The grumpy thread

[Station]

+1.

 

Police Interceptors is about the most annoying. Follow the daily antics of Steve "Stevie" Stephenson (Likes cage fighting. Dislikes reading and writing) And Billy "Bonehead" Battersby (Likes the BNP. Dislikes funny coloured people) as they bravely sieze untaxed cars and write out fixed penalty tickets for incorrectly spaced numberplates.

"I was driving to tax my car in about 1 minute, in fact I'm outside the post office with log book, Sorn document, MOT certificate, about to open the door with 104.95 in my hand."

 

"My jeris-dicshun dictates that I must seize your vehicular perambulator on the grounds that your vehi - vehic - vehicular parambulator is ungrounsworthy to be on the highway, sir, mate."

 

"But I'm about to bloody tax it!"

 

"Excuse me mate. Any more bad swearing out of you and you'll be arrested, sir, do you hear?"

 

"I'm just going in ..."

 

[PC Wayne "Toughnut" Smith approaches and grabs arm of suspect, when suspect pulls arm away.]

 

5 police officers jump on untaxed motorist.

 

"You are under arrest, etc etc"

 

The only decent one worth watching is the Australian one where the PC's seem totally apologetic when issuing pointless fines, as if they're embaressed that this really isn't part of their job.

[warren t claim]

We are/were moving towards 100% road fascism. Common sense no longer plays any part in it.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I remember watching one where one of the officers almost had an orgasm when the ANPR computer beeped at him, and his favourite part of the job was seizing cars.

Depressing.

[Lord Sterling]

The amount of those programmes where a camera crew follow police around! There must be at least six different ones doing the rounds at the moment. Here we get the chance to follow Wazza and Dazza and Lloydy, etc demonstrate their lack of tact and subtlety as they confiscate and happily crush untaxed cars, speaking like monosyllabic robots with a maximum of 20 words programmed. Do they speak like this (ie. a complete tool trying to sound intelligent with long, inappropriate words)? Arseholes.

+1.

 

Police Interceptors is about the most annoying. Follow the daily antics of Steve "Stevie" Stephenson (Likes cage fighting. Dislikes reading and writing) And Billy "Bonehead" Battersby (Likes the BNP. Dislikes funny coloured people) as they bravely sieze untaxed cars and write out fixed penalty tickets for incorrectly spaced numberplates.

I remember watching one where one of the officers almost had an orgasm when the ANPR computer beeped at him, and his favourite part of the job was seizing cars.

Depressing.

+2

 

They seem to almost physically love thier Subaru Itwatzers.

[RedSparrow]

We are/were moving towards 100% road fascism. Common sense no longer plays any part in it.

I dont quite agree. At least in Nazi Germany criminals (as well as the innocent) were locked up and they could run the country quite efficiently, which is more than the powers that be can manage here.

 

All we have in this country are the worst parts of uber captilism mixed with some of the worst parts of a Fascist dicatorship.

[trigger]

lol @ Station Avater, Someones been on RR.

 

I quite like Police Interceptors but that's mostly because it's filmed where i grew up and still spend a lot of my time in Essex, even my mates wife was on it the other day (at a school visit), I saw the Evo giving someone a ticking off in a lay-by on the A12 last weekend, I was looking for the camera so i could beep but they wasn't there.

 

When i helped a girl who said she was raped at a club in Clacton last year i was interviewed by the interceptors as well as a witness, luckily they wasn't being filmed then neither.

[Marshall]

These shows just depress me. At one time did we not have police who were at least approachable? These shows seem to show a load of 'bouncer' type ape-men who, if they were not employed by her majesties finest would probably be in jail themselves. The number of times I have watched and seen them perform their duties with a total lack of respect toward anyone is beyond belief. Maybe its just the way the shows are cut together - I hope so!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

lol @ Station Avater, Someones been on RR.

What's that about then? Haven't been on RR for a long time.

[RedSparrow]

Yep. Most of the Police round here are early 20s and behave like nightclub bouncers. Rude, ignorant, arrogant etc. Their incorrect use of long words when they try to sound intelligent makes me laugh though.

