STi 7

Anyone got any stories of getting chased by police, or getting away for speeding or anything?

lol dont have to give full details, like where u live or what car it was and in what area, dont want PC Sims hunting us down!

so come on out with it, ure experiences!

King RA

Had just finished doing an 18hour disaster recovery session at Comdisco in Isleworth and was more than happy to be leaving. Headed down the road with that rich sultans house on it in my R5GTT glad it was over, wasn't going particulaly fast, say 45 in a 30 (easily done on this road) when I passed a meat wagon going the other way. Looked in my rear view mirror to see the bast**d pulling into a close to turn around. I thought bo**ox to this I want my bed, so I gunned it. Saw his lights go on in the distance as I rounded a bend safe in the knowledge I was in a sports car, he was in a van. Gunned it all the way home and didn't see any more police cars. It's a very satisfying feeling knowing you've got one up on em hehehe .

scrappydoo

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BuRR

Maybe not a good topic in the current climate, especially as the police are under mounting criticism for "chasing" cars at the moment, which then go on to injure and kill people.

I just let em go. If they want to go and hurt people because of their passion to get away, then I don't want that on my conscience. Not worth my job.

Dream Weaver

This is quite funny, but I once had a race with a young copper in a panda'd up Astra

I was on my way to work in my 205 GTi, when this Police astra cut right in front of me off a roundabout. The road then turns into a dual lane thing for about 200 yards, then back to a single road.

He was laughing his head off, so I gunned it in 2nd gear, overtook him on the dual bit, then got in front of him on the single lane - all still in a 30 zone mind, but I thought as he was doing it so would I.

He waved, overtook me again and went on his way. Very funny

DW

The Zohan

Travelling down the M1 with a mate in his Carlton 3.0l GSI at an indicated 150, passed a Cop car which immediately lit up and gave chase, we pulled off at the next exit and went down the lanes and lost the poor little man.

Same mate (Manager of a Vauxhall garage) lent me his Calibra Turbo (one of the first in the country), we went off for a spin, hacking around in this car which back in 1991 felt damn fast and was a bit of a pose (heh in 1991 with a 6 speed gearbox, 4WD & turbo). Pulled up outside a bar in MK, 30 secs later this Police car (Metro) pulls in and starts having a go about speeding and how they can impound the car, the copper was fuming and almost yelling this at us which made him look a bit of a pr@tt. By this time a few mates and such have come out of the pub to watch, My mate asked if he had any witnessnes or evidence we where speeding and told him he could go whistle over impounding the car, this kinda took the wind out of his sails, Mate advised him to pi$$ off and catch some proper criminals, cop left shortly afterwards.

What can i say
I was young and foolish but it still makes me smile!

Rob Walker

Years ago I was driving towards Liverpool on the M58 at about 2 in the morning in my Astra GTE 16v. The roads were empty and I was doing about 130. All of a sudden my radar detector started beeping like **** and lit up like a xmas tree.. I could see the blue lights turning on on the bridge I had just gone under. I just kept my foot down cos I was only a couple of miles away from Liverpool. Totally **** myself.

Tommy 2000

There was an article in Performance Bike a couple of years ago entitled 'Pig Baiting'. These guys had a plain black Kwaka ZZR1100 with no plates. They would go off find a patrol car, gain the 'pigs' attention (with a burnout or similar!) and then disappear over the horizon with the 5-0 giving chase. Having easily lost their pursuers, they would then meet up with their 'support van', load the bike and tootle off home...very irresponsible behaviour!

m18use

had a series 1 rs and so did my friend comin home from town,early hours of th morning,mate overtakes to make me race and then slows down in front of me ,so i overtake him and so on then we went for it doin about 120 blue lights appear both slow down they went straight past my mate and pulled alongside me in the police cossie
shook his finger and was laughing and just carried on they must have been watching us all down the motorway but are cars were identical so obviously thought it funny.
cheers mouse

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Slightly similar thing happened to me this summer in France. Turned out of campsite to cross main road, some traffic, so floored it. Got full decat so it's LOUD. Plenty of heads turned, took my foot off at about 45 (30 limit), saw "Gendarmerie" van going the other way, slowing, staring. I just laughed and went on my way.
When I got back to the site, the campsite manager came to our pitch to deliver a message from the flics that I was going too fast, and should slow down. I told him to tell the copper to prove it. He laughed and said " That's what he said you'd say".

MarkCSC

Quite a few years a ago a mate of mine had a very silly V8 Capri. He was tootling along when this huge great Merc came zooming past. "I'll have that" he thought and promptly gave chase. Bombing along little country roads he started to gain to the Merc. He then saw a Police Car behind him with lights flashing chasing him. Obviouly slightly worried about his license he didn't stop, but pushed on a bit harder, caught the Merc and overtook it. Further down the road he came to a Police Road block and had to stop. The police were actually after the Merc (some gangland types) not him. He received a stern ticking off by the Police but not charged with anything. Apparantly the driver of the Merc commented that he didn't realise that the Flying Squad had such fast Capris.

The Zohan

Mark Great Story!

STi 7

Great Stories! Keep em' coming!

today i was just on my lcoal cruise, when this police van cuts me off, just swerved into my lane like no mans business, and moved back out, and then back into my lane...at this point i figured the copper was trying to pi$$ me off! and he did cause he was being a right prat. They think they can do what they want when they want and always get away with it.

