STi-Frenchie

Oh what joy!!!

There I was coming home from work last night, glorious evening, minding my own business and listening to a bit of Alter Bridge on the CD, looking forward to a bit of refreshment. Turn into the road which leads up to my place and I'm following a couple of blokes in a Renault Espace doing about 50kmph (the legal limit). I see the driver looking in his rear view mirror, his passenger looking behind him and can tell what the driver is thinking -- the silly bugger wants a race!! We go round a sharp bend which leads into our "village" and he sticks the boot down -- I can see him and his mate having a good ol' laugh as they shoot off. A huge chuff of black smoke pours out of his exhaust and he's easily hitting 80-100km/h up the street. I give a little smile, refuse to be drawn into his game and carry on tooling along at my own speed. All of a sudden his brake lights go on -- hard -- and he slows right down. A gendarme wanders out in front of him, puts his hand up and pulls him into the side of the road. Oh, look, what's that? Why, it's a pair of those bins that they use to check your speed!!!

I didn't stop laughing for a good 10 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I have a great fondness for hitting the loud pedal but never in a built up area and never anywhere there are lots of kids around...I keep it for the track, the mountains or a wide-open road with little or no traffic (and no radar traps).

Justice, for once, is served and deserved.

wakeboardar

every time i get baited for a race and the idiots fly off i dream of this happening must be like a lottery win when it comes true
suspect that will stick in your memory for a long time

STi-Frenchie

Lottery win...yes, that's EXACTLY what it felt like!!! The clincher was when I drove past and smiled over at the Espace driver

I'm always crapping it when my kids are out playing on their bicycles as some idiots really put their foot down on our stretch of road...well, there's one who just learned a lesson!

(still smiling about it today y'know!)

CooperS

I'd have stopped and laughed aswell

alcazar

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if I'm gonna get baited in France, 9 times out of 10 it's by an Espace, (or similar) driver.

My youngest says it's because they are trying to prove to everyone that they aren't driving a "van with windows".

He especially mocks the ones with a "spoiler" on the back, says it looks like a suitcase handle.

Alcazar

STi-Frenchie

Agree with that Alcazar, I dunno what gets into those Renault drivers - Espace's, Megane's and the appalling Velsatis', they're all at it!

DocJock

More to the point Frenchie.........

Excellent musical taste !

STi-Frenchie

Cheers Doc! Wentout looking for the new Audioslave album which was released today but didn't have any luck finding it Still, Monday isn't too far away. Wonder when the next Alter Bridge album is due, the first one is an absolute corker -- it's rare to find an album with no duff tracks on it, and that's one of them, each track gets 5 stars on my iPod

logiclee

Overtook man and women in an old Astra on the A38, a couple of miles on pulls up at the J28 M1 roundabout and have to stop for lights. Astra pulls up inches from the back bumper and then follows me down the slip lane onto the motorway again inches from my bumper. I was southbound wich is down hill so I settle at about 80ish and Astra boy comes flying by.

A mile or so on and he can only manage 70ish up hill so I catch him and pass him still doing the same speed 80-85.

Soon as we clear the hill he comes flying past me and cuts in infront.

Well sod this I'm only on for a few stops, picking someone up from East Midlands Airport and I'm early so I slow up to 75ish.

Astra dissapears.

I'm approaching J25 when I see a black Octavia vRS on the hard shoulder with flashing blue lights in the rear window.

And yes he's pulled the Astra and Wife/Girlfriend is screaming blue murder at the bloke.

Cheers
Lee

STi-Frenchie

Lee, that is SO, SO very sweet

You can get a bollocking and a fine from the cops, you can even lose your licence but hell hath no fury....

Bet he heard about it for weeks on end

Kuohu

LOL excellent, great story!

Leslie

Good one-I'd have laughed just as much as you did.

Les