Fake policeman tried arresting me today lol

[Vince70]

This morning I had the weirdest thing happen today as I was traveling along the road in the inside lane on a main road that goes from two into one lane, then out of nowhere a car came and overtook me on the single lane part of the carriageway where the road merges and made me slam the brakes on I was lucky I didn't loose my drivers wing as he was hell bent on hitting my car then once in front he started brake testing my car?

 

The brake testing didn't work as I always keep a safe distance so he stopped the car in between a bollard so no one could move on the main road and got out the car.

 

At this time I jumped out as I was fuming and to be honest I would of knocked his block off as I believe he was trying to insurance scam with his driving and my passenger was scared but she was trying to grab my arm to stop me thumping him.

 

When he jumped out the car he was wearing some kind of fake police uniform with a stab proof vest with the blue and white chequer bits on etc with a white shirt and my passenger said it had police written on the back of the vest but I can't say I saw that.

 

My passenger automatically thought it was the Sweeney and I was underarrest for some unbeknown reason or I was some kind of master criminal lol.

 

As soon as I got out the car and fronted the idiot out he started taking pictures and filming me and my car while I called him all the names going then said I will be reported then for threatening behaviour and then jumped back in his car.

 

To be honest I should of just got his phone and shoved it where the sun don't shine

 

He even said I'm reporting you for hitting my car which I didn't and I hadn't cut up anyone so me and my passenger really couldn't work it out.

 

I just wanted to know is there some kind of scam where someone is trying to pretend to be a police officer and trying to get fake whiplash claims as this is a first for me in over 25 years of driving.

 

The car was a 63 red base spec Skoda with a couple of wheel trims missing, I reported it to the police when I got home later on but like I say it's a new one to me.

 

If the guy had of been a policeman then he must of been doing too much donut eating as he was obese about 5.5 tall and in his 50s so would of had trouble catching any criminals lol.

 

So you may now see me on some you tube video threatening a plastic policeman lol.

[Bren]

PCSO?

[dave21478]

I remember seeing some Police, Camera, Action type of thing where they pulled some dude for being a fake paramedic. Some kind of mental delusions IIRC.

 

 

Everyone needs to have a dashcam. - to protect yourself from fake crash claims and to provide Youtube LOLs.

[Twiggy]

_{A police officer will never overtake you to stop you. They always stop you from behind. Obviously derranged, he needs to be taken off the road permanently before he does cause a collision. I hope you got his number...............}

[Richard]

There was one going around here a few years ago. IIRC it was a not quite new enough Fiesta and he mostly tried to pull over lone women.

 

Edit- this is the one I remember but it does seem to be a common phenomenon http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-22271396

[richardmorris]

What did the real fuzz say when you reported the idiot?

[RedSparrow]

Did you ask to see any ID?

But yeah it sounds like a scam. Usually the Police take impersonating an officer very seriously so I expect they were interested in what you had to say.

[overrun]

I have had one trying to Police me, for doing 60 in a 40 before (safe enough on the road in question) and when he pulled alongside me and got out, he claimed to flash a warrant card and said I would be reported.

When I asked to see the WC again, he wouldn't.

 

Don't worry about it, OP. Another deranged BS artist.

Just be glad he ever hit your car! Hopefully he is caught.

[HH-R]

Just put a dashcam app on my phone because of this! Went for a try and I hadn't realised how many times per minute I clear my throat/cough!

[Vince70]

Thanks for all the support.

To be honest I didn't ask for his ID as I was about to explode and wasn't thinking straight as all I wanted to do was punch his lights for trying to put me up the pavement but I imagine it's not the first time he's done it as he seemed to know exactly what he was doing and tried giving the presence of being a policeman without saying I'm a policeman.

 

I think what really worried him was I could tell straight away he wasn't a cop as soon as he jumped out the car although my passenger was adamant he was but he didn't have any badge number and that's when the picture and video taking was done for "evidence" as he was getting worried his teeth would go missing.

 

I reported it straight away once I got back by phoning up the non emergency number and followed him for a bit so I could give his number to the real police.

 

But to be honest I never loose my temper this was a first for me.

[stephen01]

_{A police officer will never overtake you to stop you. They always stop you from behind. Obviously derranged, he needs to be taken off the road permanently before he does cause a collision. I hope you got his number...............}

 

I was pulled over two years ago, on a country road,(it was dark also) me knowing the roads it wasn't safe to stop for at least another 1/8 mile so i was going to carry on until I got to a safe place to stop, the copper had a different idea and he went around me on a blind bend, and stopped in front of me across the whole road, right on the bend, when he approached me I said do you want to pull further up the road as it's not the safest place to stop, he just said ' thats why we have big blue flashing lights' 

 

one checked my van over and one checked me over, no reason to pull me at all. 5 mins later i was on my way.. 

