Trafpol hypocrisy
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I was on my way to the office driving on a dual carriage way which has a section restricted to 50mph. I saw a police car join the road in the 50 zone a few cars ahead. The road changed to national speed limit and I overtook keeping my speed to 1mph below the limit! The fuzz pulled out behind me a tailed me for a while, obviously trying to see how fast I was going. Once I had passed the slower cars not wanting to go more than 50 still, I pulled in again and eventually the police car sped up and shot passed me (at aprox 85/90). The plod car remained in the outside lane speeding (which I have no problem with), but what he did next annoyed me. The plod car flashed an indicator once and then moved across 2 lanes to come off a slip road where there was another plod car waiting in the lurch. By doing so he caused several cars to have to brake hard. I thought this was really naughty and such a manoeuvre would probably get anyone else done for dangerous driving. He had no blue lights or sirens going.
What made things worse was when I came around the corner there was a camera van sat where the road dropped back down to a restricted limit. 100m or so further a car had been pulled (obviously for going a little bit faster than he should have been). What annoys me about this scenario is the irony of the situation. A police car speeding, then driving badly, then having the cheek to pull people over for going a little bit too fast.
Really winds me up.
/End Rant
What made things worse was when I came around the corner there was a camera van sat where the road dropped back down to a restricted limit. 100m or so further a car had been pulled (obviously for going a little bit faster than he should have been). What annoys me about this scenario is the irony of the situation. A police car speeding, then driving badly, then having the cheek to pull people over for going a little bit too fast.
Really winds me up.
/End Rant
Chrispy Porker said:
Bing o said:
Chrispy Porker said:
Yung Man said:
He was probably on his way to a burning building so that he could rush in and save someones life.
Oh no, I'm thinking of Firemen.
Been there. Done that.Oh no, I'm thinking of Firemen.
- Streaky
anonymous said:
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No actually it happened in the Leeds ring road.I was aproaching a roundabout and in front of me where a police transit van and a police minibus.
Police officers driving both vehicles they were directly in front of my in the right hand lane as we were all turning right.
The roundabout was at a crossroads of two dual carriageways so each road in and out had two lanes.
The police wanted to turn right as their nick was 25 metres off the righthand turn first turning on the left.
When a gap appeared we all set off...
except suddenly the second police vehicle the minibus switched lanes to the centre as we set off even though we were all going right he then used the middle lane to drive AROUND the outside of the police transit I was now behind so they were in effect going side by side around the roundabout. They were looking at each other laughing.
This would have totaly confused traffic waiting to join the roundabout.
It was obvious they suddenly decided to see who could get back to the nick first. They came round the roundabout side by side and were still side by side as they left the roundabout taking up both lanes.
The left turn into the nick they both needed was only 25yrds after they had left the roundabout and the police transit that was in front of me now found itself unable to bear left into the nick because his colleague had kept around his outside even when leaving the roundabout.
So the police van had to slow almost to a stop in front of me allowing his colleague to enter the single road exit to the nick before he followed him in behind.
I would have expected better road behaviour and driving out of a pair of gypsies in transit vans but here was two police officers racing on the highway in full view of the public causing several possiblilities for an accident within 200 metres of driving.
I returned back to the roundabout to go into the nick and report the tossers , however I changed my mind at the last second as I was afraid my reg number would be taken and that my driving would be made difficult with producers etc so I didn't report it.
I saw a lady officer from the same nick driving in the winter with a completely frozen car except for a 6 inch circle scraped in the front windscreen and this was past a school...
so police drivers are they any good?
are they hypocrites?
YES
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