Statute of Limitations Expiration Stories

[DLax69]

@CatmanV2 ...time to tell the tale! Anyone else?

I can talk about the time I went to jail enroute to my daughter's elementary school matriculation...or that time I was 16...or...

 

[CatmanV2]

@CatmanV2 ...time to tell the tale! Anyone else?

I can talk about the time I went to jail enroute to my daughter's elementary school matriculation...or that time I was 16...or...

I have nothing to say! (what have you heard?)

C

 

[DLax69]

I have nothing to say! (what have you heard?)

C

Fine...I'll go first. I was working in Asheville, NC and living in Charlotte...so up in the mountains for three days or so each week. My daughter was getting ready to have her end-of-year school celebration to mark the transition from elementary school (5th grade) to middle school (6th). I had to run up to Asheville for a meeting and then was going to meet her mother at the school that afternoon. However, the transmission in my Isuzu Trooper II decided to be uncooperative...so I drove my 1972 Chevy Monte Carlo, which registration had lapsed so the tag was out of date by a month (it was still fully insured). I drove to Asheville, did what I had to do, and headed back to Charlotte. I was running a four lane highway through some smaller towns.

As it was the Memorial Day weekend, there were police posted everywhere. A couple of state troopers had a dude pulled over on the shoulder, so I accelerated into the left lane (away from the shoulder, here!) to give room...and there was a county copper who was just beyond them. He came up behind me, and pulled me over. Being a tad overzealous, he arrested me on the spot for something that should have only been a ticket and a fine. I got taken to the County lock-up and booked. Used my phone call to get a bail bondsman down to get me out ($300) and to call my then-wife to let her know where I was. An hour later, I was out...retrieved the car and drove home. A lawyer in that county was engaged for another $300, and the whole thing went away...

Well, except for the fact that the girl child still likes to bring it up on occasion. As I did miss her little ceremony...but I think I threw another $300 at her to make up for it. For reference, I guess she would have been 9 or 10...and she's 32 now.

 

[CatmanV2]

I understood about one word in three


For the record, I've never been arrested. Pulled over once for pulling a U-turn with no lights in front of a police station.

Probably *should* have been arrested on several occasions, but youth and stupidity seems to have protected me

C

 

[DLax69]

I understood about one word in three


For the record, I've never been arrested. Pulled over once for pulling a U-turn with no lights in front of a police station.

Probably *should* have been arrested on several occasions, but youth and stupidity seems to have protected me

C

My luck runs the other way. I get arrested for things other people don't even get looked at sideways for...

Though I have escaped, once or twice...

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

So either this is a surprisingly law abiding bunch, for a cross section of sorts, of the population.
Or, the crimes committed were so serious that the statute of limitations doesn't apply.

I can't speak for 'Murica, where the offence of moral turpitude still seems to be in the penal codes of certain states
and possibly the federal government. To me, a weekend packed end to end with moral turpitude, is a weekend to brag about on a Monday morning.

I dunno what offences aren't subject to a statute of limitations here in the UK. No, actually I do. Espionage, I think. Definitely and my personal favourite, corruption in public office. No, I can't explain why it's my favourite. Because of the........work the rest out. I'm not referring to myself either!
Crimes with a whole life tarrif maybe? Murder and the other commandments, obvs. Using Australian slang, outside Australia.
Words like convo, avo, abo, all make me want to commit an offence with a whole life tarrif. Breaking the Official Secrets Act possibly.
Though the Russians and Chinese have probably read anything of any importance, just after it was written.

 

[happydaze]

Oi, cobber, have you gone troppo? Does your Reno run out of rego this arvo? Why so aggro?

 

[Tallman]

After I picked up my - new to me - QPV in Johannesburg, I drove straight back to the Cape (~900 Miles) and decided to try it out a bit on the empty highway…there was a wide centre division with bushes in the middle and long grass till the road surface. Whilst doing about 100mph I suddenly saw an idiot run from the bushes toward the road and proceeded to give him a prolonged hoot accompanied by rude gestures. At the last moment I noticed the speed camera rearing its ugly head above the long grass and recognised the crazed guy as in fact being a copper…..”what to do“ I thought, but before I could decide my right foot made the decision for me and I accelerated away - not exactly an anonymous gesture in a QPV Sport GTS with Sport button engaged!

Whilst still blaming my right foot and coming to the realisation that the copper would have pre-empted such stupid and perhaps predictable behaviour from offenders, I noticed a toll booth coming up with an off-ramp just before, so I decided to preventatively get off the road to escape the blue-lighted brigade, however just as I engaged my indicator I saw the dreaded blue flashing lights and heard the unpleasant sound of the wailing siren, so -this time- wisely pulled over to face the inevitable.

