Motorway cops - cops out of order?

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I am just watching Motorway Cops.

The situation was a Civic Type R with two young lads driving it. Suspicious I know...

The cops pulled them over on suspicion that it was a stolen vehicle, whether this was due to his age I am not quite sure but he had dodgy plates on.

They took him out the vehicle, but the lad kicked off about it and was complaining that he did nothing wrong. He resisted at first, but sat in the back on the cop car. The Cops then checked the driver, car and passenger and everything belonged to the lad driving. No stolen vehicle, he had insurance and tax and it all matched up.

They said it was an error, till they found out he was on dodgy plates (possibly private plates). The lad already knew about the dodgy plates as he was pulled over a week before and issued a 14 days notice to change them or he would be fined and summoned to court.

The cops then issued him a fine for £30 for using the car with dodgy plates, despite him already being on the 14 days notice.

The lad's point was that he was given 14days to change his plates, for all they knew - he could be changing them in the next day or so... The car company was the people who messed up the plates in the first place. So why should he pay a fine if he was already warned? Then they said they would arrest him for arguing back about it as he swore once.

I think the cops had a job to do, but were unfair on issuing this fine and also didn't want to admit the error they made on pulling him over and acting the way they did.

In the lads defence, they were talking to him based on his age and fair enough he had a lip on him, but they were being hard on him due to his age at the end of the day. Is this a form of discrimination?

Anybody else watch that bit? :)
 
He was being really cocky, so I don't think there was anything wrong with what the Police did there.

I'd never behave like that if stopped by the Police. In my (very limited) experience, if you treat them with respect, they'll return the favour :)
 
I've just been watching it and thought the lad was a ****** and deserved the fine. He handled it all wrong IE he should have told the polieman as soon as he was stopped. He got off on the wrong with the policeman when he was swearing at him when the car first stopped. Of course the police are going to be harsh with them since they thought the car was stolen
 
OMG DAT IS WEL BAD COZ HE WAS YUNG AND HE HAD DOGY PLATES SO DEY **** HAV LET HIM GO!

Sorry, but he had dodgy plates and got fined for it, even if he had already been told to change them, he still shouldn't have had them, so a fine is deserved.
 
Yeah I saw it, thought the lad was out of order really, had a right gob on him and deserved everything he got, it isn't hard to just tell the truth rather than mouth off at someone who can issue fines to you.
 
He talked himself into it, if he hadn't had that attitude he'd of got away with it.

And he was dodgy as hell, who doesn't notice your plates are wrong? And once you've been told, surely you'd change them, not have a "mix up" in a petrol station and drive off..
 
He was a ****. End of. He didn't care whatsoever and was obviously a spoilt brat driving such a car at 18.

I drove down that motorway on Saturday, I thought I was gonna be on telly when they said Silver Civic Type-R lol.
 
He was a pillock, but looking from his point of view i think i'd be a bit peeved if i was dragged out of my car like that! It's kind of not his fault, i'd say it was a bit of 6 police half a dozen of him.
 
I was virtually dragged out of my car the one time I got pulled over! Difference is I didn't behave like a **** afterwards, the Police apologised and sent me on my way.
 
JIM_BOB7813 said:
It seems a bit mean since he was told he had 14 days to get it fixed. Still, he had a terrible attitude so deserved it IMO.
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I agree with the above, but deserved the fine for:

Being cocky
Being aggressive to the police when asked simply to go into the police car
Withholding the fact that he was already stopped
Handling the situation completely wrong

If he had just explained rationally he would have got away with it. I would never dream of acting that way... but would argue the toss
 
The guy was a Grade A tool - driving around knowingly on false plates, what did he expect? What possible reason would he have for delaying paying for new plates anyway?

Cocky moron. And how does an 18 year old afford to buy and insure a '54 plate Civic Type R anyway?
 
He needs a good kick in, I wish police could use more force with people like that :(

Like give him a good clip around the ear for being so cheeky, that'd soon shutup him up.
 
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