Sbradley

...have you ever done a runner from The Law? And if so, what happened.

I'll admit that I did once but inadvertently - I genuinely didn't know the guy was behind me (the lack of mirrors on my bike went onto the list of offences) but when I saw him I stopped.

Personally I think it's very, very foolish and would advise against it because if nothing else his radio is faster than you would ever be. But I'm just curious about how many people have actually tried it and what the results were.

**DISCLAIMER AND ADVICE**

This is a public forum so if you have done this you may not want to post exact details.

I am REALLY not condoninf this behaviour, just guaging public reaction.

I'm a journalist and I may use the response as the basis for a story at some point.

SB

Spoon

Unless you have a scanner in which case you can play dodge the plod quite effectively.

All being many years ago I might add whilst making swift progress. I managed to hide from 4 patrol cars because I was fully aware of where they were.

I needed to park up in a small cul de sac for 35 minutes waiting for a shift change over, when I knew I could make a move for home.

On 3 other occassions I've weighed up the distance to my home against the time it would take plod to turn around and give chase and I've gambled on it being in my favour.

1 of the 3 times I heard the sirens shoot past my home whilst I was parked up in the garage, the other 2, who knows, more to the point, who cares.

Electric gates and garage doors are an advantage!!

Patt@firstime

Lol @ above post , I've past a police car going other way and I turned off the road and hid because of speeding and having illegal plates on etc etc



P.S Obviously not advised

P.P.S Woohoo 500th post

Cold Turkey

Not round my way you won't! I live on the edge of town near Luton Airport and frequently hear the Police chopper taking off and often see it hovering with the spotlight on full.....

zhastaph

Yup, woz doing 125mph past a parked copper on the M4, it woz night so I didn't see him till I woz alongside, he pulled out and came after me, I just kept going for about 3/4 miles safe in the knowledge he couldn't possibly have got my plate and would've taken a decent amount of time to get up to speed by which time I'd have put a mile or 2 between us.

I then slowed to about 80mph and mixed in with a load of other traffic, at which point I encountered another cop that I reckon woz waiting for me, I just sauntered nonchalantly passed at about 80 mph with nothing said

brybusa

Its a lot easier on the bike to give 'em the slip.......

I/we must have 2 or 3 run ins a year with them, the most recent on the A41, Aylesbury/Watford dual carrigeway.....Traffic police parked in one of the laybys, saw him parked up just as I crested a rise, my mate's bike has a loud can, I reckon they heard us coming..

Knocked it off for a split second, didnt want to panic straight away, had a good look over my shoulder, saw the blues going....and nailed it...

Agreed the 'copters have made me think a little a little bit more about where and when, but by the time they have one of those in the air, id be miles away, speed cameras aint an issue...Radios aint much use if in 30 seconds you've disappeared from sight

One of my club racer mates reckons he could take the copter out of range before he was caught, im sure the one at Luton was reported that it cant be in the air much more than an hour on its fuel load

Back in the good ole days in the 80's, we used to actually go out and seek the local panda's and overtake them on a way to their calls, ill never forget the look of one PCs face when he stopped in Woburn on an alarm call, id overtaken him at 130plus, slowed down, overtaken him again, then pulled in behind him and followed him to his call out.He got out the car and just stared at us.....All good fun!

Karl 227

Well, it's a bit different over here in Germany Simon, if you do a runner, they shoot you. So I would opt for the take it like a man option

r32

I voted no, then thought about it. And yes, I have done a runner and we didnt get caught.
My pal and I used to run a motorsport photography business, mainly Rallys. e used to photograph road rallies too. It meant getting from one place to another pretty sharpish, but its the middle of the night and not much traffic about and its all little country rallying type roads too.
We had taken a wrong turn and had just turned round to head in the opposite way when we came upon a very spiritedly driven bill car blue lights and all, they were surprised to see us going the other way, took them a while to turn round. They didnt catch us though.....

gsm1

I did a runner unknowingly once. It was late and I had the Radio 1 Crap Show with Westwood up loud. I slowed down as I got near home and then saw the blue flashing lights in my rear mirror, pulled over and 2 cop cars boxed me in!

scoobynutta555

And the ******* think nothing of taking off in the middle of the night, waking everyone up

Jerome

I once turned off a main road into a side road a bit quickly, just a Police panda car was arriving at the junction from the side road. The fact that it was 11.30pm on a Saturday night and I had 4 mates in the car didn't help either. Although I didn't drive any faster to get away, I did take a bit of a detour. It didn't work because they ended up behind me. How they guessed the route I took is beyond me - they pretty much had to make a guess and got lucky. After being breathalysed and given a lecture, I was let on my way.

In fact, the thing that they were most annoyed about was that, when the blue light came on, I didn't stop immediately. This was because it was a sharp bend on a dual carriageway. I simply slowed right down (to a crawl), indicated left and stopped in a side road 50 yards further up.

Cold Turkey

the buggers were hovering over Stopsley for about an hour a few weeks ago. car got dumped by the park at Hayling Drive and they fled on foot through the woods towards Cockernoe. been a much more visible police presence in the area since then which I AM glad about

JDM

Even if I had I wouldn't incriminate myself on here by saying so (PARANOIA)

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

When I was a kid I did a runner from the plod on my motocross bike, I was pushing it up the road and just made it to the woods when plod comes up and leaps out of the car and starts chacing me, I stick bike in 2nd gear and bump start it, plod is almost on me now I jump on bang it into 1st then leave plod in a shower of dirt never got caught but came feckin close, didn't stop to find out how dirty plod was.

brybusa

Slowing down gently is hardly doing a runner from the law Jerome!

