Nice Policemans

Yesterday, toodling along the Eastern Avenue in Ilford with a man with
a blue light on his head, riding a BMW 50 yards or so behind me.
Obviously time to be a good boy and do as the highway code says etc.
Come to a junction with traffic lights where the road changes from a
two lane dual carriageway to a three lane dual carriageway. I'm in
lane two, the new lane come in from the right, so lane two become the
middle lane. The cage in front in lane one decides to join middle lane
right in front of me. No signals just pulls out, bit daft thinks I but
no real problem, just had to use the brakes a little faster than
normal

BUT Mr Policeman thinks otherwise, he pulls up beside said cage,
knocks on his window and starts to give him a bollocking, moved closer
to hear the telling off. 'Didn't you see that motorcycle etc'. Cage
driver starts to make excuses, copper raises telling off level from
6/10 to 9/10, I thought he was going to book him. I smiled for a long
time, thank you Mr Policeman.

Brian

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

It is *lovely* when that happens. The road out of my local town is a 30
limit and heavily, heavily policed. It's never worth doing > 30 along,
but that doesn't stop them trying, bless 'em.

I was riding along it a while ago at 29.9999999999 (GPS verified) MPH,
with Nova-boi getting quite irate behind me, Eventually, he dragged past
me, and got it up to 50-ish *just* in time to meet the
man-wivva-hairdryer.

He got a cheery "pip-pip" on the horn and a wave as I passed.

Copper seemed quite amused.

 

I had something similar once along in Chelsea. I had WVM right up my
arse but I had to slow down for a pedestrian crossing with a granny
brigade waiting to cross. WVM didn't see this until the last minute for
some bloody reason and shot past me with inches to spare and missed
racking up 200 points on the deathrace 2000 leaderboard.

What he failed to notice even more, was the fact that there were two
bike plod behind him that saw the whole event.

I gave the boys in blue a cheery wave too, when I rode past them as
they were ticketing WVM.

Heh.

 

You admit to not driving like the HC says always?

 

Yonks back, on the M1 out of Lunnon, mildly shitty weather and hometime
for thousands, I was taking it easy filtering half-and-half and trickled
past a cop car in lane 2. There was a large space in front of said cop
wagon and I naturally slotted in there, ready to proceed. Just
approaching a junction (probably J8, iirc) when matey-boy in L3 decided
he'd just about missed his turnoff and tried to shoot across L2 with me
in it. I got out of the way sharpish and was most gratified to hear the
siren and see the lights in my mirrors as Plod took exception to matey.

What took me aback was the numptiness of the action, right in front of a
cop car he'd just overtaken.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I recall Champ's question from a while ago, about the woman copper who
gave him a ticking off when he rode like a **** past her. I asked a
friend who's plod with Strathclyde (you know, as in _really_ a cop), if
she was within her rights, and the response was that if an off-duty cop
or one in an unmarked car (without the Hanoucca lights) wanted to stop a
vehicle, 'we'd follow him, and call for an area car'. In short,
officers not in uniform don't get to pull cars or motorcycles over.
This confirms what my father (z``l) used to tell me, i.e. that if the
officer is not in uniform, the motorist can just drive on.

Maybe the law on that score is different in England and Wales, but I
seem to recall reading that it's the same. So the above little anecdote
strikes me as yet another fabrication from the mind of Bullshit 'Special
Forces' Bear.

'take his keys off him ... '

*chortle*

Right.

You sad, demented 'man'.

D.

 

I wish to **** I'd taken out odds on that response. Talk about being
predictable...

Anyway, 1 invented bike v. probably dozens of invented stories about
saving damsels in the distress, gunfights involving fifty heavily armed
members of Al'Queda, and defusing a bomb on the hull of the QE2 ...

I reckon you win when it comes to fabrication.

D.

 

Perhaps, perhaps not, I don't remember officer.

Brian

 

They're easily fucking pleased, IME.