I have a few knocking around, anyone fancy one? -- Nige, BMW K1200S Honda Transalp XL600V Range Rover Vogue
I have a load that anyone can have. They arent the coppers type, they are like a face. -- Nige, BMW K1200S Honda Transalp XL600V Range Rover Vogue
Off-duty trafpol have traditionally adorned themselves or their vehicles with stickers depicting a black rat, to identify themselves to other trafpol when looking at a nicking. The penalties for being caught with one when you're not trafpol are generally quite severe. As in, instant failure of the attitude test and a right royal rogering.
A female friend of mine who is plod but not trafpol won't have one on her car or bike. When pushed as to why, she responded "Why would I want to be associated with the fluorescent filth?"
It's not something I'd try and get away with but others have claimed a degree of success in avoiding a booking by having a black rat sticker.
In my limited experience Trafficpol are like Humboldt Squid and as keen to eat their own wounded as anything else.
No, much more recently than that but I didn't say I believed the person making the claim did I? I prefer to rely on either making a safe getaway or trying to bullshit my way out of trouble rather than a sticker that plenty of bike magazines have given away in the past.
I don't believe anyone who says they've got away with it by displaying one. All it would take would be one question from the Plod who stopped you, and you'd be rumbled. And you'd be hit even harder for taking the piss. Politeness and admitting you've behaved like a twat have got me off more tugs than anything else.
Perhaps they should display a pig fucking another pig instead of the black rat stickers. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