[gordonbennet]

Yet again one has to wonder why they closed the asylums down, this pretend wannabe copper is just one of the thousands of puddled bastard nutters now roaming our land that should be locked up there, for their own good and for the protection of the rest of us.

[Pillock]

Or, you know, you could help them.

 

A traditional asylum includes such goodies as electrotherapy, involuntary castration, and 24/7 solitary confinement. Sounds a bit extreme for someone with a high-vis fetish.

[dave21478]

Yeah, but no. 

Plenty of loons need help, but folk who impersonate police or doctors need locked up - In this particular case Vince was on the ball and saw straight through it, but if his female passenger who believed he was a real copper had been alone then things may have turned out very differently indeed.

[richardmorris]

I wonder what he actually wanted though? What's in it for him? He can't fine you, or give you a ticket, so how does he expect his scenario to play out?

[dave21478]

Nut jobs like that (and I used to now one - not a police impersonator, but other issues with his thinking sponge) often do it for the power trip - he probably wanted to give vince a dressing down over some perceived traffic violation and then get all magnanimous and say he would let him off with a warning this time if Vince had been suitably humble and apologetic.

 

But quite often they go after lone women and you can just imagine what the intentions may be there......

[Vince70]

I really think he wanted me to smash into his car and get a whiplash claim as I haven't seen driving that mad and bad for awhile.

 

And when that didn't work that's when the plastic cop routine came out, I did notice on the vest some kind of security badge so I imagine it's someone who failed the entrance exam for plod and was a wannabe cop but could only get a job doing security in a supermarket or hospital but had obviously been on eBay and bought some police extras for his uniform.

 

I wouldn't mind but the old A4 I'm driving is a drug dealer lookalike car (was like it when I bought it but it was cheap) with its blacked out windows so the idiot could have really come unstuck if the normal clientele for such a car were driving it as you couldn't see from the side who or how many people would have been in the car.

[Bamboocarman]

Am glad you are both OK Mr V, and that you had the clarity of mind to deal with the situation. I know from the kind of work that I do, which does involve the Police occasionally, that there are quite a few deluded people out there, who, more often than not, appear safe, sound, respectable and are well dressed; but, scratch the surface, are completely deranged.

 

'Gan canny', as we say in the North East.

[overrun]

I wonder what he actually wanted though? What's in it for him? He can't fine you, or give you a ticket, so how does he expect his scenario to play out?

A mate of a mate used to do this, when younger.

He was obsessed with wanting to be a copper. :/

 

Had a white Focus with 'Focus' wrote in backwards, hi-viz lettering on the bonnet and would wear a white shirt and pull over 'boy racers'. Apparently.

 

I never saw that, but heard he used to even do it when he owned a red mk1 Punto.

Fucking weirdo.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Good story if nowt else, I enjoyed it!!! Bloke sounds like a complete mental case.

[RedSparrow]

Reminds me of a time an odd bloke came into my old work claiming to be a Copper looking for someone impersonating a copper, weirdly.

He had a badge that looked like it was from the 1960s. I reported it to the Police.

Anyway a few months later I took a motor to a classic car show and he was there - a hi-vis clad marshal. Weirdos that classic car lot.

[Uncle Jimmy]

All rather disturbing but nothing surprises me. More likely some kind of con - artist than a full blown nutter- was he alone in the car? Were you driving something valuable?

[Vince70]

Yes he was alone in the car so the idiot could of really of come unstuck...but as has been said there's more out than in..

 

 

When I living in a small village in Kent a few years ago we had one which had a radio fitted in his car that would be tuned into the emergency services and if an accident occurred he would be out to the scene before the police putting out signs and directing traffic in his hi viz making out he was someone who worked for emergency services.

 

This is autoshite so something valuable is in the £500 price range and my old Vag shite only cost half of that lol

[chaseracer]

...there are quite a few deluded people out there, who, more often than not, appear safe, sound, respectable and are well dressed; but, scratch the surface, are completely deranged...

 

 

[Alan_Green]

PCSO?

Yes!  The new car...the age...the uniform...the lack of height...the attitude...the missing wheeltrims even.  I also think it was a PCSO on duty but on an errand who has got carried away with himself (probably not for the first time).  See if the cops use those cars and who signed that red Skoda out.

[Taff]

Vince, did you get his reg number? car taxed and everything, is it?

[Vince70]

I haven't checked the car reg online but I've already informed the police and given the the registration and car details.

Plus I've got an automated email stating the case is logged etc

[bub2006]

That reg is coming up as a red skoda fabia tdi. Also says road tax is £20 a year,all cop cars I know of come up as £0 road tax?

[bub2006]

As do ambulances and fire engines I believe

[Vince70]

Cheers I wonder looking at the spec of the motor if it's some kind of pool or hire car.