Sideways, the way forward

Got 3 points on my licence today.... pretty gutted although relieved that I didn't receive a court summons and a potential ban considering he got me with his speed gun doing 85 in a 40.

After he had stopped the traffic to allow me to reverse back to him he asked me for an explanation and I just shat it and said ermm...well.... ermm... i don't have any excuse officer. For my honesty he gave me 3 points and £60 fine... not toooo bad.

Anyway whilst he was filling out forms and making jokes about impreza drivers, his mate with the gun asked me if i wanted to have a go. Eager as a beaver I grabbed the device and aimed it at the nearest car, which was doing a very boring 35mph.

The cop explained that provided you can see the car through the site, it doesn't matter how far away you are. (scary). I clocked someone from 300 metres away in a split second. So beware!!!

also just for your information the T5 volvos they have are not modified in anyway at all (heard a while ago that they were).... so if you need to make a sharp exit (preferably along a windy b road) then it wouldn't be impossible to destroy a 5 tonne volvo T5 with a donut eating detective behind the wheel. (Wouldn't advise doing this really as the outcome would be far worse if you failed). Incidentally i have always wanted to have a blast against a policeman... think it would be lots of fun.

RoRu

Ain't life a BITCH sometimes ah?

Abdabz

The world would be so much better if there was no law...

Trashman

Oh how sad. I got the same for 82 in a 70. You sir are a ****.

jzr

there r some coppers out there that r fair but then there r some that are total t**ts an most seem to live here. My bro in law had his brand new scooby impounded, cost 150 sheets to get it out, The cop had it in for him for a while on the ticket it said sounded like he was speeding.

T4molie

85 in a 40? You're very lucky you didn't lose your license!!

andy97

iTrader: (1)

Hi

You were lucky to get 3 points for that alleged offence. However you might not of been travelling that fast. Have you seen these laser guns giving a reading of 50mph when panned across a stationary wall!!.

Andy

cookstar

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i thought that anything more than 30 over the limit, it was straight to court.

Lucky lucky.

You might have got away scott free if you had been wearing a skirt... lol

Not a sexist comment, my g/f got pulled, on one of these stupid 30 MPH country lanes. not sure exactly how fast she was going but it must have been pushing 60MPH. got told off then got back in car 5 mins later smiling..........WITH A WARNING.

This same road just last year i got done for 41.

Makes you think...

Mick

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- Have you seen 'sideways the way forward' in a skirt??? Would it turn a policemans head

Mick

Sideways, the way forward

Believe me.... if i'd have been wearing a skirt...not only would he have wanted to sleep with me but he would have been paying me instead of fining me!

Stevie.p

LUCKY BOY !!

You could very easily have been looking at a minimum 12 month ban now .

I always believe that if you are reasonable with the fed's by not getting cocky then most of the time they will be fair with you and sometimes honesty is the best policy as shown today

dexter

Very true !

pslewis

85 in a 40??

You should be locked away in the showers with Big Gay Joe and a tube of K-Y Jelly!!

And PLEASE stop calling them the Feds' FFS .... thats the American term and not applicable here!!

Pete

New To Scoob

Lucky B springs to mind, BTW a T5 with a fully trained police driver will probably give you and damn good run for your money, so it probably aint worth tring.

John.

MaDaSS

The simple fact is, the Police driver will have already got your number plate, so what would you be running from? And i agree with the above post too. They are bloody good drivers, traffic cops. I would like an ounce of thier talent.

FirebirdUK

They are, but only on normal roads...

I went on a rally course, and some traffic cops were there on the same day (quite smug they were too)...

Anyway, as part of the course, the instructor took you round a rally course in a forest (so it was all gravel and mud type roads). After the coppers had sat in as passengers, they were quick to comment "if we'd been trying to pursue the instructor around that course, we wouldn't have caught him". It was quite funny - they certainly lost their smugness after the instructor showed them what to do! Different sort of driving I suppose...

Funny thing was - I thought I was an assertive driver until it was my turn to be a passenger - I was a bit of a nervous passenger - especially when we were tanking it towards a 90 degree blind right turn with the car pointing left

The other thing I found funny - they were works rally drivers for another Japanese manufacturer, but they drove Scoobies