waz4444's post reminded me of a similar thing that happened to me in about 1986
Wavy lines, etc.

FWD88T was my first car - a slightly knackered Renault 18GTL 1.4 - and I drove it every opportunity I got. As I was the only one of my mates with a car, I ended up as de facto chauffeur for the group.

So it was that one night, at about 1am, while taking my mate Nick and his girlfriend Jayne home, we attracted the attention of a bored rozzer in his Ford Escort ice-cream sandwich.

Of course I made the mistake of mentioning to my loved-up passengers in the rear of the car that we were being tailed by HM Plod, to which remark they swivelled round and stared at him.

I'm sure this affected his decision to follow us all around the housing estate where Jayne lived. So, having stuck religiously to the speed limit for possibly the first time in my life, we pulled up outside Jayne's house.

Plod drove past slowly, eyeballing us, then went to the bottom of the road and did a u-turn before pulling up alongside me. He twirled his hand spastically to indicate I should wind down my window - so I pressed the button and the electric motor whirred smoothly, lowering the window. From the look on his face I think it annoyed him further that my car had such luxuries (though no radio), but my conscience was clear and I had done nothing deserving of a rebuke.

But, of course, no Bluebottle can allow an opportunity to be a supercilious bastard to pass, so he uttered the immortal words, "Turn your headlights to sidelights when you're parked."

Yep, it was really worth following me for ten minutes in order to prevent repetition of such a heinous act.


tl;dr - bored policeman was a bit of a twat
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 28 Mar 2014, 8:13, 2 replies)

And you didn't even stick your arm out of the window and wave it up and down to show you were pulling in.
You reckless bastard, deserve the book thrown at ya.
( rjmrjm, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:28, closed)

You should have punched him in his smug face

(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Sat 29 Mar 2014, 3:23, closed)