Wilster

A mate of mine was tanking it in MK once on a cold New Year morning, when plod came the other way on a motorbike, the pig rounded the last roundabout to commence chasing. He was so keen to catch up he lost it, my mate watched him bum slide up the road in his rear-view mirror.

Paul.

ADP

One of my mates works with a guy who lost his licence due to silly incident in london(central)on his ducati. The story goes something like him being chased around london and eventually going the wrong way down the motorway only to be caught by a full on blockade!

I must get my mate to log on , he can tell it proper....

marty_t3

I was witness *cough* to one such instance.

'Some guy' sped passed a police car on a bike with no tax. The bike was normally parked in a garden about 50 yards from their station so, on top of the speeding, they knew it wasn't taxed. The police car passed going in the opposite direction and quickly turned to follow the bike. The biker turned up a rather twisty, narrow, steep hill and hammered it to the top. Aware of the police following him up the hill with the blue lights flashing, he turned into a dead end which was blocked with stone bollards but with just enough space to get the bike through. He was only a few yards from his ground floor flat so he drove the bike straight into his bedroom and quickly removed his lid and leathers. As the bike was not registered to him yet, he got away with it. The bike was registered in his name later that week and it emerged from the bedroom and took up residence in his garden again (with a tax disc this time).

Richard Askew

A34/M40 + me + rolling road block + 5 plod cars + helicopter = arrest

medders

What for Rich?

medders

sorry, being nosey

Richard Askew

In September 2001 I was stopped on the M40 on the way to Matt Oz's house from Abingdon by a 5 car rolling road block, the Police Helicopter was above me and i was met by nearly a dozen of Thames Valleys finest, includes the Armed response vehicle. Apparently I'd been tailed from Abingdon by an unmarked CID car who happened to see me doing donuts on my companies private carpark. When my speed allegedly went above 140mph they summoned assistance, which is funny because I dont recall even hitting more than 95mph and i complied with the 50mph limits in the roadworks at J8

Anyway I was arrested for being in possession of a bladed article..a stanley knife which I had because I worked for a major DIY firm and needed to open boxes etc etc. I was handcuffed because i was transferred to banbury police station in the ARV.

To cut a long story short I was polite and courteous and chatted to the arresting officer about track days and the Ring etc and after an hour in the cells I was released without charge. I even had an apology from the duty Sargeant for having my evening ruined. Apparently the whole operation cost over Ł10K and even after my release the Abingdon CID officers were pestering the traffic guys to "do" me for my plate and excessive speed despite them having an uncalibrated car. The traffic chap told them to disappear and to stop wasting even more time...

what would scooby do

Last year I was "cruising" along in my CLK430 and up ahead a Police Panda car pulled out onto the dual carraigway with blue flashing lights - obvously off to a call-out. He didn't look very happy when I overtook him - he couldn't get his piece of crap to keep up with me across all of Milton Keynes's roundabouts in the wet.

jamin

Richard, sorry to be nosey but do you live in abingdon? (only because I do)

wrx

I was attending a car show put on by Halfords when things got out of hand and people started racing. Plod was called and as I was leaving I drove around a parked cop car with plod sat inside. They turned on the lights and pulled me. Apparently I'd gone through a police cordon so jelous copper decides it'l go to court. So facing 6 points at least and fine my parents paid for a barister and three court session later They decided I'd be put on a good behaviour bond for a year. The only reason they wouldn't drop it completly was because they'd have to pay the grand for the barister. Copper was even more Jelous when he saw me in a brand new scoob a week later, I was hoping he'd pull me so I could tell him it was a present for winning the court case

Richard Askew

Jamin - used to live in Marcham.. managed the Homebase store

Miles

at Richard Askew!

DRUNKNORGY

This is the story of a guy who used to hang around with our biking group about 20 years ago. He was 18, passed his test and got a Suzuki GS850. Turned up on the 'triangle' in Cheltenham which was a bike park in the centre. Decided to do a couple of laps of the ring road and on his return was followed by a panda car. realising this, he decided to leg it (he had a loud pipe on the bike). Lost them and nearly got home.
For some reason he decided to come back into the town centre. The coppers were waiting for him and chased him again (with reinforcements. He rode up the Evesham road towards Bishops cleeve and ran the Smiths lights on red at about 90mph. A car was pulling out and he T-boned it. He killed the driver instantly. He got 9 months youth custody. The rub was that they only wanted to caution him about the pipe in the first place and he was totally legal apart from the exhaust.

Don't run unless you have a very good head start, its just not worth it.

[Edited by DRUNKNORGY - 1/5/2003 5:07:18 PM]

DaveD

iTrader: (2)

On our way back from Le Mans in France a few years ago, overtook a queue of cars and was supprised to hear a two tone horn and flashing lights coming from the black Renault 25 estate at the front of the queue - turned out it was full of Gandamerie!!
Pulled-back my speed in suprise, and said '25 came alongside, and the guys inside gestured to slow down a bit by waving thier arms at me - all this while a UK 911 was about 6 inhes from their rear bumper!!

Anyway, best story came from the Porsche 924 Turbo we were following, and who had got a slightly better run at the traffic, and overtook the Q car at over 120mph, saw the flashing lights, and carried on at the same speed for a few miles, before turning down a forest track and hiding for the best part of half an hour!!

Oh how we laughed.......


PS anyone seen the "Getaway in Stockholm" video? 911, Supra and Escort all blasting round the streets in the early morning?!! V. naughty, but v. nice!!

[Edited by DaveD - 1/5/2003 2:09:40 AM]