Today's efforts...
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Been out for "a play" in the unmarked today, complete with ProVida...
Start the day with one "report for summons" for due care (lane changing, tailgating, multiple overtaking on nearside, well in excess of speed limit, at rush hour, in the p1$$1ng rain, for about four or five miles until it was safe for me to stop him).
The usual crop of polite "but firm" reminders re seat belts (plus a couple of FPN for the unconverted...)
Half a dozen or so sheds pulled, two PG9'd by colleagues, all given HORT 1
Two statements and one contemporaneous interview for a couple of accidents I've got on the go.
The usual "on your way past, can you just..." from comms
And to round it all off at a quarter to finish time: obs put out for drink driver, who narrowly misses me by barrelling out of one way side street the wrong way, then fails to stop and tries to make off, only to get held up in traffic, and me to hop out of my car, grip him and lock him up. He then blows 94 on the station device (the legal limit) being 35. He is (or was) a taxi driver. In his taxi...
Start the day with one "report for summons" for due care (lane changing, tailgating, multiple overtaking on nearside, well in excess of speed limit, at rush hour, in the p1$$1ng rain, for about four or five miles until it was safe for me to stop him).
The usual crop of polite "but firm" reminders re seat belts (plus a couple of FPN for the unconverted...)
Half a dozen or so sheds pulled, two PG9'd by colleagues, all given HORT 1
Two statements and one contemporaneous interview for a couple of accidents I've got on the go.
The usual "on your way past, can you just..." from comms
And to round it all off at a quarter to finish time: obs put out for drink driver, who narrowly misses me by barrelling out of one way side street the wrong way, then fails to stop and tries to make off, only to get held up in traffic, and me to hop out of my car, grip him and lock him up. He then blows 94 on the station device (the legal limit) being 35. He is (or was) a taxi driver. In his taxi...
Today does seem to be national twat day 
Spot on with the tailgater and esp. the drink driver. Still we all know that a properly placed speed camera would have done a much better job
Did the taxi driver try to give any excuse or after being caught did he just "take it like a man" (or the nearest approimation to a man that a taxi driver can get!)
Spot on with the tailgater and esp. the drink driver. Still we all know that a properly placed speed camera would have done a much better job
Did the taxi driver try to give any excuse or after being caught did he just "take it like a man" (or the nearest approimation to a man that a taxi driver can get!)
Dibble said:
Been out for "a play" in the unmarked today, complete with ProVida...
Start the day with one "report for summons" for due care (lane changing, tailgating, multiple overtaking on nearside, well in excess of speed limit, at rush hour, in the p1$$1ng rain, for about four or five miles until it was safe for me to stop him).
The usual crop of polite "but firm" reminders re seat belts (plus a couple of FPN for the unconverted...)
Half a dozen or so sheds pulled, two PG9'd by colleagues, all given HORT 1
Two statements and one contemporaneous interview for a couple of accidents I've got on the go.
The usual "on your way past, can you just..." from comms
And to round it all off at a quarter to finish time: obs put out for drink driver, who narrowly misses me by barrelling out of one way side street the wrong way, then fails to stop and tries to make off, only to get held up in traffic, and me to hop out of my car, grip him and lock him up. He then blows 94 on the station device (the legal limit) being 35. He is (or was) a taxi driver. In his taxi...
good work fella, hope Brunstrom's reading
I want more Dibbles!
MORE DIBBLES UND NEIN TO SCAMERAS!
That loud enough for you to get message -- lieber Steve und lieber Dahhhhlink und mein lieber Herr Braindead von Wales?
Keep up the gute Arbeit - Liebchen - und if that was you I spotted mit that tailgater that time - then you are are OK-ish in looks too!
MORE DIBBLES UND NEIN TO SCAMERAS! That loud enough for you to get message -- lieber Steve und lieber Dahhhhlink und mein lieber Herr Braindead von Wales?
Keep up the gute Arbeit - Liebchen - und if that was you I spotted mit that tailgater that time - then you are are OK-ish in looks too!
or the tw@t's who use the hard shoulder, but decide when its time to re-enter the carriageway they do so at 5mph, and as they are 90 years old and driving a clapped out austin metro takes 2.5 weeks to hit 50. Then i'm travelling at 72 in 1st lane and run up the arse of them at 40 cos my ABS is good but not that 
ing good, there are vehicles in the middle lane so i can't take evasive action.
