Weirdest police encounter yet
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Evening all, I had a weird interaction with the police recently. For some background I got stopped 6 six times when I started driving, mostly because I worked (and therefore hung out) during the night so they were just checking up on me. Funny the first time, quite annoying by the sixth, no bad experiences though.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
slipknotted said:
Evening all, I had a weird interaction with the police recently. For some background I got stopped 6 six times when I started driving, mostly because I worked (and therefore hung out) during the night so they were just checking up on me. Funny the first time, quite annoying by the sixth, no bad experiences though.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Maybe you were sleep driving. Or your car's been cloned. Either way you clearly failed the attitude test! BTW a speed camera might be set to give you the expected tolerance of 10% +2 but I'm sure you know an actual human plice officer has the discretion to give you the same or greater tolerance, or none at all. If you went past a marked police car at 77mph then you have to admit - it's a fair cop.Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Edited by LunarOne on Tuesday 30th December 21:34
LunarOne said:
slipknotted said:
Evening all, I had a weird interaction with the police recently. For some background I got stopped 6 six times when I started driving, mostly because I worked (and therefore hung out) during the night so they were just checking up on me. Funny the first time, quite annoying by the sixth, no bad experiences though.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Maybe you were sleep driving. Or your car's been cloned. Either way you clearly failed the attitude test! BTW a speed camera might be set to give you the expected tolerance of 10% +2 but I'm sure you know an actual human plice officer has the discretion to give you the same or greater tolerance, or none at all. If you went past a marked police car at 77mph then you have to admit - it's a fair cop.Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Edited by LunarOne on Tuesday 30th December 21:34
slipknotted said:
Evening all, I had a weird interaction with the police recently. For some background I got stopped 6 six times when I started driving, mostly because I worked (and therefore hung out) during the night so they were just checking up on me. Funny the first time, quite annoying by the sixth, no bad experiences though.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Sounds like you passed the attitude test and the Bib realised they had met their match.Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
slipknotted said:
Evening all, I had a weird interaction with the police recently. For some background I got stopped 6 six times when I started driving, mostly because I worked (and therefore hung out) during the night so they were just checking up on me. Funny the first time, quite annoying by the sixth, no bad experiences though.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Attitude test... failed!Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
LunarOne said:
Maybe you were sleep driving. Or your car's been cloned. Either way you clearly failed the attitude test! BTW a speed camera might be set to give you the expected tolerance of 10% +2 but I'm sure you know an actual human plice officer has the discretion to give you the same or greater tolerance, or none at all. If you went past a marked police car at 77mph then you have to admit - it's a fair cop.
What's the police car clocking your speed with...Edited by LunarOne on Tuesday 30th December 21:34
I agree an odd tale - a genuine fail to stop would have been acted on before then and even if overseen then they would not have let it go when they stopped you.
That said, you never overtake plod on a motorway if they’re doing an indicated 70 mph. I did it once as a kid crawling past but got lit up immediately. I apologised profusely admitted that it took the piss , never again officer ever etc, and he sent me on my way. Lesson learned.
That said, you never overtake plod on a motorway if they’re doing an indicated 70 mph. I did it once as a kid crawling past but got lit up immediately. I apologised profusely admitted that it took the piss , never again officer ever etc, and he sent me on my way. Lesson learned.
LunarOne said:
slipknotted said:
Evening all, I had a weird interaction with the police recently. For some background I got stopped 6 six times when I started driving, mostly because I worked (and therefore hung out) during the night so they were just checking up on me. Funny the first time, quite annoying by the sixth, no bad experiences though.
Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Maybe you were sleep driving. Or your car's been cloned. Either way you clearly failed the attitude test! BTW a speed camera might be set to give you the expected tolerance of 10% +2 but I'm sure you know an actual human plice officer has the discretion to give you the same or greater tolerance, or none at all. If you went past a marked police car at 77mph then you have to admit - it's a fair cop.Hadn't had anything in the last 4yrs until two weeks ago, 3am on the M1 S/B passing J10. CC set at 77mph GPS speed, I move from L2 to L3 to accommodate a HGV letting cars into L1 from the slip, One of the cars joining was a police Peugeot, he accelerates to 70 and I toddle past him, weirdly, he then moves into L3 behind me so I move back to L2 and he follows. Weird, goading behavior, don't like that. I continue at 77mph, even going through a speed camera and eventually get off at J8 for my macdonalds, just to be lit up as we approach a petrol station. I pull in, park neatly and the snarky sod trudges over and asks for my keys, I politely decline and chuck them in my pocket, again, weird.
"What's the speed limit on a motorway"
"70 for cars"
"What speed were you doing?"
"70ish" - Code for I know I was doing slightly over, not enough to do me but your tone and the fact you've pulled me at 3am tells me you're being a prick so I'm not going to admit it.
Did the usual checks, asked me where I was going, how long I've owned the car and said my manner of driving was rash, which was a big stretch. I get out the car to drink my coffee and to my surprise four (4) police Volvos turn up and block me in. I give the original officer a look of 'What the fk? are you fking crazy? is this for me you fking moron?'. The extra eight officers surrounding my car do nothing but hang around. Eventually the first officer returns with my license and declares
"The reason we've stopped you is this car failed to stop for police in April on the M1 at 2am" (I'd already told him I've owned it since last December)
I then go off on him and tell him that straight up didn't happen and list all the reasons why that's fking stupid, including but not limited to: I'm a HGV driver, I need my license for work; there is no police car that can't keep up with a 25yr old diesel BMW; his colleagues would've sent an NIP or come and arrested me the next day, etc. Not much response and I was free to go, fking joker.
To this day I have no idea whether he was telling porkies or some copper mistakenly thought my car had run from them. The weird thing is 2am is the time I'd've been driving to work up the M1 in April... As I say, no idea, I'd remember blue lights behind me.
Edited by LunarOne on Tuesday 30th December 21:34
Why would a vocational driver blatantly speed past a marked police car.
Fair enough if they're sitting at 50mph and you go past but by your own words he accelerated up to 70 and then you go to overtake him over the limit at 77 gps which is over 80 on the needle most likely.
Just brain dead piss taking behaviour.
Fair enough if they're sitting at 50mph and you go past but by your own words he accelerated up to 70 and then you go to overtake him over the limit at 77 gps which is over 80 on the needle most likely.
Just brain dead piss taking behaviour.
Just so I’m clear…
The OP was pulled by a Peugeot (so I’ll assume it was a non Traffic / ARV) and then, as if by sheer magic, four double-crewed Volvos suddenly all rocked-up, exactly at the same time as each other, making nine warranted Constables in total, for a very basic traffic stop.
That’s about as plausible as my nine-year-old Nephew trying to convince me that his beloved Huddersfield Town will be back in the Premier League in two seasons time, as he did on Christmas Day.
The OP was pulled by a Peugeot (so I’ll assume it was a non Traffic / ARV) and then, as if by sheer magic, four double-crewed Volvos suddenly all rocked-up, exactly at the same time as each other, making nine warranted Constables in total, for a very basic traffic stop.
That’s about as plausible as my nine-year-old Nephew trying to convince me that his beloved Huddersfield Town will be back in the Premier League in two seasons time, as he did on Christmas Day.
fflump said:
I agree an odd tale - a genuine fail to stop would have been acted on before then and even if overseen then they would not have let it go when they stopped you.
That said, you never overtake plod on a motorway if they re doing an indicated 70 mph. I did it once as a kid crawling past but got lit up immediately. I apologised profusely admitted that it took the piss , never again officer ever etc, and he sent me on my way. Lesson learned.
I dumbly assumed that under 80 and not being flashed by a camera would render me uninteresting but it seems 3am boredness prevailed. I often wonder if I were to be pulled whether to bright and honest or politely say as little as possible; this is the only occasion I've had to make that decision and the big red flag was the copper walking up and asking for my keys, time to keep shtum.That said, you never overtake plod on a motorway if they re doing an indicated 70 mph. I did it once as a kid crawling past but got lit up immediately. I apologised profusely admitted that it took the piss , never again officer ever etc, and he sent me on my way. Lesson learned.
