Ok, so me and two friends are driving down Newport Road in Cardiff, heading home after a sneaky KFC. We merge onto the A48, then off onto North Road (A470) and then hit the back streets up Maindy Road to their house.
(Road names are for the benefit of people who might know the area!)
I notice in my RVM theres a silver MK5 Astra following me (at least he turned off with me at Maindy Road, and I had seen him before then), but thought nothing off it! A police van turns out into the road ahead of me and goes ridicuously slow!, I'm due to turn right, so i MSM and turn right...the Astra follows. I still think nothing of it!
Get to a parking space at my friends house and excute a text book parallel park......next thing I know, two plain clothed coppers swoop on the car and tell me and my front passenger to get out!
WTF! I think - this is the last thing I need - I know i've not done anything wrong! Anyway, they proceed to tell me that they have reason to belive that the car is not mine! 3 young lads in a sports car (hold on) i said, its a Diesel MG ZT! Yer, but its still powerful init - says the officer!
Can I have a word!............
He states that he called in my plates and they responded saying my car is Grey! Yes it is grey.........XPower grey, which for all intense and purpose looks Black in most lights. So, because they knew the car should be grey, and they were following a black car (irrespective of the fact that this black car also happened to be an MGZT 135+ CDTi), they pull me!
Anyway, I told them i didnt have a problem with them pulling me as at least I knew they were initiating a move to cut down a massive recent spate of car crime in the area. Good for them - but you've just wasted 10 minutes with me when a car in Cardiff is stolen every 30 seconds!
What didnt help was the fact that my front seat passenger (aged 19) shaved his hair off in a drunken stopour the other night. My rear passenger (who is 20 but looks a lot younger due to being a midget), didnt get questionned!
We later joked about it saying they didnt question minors!!!!
In Hindsight, i had thrown some shapes on the dual carriageway, nothing dangerous, but simply to get in front of a car before my turn off, and looking back, I was aware the Astra had performed the same move...it also did this on North Road as two lanes merge into one - I wasnt speeding, but overtook a slower car in the lane before it merged and the Astra followed!
The police van!??? That was later found to be there on purpose to see if i'd make a deliberate evasive move! Remember.............i did...........i turned right, which then gave them real cause for concern!
Anyway, just thought i'd post a 'my interesting day moment' thread, and see if anyone can beat it! Today at least!!!
Fire away!
(Road names are for the benefit of people who might know the area!)
I notice in my RVM theres a silver MK5 Astra following me (at least he turned off with me at Maindy Road, and I had seen him before then), but thought nothing off it! A police van turns out into the road ahead of me and goes ridicuously slow!, I'm due to turn right, so i MSM and turn right...the Astra follows. I still think nothing of it!
Get to a parking space at my friends house and excute a text book parallel park......next thing I know, two plain clothed coppers swoop on the car and tell me and my front passenger to get out!
WTF! I think - this is the last thing I need - I know i've not done anything wrong! Anyway, they proceed to tell me that they have reason to belive that the car is not mine! 3 young lads in a sports car (hold on) i said, its a Diesel MG ZT! Yer, but its still powerful init - says the officer!
Can I have a word!............
He states that he called in my plates and they responded saying my car is Grey! Yes it is grey.........XPower grey, which for all intense and purpose looks Black in most lights. So, because they knew the car should be grey, and they were following a black car (irrespective of the fact that this black car also happened to be an MGZT 135+ CDTi), they pull me!
Anyway, I told them i didnt have a problem with them pulling me as at least I knew they were initiating a move to cut down a massive recent spate of car crime in the area. Good for them - but you've just wasted 10 minutes with me when a car in Cardiff is stolen every 30 seconds!
What didnt help was the fact that my front seat passenger (aged 19) shaved his hair off in a drunken stopour the other night. My rear passenger (who is 20 but looks a lot younger due to being a midget), didnt get questionned!
We later joked about it saying they didnt question minors!!!!
In Hindsight, i had thrown some shapes on the dual carriageway, nothing dangerous, but simply to get in front of a car before my turn off, and looking back, I was aware the Astra had performed the same move...it also did this on North Road as two lanes merge into one - I wasnt speeding, but overtook a slower car in the lane before it merged and the Astra followed!
The police van!??? That was later found to be there on purpose to see if i'd make a deliberate evasive move! Remember.............i did...........i turned right, which then gave them real cause for concern!
Anyway, just thought i'd post a 'my interesting day moment' thread, and see if anyone can beat it! Today at least!!!
Fire away!
