Not yet...

I got pulled over in dads 340 1.4 once, turning round late at night in an estate in kidderminster. They were doing a drugs bust there, and they thought i was trying to escape! lol in a 1.4 volvo...yea.......... anyway, so they spent the next 30mins trying to prove that i was some major drugs barron..... when all it was, id pulled out the dealers (volvo dealer!) with the car fresh from MOT and service (so they couldnt say there was anything wrong with the car could they...), there was a bunch of flowers from the dealer on the back seat (awww wasnt the girl on the desk nice to me ) the windows were all misted up, couldnt see a thing, turned round in this estate, and clipped the curb, copper runs down the road, opens the door, takes the keys out and marches me to the cop car!, all the time my mother was in the middle of the road (she was following me) giving the cops blue murder for marching me off...lol. That was a fun evening, stupid usless dumb coppers!!!!

Griz

Twice: Once for doing 36 in a 30 in the middle of nowhere at midnight. Got a telling off and a producer, but they were perfectly nice guys.
Similarly to Griz's story, I'd actually pulled up at my mates house to drop him off when they put the lights on (and left them on...cheers for that), and he was already off up the drive. They chased him down and went for the tackle - presumably they thought he was dumping his stash!

Second time, 3am coming back from a gig, pulled away from the lights moderately quickly, but the car in front barely moved (may have stalled), so it looked like I shot away. Got pulled for 'accellerating sharply'. My response....trying SO hard not to piss them off "1) Accelleration is not a crime 2) I'm in a Volvo 360...are you taking the piss?! 3) How could you tell from 5 cars back!!". Just got a 'drive safely' on that one.

Luckily, my Dad had been breathalised only a few weeks before the first incident. Without that, I'd have been in SO much trouble...

cheers

James

foggyjames wrote:Got pulled for 'accellerating sharply'.

Haha some reasons are funny.. Here some cops write on your ticket "Accelerated with spinning wheels" or something like that if you do a burnout.. I would like to ask that how the hell are you supposed to move without spinning wheels. Though asking that would propably get you a one more ticket for "Insult of official authority" or similiar. Government treats drivers here like some hard criminals.. Taxes are high on everything related to driving and cars and cops are kinda strict with exceeding speed limits and such. It's stupid though because everywhere else than in cities distances are long here and everything is transported with trucks and autos. But what can you do..

foggyjames wrote:Got pulled for 'accellerating sharply'. My response....Accelleration is not a crime

Yeah, what is it with them? I was with a friend a little while ago in his V6 Cavalier (it's OK, he's got a Volvo now...). Well, what with traction control and all that, you could make swift progress from the traffic lights in that machine. He pulled off Trent Bridge around the cricket ground, but stopped accelerating at thirty. Of course, PC Plod pulled him over and asked him if he knew what speed he was doing. Friend pointed out that he was doing thirty. Copper realised that friend wasn't drunk / on drugs / escaping from crime scene / whatever, and told him to be on his way 'and take care'.

I don't think he's so likely to get pulled over now that he's in a 1992 960 estate...

I've had my 340 over 18 months now and I've never been stopped . I do shift work and i'm often on the road at 3a.m when the only other vehcles are the milkfloat the odd taxi . I often see the police in their silver Volvo estates (why are police cars silver now ?) searching for chavs in Puntos and and Novas and they pay me no attention. Mind you its tempting to put you foot down when the roads are empty so I suppose its only a matter of time.
Ereg340

police car colour seems to depend on location more than anything else , the mk dons bought our local police a couple of those Audi bubble car things (nice eh !) in silver to use for crowd control at matches ( not quite as romantic as white horses at Wembley I know ) and Essex police have wierd coloured volvo estates on traffic duty iirc

thinking about it , I am getting hassle from the cops at the moment , they are using their pretty little helicopter to escort five police cars and a prison van from Woodhill Prison to court and back ( some little scrote I suppose ) every day for the last five weeks , so I am woken up at 8.30 every morning to the noise of a low flying ( and I mean tree tops height ) chopper closely followed by ten minutes of wailing sirens and then disturbed again by the returning possee at 5 ish ( think I should complain to my m.p. and get a council tax reduction )

Been stopped 3 times when I had my 360;

1, In Ireland near Cork on the N25 for doing 79mph on the dual carriageway (limit is 60 in Ireland). £50 fine.

2, Again in Ireland but this time on the M7 for doing 94mph. £50 fine.

3, A38 near Alrewas at 2am for doing 106mph. Let off with a caution.

