Should have been in trouble with the law but they helped me

[Allegro_Snapon]

Just watching..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNf5Q4foYlk

..reminded me of younger hitchhiking days which pretty much always went well until one Bank Holiday coming from Lancaster the guy giving me and Paggy a lift to Manchester realised the M6 didn't go to Manchester and threw us out his car on Thelwall viaduct.

(Metaphorically, not physically).

However, this was late 1980s when Thelwall was only one viaduct and the lanes and the hard shoulder were narrow. He reckoned we could climb off the viaduct down to the A56 at Lymm and get a lift to Manchester from there. Yep if one could magically abseil sans rope 60 ft.

Within 5 minutes Traffic Police picked us up, quizzed us pronto took us into their car and down to the slip for Lymm Services. And then took pity on us as they realised we were penniless students and gave us a 20 mile ride all the way up the M56 to the bottom of Princess Parkway in Wythenshawe and left us there, with a stern telling off about walking on hard shoulder, cleaning dead hitchhikers off fronts of lorrys and next time don't be tight arses and pay £3 for National Express.

[mikebradford]

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

[bigpriest]

20 miles from Lymm to Wythenshawe down the M56? For the millionth time, stop exaggerating

[Allegro_Snapon]

Apologies, not being a driver at the time (hence hitching) that was a guess. From three decades ago. Please accept my apologies for a 25% error in distance, wholeheartedly.

Here speaketh Google of the true 14.75 miles distance.

Glad to see Pisteadanyrty is alive and well this every corner of the forum.

[Chrisgr31]

Many years ago a colleague of mine was given a lift home by the Police having slept on the train and missed his stop. No trains back. The Police werent busy so gave him a lift. He regretted it when they turned in to his road and they turned on the lights and siren! His plan to slip in to the house unnoticed was thwarted!

[anonymous-user]

mikebradford said:

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

You really felt the need to share that?

Its fking disgusting and best left unsaid.

[bigpriest]

Allegro_Snapon said:

Apologies, not being a driver at the time (hence hitching) that was a guess. From three decades ago. Please accept my apologies for a 25% error in distance, wholeheartedly.

Here speaketh Google of the true 14.75 miles distance.

Glad to see Pisteadanyrty is alive and well this every corner of the forum.

Apologies, I made a quick estimate and thought it was about 10 miles. Must have been a crazy person to drop you off on top of Thelwall - plenty of other places to stop. Anyway, "Pisteadanyrty" is a requirement to ensure accuracy.

[Nickp82]

Not the Clash’s best song

[Blue62]

Never been able to verify the story, but it’s claimed the Thelwall viaduct originally had a hard shoulder and one dark night, many moons ago, a coach driver pulled over to let a few boozed up passengers out to relieve themselves. One of them decided to jump over the barrier into what he thought was a field and fell to his death, which resulted in the removal of hard shoulders on raised sections. No idea if it’s true, but it’s a cool story (ish).

[Eric Mc]

lord trumpton said:

mikebradford said:

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

You really felt the need to share that?

Its fking disgusting and best left unsaid.

Agreed. It's amazing what information people are willing to share. I found it quite nauseous.

[vaud]

As a 16 year old I was a bit (very) pissed and cycling home on the pavement.

Police stopped me, saw what state I was in, popped the wheels off my bike, put it in the boot and took me home whilst telling me about the kid they had scraped off the road the previous week and how they had to tell the parents of their loss.

Kindly they watched me walk to the door... without waking my parents.

[KAgantua]

lord trumpton said:

mikebradford said:

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

You really felt the need to share that?

Its fking disgusting and best left unsaid.

Go on, your bro killed the girl and the period story was a cover, right?

[Spare tyre]

vaud said:

As a 16 year old I was a bit (very) pissed and cycling home on the pavement.

Police stopped me, saw what state I was in, popped the wheels off my bike, put it in the boot and took me home whilst telling me about the kid they had scraped off the road the previous week and how they had to tell the parents of their loss.

Kindly they watched me walk to the door... without waking my parents.

Good policing

[straight dad]

We're not all heartless, came across a lad on the hard shoulder (Eastern European) who had been ditched by colleagues coming here to work (all his paper work worked out so no need for Police involvement). Not a word of English and only £10 in his pocket, with the help of Google translate worked out that all he wanted to do was go home. Best solution was to get him to his nearest Embassy, so bought him a train ticket, sandwiches and a handful of McDonalds coffee vouchers and dropped him off at the railway station. Hopefully he got home on the other hand he could now be a major player in an OCG!

[cobra kid]

In 2000 I drove the wife's car and made a stupid overtaking mistake, going around a car transporter, almost going head on into a Ford Scorpio coming the other way. Him stopping and swerving prevented a big smash.

The driver of the Scorpio turned up at our house the following evening. Yep, he was a traffic copper just going off duty when I almost drove into him.

He proceeded to scare the living daylights out of me, telling me what possible custodial sentences I could expect in the worst case. Also telling me to expect a court summons letter through the post.

For three months, every time the post dropped on the doormat, I felt my stomach boil.

I heard nothing then and still haven't. st scary at the time, but in hindsight, damn good policing. I've not done anything like it since.

Edited by cobra kid on Wednesday 6th April 12:28

[Eric Mc]

But it was a Scorpio????

Writing one off would have been a plus to the world of motoring.

[77th Brigade]

Eric Mc said:

lord trumpton said:

mikebradford said:

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

You really felt the need to share that?

Its fking disgusting and best left unsaid.

Agreed. It's amazing what information people are willing to share. I found it quite nauseous.

It's a very, very old urban myth that even I heard back in the 70's, but still disgusting.

[Rh14n]

77th Brigade said:

Eric Mc said:

lord trumpton said:

mikebradford said:

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

You really felt the need to share that?

Its fking disgusting and best left unsaid.

Agreed. It's amazing what information people are willing to share. I found it quite nauseous.

It's a very, very old urban myth that even I heard back in the 70's, but still disgusting.

I call Custard. No Police Officer would be naive enough to believe their explanation without further investigation.

[anonymous-user]

Rh14n said:

77th Brigade said:

Eric Mc said:

lord trumpton said:

mikebradford said:

It's a great story and I reckon plenty of police would still help you out, just maybe not the full 20 miles.

My brother and mate got stopped by police late in the morning both covered in blood.
Police thought they had been upto no good
When they explained they had both got lucky with a girl outside in the dark who turned out to be on her period they thought it hilarious and gave them a lift home.

You really felt the need to share that?

Its fking disgusting and best left unsaid.

Agreed. It's amazing what information people are willing to share. I found it quite nauseous.

It's a very, very old urban myth that even I heard back in the 70's, but still disgusting.

I call Custard. No Police Officer would be naive enough to believe their explanation without further investigation.

Poster is from Bradford.
It's a different world where anything can happen.
A lot of Bradford dwelling folk are as thick as mince.

[TUS373]

Blue62 said:

Never been able to verify the story, but it’s claimed the Thelwall viaduct originally had a hard shoulder and one dark night, many moons ago, a coach driver pulled over to let a few boozed up passengers out to relieve themselves. One of them decided to jump over the barrier into what he thought was a field and fell to his death, which resulted in the removal of hard shoulders on raised sections. No idea if it’s true, but it’s a cool story (ish).

I uses to live in Lymm and have heard the same story. Version I got was that coach was on way back from Rugby and it was very foggy. As you say though, allegedly someone thought it safer to be on the other side of the barrier. Always made me wonder if it was a drop into the Manchester Ship Canal or embankment. Either way, it's 60 foot drop.