I do wish I had a dashcam recording at the time, I'm normally pretty hot on this but I was replacing the head unit, installing a reverse camera and hard wiring in a dashcam that saves to an SSD at the time so the dashcam was fitted but not wired in. Serves me right for being lazy, now I don't get brownie points from strangers on the internet.
The running theories for the 'fail to stop' are:
1) Some plod saw me doing 85mph at 2am on the way to work, noted the reg and somehow thought they'd made an attempt to catch up/stop me without doing so, whilst I've toddled off to work with a distinct lack of blue lights in the rear view? Implausible and silly but it's the best I've got.
2) The cop who stopped me was telling porkies because his sixth sense was off that day.
hidetheelephants said:
Speed past a copper on the motorway, complain about attracting the attention of a bored copper. You've answered your own question.
Not bothered about the speed, if he had the evidence to do me, he could've, it's the alleged fail to stop that peaks my interest. That's a very serious accusation to be throwing around. If I, as a HGV driver, don't see a police car trying to pull me over in the dead of night then either I'm nowhere near fit to drive or a copper somewhere has made a decently sized mistake or fiddled with the truth. Both in such a way that would seriously affect my livelihood.OP - he asked for your keys so why not give them to him?
If I was in your situation I’d want to get back on my way asap and (to me) the quickest way of doing that would be to do whatever the policeman asked. Refusing to do what he asked and giving him “are you a f’king moron” looks probably isn’t going to help with that.
If I was in your situation I’d want to get back on my way asap and (to me) the quickest way of doing that would be to do whatever the policeman asked. Refusing to do what he asked and giving him “are you a f’king moron” looks probably isn’t going to help with that.
Edited by Countdown on Wednesday 31st December 08:43
Coming up the M1 northwards one Saturday afternoon just between where the M25 adjoins and the exit for Hemel Hempstead . I had pulled into the outside lane to allow room for traffic joining the motorway and as I attempted to pull back across to the left an unmarked saloon kept pace alongside preventing me from doing this. Driving a Porsche sometimes you get People attempting to goad you into a race so I touched the throttle possibly momentarily hitting 90 mph got past the unmarked saloon pulled over to the left and settled down to no more than 70mph . To my horror on come the blue lights from the unmarked saloon and I pull onto the hard shoulder . "What was all that about"? asked the solitary Officer . Decently and politely I explained my position then he told me his .
Apparently I had been nudging 80mph in the outside lane and he had attempted to pull alongside me in order to signal that I should slow down . I apologised for the confusion and my exceeding of the 70mph limit , the car was immaculate , I had a solitary three points from a couple of years back which I admitted to when asked , I was in my mid fifties with the mrs sat alongside , what more could I say ? "Your lucky I'm heading back for a bit of lunch" was the Officers reply , " cameras are mounted on the gantries so watch your speed " advising me of the proper way to rejoin the carriage way he bid me good day and was gone .
It's been said a million times on here that attitude is everything . In 45 years of driving I have never had an unpleasant experience with a Traffic Officer . I have however had plenty bad experiences with mouthy , ignorant HGV drivers who feel as "Professional Drivers" they have the right to bully and intimidate other road users .
Apparently I had been nudging 80mph in the outside lane and he had attempted to pull alongside me in order to signal that I should slow down . I apologised for the confusion and my exceeding of the 70mph limit , the car was immaculate , I had a solitary three points from a couple of years back which I admitted to when asked , I was in my mid fifties with the mrs sat alongside , what more could I say ? "Your lucky I'm heading back for a bit of lunch" was the Officers reply , " cameras are mounted on the gantries so watch your speed " advising me of the proper way to rejoin the carriage way he bid me good day and was gone .
It's been said a million times on here that attitude is everything . In 45 years of driving I have never had an unpleasant experience with a Traffic Officer . I have however had plenty bad experiences with mouthy , ignorant HGV drivers who feel as "Professional Drivers" they have the right to bully and intimidate other road users .
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