Luckily i didn't because i used the hard shoulder, but if i did hit them (it would invariably been my fault) i would have been banged up for 15 to life, and had my licence revoked for 4 million years and had to pay the national debt of Indonesia as a fine. On appeal I would have had the fine doubled and branded "Criminal" on my forehead with a big hot poker, then shipped off to Australia.
ing good, there are vehicles in the middle lane so i can't take evasive action. Luckily i didn't because i used the hard shoulder, but if i did hit them (it would invariably been my fault) i would have been banged up for 15 to life, and had my licence revoked for 4 million years and had to pay the national debt of Indonesia as a fine. On appeal I would have had the fine doubled and branded "Criminal" on my forehead with a big hot poker, then shipped off to Australia.
dazfoz said:
i would have been banged up for 15 to life, and had my licence revoked for 4 million years and had to pay the national debt of Indonesia as a fine. On appeal I would have had the fine doubled and branded "Criminal" on my forehead with a big hot poker, then shipped off to Australia.
Sorry mate, that penalty is already earmarked for a truckie who wears a loud shirt after dark or steps on the cracks in the pavement.
Steve
Dibble said:
And to round it all off at a quarter to finish time: obs put out for drink driver, who narrowly misses me by barrelling out of one way side street the wrong way, then fails to stop and tries to make off, only to get held up in traffic, and me to hop out of my car, grip him and lock him up. He then blows 94 on the station device (the legal limit) being 35. He is (or was) a taxi driver. In his taxi...
Nice one.
One question. Was he a properly licensed hackney carriage driver or a scrote in a shed of a minicab?
dazfoz said:
i would have been banged up for 15 to life, and had my licence revoked for 4 million years and had to pay the national debt of Indonesia as a fine. On appeal I would have had the fine doubled and branded "Criminal" on my forehead with a big hot poker, then shipped off to Australia.
you were lucky
towman said:
Was he a properly licensed hackney carriage driver or a scrote in a shed of a minicab?
Properly licensed driver... for now.
He was that p1$$ed, he couldn't stand up without me holding him up. He could barely talk, and I think the main reason he failed to stop might have been because he was so pissed, he couldn't see further than two inches.
Dibble said:
Was he a properly licensed hackney carriage driver or a scrote in a shed of a minicab?
Properly licensed driver... for now.
He was that p1$$ed, he couldn't stand up without me holding him up. He could barely talk, and I think the main reason he failed to stop might have been because he was so pissed, he couldn't see further than two inches.
Thats a shame. As a Hackney Carriage owner (not driver), I thought I could have a good ol` rant about bloody minicabs!
Still a good effort though. Keep twats like this off the street.
Steve
dazfoz said:
or the tw@t's who use the hard shoulder, but decide when its time to re-enter the carriageway they do so at 5mph, and as they are 90 years old and driving a clapped out austin metro takes 2.5 weeks to hit 50. Then i'm travelling at 72 in 1st lane and run up the arse of them at 40 cos my ABS is good but not that
Happened to me last sunday.
I saw him pull away, and moved from lane 2 to lane 3 so the truck I was passing could move out.
The truck behind couldn't as there was a car in lane 2 passing him.
Numpty proceeds to accelerate to the dizzy heights of 20mph, and joined lane 1.
How the trucker missed him I'll never know.
Dibble said:Well done Dibbs. Good one. "Back of the net" as Streetcop would say. We need more like you and less scams.
Been out for "a play" in the unmarked today, complete with ProVida...
Start the day with one "report for summons" for due care (lane changing, tailgating, multiple overtaking on nearside, well in excess of speed limit, at rush hour, in the p1$$1ng rain, for about four or five miles until it was safe for me to stop him).
The usual crop of polite "but firm" reminders re seat belts (plus a couple of FPN for the unconverted...)
Half a dozen or so sheds pulled, two PG9'd by colleagues, all given HORT 1
Two statements and one contemporaneous interview for a couple of accidents I've got on the go.
The usual "on your way past, can you just..." from comms
And to round it all off at a quarter to finish time: obs put out for drink driver, who narrowly misses me by barrelling out of one way side street the wrong way, then fails to stop and tries to make off, only to get held up in traffic, and me to hop out of my car, grip him and lock him up. He then blows 94 on the station device (the legal limit) being 35. He is (or was) a taxi driver. In his taxi...
Dibble said:
and I think the main reason he failed to stop might have been because he was so pissed, he couldn't see further than two inches.
Have you checked whether he needs glasses to drive?
If not I think you may have missed the 'extra detail' and he may get off too lightly.
Plod's ! You are all the same, smug.
Er Joking ! About these sheds, perhaps you can explain how a 6 x 8 foot tanalised timber construction can be road legal.
About these sheds, I have a Fully Legal and Road worthy shed (although my comments about glasses may apply to MOT man as I've had to fix a number of small faults which must have been there at the MOT) and have noticed that I get followed for about 3/4 of a mile before plod then do a U turn. I assume that is the time to do a SORN or not Check ?
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