Cop Encounters - Any Interesting Stories?

[richardmorris]

You all live interesting lives. I've never been stopped. Of course my heart always leaps into my mouth whenever a marked car pulls out and tails me.

[Noel Tidybeard]

i got pulled whilst driving my mates 1.6l sierra coswoth*

the car was about 7-8 different colours where better panels had replaced tin-moth eaten items

copper said it was cos car was many colours, so gave me a producer

so with that went back home got me papers and went to plodshop in me own car within 1/2 hour of ticket

lets just say that the lady on the desk was not best pleased with having to deal with it on paper as it was not put on computer yet!

i think the copper that stopped me was gonna get an ear bending for a cockamamie excuse for pulling us over lol

[fordperv]

Well I've been pulled too many times there are a few that stick in my mind, one of those was when I had a 2.0 auto mk1 sierra and I messed about with the engine, the thing would slide lovely if you worked the box from drive to 1st going into a corner then when you were sliding go back up the box, one night I was showing it's abilities not noticing the cop car behind me, it followed me while I was doing it, he pulled me around the corner and asked me what it was all about, because it was a fair cop I was honest and said I was acting a twat, the officer was taken back by my honesty, he checked my tyres and saw they were legal he looked inside the car and had an outburst and said "automatic?" he was rather amused that it was an auto and told me nice bit of driving but don't let him see me doing it again then sent me on my way. I have lots more stories

[Matt]

If you watch traffic cop type tv programmes they are always on the lookout for old bangers so pretty much anything pre 2000 that isn't mint.

 

Oh for sure, but they're not profiling, no siree. I've been pulled twice in five years, want to hazard a guess which car that was in? You guessed it, the modified K-reg Volkswagen.

 

The first time was shortly after I lowered it; I drove into town to pick up a family member and her friends after their employers Christmas dinner. Seeing as it was Christmas/new year time the local force were doing their usual anti drink driving stuff so just outside the car park of the venue there were two coppers doing breath tests. I drove in and parked without raising their attention but the problems began after I loaded my three adult passengers. This car park was like the surface of the moon, so as soon as I moved... *SCAAAAAAPE*, both coppers look over and watch as I bang, clatter and scrape my way out of the car park. One of them waves me over (yeah like I didn't see that coming). As he approaches the window he says "your car sounds a bit broken" and I explain that it's just low. That it, neither of them said a thing about the car afterwards. They didn't even chase me down afterwards as I practically dragged the exhaust down the entirety of the street... In hindsight I probably should have taken the four steel wheels out of the boot before leaving...

 

The second and most displeasing time was while I was heading home from the cinema; I'm just driving a long and they light up, chap comes to the window and informs me that I've got a light out and asks me to come to the back of the car. The other cop says "this one" (like I couldn't see that it was out) and thumps the light with his torch! So I'm a young guy in modified car late at night so they start giving me shit, running insurance, tax ("It's even got tax!" one said after wandering off to snoop around the car), grilling me as to why it's registered to the previous keeper and why my rear seat passenger didn't have a seat belt on (he only noticed after we stopped). I explained that he took it off when we stopped and the copper asked who was in the car with me, "my parents" I say. Their reaction to that was brilliant, I've never seen someone's attitude do such a sharp u-turn! They quickly wrapped things up at that point and made good their escape but not before I told the driver to stop following me so close 

[Bobthebeard]

The one and only time I was actually' stopped ' by a policeman was in 1976. Me and a mate had pulled a dumped moped out of a field and got it running. I shot* down his drive on it and ran straight into the local bobby who was walking past. His big legs took the brunt. (He was massive). Stopped me though.

As it was 1976 I got a clip round my ear and a promise to tell my parents if it happened again.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Got so pissed off with some menial job at Johnsons Wax in Frimley Green in early December 1987 that I walked out midday and walked about 4-5 miles along the M3 towards Basingstoke. Got collared by two cops in a white E28 528i and given a lift/lecture to B'stoke.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Got stopped in Germany in 2007. Me and a mate had an Irish registered Mark 3 Transit beavertail with an E30 drift car on the back plus I was following in the German registered 1988 320i I had just bought, but without the TuV AU stickers. We'd just been to a drift event and I'd just bought the 320i.  It was about 8.30 pm, dry but cold and we came into this small village doing about 35 in a 30. The cops just looked at the two of us, considered the reams of paperwork involved and after checkling both the Transit and the 320i for basic legalness, took a 30 euro cash fine from both of us and, after a quick fag and a chat with them (they were fine) we were on our way.

