Got pulled and then let go

monkey_boy

monkey_boy

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I was out in the car with my daughter tonight trying to get her to go to sleep. She's usually asleep before I get to the end of the road but wakes up again as soon as the engine stops. She's been particularly unsettled tonight so I thought I'd just drive to nowhere for a couple of hours to give the other half a break.

So with nowhere to go, I got myself onto the motorway and did my best Womble impression and stuck the cruise on at 50. After a few minutes of pootling along, a car approached at a decent speed but then stayed behind me rather than go by, and surely enough after a mile or so, the blues came on and I pulled over.

The copper came to my window and asked me to turn the car off, which I did. He asked if everything was ok, and I told him it was and that I was just driving around to keep my daughter asleep so wasn't going anywhere and was just taking it slowly. He said, now talking more quietly, that he stopped me because I was driving unusually slowly for the conditions and he thought I might have been a drink driver. He appologised and told me have a good morning and got going.

This is the biggest non-story ever, but I thought it'd be nice to tell a tale about traffic police that didn't involve a page full of OMGs, WTFs and rolleyes.
 
i got pulled on friday too. no issues to report. he looked over the car, laughed at the interior, commented on how good ADCD is, got another call and had to fly off in the opposite direction

another non story

wheres PM Keates, he likes to bait the police
 
I've had this a few times. Treat them like human beings and the chances are they will do similarly.
 
I got pulled at a random checkpoint, they searched my car, boot etc. all procedure and a couple more coppers came walking over and ended up talking about my car for 20 minutes, asking if they could have a look inside etc.:D

Second encounter was through a forest route near my home, pitch black and this car had been almost tailgaiting me on the dual carriageway section, knocked it down a gear and booted it to about 85 and then saw the flashing blue lights, FAQ'ed myself a little bit but they didn't pull me over so it was nice for them to give me a polite warning to slow down.
 
bledd. said:
It can be quite un nerving if a car seems to be following you late at night mind. Pull over and you could get robbed, speed off and it's LAPD :)
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True, but speeding off is hardly going to achieve anything positive. They will either continue to tailgate or will turn out to be police and pull you.
 
emailiscrap said:
True, but speeding off is hardly going to achieve anything positive. They will either continue to tailgate or will turn out to be police and pull you.
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unless you're a pro driver and you lose them "in the twisties". If you're in a vauxhall, you might as well pull over.
 
pro driver or you drive a 172. nothing can keep up with a 172 in the twisties

if youre planning to lose them but not bother to downchange at all, youre best off in a diesel (crushing in gear acceleration and all)
 
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