Conveniently ignoring the times you've been stopped when you *weren't* in a 300

cheers

James

Got my first fine ever yesterday, after owning my car for just one week. great start... Bl**dy cops gave me a fine for parking in the wrong zone. Bye sweet 45 euros...

And worst of all, the ticket says it's a brown car, though it really appears to be red in my eyes. The car's registration form says so too. Am I going blind?!

thyzerrr wrote:Got my first fine ever yesterday, after owning my car for just one week. great start... Bl**dy cops gave me a fine for parking in the wrong zone. Bye sweet 45 euros...

And worst of all, the ticket says it's a brown car, though it really appears to be red in my eyes. The car's registration form says so too. Am I going blind?!

maybe that way you can get out of it

I hope so! If they can write down a wrong color, then why not write down a wrong plate number as well?;)

Regularly. They pick on me

Got pulled over for having my fog lights on... when it was raining at night... apparently thats not the same as inclement weather... then while he's telling me all this i see about 2 dozen cars go past with fog's on...

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My favorite 100m stretch of road, and by my favorite cop (actually just about everyone hates him, even most of the other police do, he's young and has a big ego)

Policeman: "May I see your licence?(Presents licence) Are you aware how fast you were travelling just then young man"

Me: "Yes, i was sitting on the speed limit sir" (which is 60kph)

Policeman: "It looked an awful lot like you were speeding, I clocked you at 61kph"

Me: "My speedo isnt so accurate as to tell 60kph apart from 61kph sorry"(i think when i said 60kph he noticed that we were indeed in a 60kph zone and not a 50kph zone, the speed zone here changed 3 times in 3 months)

Policeman: "Thats not the only reason i pulled you over, it's illegal to drive with blue headlights"

Me: "They are not blue Sir"

Policeman: "Oh Really, Get out of the car and have a look at them"

(after getting out and looking at them)

Policeman: "They are illegal, headlights must be white"

Me: "They are white, me and dad wouldnt have installed them if they were blue, the globes were advertised as bright white xenon globes, i don't see how they are not white"

Policeman: (turns on his mag light and shines it beside where my headlights were lighting up) "That is a white light, does your headlight have the same colour?"

Me: "No it's not the same colour" (the light had a strong yellow image, i bit my tounge thou)

Policeman: "And it is also illegal to drive with your foglights on"

Me: (I said nothing at this point and pointed down the hill, where a patch of fog seems to have appeared to spite him)

Policeman looks at my licence only now realising that my dads a policeman too. "Your ross's boy..."

Me: "Yea... so"

Policeman: "Right, Well he'll be hearing about this"

Me: "I'm sure he will"

Policeman: "Heres your licence, drive more carefully in future"

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Travelling home from Armidale after a Motorkhana got pulled over
and got a fine for having p-plate in wrong corner of window

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Trevelling hame from kempsey after khana-x
even though i was 20kph over the speed limit the policewoman never brought up the subject and gave me a fine for my p-plates (again) as the back one had fallen off from the racing and got broken and i had no spare plates, and the one in the window, which i moved to the other corner, was now obstruced by my rego sticker.... i'm guessing she didnt buy my story of being at the khana-x even though the car was literally dripping with chunks of mud and grass and i had parts of the shattered plate with me.

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Got pulled over for my front p-plate yet again (now tucked a little under the number plate)

P "Is there a reason why your p-plate is not properly displayed?"
Me "it's not displayed properly?"
P "Well it looks more like an upside down L and a circled 90 than a p-plate" (a good description of the bottom half)
Me "Yes, I got a fine for having the plate here a few weeks ago, so moved it over here, only later to get a fine because the rego sticker was in front of it, and thats the only viable spot on the front of the car that i have not yet got a fine for having my p-plate there, I'm not sure where to put it, if you can recommend a spot where i'm not going to be hit with an $80 fine every other week for something that doesnt affect my abilities as a driver or make me more or less a danger to others using the roads, then i'm all ears"
P "Well in my days we had such things as p-plate holders"
Me "yes, they would only be held in with one bolt as my number plate is a slimline (physically thinner than standard number plates), and it dangles and is less secure than its current position, and my licence will be suspended in about 5 hrs anyway because of the other p-plate fines"
P "Alright then, Just fix it up for when your suspension is finished"
Me "Can do"

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I'll have my full licence when the suspension is over (oh god it sucks) and i can get all my rego work done. (oh yeah thats why i've not been on lately too )