To avoid arousing suspicion.
Whilst working on Saturday night I was a traffic lights and car full of lads in the car next to me at the lights seemed to be employing all sorts of different techniques. Suffice to say they weren't successful and attracted a tug.
Made me laugh and wonder. Is it better to look at it in a confident and cocky way or avoid eye contact and look the other way altogether? if I were the policeman in the car I'd probably be thinking they'd be ripe for a pull whichever tactic they employed.
Had they never seen one before?
In the rear view mirror at twice the speed limit 😀
and attracted a tug.
You are George Michael AICMFP 🙂
Funnily enough I was wondering this earlier. Walking the dog in Bristol and police cars came up lights and sirens going and parked up on the grass. Naturally I looked but they also seemed to be looking at me...I then tried to look but not look...but they were definitely coming over to me.
Turns out they had been called by a dog walker to reports of someone jumping off the gorge. Walked up with them and sure enough there was a little foot stool on it's side, some walking sticks and a carrier bag next to the railings overlooking the suspension bridge 🙁 Quite a sad thing to see.
Edit......Shit reply to a post sorry. Please ignore.
Don't think it's how much you do or don't look at them that merits a tug ,more likely if you're speeding between sets of lights 😉
Ignore and pick your nose. Then they just think you are distinguishing and ignore the body in the passenger seat.
Just keep looking at them to see if it's one of them you know. You might get a wave.
From within.
Generally if you need to come up with a look you are going to attract suspicion.
A car full of lads on a Saturday night would generally be worth a look I guess, if only to remind them to behave for the evening.
Funnily enough I was wondering this earlier. Walking the dog in Bristol and police cars came up lights and sirens going and parked up on the grass. Naturally I looked but they also seemed to be looking at me...I then tried to look but not look...but they were definitely coming over to me.
Turns out they had been called by a dog walker to reports of someone jumping off the gorge. Walked up with them and sure enough there was a little foot stool on it's side, some walking sticks and a carrier bag next to the railings overlooking the suspension bridge Quite a sad thing to see.
Aaaaah. That explains why there were emergency services under the bridge when I drove down Bridge Valley Road last night. Weird though - I thought they normally closed the Portway when that happened.
Just wink whilst fondling your crotch, works for me.
While swigging from a can of Special Brew.
In my experience not while overtaking them on a motorbike, on the motorway, whilst traveling at 'automatic ban' speeds 😳
Blue Steel.
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* not if the driver is West Mercia's Chief Constable, he's driving at the speed limit and you would like him to move over
* not on one wheel if they're pointing a camera at you
* not out-accelerating them in an overtaking manouevure when they have the blues-and-twos on
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I do my best scowl at them
one of my best mates is fuzz, we were walking back to my house the other week when he sees two normal looking blokes in a car, one of them on the phone, the other looking around.
"Hang on, they look dodgy as f***"
So we walk past and he sends a quick text of the reg and description to his mate on shift. Car gets pulled over about 15 mins later with a load of drugs and and a knife.
I couldn't see anything dodgy going on at all, but my mate works in a drugs team and clocked them straight away.
3x mates of mine from the pub were driving back from the cinema through the local small town, late one evening.
The car, a silver VW golf. Through the back window, in the back seat, can be seen Baldy. Lost all his hair years ago. Looks like a proper shiny skinhead. A patrol car spots them and tags along behind.
They get the tug from the fuzz. PC #1 swaggers up thinking he's going to hit his quota tonight - three up in a golf, nearly midnight, got be a sure fire for a motoring or drugs offence.
His face fell like a stone when he looked in through the drivers window to see a combined age of around 170yrs. He tried to recover, asking: "And where have you been tonight". To which baldy replied "The pictures. Is this going to take long? We have to get this one back to the home by midnight or Matron will kill us"
PC #2 has to retire to his car before he explodes from highly pressurised suppressed laughter.
from the outside.
Reminds me of a Friday night when I was in my 20's. Me and a mate were looking at coverting a van into a camper for a season in Chamonix skiing. The Daf 400 seemed to be ideal beccause it looked like you could sleep sideways in it. Just so hapenned the police used these for keeping the peace in our village. Cue me coming out of the pub after a few, and chatting / hassling the officers inside the riot van about my plans and wanting to have a butchers inside the back to assess its suitability for a camper conversion. Apparently they were very clear that if I didnt go home straight away I would be having a very good look inside.