[trigger]

lol @ Station Avater, Someones been on RR.

What's that about then? Haven't been on RR for a long time.

They have started giving the most popular members communtiy badges awarding them from their work, They started doing it this afternoon.

[warren t claim]

I remember watching one where one of the officers almost had an orgasm when the ANPR computer beeped at him, and his favourite part of the job was seizing cars.

Depressing.

I've had problems when I change cars and the ANPR hasn't been updated. The look of despair on their little faces when I produce my insurance is worth the premium alone. You'd think they would be happy that I wasn't a law breaker.

 

I really believe it's now easier than ever to get away driving pissed or with baldy tyres. Simply put, if you don't ping the ANPR you are unlikely to get stopped.

[whitevanman]

2 MOT's this week...both fails the Sierra should pass later tonight thanks to headlight repairs R' us and a pair of new spring from tit 'bay

 

 

but the Shoguns got 2 pages of FAILZ to sort out...Bumhats

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

lol @ Station Avater, Someones been on RR.

What's that about then? Haven't been on RR for a long time.

They have started giving the most popular members communtiy badges awarding them from their work, They started doing it this afternoon.

about sums it up

[seth]

Doesn't take long for the RR hate to reappear does it. Maybe I should just fuck off and not bother trying to organise an AS meet too

[Station]

Lol, I just had to, sorry! Seth, it's not RR hate, just a bit of fun, I'll remove my avatar.

 

I think the bouncers in uniform is just about right. One of 'The Interceptors' has a full arm tattoo which is always on display - now call me old fashioned, but that kind've surprised me.

I just wish more police walked around a bit instead of catching out motorists on tax discs.

[Timewaster]

Doesn't take long for the RR hate to reappear does it.

I dont get all this at all. I've never spent much time on RR.

 

Whats the beef?

[ashmicro]

Admittedly, they're not too bad here in NI for this traffic silliness. Also, there are no bouncer types that I have met (while as a Joe Public or when I was a serving officer). BUT! The cops where I live are total fucking mongs. I found a woman's purse about 18 months ago, containing credit cards, some money, a couple of keys etc. I duly took it to the nick, and the wee girl on the desk (we don't have PCSO's here) was a full copper. She didn't know what to do! I had to tell her to get out a Form Six, we both sign both parts of it, she rips off the bottom bit and gives it to me. FFS!

 

Come to think of it, maybe the roads policing here isn't very aggressive cos some of the cops are too stupid.

[trigger]

The police are good at pulling people for no reason but when you really need them after being in a motorway pile up it takes 45 minutes for them to turn up, and when they do turn up it turns out that they wasn't even called out to you and that they were in fact just passing... Grrr...

[warren t claim]

Lol, I just had to, sorry! Seth, it's not RR hate, just a bit of fun, I'll remove my avatar.

 

I think the bouncers in uniform is just about right. One of 'The Interceptors' has a full arm tattoo which is always on display - now call me old fashioned, but that kind've surprised me.

I just wish more police walked around a bit instead of catching out motorists on tax discs.

When I was a lad..... The local copper had an amazing handlebar moustache and a big stick. This together with his right wing views made him a figure that you either hated or loved but always respected. You just don't get coppers like that these days. I know a few night club doormen and you would be surprised how much the police hang around them in awe like a group of pissed slappers. They even turn a blind eye to the odd punishment beating and low level drug dealing.

[Station]

Was that that Swasie bloke?

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Sorry Seth, didn't mean to conjure the spirit of FredTransit.

The most popular members having tags under their usernames declaring as much is very wanky though.

[warren t claim]

Was that that Swasie bloke?

Yes! Turned into a right wierdo now though.

[cobblers]

I got pulled a few months ago by some young pleb copper. He was fairly polite, and probably around my age.

 

I was driving along past town - 40mph limit, I was doing about 40 for a change. All of a sudden I see a panda car tear up behind me as I turned off into a side street (on the way to a mates house) and he follows me in. My heart sinks because I just KNEW he was going to pull me over.

