mista weava

hi all,

went to see some friends last night.

to cut a long story short, on the way home and come down a certain road to be met by about 8 million coppers! immiediately i expect hassle due to my age.


pull me in, turns out they are doing the usual drink drive checks over xmas.

conversation goes like this:

pc = copper and mw = me!

pc: evening sir, we are carrying out drink drive awarness.

mw: ok.

pc: is this your vehicle sir? registered in your name and insured sir?

mw: it is indeed officer.

pc: just gonna have a look around and check your details sir>

>merely glances at car and off he goes does a radio check. comes back...

pc: have you been drinking sir.

mw: not a drop officer. (the truth)

pc: excellent sir, this is a very nice car sir (smiles)

mw: thankyou officer i like it!

pc: very fast too sir?

mw: yes officer.

pc: ok, so how long have you been driving sir?

mw: 6 years

pc: thats quite along time sir, do you think you could still answer a couple of highway code questions correctly sir?

pc: i can certainly try officer!

pc: ok, what is the speed limit on this road sir?

mw: 40 mph.

pc: correct, so what would your stopping distance be?

>i have a think, not knowing for sure

mw: i would say about 45 yards officer.

>he looks at the book (showing that he does'nt know the answer!)

pc: and how many car lengthes would you say that is sir?

>i think about it, must be 5 yards per car.

mw: that must be 9 car lengthes officer.

> he looks at his book for a couple more seconds to check!

pc: spot on sir,(taps the side of the door) you are exactly the sort of person who should be driving a subaru impreza! on your way and have a safe journey! (smiles pleasantly at me)

i nearly fell out the car!

nice guy, young, did'nt give me any **** and smiled throughout.
the biggest (only!) compliment i ever expect from the police! top marks that man!



weava

edited to say: funniest thing is that i posted yesterday about never having been stopped in the car - thought, "i knew i had spoken too soon!" when i was pulled - turned out alright eh?!

[Edited by mista weava - 12/3/2002 1:20:59 PM]

ice man

blimey, wouldn't get that round my way

STi 7

why aint all coppers like that for!

mista weava

i know! i thought all the coppers near me were a pain in the ****! probably are but this guy was alright!
weava

mista weava

just so pleased with myself - i did not know the answer but i really thought it had to be about that distance - i sort of glanced up the road and guesstimated!

gonna do the lottery tomorrow!


weava

Scooby-Doo

You let him tap the side of your car, I would do him for causing dings !!!

WRXLV

maybe he likes you?


LMAO

mista weava

scooby-doo- he tapped the window rubber as i had the window down!
no offence caused.

wrxlv - come to think of it he was looking at me funny! have to keep my eye on him and his mates - make sure they don't pull me in a deserted carpark next time

weava

ice man

Yeah be careful mate it may not just be the Truncheon they wip out and come at you with

mista weava

mummy!

ScoobyK

Police are like any other job / career / people - there are a lot of good ones, and just a few rotten apples that spoil it for the others.

Stopped 19 times in my Triumph, Capri and Orion...and never in either of my scoobs !!!!!!

ajm

hmmm... I have to confess I don't think I could still correctly name stopping distances in the highway code... they are all written for drum brakes anyway I believe!

as an aside: Just tried to find an official online version of the highway code and I couldn't. Is there one?

Hoppy

45 yards Fred Flintstone could do better than that!

juan

http://www.roads.dft.gov.uk/roadsafety/hc/

heres a starter

Gav

had a similar thing last night. driving down deansgate (manchester town centre) and these feds pull me over in a meat wagon, me an my mate got out the car and he was asking the usual questions (insurance etc...) then he gives me "do you know that this car is'nt registered under these plates" then another fed wagon comes screaming down, lights and alarm on the go and blocks me in at an angle so i couldnt have gone anywhere and these two massive fellas step out. so now my hearts nearly beating out me chest even though i knew i was safe (weird that) and they're going over the car with a tooth comb checking stuff. turns out the private plates i had put on a week previous had'nt registered and i was'nt "legally" allowed to drive it, he said it could take upto 5 weeks to register, five bleedin weeks!! to be fair the four feds were sound and were asking me what i thought about the car and what i'd had done to it. so all the feds in manchester centre ar'nt to**ers after all!!!!


gav....

flat4

i can't see any reason for knowing the stopping distances in the highway code, if i was in a Morris Minor then they'd be spot on, 40 years later and cars stop alot quicker, ABS, high spec pads & discs.........probably end up stopping in half the distance


kev

Steve Fort

I've been pulled over 3 times since scoob ownership (3 years), only once it was for me speeding.....a tad, the other times, its appears to have solely been so that they could perv over the car.
I've had 'em looking under the bonnet and asking me what does what etc. Even had one approach me in a petrol station, asking about it, and then he even sat in the drivers seat, to see what its like (with my girlfriend in the passenger seat thinking "What the **** is going on?!")!!
Its not always just young coppers either, the bloke who sat in it
must've been in his fifties!

Its most amusing and does give you a different view of the police.

Glenn_R

Got stopped by the police a couple of moths back as he thought I looked a "little young" to be driving a Y reg Focus!

Didn't have the heart to tell him I had a Scoob as well !!!!

pslewis

You DONT have Gold Wheels do you???

If so, he could very well have taken a shine to you!!!

Pete

pslewis

EXACTLY the same thing happened to me in the 1970's:-

I was driving late one Saturday night when a cop pulled me over.
The policeman walked up to me and asks, "Have you been drinking, sir?"

"Why? Was I weaving?"

"No," replies the policeman, "you were driving fine. It's the ugly, fat chick in the passenger seat that gave you away."

Pete

mista weava

lol@ pete

this is genuinely my first positive experience of the coppers.
refreshing i have to say.

all this stopping distance talk is right, most cars stop within a far shorter distance. the fact is that stopping distance is purely down to observation and reaction speed. i was at least 45 yrds behind the car i whacked up the rear a few months back - momentary lapse of concentration and BANG!

felt a tit as i am always blagging everyone about having enough space to stop happens to the best and worst of us. (inc the fuzz!)

weava

SiPie

Police stop a guy for weaving all over the road

He gets out the car and staggers over to the police, the copper says "you're pissed aren't you Sir?"

"Thank god for that", says the guy, " I thought for a minute my steering was fecked"

Scoobybits

police stop another guy for weaving all over the road;
officer; you're pissed aren't you?????
pissed bloke; how do ya know??!!?!!??!
sir ,your on a lawnmower!!!!

mista weava

lol@ jasemac

how life tut north?

weava

Scoobybits

its grim up north kid didn't you know???next time the copper pulls you up grab your rectracted roller blind and offer him a duel against his truncheon,aka skywalker ve darth maul!!!!ha ha ha

mista weava

my blind would indeed be an advantage as it is longer than their truncheons !

either that or when the bug6er steps into the road, drop her a gear, dumpvalve viciously and nail it - watch the ****** move he he!

on the other hand the isle of wight is a VERY small place and not many red wagons about (if any, i am yet to see one). thus my behaviour, that has now clearly been given carte blanche is precious!

weava