You can see lads on motorcross bikes doing a runner from the law every Sunday as Sundon Pit Nr Luton, great entertainment!

Freak

Yep
4am- temporary road work traffic light.
Jumped the light as the road works last about 10 yards and you can see there was no one there.

Traffic car driving past the road saw it, did a U and i could see the blues reflecting off the shop window from around the corner...
I floored it the 100 yards to where i was dropping a friend off. Turned my lights off and pulled into his (secluded and unlit) driveway. Black cars dont show up very well in unlit driveways thank god.
Plod goes flying past, so i make a hasty retreat home the same way i had just come. 10 mins later get a phone call from the mate i had dropped off calling me a jammy sod as the plod car had pulled in the driveway 2 mins after i left .

Also on the M4 on way home from work one saturday night, again at 4:30am or so.
Not very far to my junction turn off, and there was a traffic car in the 'police only' layby. I was doing well over a ton (ahem- nearer 130 ahem) when i went past him, so i carried on, knowing he probably wont have got my plate and it will take him too long to catch up.
I came off the slip road and hid in the small secluded layby/gate/access thing i know is there just off the top of the slip road. Sure enough he comes steaming past with the blues on a couple of minutes later.

adrenaline rush- oh yes

Jerome

No, but deliberately going on a detour, to avoid a deliberate tug, was. I was driving a 1972 Ford Escort 1300, so a chase was out of the question.

Diesel

Mine's 20 yrs ago, so I cant be done for it now - esp as I'm a 'grown-up' A 2.3 Cop Cortina does a u-turn to come after me. Dunno why as it even says in the handbook that the best way to go around a corner in a Mk1 1300 Escort is using the power of the oversteer! I'd had 2.5 pints too so I nailed it and lost him - esp using country lanes with the lights off >vaguely proud teenager mode off<

Thankfully the speed cameras we have these days prevent these kinds of idiotic behaviour! Ohh hang on though, as I was borderline on the alchohol; do they do breathtesting speed cameras? After all a bottle of Scotch is far more dangerous than 6mph over the limit. [bit of politics there - sorry ]

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Scooby96

Yonks ago on my RD125LC, tail-light wasnt working and panda car went the 'tother way, saw his brake lights in the mirror and 'floored' it.

Still caught up with me, only got a ticking off

Silly 17 year old at the time, now 31 (and not quite as silly)!

Dazza01

excellent choice of bikes sir i had one of these babies, fooking great when u hit the power band

anyway back on topic, im still on the run, some 27yrs ago me and some mates (won't say any names) went hedgehopping well this can-tank-er-us(sp) old git decided he'd had enough of us hurling ourselves over his 6ft hedge so he called the law, well when we heard the siren we all split up and legged it, i had to sneak threw loads of gardens to get home, but boy was it fun

Dream Weaver

About 10 years back, 3am, doing indicated 130mph down the mway in my 205 GTi, completely empty of all traffic.

Copper in a Rover 830 thing going the opposite way saw me, flicked on the blues and went off the sliproad. I quickly worked out that by the time he got round the roundabout and joined my side I could get off at the next junction. I could see the lights coming towards me as I left the motorway but it was my home town so I went off and hid down a back street for 15 minutes then slowly drove home

yoza

Erm....Yes.

Did I get away with it ?.......Yes and No.

More yes's than no's.

bladerider

(On the bike)
Back in the 70's, we used to deliberately lead them a merry chase up the country roads. We would stay just far enough ahead to let them think they had a chance of catching us. These roads all criss-cross each other, and if you didn't know them really well you'd get disoriented and lcould get lost very easily. At night it could take a couple of hours to find your way back to civilisation. Anyway we'd wait for them back at the town centre to have a laugh at their expense. Nowadays I don't deliberately provoke attention. They're very tolerent of high speed bikes around my neck of the woods.

(In the car)
Llast month, at about 01:30 on a Sunday morning, I floored it round a roundabout and didn't see the traffic cops sitting behind the road sign untill it was too late. The blue lights came on. So I just kept nailed until the next bend where I quickly did a u-turn and headed back towards them at a slow a steady pace. They just kept going in the other direction. The chase lasted all of 30 seconds because I did the unexpected.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Several times & got away...

Except once


Went past All England Tennis Club @ about 50 about 01:00 in the morning, pair of plod on patrol, one steps out & sticks his hand up. I thought "nuts, its late & I want bed, can't be ar$ed" & carried on. About 1/2 mile later there is a cross-roads & lights are red, so I stop (as you do). Then police cars start coming from all directions, going in all directions I thought it wiser to hang a left, do some back-streets before continuing & all was going well until a plod saw me do a right & followed. I got tugged.

I was asked the obvious in that was it me that didn't stop outside the tennis place, so I said yes & chappy gave me a bollocking & let me go - they'd just been called out on a fight someplace & I was interfering with their search - phew!



One of the other times was in the mid-80s when you could listen in to plod on FM radio. Having a bit of a blat up the Edgware Road (yes I was young then ) with another BM & plod jumps out with his hand up, we both carry on & once out of sight, he turns right & I left. I actually turned round and went back the way I'd come down the Edgware Road, past the copper talking on his radio & listened in on my radio. 2 miles further south & I heard the report go out for 2 BMs heading north

Then there was the time...