The copper got out of his car with a red face and proceeded to shout to me why I ran away from him and that I now faced arrest. I protested that I thought he was some idiot about to cross the road in front of me but he responded by saying he heard me accelerate away. Then he spoke the the relieving words “now we have a problem”. To which I responded “yes we have a problem, we have to solve the problem”. Needless to say we managed to reach an understanding and I was able to proceed just a little lighter than before I was stopped…

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

Oi, cobber, have you gone troppo? Does your Reno run out of rego this arvo? Why so aggro?

Someone. Anyone. Please. Kill me now. Just make it quick.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

To clarify. I love Australians. I love the way they one finger pomposity. I love their attitude to living life and working to live.
Not the other way around. Like so many of us here in the 'old country'.
But, it really, really grinds my gears, to hear non-Australians use Australian slang, outside of Australia and especially here in the UK.
Twenty years ago, so many who went out to Oz for work experience and loved the place and people, came back just bursting to tell everyone else about it. Again and again and again. So, they'd drop Australian slang and especially 'no worries', into conversations, just begging to be asked the question they were dying to hear, "Oh, have you been to Oz?" Their little faces would beam like a full moon in a cloudless night sky and they'd be off, regaling you with everything down to the fine details of their trip, for as long as they could possibly sustain the conversation.
I wasn't resentful per se. I hugely enjoyed these tales the first few times I heard them. But, as the months and years passed, I grew increasingly weary of those who followed in the precise footsteps of their fellow travellers and who like their forbearers, just had to
regale their families, friends and even random strangers, of every granular detail of their 'experience'. Fortunately, going to Oceania is now, no more noteworthy than flying to the west coast of North America.
I suppose the next generation of travel bores will be space tourists. But, I sleep easy at night, believing that I'll be lost at sea, long before I have the misfortune to have to listen to the endless tales of what happens to your bodily functions in space. And they will be endless. Because without precise preparation, the list of 'issues' can be long and painful.
Luckily for us. Apparently in space. 'No one can hear you scream.'

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

After I picked up my - new to me - QPV in Johannesburg, I drove straight back to the Cape (~900 Miles) and decided to try it out a bit on the empty highway…there was a wide centre division with bushes in the middle and long grass till the road surface. Whilst doing about 100mph I suddenly saw an idiot run from the bushes toward the road and proceeded to give him a prolonged hoot accompanied by rude gestures. At the last moment I noticed the speed camera rearing its ugly head above the long grass and recognised the crazed guy as in fact being a copper…..”what to do“ I thought, but before I could decide my right foot made the decision for me and I accelerated away - not exactly an an anonymous gesture in a QPV Sport GTS with Sport button engaged!

Whilst still blaming my right foot and coming to the realisation that the copper would have pre-empted such stupid and perhaps predictable behaviour from offenders, I noticed a toll booth coming up with an off-ramp just before, so I decided to preventatively get off the road to escape the blue-lighted brigade, however just as I engaged my indicator I saw the dreaded blue flashing lights and heard the unpleasant sound of the wailing siren, so -this time- wisely pulled over to face the inevitable.

The copper got out of his car with a red face and proceeded to shout to me why I ran away from him and that I now faced arrest. I protested that I thought he was some idiot about to cross the road in front of me but he responded by saying he heard me accelerate away. Then he spoke the the relieving words “now we have a problem”. To which I responded “yes we have a problem, we have to solve the problem”. Needless to say we managed to reach an understanding and I was able to proceed just a little lighter than before I was stopped…

I'm sure you know by now Leo that as soon as you pass through a speed trap and 'floor it' hoping to make your escape.
Your details, including where you live, have already been circulated to all of the units blocking your possible escape routes.
Including those behind you. Should you choose to U turn and try to disappear up a side road. Its been this way for over thirty
years, by my personal knowledge and certainly decades longer before this. If the officer in charge of the 'stop' has sufficient manpower.

 

[Tallman]

I'm sure you know by now Leo that as soon as you pass through a speed trap and 'floor it' hoping to make your escape.
Your details, including where you live, have already been circulated to all of the units blocking your possible escape routes.
Including those behind you. Should you choose to U turn and try to disappear up a side road. Its been this way for over thirty
years, by my personal knowledge and certainly decades longer before this. If the officer in charge of the 'stop' has sufficient manpower.

In the UK maybe…in this case there was only one guy. He got in his car and chased me, so he was quick as it was only about 3 miles to the toll. Here in SA, if they have the ‘stop you’ kind of trap instead of just taking a pic, it means there is a deal to be done…so I think he was in a hurry so that he could collect his lunch money

 

[lozcb]

Dont think Matts servers have enough memory , or my computer keyboard enough ink in it to write all the misdemeanours I may or may not have partaken in lets leave it that my lovable rogue title is there for a reason

 

[DLax69]

Dont think Matts servers have enough memory , or my computer keyboard enough ink in it to write all the misdemeanours I may or may not have partaken in lets leave it that my lovable rogue title is there for a reason

You can favor us with at least one tale, can't you...?