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on Mon 25 Oct 10, 1:00 AM to x_Thunder_x's blog.
After our "Halloween" shoot on Thursday night I took @Wild_Willow home with her broom in the back of my car. My Sat Nav warned me of a delay in our "normal" route and set a new route.
Then followed a nightmare journey with my Sat Nav sending me round in circles and determined to send me south of the river (which was wrong I once double checked the destination and it was right.) I kept overriding the instructions and at last turned right onto a road I knew was correct (even though we approached the main road from the South rather than the North.)
As I turned I was then aware of a black car behind me "breathing" flashing blue lighst from its radiator grill and flashing headlights at me and I pulled over. 2 figures in black (with no markings) then emerged, said they were police officers and asked me to get out of the car. I was then asked if I was lost and I explained about my "neurotic" Sat Nav and I was asked if I had been drinking (apparently I had been straddling 2 lanes as I turned the corner) I answered that I had had a glass of wine about 3 hours earlier and was told I was going to be breathalysed.
A sour looking WPC then gave me a lecture about having my Sat Nav on my window blocking my view and I pointed out that it would not stick anywhere else. I decided not to point out that that in that position it would only block the view of low flying aircraft, that being alongside my rear view mirror it was a more natural place to be and that my sun visor took up more space when down than my Sat Nav !! She asked me if I had my licence and I gave it to her. She then said "have you ever been arrested" I bit my tongue and honestly answered "nope".
They then called for reinforcements (they don't carry breathalysers) and eventually a regular police car pulled up (one of the people in black opened my car door and told Wild Willow she might have to find her own way home and she said "OK I have my broom" The 2 police officers who turned up were at least "human" and we joked and then I was breathalysed - The reading was "zero". I then turned to the "man in black" and said "is that it then?" and he nodded. I turned to the sour WPC and stuck my hand out and she , with a look of disappointment on her face, handed me back my licence.
Bitch!!!
| 25 Oct 10, 4:19 AM feetintrouble_jemima UK(EN), 4 yrs |
Why on earth would they ask "have you ever been arrested"? I've been stopped in my car on two occasions, told that it was "routine", but as a good guy or girl they had nothing to nab me for. Both times I felt a certain satisfaction that I had nothing to hide, but also a certain reassurance that these people are out and about, with the bad press they get about being stuck behind desks. As I spend a lot of time on the road, I see people every day who really shouldn't be driving at all, and I wish there were more cops out sometimes. (I smile when I remember one occasion where somebody overtook very aggressively in Brixton, and forced an oncoming car to slow down. That car was a police car, which turned round and gave chase!) Look of disappointment as she handed back your licence: how unprofessional!
Edited 25 Oct 10, 4:22 AM by feetintrouble_jemima | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 4:55 AM x_Thunder_x UK(E), 9 yrs    |
Exactly. As I said they were in an unmarked car and whilst wearing black clothing carried no markings that they were Police. What their "normal" role is I know not and either she was trying to wind me up or normally had no contact with the public unless in an aggressive mode. And what the crap about my Sat Nav was that it mustn't be on my windscreen I know not!! The "normal" Police who came along to breathalyse me were polite and friendly
^Thunder^ Edited 25 Oct 10, 5:00 AM by x_Thunder_x | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 8:43 AM Kali_Ma UK(B), 5 yrs |
I once got stopped driving down unfamiliar country roads at 11.30 at night the Sat before Christmas (you know the night they are ALL out in force after drunk drivers). I was driving home as the other half had had a drink, apparently my crime was driving 'too slowly and too carefully'. I looked at the police man in disbeleif, pointed out that I didn't know the area, it was late, there was no other traffic for me to inconvienience and I knew the police would be out. I was then asked if I'd been drinking. I pointed to my very obvious 6 mth pregnant bump and enquired 'what do you think?'. What a dick! My poor Bro was always getting stopped when he was in his late teens, for daring to drive a car. Poor sod, he ALWAYS got into trouble when he was asked his name. You see my maiden name was Jackson and his name is Michael... Heh, good job my Dad was a copper, it meant my bro could always talk his way out of it. K x 'I heard she's a bit of a thug' Mister Bear | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 8:47 AM Ian_2007 UK(N), 4 yrs |
Well, presumably even CID are allowed to have PMT and bad days at work. One tends to forget the kind of people the rozzers have to spend their entire working lives dealing with 
As for asking if you've been arrested, that sounds like a "Police Psychology 101" trick for assessing whether your improbable story about the your satnav might actually be true. I imagine she hears it a lot. What's important is not your answer but your reaction. (My favourite is, when they ask you if you know someone, they "accidentally" get the name wrong the first time | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 9:52 AM Rigour UK, 21 mths |
What members of the public ? the citizens that they're employed to serve and protect ? I don't really care if someones having a bad day at work that doesn't give the right to take it out on the public.
More hedonism NOW | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 10:14 AM x_Thunder_x UK(E), 9 yrs |
^Thunder^ | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 10:48 AM LadyLibidienne UK(CB), 8 yrs |
I once got stopped late at night returning home from a party on Mildenhall Airbase. My carved L plates on as my daughter was learning to drive, and inwas alone in the car. I was following my friends van so they stopped as well. The 2 policeman went one to each vehicle. My friend was breathalised while I wasn't. His girlfriend asked to be done as well as she had never done it. Both were clear. Their policeman ended up chatting about the tropical fish they had in their van while mine askede for my phone number. The funny thing was they went back to collect more fish the following week from their American friend who was being posted back to the USA. As they were driving home they got stopped by the same two policemen again for a chat.
"And the tigers come at night, with their voices soft as thunder " | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 2:33 PM MissKimberley NL, 8 yrs    |
Never been arrested, boo  “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” - George Orwell | ||
| 25 Oct 10, 8:19 PM Lady_Lancashire 23 mths £ |
Strangely my car was videod twice speeding near a certain Liverpudlian Fet Club. It's an A road and the car was doing 34 and 37 as it's easy to presume it's a 40 Zone. There were 4 cases to answer in court but obviously it wasn't me driving so on my forms where it asked for witnesses to back up my story I wrote 'Menbers Of Lancashire Constabulary' cos they know I'm crazy. Case dropped by Birkenhead CPS as not in the public's interest. Then there was the time I drove the wrong way into traffic coming off a motorway sliproad, almost into a cop car, on my way to Lash. The police blocked the lane with their vehicle while I reversed back and I was told just to keep on going. Only been breathalysed twice, both were 0. I think there's a 'this woman is just naturally crazy' codicil on my computerised DVLA details. The Red Rose Whispers Of Passion (J o'B R) | ||
| 28 Oct 10, 7:24 PM proccie UK(HP), 6 yrs  |
Takes up less room than a tax disk, surely. Zen S&M: The sound of one hand slapping. |
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