It also worked for...
3 possible speeding tickets and the best one, in my opinion, was for going through an amber light. She pulled me over and said "You just jumped through that amber", me, being experienced, said "Yes, but the road was damp and I didn't feel it was safe to break heavily". She said "If you weren't accelerating towards the amber, you wouldn't have had to break heavily". One cheesy grin, one introduction, one warrant card later and I'm free!

On a none 'getting away with things' note, it did also let me help a 6 year old girl who'd lost her mum in my local town centre, without the worry of being accused of trying to snatch her.
(Big Smurf Brush me daddy-O, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 20:39, 1 reply)

Hmmm
She pulled you over for going through an amber light? Perfectly within your rights, accelerating or not, "if the amber light appears you may go on only if you have already crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to stop might cause a collision."

Tsk.
( Ghoti Fingers, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 21:28, closed)

Correct
(hence my 'road was damp, didn't feel it was safe to break heavily' excuse). But she was absolutely right in stopping me. It changed to amber whilst I was quite some distance away, I knew this particular set of lights took ages to change, so I put my foot down to get through whilst it was still amber (was almost certainly red by the time I'd completed my crossing).

I was wrong, she was right. If she'd been on a shout coming across the crossroads I was crossing, she quite possibly would have hit me (according to her). However I did say that there was a fair chance I would have heard her siren, assuming she had it on.

I'm on her side.
(Big Smurf Brush me daddy-O, Mon 27 Apr 2009, 21:54, closed)