Blue light, and weed-smoking neds
Coming home from a gig one night, three of us in white shirts in my new (at the time) car, we came upon a Corsa being driven erratically. It was occupied by four young baseball cap-wearing neds, and when it was ahead of us we could smell the unmistakable aroma of illicit smokes. Anyway, the driver of said car was pissing me off. Each time I went to overtake him, he would speed up, then when I did get by, he'd overtake me again and slow down when he pulled in. So I used my secret weapon.

I opened the cubby hole and pulled out my blue LED torch (from iwantoneofthose.com), handed it to my mate and told him to flash it at the car when we went past.

By the time we drew level, we were proceeding at a velocity which would have attracted the attention of the local constabulary. However, several flashes of the intense blue light into the driver's eyes caused the Corsa to disappear backwards in my mirrors faster than I'd have believed possible.

Cue much chuckling and satisfaction from inside my car.

Maybe my flashing blue light is illegal too, but it's bloody good fun!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 15:18, 2 replies)

Hang on?
You could smell weed from the car ahead of you while travelling along the road?

You must have a nose like a heathrow spaniel!?!?!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 16:29, closed)

Yup, 100% true!
I was surprised too, given that we were doing 70 (ish...), but the smell was obvious!

Maybe they had their stash in the petrol tank or something, but we could definitely smell it. Mind you, I can smell cigarette smoke when the driver in front throws the butt out of the window, so maybe I am a bit bloodhound-like.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 9:45, closed)