Stopped by the rozzers !

stockhausen said:
Having read 15 posts, I'm still not at all clear what you are so upset about :confused:

The Police stopped you for driving with your fog lights on.
They just gave you a warning.
They breathalysed you (which was probably the real reason for stopping you in the run up to Christmas in the first place).

What's the problem?
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Can you actually read ?

Where does it say I have a problem? I had my fog lights on. Don`t use them much. Forgot to turn them off. Guilty as charged.

I did not post for any other reason than to share my evenings experiences. It is a forum after all.

Jees. In future I won`t bother.
 
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Lol, I was walking home a few months ago carrying my design portfolio in front of me, with a big plastic bag over it so it didn't get wet. A police car pulled up along side me and asked me what I was carrying; I told them and they said they thought I was carrying a widescreen TV I'd just stolen!

Nice to see they're going after the real criminals; soaking wet nerdy ginger blokes!
 
degen said:
All I can say is good. I absolutely hate people who drive with fog lights on when its not foggy. It doesn't look cool and you can't see anything that you wouldn't otherwise.
On another note I also got pulled by the police. He saw me leaving a pub car park (after picking up my GF). When I got out of the car he said I was doing 'about' 60 in a 50 to which I said 'yea, about 60'. He breath tested me and let me go on my way without a ticket.
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Unfortunately degen, I am long past doing it to look cool. ;)
 
Bloody fog light and drivers! You people KILL CHILDREN! Got what you deserved!

Lol better than the joker who stopped me, he said my car ( brand new) was reported stolen then after some ranting he revoked it saying he wanted to see my response, i could have punched the twazzock. Bloody welsh police!
 
Am I the only person to not be blinded by fogs, but rather by SUVs with their normal lights or HIDs?
 
rypt said:
Am I the only person to not be blinded by fogs, but rather by SUVs with their normal lights or HIDs?
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Nope, I'm the same. Its even worse when they're behind you, their bloody lights seem to be at the exact same height as your rear view mirror. Its like having a minature sun in the middle of your windscreen.
 
reflux said:
Lol, I was walking home a few months ago carrying my design portfolio in front of me, with a big plastic bag over it so it didn't get wet. A police car pulled up along side me and asked me what I was carrying; I told them and they said they thought I was carrying a widescreen TV I'd just stolen!

Nice to see they're going after the real criminals; soaking wet nerdy ginger blokes!
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They are - he was blatantly out trying to get gingers off the street!

I'm sorry, I really have nothing against them I just couldn't resist.

Apologies if this offends anyone! :D
 
I too am glad you got pulled for this. There are tons of fog light morons around here (though the full beam morons are rapidly catching up, and the misaligned headlight brigade are ever present) and I'm sick of being blinded by them on the unlit wet twisty roads we have.

Front fogs are only useful when the fog is so thick that you can't actually see the road in front of your bonnet without them. One thing that's always puzzled me is why German cars are wired such that you have to switch the front fogs on before you can use the rears, when the rears you have to switch on when visibility is down to 100ft, not 20ft like with the fronts.

I think everyone agrees that unnecessary rear fogs make you look like an idiot, so if the Germans started wiring them up to come on before the fronts we'd hopefully see an end to a lot of the front foglight abuse.

Now we just need the police to start pulling people for using rear foglights "because it's raining"
 
My road is unlit at night, and has quite a few potholes. Even in non-foggy conditions, I find they illuminate the ground directly infront and to the sides of the car really well - so often use them temporarily to avoid damaging the car.
 
I know - mjt and I are genuinely shocked that someone would admit to owning one of these :D But I don't want to be too tactless, ahem.. :o
 
Lum said:
I too am glad you got pulled for this. There are tons of fog light morons around here (though the full beam morons are rapidly catching up, and the misaligned headlight brigade are ever present) and I'm sick of being blinded by them on the unlit wet twisty roads we have.

Front fogs are only useful when the fog is so thick that you can't actually see the road in front of your bonnet without them. One thing that's always puzzled me is why German cars are wired such that you have to switch the front fogs on before you can use the rears, when the rears you have to switch on when visibility is down to 100ft, not 20ft like with the fronts.

I think everyone agrees that unnecessary rear fogs make you look like an idiot, so if the Germans started wiring them up to come on before the fronts we'd hopefully see an end to a lot of the front foglight abuse.

Now we just need the police to start pulling people for using rear foglights "because it's raining"
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Amen.
 
Manufacturers should be banned from saying things like "and sporty front fog lamps" on their marketing. Renault are particularly bad for this.

It sends out completely the wrong idea about what fog lights are for. So people buy the car and think "oh I may as well use the 'sporty front fog lamps' seeing as I paid so much for this thing!"

I am glad they gave you a bit of a telling off and I wish the police would do that more often around my way :(
 
What should they say instead?

"Optional front w*nker lights" would get my vote.
 
howardcanning said:
I agree. I had them on one of my cars and never used them. I don't miss them at all
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I've only had them on one of my cars, and I used them about once, when the fog was so thick I couldn't see much more than a couple of meters in front of me due to fog.

Mist is not worthy of the lamps, mist/fog is also not worthy of them, only time you need them is when you really can't see much more than a couple of meters ahead.
 
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