recently ive bin pulled twice by our local law enforcers

firstly by accident i was mistaken for a 4x4 owner who stole a whole ATM machine :wonder:

and the second because he didnt think i looked old enough to be driving a land rover apparently, even though im 6'4" he did say sorry then checked my truck to see if he could catch me out on tyres etc cheeky g-it :p

i didnt have this much trouble with my neons (much)

hopeful they mite stop for a while now though

I have only ever been pulled over once in Hull where they were doing random vehicle checks.

The only thing they found was a brake light out. Weird that I had just checked them the day before. He was very impressed I carried spares though!

Phil

recently ive bin pulled twice by our local law enforcers

firstly by accident i was mistaken for a 4x4 owner who stole a whole ATM machine :wonder:

and the second because he didnt think i looked old enough to be driving a land rover apparently, even though im 6'4" he did say sorry then checked my truck to see if he could catch me out on tyres etc cheeky g-it :p

i didnt have this much trouble with my neons (much)

hopeful they mite stop for a while now though

well if you were born in 89, then I'd probably have agreed with him on the old enough comment :$ Sorry

Bearing in mind the state of some landrovers, I'd take a guess that he wanted to give it the once over and used that as his excuse to stop you so he could check.

Edited 19 May, 201016 yr by cheezemonkhai

i had that, a young copper.

i was driving a OLD 'D' reg Mk2 Jetta home from college (dropping someone off) he followed me for about 10 min, i pulled off to drop my mate off and he carried on, stopped up to let mate out next thing i know the copper is behind me 'Sneeky f***r' any who, copper get out comes over to my window.

PC - 'What are you lads upto?'

Me - 'Dropping my mate home from college'

PC - 'Where have you been then?'

Me Biting my tounge - 'College!'

PC - 'Where are you off to?'

Me really about to be sarcastic - 'Home!'

At this point he realises what he said and gets new copper mode on....

PC - 'have you got anything in the car you shouldent have?' No time to answer 'Like drugs!'

Me with open hands displaying the car - 'No, would you like to have a look'

He then realise he has nothing and 'tells me to be on my way' then goes back to the car looking really dissapointed.

At no point did he ask for ID which i found odd......

Funny as hell though

I used to have a mate who'd lost an eye when he was a kid. Sometimes his glass eye would start to hurt so he wore an eye patch. If he had his patch on and drove at night he would always get stopped. It only came to an end when every traffic cop in town got to know him!

Reminds me of Billy Connolly's story about his one eyed mate who wrote off his Porsche when he got something in his good eye...........

Phil

Edited 19 May, 201016 yr by philc

they've got to have reason, if they stop you three times within a month for nothing you can get an injunction against them based on harrassment, a friend has this as he got stopped something like 9 times in 3 weeks, because he had a brand new £23000 vxr astra at 19, the police felt he was too young and constantly stopped him looking for faults, they even issued him a fine for an illegal exhaust which was manufacturer fit, which the manufacturer paid the fine on his behalf, admittedly the exhausts on the vxrs are quite loud standard though, but what faults did they expect to find on a brand new car with very few miles?

my Land Rover is only 11years old thank you very much and in good condition for a truck that age plus a few dents but hey its a landy there not ment to be perfect and the back door doesnt sit quite right also the starter motor nearly fell out the other day but besides that nt a bad shape for its age and low mileage (93000) still running strong original turbo

just because im young and have a Land Rover doesnt mean in boring or such forth im just exploring a new kind of road to get from A to B

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PS theres endless possibilities for pratting around in a 4X4

I used to get stopped all the time when diving my step-mums GTi when I was 19, so much so that I joked with one policeman that I was going to get my license laminated so the constant unfolding didn't wear it out...

But when diving my dads Scorpio (2.9l V6) got a lot of second looks from coppers but was never stopped... That car was quicker in a straight line and cost more than the GTi did... Go figure

GTI = highly stolen

GTI = highly stolen

I should have mentioned it was a Montego Estate GTI (with optional rear facing seats in the boot) so not quite as desirable as the Golf 

I should have mentioned it was a Montego Estate GTI (with optional rear facing seats in the boot) so not quite as desirable as the Golf 

they probably decided nobody under the age of 40 would touch one of them legitimately!

It was a surprising quick car to be honest. Fell apart due to normal Longbridge build quality but was capabable of a surprise or two...

It was a surprising quick car to be honest. Fell apart due to normal Longbridge build quality but was capabable of a surprise or two...

Like how suprising it was when bits didn't fall off?