[Station]

Have been pulled over 20 - 30 times! Never for speeding though.

 

The best was for hanging right out of the passenger window in my mates car and vomiting down the side while we were passing at a junction.

[Station]

... Awaits WarrenTClaim additional to thread

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Have been pulled over 20 - 30 times! Never for speeding though.

The best was for hanging right out of the passenger window in my mates car and vomiting down the side while we were passing at a junction.

Not a Police story, a vomit down the side one.

I'd taken a party of people to Ascot for Ladies**** Day in my Transit Tourneo, of the 4 couples one pair were annoying from the start, rude, bolshie,arguing with each other and generally pissing me off from 9 am.

On the return all were pretty pissed especially the arsehole couple, I could tell by this time even their mates had had enough of them. The stroppy bloke shouts that his missus is going to be sick, so I stop jump out and open the door, she has ago at me saying she's not going to, so off we set again, this happens a further 3 times. Dickhead finds it hilarious, me not so much.about 1/2 a mile from their house ,she finally throws up,mostly red wine, out of the little window in the side door,all over the side of my Transit. A deathly silence from all passengers except Mr Arsehole, he thinks it's the funniest thing he's ever seen.

I get to their house and I'm about to explode, but just about hold it together, right up until they get out and Mr Dickhead says "Ooh, you'd best get that off before it stains,haha ha!"

I saw red( literally ,I suppose) grabbed him by the front of his shirt and wiped him down the side of the bus- 4 times.he shouted a bit and swung a punch or two,but he was too pissed and shocked to do any harm.

Next morning I got a visit from te Old Bill, regarding an accusation of assault, they were pissing themselves when I explained my side and a few days later I got a call saying there would be no further action as the other passengers all reckoned they didn't see anything- I thought he wasn't very popular at work.

[FakeConcern]

Early 1980s in the 1275GT fairly late at night in Dulwich, I came up behind a cue of traffic crawling along behind an SD1 jam sandwich. Being clever, I took a left then a right turn, belted along a parallel road & come out in front then speed up the hill towards Crystal Palace. Glancing in my mirror I see the SD1 catching me up, so I slow right down & get caught by the traffic lights at the top of the hill. When the lights go green I turn left & as expected blue lights. I was as polite as I could be & the car was immaculate, legal & well looked after. While one of them looked all over the car, the other told me off, basically we know what you did, but can’t prove it, watch it, which was fair enough!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Can I just remind everyone that MattLikesCars asked for 'interesting' stories

[FakeConcern]

Can I just remind everyone that MattLikesCars asked for 'interesting' stories

Well I thought it was interseting!

 

I'll get my coat

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm not having a dig at you FC, your story is as interesting as all the other ones that involved getting stopped by the police then beling allowed to continue after a few mins.

[gordonbennet]

A few, back in the 80's i drove artics at night for Newsfast on the papers out of London (no i wasn't a print strike breaker) and we used to get a move on at night, anyway, cruising up the A1 between Huntingdon and Peterborough at a fairly normal 75 (well maybe a bit more) cruise came up behind a car, no probs its a plain Escort, went past it like it was parked up, fuck me Police writ large on the doors, by the time i'd pulled in was about 500 yards ahead so gradually slowed up to the proper speed fully expecting a pull, he followed me for about 5 miles then turned off, had some lucky escapes on that job.

 

Another time heading down the M1 got pulled by a patrol Rover, copper came and sat in the cab, first thing he says  ''tell your two mates in front to fuckin slow down too when you get to Wapping'', then he just has general chat for 5 minutes and tells me to bugger off.

 

Actually i've been told to bugger off by quite a few coppers in the days before PC's went PC, only been nicked once for speeding after getting pulled, that was down in Kent around 1979, Jesus he was a horrible sarcastic bastard, most coppers are decent enough if you don't take the piss or act the twat.

[New POD]

2 weeks after passing my test, my dad couldn't be arsed to take my sister back to her digs near the ICI plant in LEGOLAND - Or the Southgate estate, Runcorn, where ICI had a house for it's Chemistry Student Interns.