 

Anyway, the blues come on, I pull over and get out of the car. He gets out and has a conversation on his radio about nothing for about 5 minutes, not even acknowledging me once.

Then comes the usual 20 questions. Where have you come from, where are you going (Why ask these? does it matter?) and then the "why do you think I've pulled you"

 

For once, I didn't have a clue. I could honestly say "I don't know" without it being the usual "I know I was speeding but I'm not going to admit that!"

 

 

He said that he saw me fly past, Apparently I was speeding. I definitely wasn't

 

He said I must have been doing around 60mph because he had to do 60 to catch me. And he was serious.

 

I held back from explaining how if we were doing the same speed, we would have merely remained the same distance apart, forever, and that all he had proven was that I was doing less than 60, to avoid an argument. Eventually after asking me all sorts of stupid questions like what I do for a living) he "let me off with a warning".

[dollywobbler]

What a cock! At least when I got pulled over for speeding, I'd overtaken a police car in a 30 limit at 50, so deserved the pull. I was in a Dyane and got let of with a warning, so they're not all bad!

[ChinaTom]

Knackered again - just what I need at the start of a site job. Thought a bout of travel would get me back into a normal sleep pattern; thought it was working too as I nodded off a 23:44 last night only to wake up at 02:38

 

Bloody dream woke me up - I was driving an electric Honda Odyssey round a roundabout in Leicester when 3 Africans attacked me with machettes. Irrelevant here except for the fact they were standing around a navy blue 2 door Vauxhall Nova on black steelies. Looked right menacing.

 

Here comes a grumpy week.

[cobblers]

What a cock! At least when I got pulled over for speeding, I'd overtaken a police car in a 30 limit at 50, so deserved the pull. I was in a Dyane and got let of with a warning, so they're not all bad!

Not all bad, no.

 

I've been let off with a lot faster that (about 90+ in a 50 at 4am years ago - I could have kissed him), and once pulled and given a cable tie to lash my handbrake cable back up. Both good experiences were proper traffic cars, and the bad experiences have been with young plebs in pandas....

[ashmicro]

I think the very real problem with police recruitment these days is that they can no longer attract sufficient numbers of people who are of the right calibre and intellect. One reason for this is The Human Rights bollocks. Another is a limp-wristed judiciary. If you were a copper, and you'd spent an aeon setting up your paperwork only for some overpaid dick at the Criminal Protection Service to chin your case, you'd be demotivated too.

 

Some of you may have read my post some time ago about the Belfast car thief Harry McCartan who was (literally!) crucified by vigilantes. A former colleague of mine, that's just ONE officer, had personally arrested this scote McCartan 85 times. And the cunt was still at large. Go figure!

[Cavcraft]

Don't let some bad apples cloud your judgement.

Last time I got pulled I had no documents or proof of i.d on me and the car came up on the ANPR as uninsured. I'd not long had it and hadn't added it to the database so they could have asily taken it off me.

However the coppers were really great blokes (one in his twenties the other in his forties) and were very polite and helpful.

 

To be honest if you watch a lot of Road Wars and the likes you'll discover the real problem: cocky twats getting lippy with the coppers and the sad mentality all to prevelant these days where if you shove a camera in some scrote's face he/she will play up.

Yeah some coppers are bad news, but I bet the kind of people they have to encounter on a daily basis are ten fold the wankerishness of the odd bad rozzer.

[warren t claim]

What is really depressing me today is the grim realisation that within 10 years almost all the used bargeshite in circulation will be diesels.

 

It wasn't too long ago when if you saw a 7 series or a S-Class it was almost certain to have a meaty spark injection motor under the bonnet but now all seem to have badges that end with the letter D.

 

It looks like I'm going to have to keep my W124 on the road for many years so Claim jr can have a big car powered by the right fuel.

[cobblers]

Oh god, it's so frustrating to watch the police try and arrest one person, then have to arrest 5 of their drunk mates for mouthing off at them after being given about a dozen chances.