. That explains why there were emergency services under the bridge when I drove down Bridge Valley Road last night. Weird though - I thought they normally closed the Portway when that happened.
Was just opposite the viewing area that looks up to the observatory area, so just after you go past the slippy rock slide thing when walking up to the observatory from bridge road. Probably used the first tree there as a steady and then flopped over the railings.
A F&R defender, Volvo paramedic, 2 discovery paramedics and a police car turned up at the observatory. 3 fire engines, am ambulance, the rescue unit and some more police on bridge road and I didn't see the stuff below the bridge. Oh and the police chopper hovered for a while at first. Quite a substantial response but the wind was bad up there so always good to have plenty of backup and experience for those observing I guess.
Nothing on the news but I guess they tend to not report on this kind of thing and try to keep it quiet?
There's always a lock down when that happens Andyl - Worked with the Rescue Unit previously so it is strictly QT until the recovery is done.
Incidentally - the cameras nows have facial recognition as certain repeat offenders try so often they trigger an alarm. Not a nice thing to have to put in place.
My missus got pulled over whilst driving my rather distinctive ST200 estate after she overtook an unmarked car at less than legal speeds.
She was asked to sit in the back of the Volvo whilst my mate, who was the one who pulled her phoned me and asked how much he could wind her up.
He took over 45 minutes with her explaining what could happen etc until I arrived and took a photo of her in the back of the car. Only at that point did she realize that she wasnt going to get booked. BOY did she hit the roof!!!
Look right at them then flip em the bird
I tend to stare and say something along the lines of 'aren't the police getting so much younger these days'.
I thought it was protocall to pull up next to them at the next set of lights sit there staring at them whilst revving the tits of your motor, and when those lights turn green set off at a sensible pace making sure there front end always stays just infront of yours. glance over and blow them a kiss.
by taking your shades off and staring
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When I was 16 I had a car, drove around town on saturday night in a car full of teenage girls. Getting pulled over by the cops was routine, happened a couple of times every night. They almost never breath tested me, were just bored and wanted to chat with the young pretty girls.
Look at them, hell we beeped waved and undid our clothes.
(for clarity this was in NZ, the NZ Cops are a whole different police force)
From above to look at the pretty numbers and letters
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Back in South Africa, while on leave from military (SADF), I overtook a large truck (legally mind), but missed seeing a roadside sign saying ROADBLOCK AHEAD. Came round the corner to see a policeman standing in the middle of the road with his hand up. Slammed on brakes, fishtailed a bit, stopped 5 foot from him. He's pissed, yelling and gesticulating. He's yelling at me through window, I'm pleading innocence, but this guy is really on edge. A few moments later, the Sergeant Major in charge comes along, takes one look at my uniform (I was a lieutenant), tells his colleague to calm the f*ck down, salutes me, and waves me on.
I grinned all the way home 🙂
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turn up the music and pat the steering wheel in time with the music in the hope it drowns out the banging coming from the boot!
A group of us got stopped when we were yoofs. Whilst he hardly twitched when me and my mate told him we were the sons of coppers, he did, however conclude the process quite rapidly when he was informed he was hassling the Chief Superintendants son...
The situation is massively magnified if you've had a drink....or worse, think you might be over the limit!
I do recall deciding to drive home from a pub about 25yrs ago (when police cars used to sit at lights) and drawing up at a red to see two coppers looking at me. My God, Ive never felt more uncomfortable in my life......and then they followed me!!! I was having kittens, and nearly collapsed with relief when then turned off.
Talk about putting me off ever doing that again!
...through the sight of the loaded RPG launcher you're holding...
one of my mates pee'd on the back end of a police car for a dare, while the driver was dealing with some retrobates in a nova at the front end of the same car.
Pretend to be asleep.
Can't say I pay police cars any particular attention, any more than any other car, unless it's going like a dingbat making lots of noise with flashy lights.
But then I'm pretty much always wearing dark tinted glasses or sunglasses, so they can't see me looking anyway. 😀
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32640637 ]In the case of this one[/url] from somewhere across the road, rather than sitting next to it
Nice one soulwood lol
This was the reason for the emergency services in the Avon Gorge last week:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/14/bristol-pensioner-body-avon-gorge-olive-cooke
Very sad indeed.