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II decided to be uncooperative...so I drove my 1972 Chevy Monte Carlo, which registration had lapsed so the tag was out of date by a month (it was still fully insured).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.I have nothing to say! (what have you heard?)
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My luck runs the other way. I get arrested for things other people don't even get looked at sideways for...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
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Someone. Anyone. Please. Kill me now. Just make it quick.Oi, cobber, have you gone troppo? Does your Reno run out of rego this arvo? Why so aggro?
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.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…
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 moneyI'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.
You can favor us with at least one tale, can't you...?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