 

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What a place.

 

Because I'm a twat, my 2 mates came with me, from Formby, and we came back via Liverpool, through Toxteth (as in toxic death), and then down the dock road at about 10 pm on a Sunday night.

 

Whilst heading North in what is now a 30 mph road, we were travelling about 65 mph, and were overtaken by a car, which then had to brake hard, because the car in front decided to turn right.

 

Having not ploughed into the back of the twat, I decided I'd overtake the fucker back (to prove I'm a man to my mates), which I did at about 85 mph. Whilst my mate gave them a moony. 

 

Got to the traffic lights and had to stop. Bloke gets out and flashes his warrant card. 

 

Turns out they are plain clothes drugs squad officers, who were on a "shout", and after giving me a right royal ballocking, they pissed off.

 

One of the officers spent a little time talking to my mates, whilst the other gave me the riot act, but strange as is seems, some 30 years on, one mate (James you twat!!!)  is now an Undercover Drugs squad officer with Merseyside Police

[chaseracer]

^ I think that meets the Testes "interesting" criteria... 

[wuvvum]

I don't really have any interesting police stories.  Much as I dislike the police as an institution, the individual members of Norfolk Constabulary that I've dealt with have almost invariably been professional and fair.  I did get a tug on the M11 in Essex a few years back in an Iveco Daily I'd just bought and which was showing up as uninsured, and those two coppers were arrogant tossers, but they let me on my way eventually.

[plasticvandan]

Only had to deal with them when this happened:

 

They weren't too bad once they had stopped laughing (after I pointed out the tank of fuel leaking out down the clamp post) and they gave me a roll of police tape. Once they ascertained that there was nothing for them to do they left me to sweep what was left up and went on their way

[UltraWomble]

Anyone else feel discriminated against for driving shite cars?

Oh hell aye. Many moons ago I worked for the drug and alcohol treatment service in Blackpool - I did about 500 work miles a month at 50p/mile so used to buy utter chod at about the £400 mark with 6 months or so MOT and run it till the MOT was up, scrap it, eBay it or part chop it against something else.

 

It was fab and I was living the dream, buying all sorts of old knackers and not being bivvered if any of my darling patients got pissed off with me and damaged (or on one occasion stole) the car. Despite everything being legal, taxed and MOT'd I would get pulled every few weeks usually near the Citadel 

with some half arsed excuse as to why they had pulled me. In a nutshell my cars often looked worse than my patients cars, but mine were legal whereas most of my patients were not and until I flashed my ID they had me down as a bag head.

 

Got tugged in this one five times in a month. I think the Metro badge on the tailgate confused em

 

The original K11Shed also saw some unwanted attention

[Christine]

My mate was driving home in a works Escort van , long ladder on the roof,sees his drinking buddy P.C Wadey  in a Panda car going t'other way . So he bib bibbed the horn ,arm out and gives him the wanker sign ...    

  Then horror... it isn't PC Wadey ..Squirming lower in the seat , looking in the mirror , brake lights come on the Panda car it turns around and sure enough he gets stopped ... Blue lights an that..

"Why did you give me the wanker sign ? "  

" I thought you were someone else... "

"And who did you think i was then?"

 

" ....P.C Wadey..."

"  Why would you give PC Wadey the wanker sign?"

" I...er...drink with him on a Friday night..."

" Ah , Right  .... so you're mates with PC Wadey ..Well, i'm not PC Wadey , and i'm going to look over your van. Stay in the vehicle sir "   and swaggers to the front

 

So he looks at the front tyres ,tax disc ( fuck me ,remember them??)  then goes round the back , (and my mates looking in the mirrors ), cop squats down to look under at the back tyres, stands up smartly... and CRASH  !Smacks  his head into the overhanging ladder , and goes down like a sack of spuds !! So my mate shits his-self , gets out to help him, and he goes mental...! 

" I told you to stay in the van!!  "

 There's blood all running down the cops head

" But you're hurt ?"

 " Get back in that van, piss off  , and if i ever see you ...blah blah blah

 

Edit , i live in the countryside , and always have done. My mishap on the go kart with the village copper i got away with , like my mate did above .

