BANG!
Perfect timing for this question...

On my way home from work last night, I witnessed quite a nasty crime, and rang the police. There was quite a tense atmosphere as the assembled throng waited for the police and paramedic to turn up, with adrenaline running as freely as the blood from the victim's head, and muttered oaths about what would happen to the perpetrators if they were caught by the locals.

This electric atmosphere was thankfully broken up by the arrival of a paramedic first response car, followed by a Ford Focus with a couple of Old Bill in it. As the paramedic was first, he got to park on the side of the road of the incident, while the police moved to the other side and slowly parked up on the grass verge.

Suddenly there was a really loud bang from the police car, as the airbags deployed. Turns out that there's a raised drain in that verge that was disguised by the uncut grass, and as the police car inched onto the verge at literally about three miles an hour the sump had got caught on the verge, deploying the airbags which shocked the policemen and shattered the windscreen.

The passenger policeman came to our house later last night to take statements, where he gave us a first hand account of the incident, and told us that the driver - who was on their first day in the area - was back at the station filling out an RTA form; that he was greeted back at the station with a round of applause; and that the sergeant told him that he had to bring buns and cakes in this morning for everyone. He also told us that the lady who took the 999 call told him that she'd heard the loud bang on the phone, and that she'd save it for them to listen to when they were next there.

I'd love to see that RTA report.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 6 May 2011, 9:11, 2 replies)

Excellent
Reminds me of my brothers tales, which I must jot down.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 6 May 2011, 9:39, closed)

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I'd love to see that RTA report.

FoI requests are your friends...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 8 May 2011, 12:47, closed)