morning all.
ever tried to "do the right thing" and got it totally wrong?
i did last night, i was driving home from town about 10.00pm, and had just entered a twisty, narrow section of road that is a couple of miles long, when suddenly a smallish white van (escorty type) came right up behind me flashing its lights and blowing it's horn. this was closely being chased by a fully regailed police car, with blue lights and siren.
thinking that the van had been nicked by joy-riders, i tried to slow it down to allow the chasing police car to either try and effect a stop, or to set something up further up the road. i must of held it up for about five mins in all!. however, when the road widened again, both the van and the police car shot past me, and it was only then that i saw the words "police dogs" emblazoned down the side of the van and across the back doors!.
drove home very sheepishly:-(.
this morning (09.40) answered a knock at door, only to be confronted by a police constable and constabless, who asked if i owned and was driving vehicle reg no******* last night, to which i replied "yes", they then proceeded to give me a real ticking off, and at one stage warned that i may be charged with "obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty",
although after i explained, they weren't in a better frame of mind, but at least they left without actually charging me.
sometimes billy can't do right even when he tries!!!:-(.
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If the white van didn't have police markings on the front or blue lights its their own fault. How were you to know ?
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Oh dear! How embarassing! :-)
Never mind, your intentions were good, they should really have put the Police car first, followed by the van, after all, the van obviously had no markings or lights on the front. Alternatively they could have dropeed back and let the Police car in between the pair of you, then you may have realised that something was wrong!
Don't worry about it too much, just don't try to help the Police out during a pursuit again! ;-)
Blue
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It's not your fault, if the mutt wagon didn't have any markings on it, how on earth are you to know.
I think if I had the police on my door after this incident to try to tick me off for that I would remind them that the police rely on the goodwill of the public to help solve crime.
I'd then tell them to get their mutt wagons liveried up properly. Then I'd tell them to either charge me, which let's face it there is reasonable doubt by the bucketload here and it would never get through the CPS or to shut up, go away and nick some villans.
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I can't believe they actually sent 2 coppers to see you. Surely they would have been put to better use with s************s somewhere?
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Drove through our town centre a few days ago, and out past the medium security nick. Three Area and five Beat cars were parked up outside as an ambulance emerged, with another Beat car arriving as we drove past.
I have no idea what it was about, but this was probably half the local force!
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On the other hand... I followed a police Transit type thing down the M1 from Wakefield to Worksop on Friday evening. Didn't seem to be in 'emergency' mode but he was doing 80/85 all the way in Lane 3 and when he couldn't he simply turned on the blue lights so everything moved over.
It was a joy to be 'tucked-in' discreetly behind him!...
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Reminds me of almost the opposite experience I had years ago...
Pootling along a narrow country lane and suddenly had blues & twos approaching fast from the rear. No spaces to pull over (other than ditch!) so booted it up to around 60-70mph until a field entrance appeared a couple of miles later.
On skidding to a stop on this heavily rutted surface I would not normally have driven on I found plod had pulled in behind me instead of going past. Turned out they wanted to check me out, not, as I had assumed, en route elsewhere.
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That's brilliant Frostbite. So when you were actually trying to help the policveman along, it would have appeared that you were trying to resist arrest? Fantastic. :D
(and for the pedant's, yes I know, not really resisting arrest, but it sounds better)
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Don't the police have anything better to do than send a couple of flat feet round to tell you off?
They could maybe try catching the odd criminal for a change....
Instead of persecuting motorists.
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Not quite the same but interesting nevertheless.
I was attending a meeting, which the Duke of Edinburgh was chairing at the cricket club in Birmingham, and I was hopelessly lost. This was about 1970 or 1971, and I had a new, white Triumph 2000. I was somewhere in the region of the airport and there were lots of plods about. I stopped and asked the nearest, who happened to be an inspector, and who spoke to the driver of a traffic car. I was told to tuck in behind this car as they were part of the escort for HRH and they would take me to the venue.
It was amazing. The convoy was really moving, and police on the route were saluting. I'm sure they thought I was one of the escort in plain clothes. I had twin car aerials on the back wings and it probably looked like a plod car.
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"They could maybe try catching the odd criminal for a change...."
Maybe that's what they were tryig to do the night before, when Billy misunderstood their intentions.
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I remember many years ago when my dad was pulling the caravan down the (then) A74. Police overtook in their Rover SD1 and pulled in front of him. They then gradually slowed and slowed till my dad finally plucked up the courage to signal to overtake.
At this point the policeman in the passenger seat beckoned my dad to stay where he was.
About 30 secs later, a Rolls Royce went flying down the outside and overtook my dad but was too late to see the police car hidden in front. Police took off after Roller and half mile along the road there they both were in a layby, driver being booked!
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