  Yeah ,I  probably got shouted at ,but the village copper knew us all or seemed to , maybe not by name ,but we all knew his name, and respected him . And vice versa , to a point .See that Velocette (or later a green CD200) you'd wonder what you'd done wrong ...Not like that now is it ?... your local copper  isn't "local" to the    " Local police station " . He lives 30 miles away !

[mat_the_cat]

Not sure if this meets the 'interesting' criteria, but here goes:

 

Back when I was a student in Sheffield I lived some distance from town so used to often drive back in the early hours after a night out. On one occasion I had a phone call from my girlfriend, so being law abiding I stopped to take the call. I figured stopping in a bus stop would be OK as no buses ran after midnight. Police car goes past; I think nothing of it until an hour later I'm still on the phone and he pulls in behind me. "Better go" I said, and hung up.

 

I wound the window down to get quizzed on who I was, what I was doing and whether it was my car etc, and then one of my mates phoned me. I ask if it's all right to answer it, and when I get the OK I pick it up. My mate lived with a bit of a radio enthusiast, and they were all sat up drinking, listening in on the Police frequencies. They were most amused to hear the Police checking out the details of a certain silver Hyundai Stellar, and phoned up to try and warn me!

 

Not wanting to drop them in it I got off the phone pretty quickly, without giving away what they were talking about...

[twosmoke300]

First date with my now wife . We went out on our bikes ( romantic eh) followed a police forester turbo into a town . He turned off and I thought no more of it . Up the hill out of town I got a bit show offy and pulled a wheelie . A damn good one too , prob about 60 in a 30 on the back wheel . Then the sirens come on . Doh .

Got away with a talking too . Despite a borderline tyre , ickle number plate and a ridiculous race exhaust . My date was sat on her bike wetting herself laughing .

Let on my way but they did wait a mile or two up the road to check I was behaving .

[UltraWomble]

2009, the morning after my father had died and Im sat at the lights with the yellow arrow in this:

 

Only you have to crane your head to see these lights, across the way is another set at the red arrow for the side street, and a third set at the green arrow.

 

My set are on red. The side street change to green, so I set off thinking that my lights have changed (which they havent) and nearly side swipe a Merc coming from the side street. 

 

This would be bad enough but sat at the side of me at the lights is a black maria, and behind me a panda.

 

Was I tugged? Oh yes.

 

I CBA telling him my head was up my arse so I just handed him my licence and said "so what now? Fixed penalty for being a nob?"

 

I have no idea why he let me off. None at all.

[catsinthewelder]

Some years ago I was into bikes rather than cars,  I had my test booked and had bought a 400 Bandit as a foolish jinx on my chances of passing it.  My 125 then broke it's wiring loom leaving me with the 400 as a daily till it was fixed.  I'd just finished a 3-11pm shift at the factory and arranged to meet some friends who were out 'cruising' (we were all about 20 and should really have known better) up by Durham Cathedral.

 

I'd been there about 5 minutes when a police car turned up,  theres a big loop of road so we hoped it would just do a lap  and fuck off but he pulled in next to me and got out.  I was shitting myself but he went straight over to the cars and my attention was taken by the young WPC that was with him,  I learnt that she also had a 400cc bike and many other things about her,  I was just trying to arrange to meet up for a ride in the country when the radios fizzed up and they had to go.

 

My friends all had producers for thier entirely legal cars (Escort mk6,  Rover Metro and Hyundai Stellar) and they failed to share my sence of relief that I hadn't got one for my bike that would only be more illegal if it was stolen.

[xtriple]

Interesting?

 

Not sure.... but back when I was 17 I had a Mini Cooper 'S' as my first car (yes, I saved hard, sold my bikes and had the rest on the 'knock') and I was going out with a lass that was a Saturday girl (I was a Saturday boy) at the big department store.

 

She was nice, but I ditched her in favour of another Saturday girl.

 

From that point onwards I must have been 'pulled' three times a week, every week for months until they finally got me (for no MOT which had just expired). It turned out the lass I had dumped had a Father, who was a traffic sergeant!

 

My Mini was VERY noticeable as it was custom sprayed and had black windows long before it became popular.... trend setter me!   

[D Spares & Tyres]

Been pulled so many times.... A few good coppers but mostly arrogant tossers

 

One springs to mind :

 

In around 2002 in a petrol station in my MK5 Cortina 2.0 Ghia. Bloke walks round it, says nice old motor but shame about tax disc. It was off an Allegro... Turns out to be an off duty copper who I recognise but can`t quite place. After brief chat turns out he knows my parents.

