Just Got Pulled Over For The 2nd Time In 2 Weeks

[TomR]

Joe, phone the DVLA and ask them if its coming up as valid on their system and then ask for written confirmation of that. When the police pull you show them the letter dated whatever it was, then if they pull you ever again tell them you're going to report them for harrassment or something.

[Fish-Finger-er]

its basically an excuse to pull you over, aint much you can do, i think a lot of its about attitude, at least around here, if you get away with the first few times ur pulled they wont bother again. because officers get to know whos who. (even though they aint seen u, word and regs gets passed round the station).

its like my mate got pulled for speeding(35 in a 30, quiet word is in his ear stylee). coppers could smell cannabis in the car, but cudnt find anything, so let it go, since then though, its about a thrice weekly occurance he gets pulled, coppers will follow him an pull him for anything, excuses ive heard when ive been in the car, apart from the more normal include "you where coming down here a bit late at night" "you didnt signal to exit that roundabout, have you not read the highway code". and the one that takes the crown "we though you had a number plate light out from about 100 metres away, so decided to pull you over for it, however once we got a bit closer we realised you hadnt, but by this time wed got the lights on so had to pull you, as seen as your stopped, we might as well just search the car"

i dont seem to get much trouble really because of my car, which is suprising, however coppers round here have taken it to the next level, theyll sit on the exit to the car park every night in the summer, and pull every car as it leaves, the only exceptions are the ones that get through cos there to busy pulling other people leaving. a lad i know had drove on there, and didnt have anything illegal in his car, just didnt want to be pulled as it was his mothers car and hed get ear ache for it. his only option was to wait till shift change at 2am, and after that you could leave unhindered.

ive dealt with the times ive been stopped in numerous ways, from accepting it,brown nosing and gettin by on school boy charm, to starting a full blown argument with the copper,which he couldnt win, so in the end told me to get out of his sight after writing out a section 59 then forgettin to give it me cos he was in so much of a huff(he said he was travelling 6 cars behind mine, so i cudnt see him, but he cud see me, and i was way too close to the car and my speed was excessive, i ripped it to pieces asking if he was that far back that i couldnt see him, could he really judge my distance all that well, and if my speed was excessive, surely that 6 car gap between me and him would of been gettin larger, as the 5 cars between us would of been adearing to the speed limit which i supposedly wasnt, or if they wernt, should he of pulled all of us).

sometimes coppers are the soundest people in the world, othertimes there the biggest idiots ever, some will accept that youve outsmarted them, or made a genuinely funny comment and outwitted them, others will do a lot of finger wagging as your undermining there authority.

best time ive ever been pulled was by these 2 male officers. i was passenger in a car, who was doin laps of a local town (Sad but i was only 16 and rollin with the big boys) cops latched on to us doing laps, and pulled us, once i noticed they wer behind us i just grabbed the roadmap from under the seat, opened it at a random page, when they came to the car the first thing i asked was how to get to a village about a mile down the road. the one copper burst out laughing and said "dont tell me thats ur excuse" and the other was proper strict and stiff upper lipped, in the end the first copper had to go sit in his car to control his laughing.

[Matt_Tupman]

gutted. drive a skoda, they dont stop you then

Turns out they do