So you should be" & buggers off. I'm quite sure had I been a lad of the same age I would have been pulled over for a telling off at least!

R33dk

Original Poster:

74 posts

112 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Suppose I better give you one occasion myself.

Out in the cars for a B road blast in my old c20xe corsa b , a friend with his 2.0 8v nova in tow .
Belt snapped due to a stone putting a dent in my alternator pulley, leaving me with a limited source of electricity.

Decided to get to my mates farm with him as quickly as possible as it was getting dark and didn't want to be stuck with no leccy on a dark twisty B road.
Off we went myself infront and my friend on my bumper the whole way.
Got to his farm track an all of a sudden police (panda car) scream past blue lights sirens the lot.
Supposedly we had screamed right past them at a junction 4-5 miles further down the road an were doing speeds in excess of 100mph to catch up.
We explained to them the situation, asked us to prove it. We did .
And they gave a stern warning about street racing followed by us the yes sir no sir 3 bags full sir attitude.
Said he didn't want to see us on the road again that night.
Fair to say I stayed at my mates. Until the next morning.


SteveS Cup

1,996 posts

159 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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My first quick car was a 200bhp Seat Ibiza. On my first outing with a few mates in slower cars and a large breasted female companion on the way to Brighton I was rudely cut up by a green Audi A6 3.0 TDI. I stayed with him until 125mph at which point the whole back end lit up flashing blue!

Pulled into the layby on the A23 and as the stupid 18 year old I was I took the ear bashing of my lifetime from the biggest traffic cop I've ever seen.

Turned out they were called to an incident in Brighton and they didn't appreciate being followed by, and I quote "an annoying little prick in a bright yellow hot hatch with its fking fog lights on".

Never used front fog lights since that day!

R33dk

Original Poster:

74 posts

112 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Hahaha love that ^^^^

boz1

422 posts

177 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Phil303 said:
There was no way I was prepared to tell the truth about why I'd parked blocking one lane of the highway; 'Sorry officer, my mate burped and it sounded like a midget space robot from the 25th century so I immediately had to stop driving.'
That is gold!

Baz Tench

5,648 posts

189 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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I used to drive mini-cabs about 20 years ago and was particularly pissed off with things one day. I exited a roundabout and overtook someone using the cross hatches for a junction to do so, was also doing about 60 in a 40. There was a car behind me which performed the same move...

'Odd' I thought, until I saw it light up.

Anyway, when the officer approached me, I said I was sorry... "NO YOU'RE NOT!" He barked. "What were you playing at??"

His colleague, who was still sitting in the car beckoned him back, and after chatting to him, he came back to me and said, well shouted: "KEEP YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS!.... It's your lucky day, we've been called to something else!"

I drove away rather sheepishly...



Terminator X

14,922 posts

203 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Driving at well over 100 leptons, saw the blue lights behind me and felt immediately queasy! Pulled over and Police car pulled up next to me. Both sets of windows wound down, given a right telling off by the PC at which point they drove off! Made my merry way home at a steady 5mph below all posted limits redface

TX.

JuniorD

8,616 posts

222 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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One night shortly after passing the test me and a pal got in my scrappy polo to return home after a night out. We had parked in dodgy student land where theft was pretty bad. I noticed a police car cruising around and subsequently following us. I decided to take them on a magical mystery tour, going left-right-left-right etc. At each street/junction. After about 10 mins I was sure I'd lost them so booted onwards towards home via a shortcut. As I turned into my mate's street they were there, waiting on us! How they managed to know where we were going and to beat us there I'll never know! They asked why I was driving so suspiciously and the best I could come up with on the spot was "practicing for the advanced driving test". I got a bking for "dicking about".

numtumfutunch

4,705 posts

137 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Got legitimately pulled by APNR for no insurance after Harvey Keitels favourite insurer didnt renew my auto renew policy - no complaints from me for plod frown

Got pulled numerous times for being under the age of 30 in a new hot hatch* in the 80's whilst abiding by the speed limit - which got a bit boring

Recently sailed past a traffic car dug in like an SAS patrol at 7AM on a Saturday morning on a deserted motorway at 100mph clearly seeing the whites of both occupants eyes and the fact they were poiniting their gizmo at me at point blank range without any follow up - cheers guys if youre reading smile

  • it was when mortgage rates were at 19% - why get a mortgage when a 205GTi was cheaper??

CB2152

1,555 posts

132 months

Tuesday 25th November 2014
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Not a motoring related one, and not a normal police one either, but anyway....

