I often enjoy driving in the left lane on the motorway at about 65mph and then pulling out and accelerating to catch up with a car that has gone past!

The best one is ****heads with a mobile phone stuck to their heads. I went past some knob in a Freelander doing that, one sideways glance with my sunnies on and the phone was dropped like a hot potato

It's hard to keep a straight face when that happens.

I often enjoy driving in the left lane on the motorway at about 65mph and then pulling out and accelerating to catch up with a car that has gone past!

That's what I do. Works well.

not just me then.........

This is all very bizarre!

I know someone who spent weeks on the motorways in a fully marked car with blues and twos going full throttle and people simply didn't even suss on they were behind them. :confused: Maybe the police should just drive unmarked Octavias all the time

The best one is ****heads with a mobile phone stuck to their heads. I went past some knob in a Freelander doing that, one sideways glance with my sunnies on and the phone was dropped like a hot potato

It's hard to keep a straight face when that happens.

I just shout at them in the tesco's car park when they decide to turn left with no indication and nearly hit me and swmob for the knob to stop and all his chav mates stare at me through the rear window and swmbo tell me to keep walking... cant think why i think i would have shoved his phone somewhere the sun didnt shine and then it would ahve been a personal handsfree phone

Why don't I get this reaction?! I'm actually a copper, frequently travel to and from work in shirt/tie in my clean race blue Octy vRS and the best I get is people trying to race me, not get out of my way!

and you dont wave your warrent card at them then~?

It happened again tonight.

Was on a quick run home tonight from Kent to Bournemouth and everything in front of me on the M25, M3 and M27 just moved over.

Moses would have been very proud...............it was like the parting of the red sea

Happy days:P

Which is established by case law to require you to both look and behave like a PO at close range, for certain specified purposes. Not just to look vaguely like a PO from 200 yards away. I'm sure you know the details better than I do, but "owning a white car with a hi-vis jacket in it" is not an offence!

Ah, i thought he had meant "Instant Pull Over" lol. Either way there is nothing anyone can do about a hi-vi on the shelf as there are a million reasons for it - ranging from "i work on a building site" to "i might drive to france soon so bought one for that" to "i am paranoid about breaking down and not being seen - and what if the boot wont open"

Having said that, can i really be arsed with the hassle of doing somehting that might give the local plod a reason to stop me? No. Even if they havent got a leg to stand on,they've still wasted ten minutes of my time and theirs.

This is all very bizarre!

I know someone who spent weeks on the motorways in a fully marked car with blues and twos going full throttle and people simply didn't even suss on they were behind them. :confused: Maybe the police should just drive unmarked Octavias all the time

I must admit that i havent had it (that i've noticed) either. Ashford (or nearby) have a race blue hatch too and i've still had planety of people blat past me.

The Hi-Viz jacket on the parcel shelf thing, most of my mates have an opinion of those kind of people. It's pathetic and you're not fooling me that's for sure! I can't think of many worse places in a car that I could store something that I might need in a hurry than on the parcel shelf!

In fact, I'm surprised that this usually (reasonably) intelligent forum has a significant number of users that profess to 'playing policeman'

I'm not saying it hasn't happened to me, though. I remember when I first got my PDA with TomTom back in about 2003 when in-car satnav was still pretty unusual. On my way up to the Lakes on the M6 me and my wife became aware that hardly any cars had overtaken us for about 10 miles. From behind the brightly lit PDA screen must have looked like some kind of policing system.

I didn't install it with the express intention of making myself out to be a policeman, though

Having driven a white Maestro with a fire brigade crest on the doors and blue lights fitted (which I was not allowed to use) I can tell you it's no fun when you are trying to get from place to place and do your job. This was in the 90s when local plod had almost identical patrol cars, and everyone would slow to 28 mph in front. It was much better to have my usual red van.

The Hi-Viz jacket on the parcel shelf thing, most of my mates have an opinion of those kind of people. It's pathetic and you're not fooling me that's for sure! I can't think of many worse places in a car that I could store something that I might need in a hurry than on the parcel shelf!

In fact, I'm surprised that this usually (reasonably) intelligent forum has a significant number of users that profess to 'playing policeman'

I'm not saying it hasn't happened to me, though. I remember when I first got my PDA with TomTom back in about 2003 when in-car satnav was still pretty unusual. On my way up to the Lakes on the M6 me and my wife became aware that hardly any cars had overtaken us for about 10 miles. From behind the brightly lit PDA screen must have looked like some kind of policing system.

I didn't install it with the express intention of making myself out to be a policeman, though

I wouldlike to make it clear that I do not "play plod" or anything like that, the occurances described are just a by product of driving my white octy normally.

And I certainly don't deliberately drive round with a hi-vi on display

I dont know about anyone else but i always dream of having blue flashing lights tucked into my radiator grill to get me home quicker

I wouldlike to make it clear that I do not "play plod" or anything like that, the occurances described are just a by product of driving my white octy normally.

And I certainly don't deliberately drive round with a hi-vi on display

I wasn't commenting on your white car antics, clearly (to me anyway), you didn't buy a white car so you can pretend to be a policeman

I wasn't commenting on your white car antics, clearly (to me anyway), you didn't buy a white car so you can pretend to be a policeman

"Pretend to be a Policeman"...............what I do with SWMBO when the curtains are closed is my business