Not as painful as it sounds, actually. Last night, I was leaving a petrol station, and a couple of coppers stopped me on the forecourt. I was thinking "Oh bugger, he's going to give me a producer for some imaginary offence", so I wound the window down.

Turns out, they wanted to ask about the car, and to moan about the diesel Astras they are lumbered with. Quite a relief, really, and really nice to talk to a copper who wasn't an arrogant boor. He seemed really interested in the motor.

Most are. They normally laugh at the 1.4 badge on the back of mine

A mechanic mate of mine had a drunk poke at a patrol car in Okehampton which had a rear light out, mumbling something along the lines of "I'd fail that in an MOT test.." Luckily PC plod had a reasonable sense of humour.

Most traffic cops are interested in cars -they're just pushed so hard to get the conviction figures. My mate, (who was a traffic cop in the 70's) often used to meet up with a friendly motoring journalist at various service stations, so he could see what his latest "tester" was. Apparently, they caused some concern one night when "testing" a Porche 911 turbo on the M1 -in uniform!

Phil

Originally posted by TaviaRS in this post

They normally laugh at the 1.4 badge on the back of mine.

JOn, are you sure it's the badge they are laughing at and not something else?

Now now Denis, envy can be a terrible thing:D

'caught by the fuzz' Better than getting swung round by the t*ts..... The old ones are the best.