 

He takes the Allegro disc and says he will be in touch

 

A week or so later he turns up at my house in full uniform with the disc and wants to sit down and do an brief interview.

 

I know someone who knows the law inside out , having worked for trading standards, I had asked for his advise he advised me to say nothing and to ask him him to leave if he turns up.

 

Which I did, and I did ask him to leave as I have nothing to say to him about any tax disc. He was NOT HAPPY about about this ( `if you just sit down, we can talk about it, it will make it easier`)  He left looking rather humiliated and I never saw him again.

 

Wanker

 

He kept the disc and I applied for a duplicate which turned up promptly

[coalnotdole]

Circa 2006 I was on a late night hoon through the peak district, I'd driven through the moors like it was a rally stage. I was on my way from Chester to Mansfield on a late night trip to photograph some derelict fragment of the coal industry the following day. I picked up a set of headlights behind me a couple of miles outside Mansfield and guessed it was either a taxi or a copper and took care to slow down to a sane speed...  as I entered the town I had my suspicions confirmed and half way round the ringroad I was pulled over for a chat. I was asked what I was doing in mansfield I replied  that I was a photographer and has heard there were a few good places to shoot in the area. to which officer dibble then asked "are you sure? your more likely to get shot round here!" after a quick check of the car I went on my way. Ignoring the police advice and going out to take my photos in the dawn of the following morning... I wasnt shot!

 

A year later and on another roadtrip I'd parked up to get some sleep on what appeared to be a quiet backroad just outside the town.... We'd been asleep for an hour or so when there came a tap at the window. I woke up to find the car surrounded by armed police with weapons drawn, An glock in the face is never a good way to wake up. The car was surrounded by 4 officers armed with an assortment of semi automatic weapons. Turned out we were parked on the outskirts of Hartlepool nuclear power station and the officers had thought we might have been from greenpeace... once again I wasn't shot.

 

Another year on and parked up asleep in a deserted coastal car park in Cornwall on a cold January night another policeman again knocked on the window and after discovering I was merely asleep and not dead, He proceeded to give an in depth lecture about the urban heat sink affect through the open car window... causing whatever heat had been in the car to have utterly escaped by the time he finished his talk. I remember waking up several times during that night to run the engine with the heater set to full in an attempt to take the edge off the cold.

 

There have been quite a few more encounters over the years but they are probably the most interesting... The most recent one involved a tug for speeding at 90+mph on a dual carriageway in a red fibreglass car well known to the forum..!

[CHRIS1980]

I had one 10 years ago. I had a Really nice 306 HDi Dturbo basically a GTi with the Diesel engine. I was travelling to Leicester early one evening to meet the ex. Going along quit happily along the A6 through Kibworth, I get to the Leicester side of Kibworth onto the dual carriageway I move to the left lane and settle to a sedate 70. At which point I'm passed by another 306, this time a it must have been a GTi by the speed he was going. He was flying,a few seconds later I see the the blues and twos in my mirror and thought to myself that someone's in trouble. The police car gets up behind me and does not pass me, I carry on for a bit till he gets along side and waves me over. I pull to the layby and get out. Both coppers get out looking furious, I ask what's wrong. To which they reply 'let's see your last few minutes behind the wheel shall we?' I'm taken by the arm and shoved in the back of the Skoda Vrs. They start to show me a recording of them pulling onto the roundabout from the petrol station before Kibworth near Market Harborough. They get cut up on said roundabout by a China blue 306 Gti on a W reg. I clock this straight away but keep quiet and let the video play,there was some dangerous overtaking and at one point 126mph shown in the corner of the screen. He shook them off before Kibworth,but they continue to try to catch up....with me in my V reg Dturbo. They stop the tape and ask me what I have to say for myself. ' all very interesting officer but what does that have to do with me?' The stunned and angry officer points out all the offences etc. ' but officer the car you start to chase is a W reg GTi,I'm driving a V reg diesel' . The driver peeks over the bonnet to look at my plate and checks the video again. Lots of apologising followed. I managed to hold my laughter till I drove away.

[stuboy]

got nicked in 2013 put in back of police car, and discussed with both officer that there skoda estate was crap and embarressing, they agreed and said they hated it..