Traffic Cops BBC1 9pm tonight!
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I actually saw a stinger in action a few weeks back on the M1. I noticed 2 coppers standing under a bridge, then saw a Celica at speed, saw the stinger come out and then spotted the chasing cars and the police rolling road block. One of those things where I saw different things as I drove past and then stuck it all together and had a Riiiiight moment.
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Mmmmmmmmm police ST220s 
I take it run flats are OK over stingers?
Makes note to put 4 run flats on my getaway car next time
Resistance to them depends on the brand of tyre too, some use inflation materials, others use reinforced sidewalls.
Reinforced sidewalls would, in theory, provide a greater ridgitity to the tyre because the thicker sidewalls are essentially tough enough to keep going without any air/support. Other methods rely on the contents of the tyre to keep going.
Well yeah he shouldn't have been running with the tyres in the condition that they were. The wheel nuts weren't even worth mentioning.
I missed the minute or so before he was caught though... i could kind of empathise with him if he had had a blow out 5 minutes from where he lives and to save leaving the car at the side of the road or getting a tow truck at night he thought he would limp home...
There is agreement between the Police and the Guards (Irish police) that all driving offenses are passed across the border. ie if you get caught in Ireland it will be put onto your license in the UK and visa versa. Was put in place to stop us Northern Irish folk going down South and driving like looneys knowing if we got stopped we could get away with it. Equally previously you could have had someone disqualified in either country driving in the other.
Should extend across the UK and Ireland so that bellends like the prat in this show get a proper slap instead of just a fine.
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What are the odds that an uninsured driver slaps into the side of the cops car, good stuff.
That, to top it off, had taken the car from his mother without her knowing lol.
I have to admit though if I had been driving a POS car like that where I wasn't worried about the rim I probably would have taken a pragmatic view and limped home. I mean seriously he was going so slowly, he had already burst two tyres. So only had one spare. Also - last time I put a spare on I only used three wheel nuts - seriously you don't need any more for a 'limp home' exercise. The only 'danger' he was presenting was that he was going slowly. No more dangerous than a horse and cart. If he had been trying to drive at about 40mph then I could understand the police POV but he clearly wasn't. I felt it was a bit heavy handed. But at the end of the day he didn't exactly get much punishment. He probably would have got less if he hadn't been so insolent and rude to the cops.
The police weren't to know this though were they? I know he was only going slowly, but where do you draw the line? Should you be allowed to drive a with one working brake caliper if you are going slowly?
I agree, but i only think the "heavy handedness" came about because of the moron's cockyness. If i had been caught doing the exact same thing, i would have understood that it was my fault and. who knows, if my house was close enough, maybe the police officer would have escorted me back? Or at least let me leave the car at the roadside for me to come and pick it up when i had a spare wheel.
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If only he did not have a penis. I know THREE women who have been let off of driving a dangerous car, two with obvious flat tyres and one with tyres that were never changed on an 11yr old car from new and were baked and cracked, internals were showing. The flat tyre girls were a workmate who got followed into the work carpark by a traffic cop, i saw the state of the tyre and there was no way she was in full control of the car, front left wheel absolutely ripped and disfigured, she got let off with a warning and 'help her change that tyre lads'.
The other is my MOTHER who drove home 3 miles with a flat and ripped tyre, police asked her if she knew, she said no and told him she was about 1/8 of a mile home, he told her to fix it asap and to take it easy for the rest of the trip!! I was livid, glad she avoided points but if it was me i'd be in a paddy wagon for being a baby killer. The other with the 11yr old tyres was stopped, laughed at for being so silly and had to get it towed to a garage for a tyre change, but no points or anything, only that VDR form or whatever it is.
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