With the Air Cadets a few years ago (4 years I think) we were at an event at RNAS Yeovilton with lots of other cadets. We'd put some of our kit in the back divide of one of the sports halls and gone to register, and there was a parade going on in the hall as we left. Trouble was, we needed the kit quite pronto soon after, so we thought we'd use the rear entrance (ahem) to get to the bit where our kit was without disturbing the parade.

As we (a corporal, flight sergeant and I at the time a sergeant) were trying to get into the door which turned out to be locked, someone shouted quite angrily behind us in a thick Scottish accent,
"What do you think you're doing, stop there and turn around!!!"

Naturally we complied, and found ourselves face to face with a military policeman in possession of an L85 rifle, finger on the safety catch, butt of the weapon already halfway in the shoulder. Clearly ready to shoot us if necessary.

After explaining ourselves he let us go with some stern words about how we shouldn't go trying to access locked doors on a military premises, and that was that. To be fair, I can't say I blame him, we were in civvies at that point, and it was our uniforms we were trying to get hold of! hehe

RedBull

1,142 posts

221 months

Tuesday 25th November 2014
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Back in around 1992, I came off of a roundabout on to a nice bit of straight NSL road at about 1am, nothing on it except 2 cars about 3/4 of a mile ahead. I was on a Yamaha FZR1000 EXUP and I went mental, gave it everything it had (as I tended to do quite a lot back then). I don't know what speed I reached as I only watched the rev counter to stay below explosion revs, but it was stupid speed. As I approached the first car my headlights lit up the fluorescent POLICE writing across the back. Fortunately I had already eased off to around 85 as there was a junction to the right and even in my youth I wasn't stupid enough to overtake there, but I knew it was too late. The Police car flashed it's nearside indicator a couple of times, moved towards the kerb and slowed to around 40. I overtook, waved a thank you and carried on at 60. Within 1/2 mile they'd dropped back so far I took it as persmission to carry on and nailed it again.

Another time, again many years ago, I had a very beaten up Capri Mk2 bought from a mate for £200. It was a real beater: faded, dented, and I'd written stuff all over it with a tyre pen for fun. I got stopped for forgetting my seat belt. At that time I'd owned the car for about 2 weeks. My mate had only owned it for about 3 weeks before selling it to me: he'd bought it for work then realised he couldn't afford the insurance. Plod starts his checks and asked me if I was the owner. Yes, says I. He's about to go to check on the PNC when I told him that I hadn't had it long enough for the DVLA to show me as the owner, I'd bought it from my mate. Ok he says, what's your mates name. Ah, well you see he didn't have it long and didn't get chance to register it in his name either. Ok he says, so who did he buy it from? Um, I don't know his name or where he lives but it was a farmer. He looked at the car and clearly decided that if I was stupid enough to have nicked it then I'd probably done the owner a favour anyway, so he just told me to remember my belt in future and sent me on my way. That wasn't really getting away with anything though as it was all legit, I just couldn't have proved it.

danjama

5,728 posts

141 months

Tuesday 25th November 2014
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A couple of nights ago i was heading down the A13. It was late an night and practically empty. I found myself behind a 1.6 focus coming out of some roadworks. The roadworks had meant the only lane open was the outside lane.

So coming out of the roadworks I wanted to build my speed back up from the 55-60 we were doing to 70-75. I was waiting for the Focus to either move left or speed up, and after about 30 seconds I gave them a flash to wake them up. No response. Another flash. Nothing. I considered undertaking and pulling in front of them with my indicator on to make a point but couldn't be bothered with trying to teach a duck how to suck eggs. So finally i gave a long flash, of about 15 seconds. They finally moved over in to the middle lane and I proceeded to pass.

Had a quick glance as I passed and it's an unmarked car with two plods looking over at me!

I still shook my head at them!

I've got away with worse but don't think I could share on here as it might implicate others smile

555 Paul

782 posts

148 months

Tuesday 25th November 2014
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Too many to list but these 2 stand out for me.

When the Thames flood relief was being built there was a chicane on the M4 whilst they dug up the carriageway to build a bridge. I was working nights and the evening before I realised that I had lost my wallet so I was rushing home the next morning at ridiculous speeds of 130+mph and slowed for the new "chicane" to 75mph and got caught because that section was a 50mph limit with coppers speed gunning. Got the NIP through the post and replied straight back saying it was me and never heard another word! God did I feel lucky considering the speeds I was doing just 1 mile before.

Another one on the M40 many years ago and I was approaching junction 2 where I now know that the Police sit on the bridge but I wanted to pass some slower vehicles before coming off so I ended up entering the slip road at 135mph just as I spot the Police sat on the bridge! Because I wasn't in the outside lane or passing underneath them I don't think they noticed.

I've slowed down since all of those near misses and amazingly I've never had a point on my licence in my life.