First encounter with police in S2000
01-05-2002, 03:11 PM
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what's the fastest car the force uses now? T5's?
I saw an unmarked BMW5series on the M1 - which seems unfair, since a lot of company execs paste them up and down the motorway pretty fast, it would not seem unusual if one was coming up behind fast.
I saw an unmarked BMW5series on the M1 - which seems unfair, since a lot of company execs paste them up and down the motorway pretty fast, it would not seem unusual if one was coming up behind fast.
01-05-2002, 04:10 PM
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Originally posted by Cedric Tomkinson
I've seen a Jag XKR! On the subject of fairness, we're lucky these days if they're marked cars!
I've seen a Jag XKR! On the subject of fairness, we're lucky these days if they're marked cars!
Oh the ones which went out of Adams in Aylesbury this week weren't white
01-06-2002, 02:26 AM
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Was doing 70 on a major A road (50mph limit) following a mate in his BMW, suddenly he slowed down to 55mph, then we pasted a cop with a radar gun hidden in the darkness, about 250yds in front of a camera I knew about, thankfully we had slowed down so we weren't stopped.
When we got to our destination I asked the BMW why he slowed down, turned out he thought I had flashed him as a warning!
Thank god for the fact that I raised my passenger side HID just the other day, a little bounce in the road saved us from points and a fine.
I love my headlights
When we got to our destination I asked the BMW why he slowed down, turned out he thought I had flashed him as a warning!
Thank god for the fact that I raised my passenger side HID just the other day, a little bounce in the road saved us from points and a fine.
I love my headlights
01-06-2002, 03:29 AM
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I've had a couple of police encounters in the UK, but managed to avoid fines each time by using a strong french accent and by acting as a complete tourist (i have french plates)
- once I've been stopped on the M1 towards london, the guys seemed pretty angry, and I was scared because minutes before I was doing 200kmh (124mph). But he told me they caught me going 102mph. I was like "sorrie misteur officieur, how many kilometers per hour is that? Looke at mye speedo it display only kilometers (true) and I was driving at normale french speed"
They vaguely tried to explain me in the clearest language possible that I could have been taken to court, etc..., then they let me go
- the other time I was making my Michelins squeal around tight corners in the City district at night when I arrived on a police road block. They ran frantically towards me but when they realized that my level of english was terribly low, they just said "slow mister, slow", and gave up..
- once I've been stopped on the M1 towards london, the guys seemed pretty angry, and I was scared because minutes before I was doing 200kmh (124mph). But he told me they caught me going 102mph. I was like "sorrie misteur officieur, how many kilometers per hour is that? Looke at mye speedo it display only kilometers (true) and I was driving at normale french speed"
They vaguely tried to explain me in the clearest language possible that I could have been taken to court, etc..., then they let me go
- the other time I was making my Michelins squeal around tight corners in the City district at night when I arrived on a police road block. They ran frantically towards me but when they realized that my level of english was terribly low, they just said "slow mister, slow", and gave up..