I've not met a bigger one
As I have mentioned on these hallowed pages before I am part of the special constabulary and as part of that role I sometimes get to go on patrol with the regulars, sometimes on foot and sometimes in the vehicles on response (which is cool when you get the blues and 2's going!).

Now I want to say now that most of the coppers I've met are very good at their job, they are considerate, professional and have a great sense of humour in a role that requires it.

On one occasion I was on patrol with a regular in a patrol vehicle and he was talking to me about his favourite methods of catching people and how his big bugbear was idiots who use their phone while driving (which is fair enough)...he then starts to check his texts on his phone while driving.

A bit later on we catch a bloke speeding (he was easily doing 50 on a 30 road and it was a residential area) so we pulled him and breathalysed him and it came back positive. This meant that he had to be taken to the custody suite for a formal breath test. On the way to the custody suite this idiot of an officer is speeding over the limit to get there. To which the guy in the back rightly points out:
'If I was doing this then I'd be stopped? Wouldn't I?'

Not exactly a high point for me, although I guess we did stop a drunk driver that night...

No wonder some people hate the police.

Sorry for lack of funnies or star wars story
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 14:41, 9 replies)

i sometimes forget there is an ignore button
cheers!
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 15:45, closed)

Ouch!
Who's upset you today?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 15:57, closed)

I see no reason to ignore him for this post
Unless I've missed something obvious, it's a post about the police pulling people over for speeding then doing it themselves.

Which is on-topic. It's not even poorly written, racist or otherwise offensive.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 16:07, closed)

clue
"I am part of the special constabulary"
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 18:10, closed)

How
is that an issue?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 9:09, closed)

me too
I fail to how being 'special' warrants an ignore?
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 14:28, closed)

No click,
but only because you missed the opportunity to whack a 'May the Force be with you' pun in there. For SHAME.

Having said that, I agree completely about the hypocrisy of traffic police. Fair enough, it's not everyone, but I've heard enough tales to suspect that being able to get away with it means more of them drive badly than your average man on the road. Irony, eh?
(Ellinikos contains a source of phenylalanine, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 20:35, closed)

Police drivers are atrocious.
Only a couple of months ago I got pulled over by an unmarked plodmobile, which had been pacing me at 89 MPH. Without any lights or sirens on. They only flicked on the blues after I'd clocked that it was a plodmobile (two very burly lads in black in the front seats, and some funny blobs in the grille which aren't factory-fitted as standard) and slowed down to 70.

Surely if it was wrong for me to do 89 in a 70 limit it was wrong for them to do it too.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:20, closed)

Dammit!
I missed that one as well!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 9:21, closed)