Like how suprising it was when bits didn't fall off?

Doesn't that give you a clue as to why they changed the name from British Motor Corporation ( aka Badly Made Cars).

Now on the police stops -funniest one I know of was the tale of a local taxi driver one Saturday night . His vehicle - one of the first Black Cabs in the town .About a mile out of town ,at the busiest time of the night ( about 2am) ,he was flagged down by two of Warks finest - to hear one laugh ,and the other apologise "Sorry I didn't think it was a taxi".Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the local nick that night at the end of the shift .

I once had a garden table and chairs delivered and the guy arrived quite shaken up. He'd got stopped, crossing the Pennines by firearms officers. Turned out his van had been cloned and used in an armed robbery.

Edited 26 May, 201016 yr by wega3k

When I was 18/19 I was a named driver for my Dad's company 3 series. I was regularly followed around town by plod but never stopped.

In fact [touch wood] I've never been pulled over by plod in 16 years of driving cars and riding bikes.

I used to get pulled a lot in my old galant, a left hooker vr4 on german plates usually for speeding, i just used to say look its in kmph so i just have to guess, maybe it was just too much hassle to prosecute me

I should have mentioned it was a Montego Estate GTI (with optional rear facing seats in the boot) so not quite as desirable as the Golf 

A Montego Turbo was one of the most terrifying cars I ever drove. Basically a standard 2.0 engine with a truck turbo bolted on. The torque steer when I drove it took me across 3 lanes of the A1 at 80mph. Luckily, it was just after midnight at the time. Quick as hell, but you'd almost certainly crash if you tried to race in it.

Phil

I used to get pulled a lot in my old galant, a left hooker vr4 on german plates usually for speeding, i just used to say look its in kmph so i just have to guess, maybe it was just too much hassle to prosecute me

If only your German had been good

A Montego Turbo was one of the most terrifying cars I ever drove. Basically a standard 2.0 engine with a truck turbo bolted on. The torque steer when I drove it took me across 3 lanes of the A1 at 80mph. Luckily, it was just after midnight at the time. Quick as hell, but you'd almost certainly crash if you tried to race in it.

Phil

I'll agree with you there, Same with the Maestro Turbo. The 0-60 time was supposed to 6.7secs I beleive but it was only capable of doing it once, then something broke. Had a test drive in one and scared the hell out of me. I played safe and bought the normal MG Maestro 2.0I , good car got me all round Europe at a good pace too but fell apart with rust in those stupid sills.

I was pulled over in my Fabia about 4 years ago because I avoided a pothole by moving slightly over the centreline (no cars coming the other way and no overtaking restrictions). While I was pulled over, the young PC made some remark about how the insurance must cost an awful lot, which was a thinly veiled hint that I might not be insured. Evidently the panda car didn't have ANPR, or it did but it wasn't working or it did but the driver wasn't working. Either way, I volunteered the information following her remark.

I have no issue though really; that was a bit daft but it only stopped me for 5 minutes and tbh I'd never make an issue about it because hopefully these random stops end up with a collar when they pull over someone who turns out to be intoxicated / uninsured / unroadworthy etc.

Edited 1 June, 201016 yr by yashicamat

The cops won't stop you just for the hell of it, or for something to do, they just don't have the time. If they stopped you they thought they had a reason, but they're only human sometimes they get it wrong.

i think they do if not they come up with some really bad reasons

because apprently turning into an open junction at 30 when there is no traffic or people around was too quick and advised me to slow it down

also he told me i had no insurance he didnt like it when i showed him the certificate saying i have

he proceed to try and find something wrong but then gave up when i produced modified insurance documents had valid tax an MOT and 5 good tyres

after all this i did a little wheel spin when pulling away haha Hampshire Constabulary maybe next time

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The cops won't stop you just for the hell of it, or for something to do, they just don't have the time. If they stopped you they thought they had a reason, but they're only human sometimes they get it wrong.

Do explain to me why I was stopped by a copper for having my front fog lights on in a car that had no front fog lights?

I do agree that most won't, but there is always one in every force.

The cops won't stop you just for the hell of it, or for something to do, they just don't have the time. If they stopped you they thought they had a reason, but they're only human sometimes they get it wrong.

For the most part coppers are ok. Have known a few. Although one has admitted to me pulling over a new model of Aston Martin just so he could take a look inside it. :yes:

As for shreadings89 performing his little wheelspin, not cool fella. Just a sure way to get pulled next time they see you. They're doing a job, I doubt it was personal, don't take it as so eh?