Entrapment avoided

Ar$eholes the lot of them :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: .
They seem to be having a bit of a purge round my area just now,know someone who has just been done for 116mph :cry: .He has no excuses but it was on a 3 lane carriageway at 11.30 at night with no other motorists about.
 
I've had this happen to me before too, but in a volvo... Its terrible... But they have to get their bonuses somehow.


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Had similar on the M8 a couple of years ago, car comes off a slip road, straight over into the overtaking lane, zooms up to hog my backside (I'm overtaking a stream of commuter traffic, doing around 70 - 75) was so close his headlights were hidden from view. I accelerated to around 80 - 85 to get away from him and pulled in shortly afterwards. He pulls in behind, hits the blues & twos, and we pull off at the next junction. He proceeded to lecture me on driving fast, asked why I accelerated off and wasn't best pleased when I said because I was avoiding being rear-ended by the numpty behind me. Luckily got away with no points/fine etc.
 
This is absolutely disgusting behaviour, but not a new tactic as others have said.

A guy I used to work with was driving home from a late shift at about 10:30pm when all of a sudden an evo came tearing up his rear end, then backed off and kept repeating this. He was in a fiesta st and had enough so accelerated and then another car appeared.

They both pulled him over and gave him points. This was about 5 years ago.

cameras are definitely a good idea, just make sure you get rid of any bad evidence.
 
The umarked cars are harder to spot in our area. They use all sorts of cars of different colours. Red Mazda 6, Blue Skoda Octavia and Black M3 that I know about. They also have 2 unmarked bikes. Black Hondas.
Years ago they had a dark green Volvo T5 which was fitted with a towbar which caught a lot of people out.
 
Stuart Truman said:
Needed to drop IMmie into Dick Lovett to get the skipping CD looked at so a commute into Swindon was required.

I decide to risk the M4 roadworks as it's the Easter hols so trundled along doing my usual speed (indicated 80, 75 on the GPS) which normally avoids unwanted attention. So minding my own business and what do I see in the rear mirror but a 5er hanging back. I know plod uses a selection of unmarked bimmers but I'm in lane 2, passing hgv's in lane 1 and keeping pace with traffic, safe distance ahead so I ignore it. Lane 3 is clear

After about a mile this thing charges me and then backs off. "Twat" I think and ignore it further. It then proceeds to repeat said behaviour, several times, clearly wanting me to hoon off. I'm having none of it as I'm coming off at the next exit. I put it down as a bored rep as pc plod rarely behaves that way. Or so I thought.

Anyway, he gets bored and passes me, clearly looking for someone to play, and yep, as he passes you can see the additional lights and other stuff on the dash indicating this is one of her majesty's finest.

What an arse.

So chaps and chapesses, watch out for bored plod looking to provoke you into doing something dumb.
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The days of coppers being any good for anything other than state revenue collectors is long gone.
 
returning the other night down the A1, there was an accident (2 as it happened) further down the road, traffic was backed up, after half an hour a plod car came through shepherding a recovery truck through the stationary traffic. I was behind a HGV and moved aside to allow them through, as the meat-tin drew level with me he motioned for me to wind my window down, which I did, he told me to move out of the way, which I had, I said to my missus "it's hardly like i'm the limiting factor..." as the HGV was a good yard wider than me. cue the usual cocky barrage of nonsense from the gel-haired stuart baggs lookilikey.

as far as i'm concerned him and I are equal citizens until I've committed a crime, and this isn't the first time I've been spoken to like a twat by a PC, so I took his number and phoned through a complaint when we finally got home. doubt much came of it, but I felt a bit better...
 
paulgs1000 said:
Anyone got any good stories about the plod?! - Jeez I'm glad I got the 2 litre! :(
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2 litres still quite nippy and I doubt the plod will tell the difference.
I was pulled over like 4 times in my 2.0 z4.

not once charged though... must be something I said :roll:
 
There was a very long thread about just this sort of behaviour on Pistonheads not so long ago. It seems this is far too common an occurrence to be considered to be the action of a small minority of rogue officers.

The older I get, the more I'm convinced I am, that the powers that be are not really interested in reducing road deaths. How many dangerous local roads near you could be made safe by proper design or eliminating poorly designed road junctions etc? How many lives of cyclists/bikers could be saved by repairing the pothole littered roads? What do we do instead? We stick mobile camera vans at these badly designed roads because a) it's is cheaper and b) because it raises cash rather than costs cash.
 
Amen to that!

In general plod are bumholes,they have a massive superiority complex and speak to the public like they are brainless morons.i have never seen a bunch of people more patronising than police officers..

if you manage to become traffic/firearms or any other of the "specialist" arms of the law then you must undergo intravenous arsehole medication every morning.

Just saying........
 
original guvnor said:
There was a very long thread about just this sort of behaviour on Pistonheads not so long ago. It seems this is far too common an occurrence to be considered to be the action of a small minority of rogue officers.

The older I get, the more I'm convinced I am, that the powers that be are not really interested in reducing road deaths. How many dangerous local roads near you could be made safe by proper design or eliminating poorly designed road junctions etc? How many lives of cyclists/bikers could be saved by repairing the pothole littered roads? What do we do instead? We stick mobile camera vans at these badly designed roads because a) it's is cheaper and b) because it raises cash rather than costs cash.
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+10000000
 
Just to counter this slightly (although I do tend to agree), based on what I see on the roads I suspect 75% of the population are brainless morons so it must be easy for them to assume you are one of them. Doesnt make it right though.
 
original guvnor said:
The older I get, the more I'm convinced I am, that the powers that be are not really interested in reducing road deaths. How many dangerous local roads near you could be made safe by proper design or eliminating poorly designed road junctions etc? How many lives of cyclists/bikers could be saved by repairing the pothole littered roads? What do we do instead? We stick mobile camera vans at these badly designed roads because a) it's is cheaper and b) because it raises cash rather than costs cash.
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Which was absolutely confirmed when the revenues stopped going to the police forces and local government had to pick up the bill. The amount of cameras removed and vast reduction in mobile cameras I've seen is noteworthy. I don't see the numbers of accidents increasing, nor do I see more speeding drivers than before.

In fact the worst driving I've seen in a long time was the arse of a police driver playing provocation games.

I do like the idea of simply sticking videos of their poor behaviour online rather than raising an official complaint that would likely cause some level of retaliation.
 
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