- Jul 7, 2003
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For the love of GOD, who thought that would make a nice kit?
Never mind the Cardiff result, I thought my day couldn't get any worse.
I was angry driving home thinking about this result. I stopped off in Crawley town center to grab a kebab to take home and in my haste forgot to put my seat belt on. I was then pulled over in a residential area by the police. It was dark and i could just make out the police sign on the roof while fumbling to put my belt on. No good their lights came on and i was doing over 30. My first thought was a £30 fine for not wearing a seat belt.
Anyway the copper said to me .....you know you were doing 50 in a 30 and do you know what the speed limit is around here!
I told him i did and then continued to chat to him pleasantly. He got his note pad out and then my world came crashing down - i'm getting my first ever points.
He then ran checks on my car which showed i was fully road legal.
If i'm honest i haven't really got a lot of time for the police from previous encounters but i always try to respect them though.
Anyway he only took my details down and gave me a warning. I couldn't believe my luck and i really couldn't thank him enough..
The moral of this story is that not all coppers are bad. I must add these were not traffic cops who wouldn't have been so lenient. Thanks Sussex police.
For reasons I can't possibly go into, that has just made me laugh out loud
By the way, it's £60 for not wearing your seat belt, for future reference, has been for several years
Yes they are. Scum of the earth.The moral of this story is that not all coppers are bad.
Oops - did I ever say how much I both like and admire the Police?For reasons I can't possibly go into, that has just made me laugh out loud
I have been caught a couple of times without a belt and i thought it was £30 ? Anyway being a HGV driver i never use to wear a seat belt and this bad habit was hard to break when getting into a car. My fault totally.
Seriously though the two coppers who pulled me over and especially the one taking my details was a decent,likable officer.
My licence remains clean still after 10 years and i told him that after thanking him. I even joked with the pair afterwards and said to them i thought you pulled me over for not wearing a seat belt. They both laughed and said .....don't tell us that. Two excellent coppers who just gave me a small ticking off before sending me on my way.
Not if you have an old banger like menice shirt if they left the stripes off and just had the gradiated colour fade
on the subject of seat belts - don't all cars shout at you nowadays if you don't put your belt on? Bloody irritating but it means that it's at least one thing I won't get stopped for. Mind you I'll probably get done one of these days for trying to reset the speed limiter between 50mph zones and the "no logical reason to change the limit but we'll put a camera here and cut it to 30" zones.
For the love of GOD, who thought that would make a nice kit?