Ye Olde Sneaky Plod

[Skub]

I laughed at the last couple of paragraphs in particular.

[ZRX61]

CHP aircraft do the same here & time the vehicle between X's painted on the freeways.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I got done by Vascar back in 1988, which is pretty much the same as the above.

[Bigyin]

I got done by Vascar back in 1988, which is pretty much the same as the above.

A Lancashire traffic cop in an unmarked Impreza on the A65 oop north tried to do me for almost 80 mph in a 60 quite a few years ago using Vascar which was complete bollocks as i had clocked him in the layby as we came off the roundabout and saw him try to hide his uniform epaulettes behind the B pillar so made sure i was bang on 60. After he screamed up behind me and pulled me over i got the the invite into the car to watch the heinous offence on the screen. He got the hump when i refused his generous offer of a 3 point and 100 quid as a "favour to save me being summonsed to court". He got even more of the hump when i pointed out his Vascar reading was of his speed to catch me up from a standing start after watching me go past and almost disappear from his screen. The final straw was telling him i had taken his number and would be making a formal complaint and to stop calling me mate and Det Sgt was more appropriate given the circumstances and conversation we were having.

His final attempt to wriggle out of the situation was telling me he was putting it down as a verbal warning to which i said "no it isnt" got out of the car and left. I did subsequently report him to Lancashire Plod when i got back home after the weekend away as he might have done loads of others in the past and future with the same bullshit. At the time i was in a large group on our way to Penrith for the VD Easter tour so luckily i was the one he stopped as i was number 2 on the road behind Adam and while sat in the plod car heard the rest of the group revving their tits off coming up the road till they saw the blue lights in the layby WWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH, oh shit brrrrmmmmmmmmmmm

[Yorick]

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[Whysub]

I got a NIP in 2018 for "Riding without due care". It stated the offence was committed between Junction 8 and Junction 7 of the M11 at xx hours on xx date. I was riding on that road, at about that time, on that day.

I wasn't stopped by the police. There were no static traffic cameras on that stretch (at least not back then).

I can only assume that someone sent the police dash cam footage of my riding. The only thing I could think of was I was either filtering or going quicker in lane 1 that the traffic was flowing in lanes 2 or 3. The police would not give me photographic evidence of my "offence" unless I wanted to go to court.
I just took the driver awareness course rather than risk appearing in court and getting a bike hating magistrate.

Would love to know what I did though.

[Skub]

No one has mention a Marina managing to attain 87mph? I hope the driver asked for documented proof of performance.

[Yorick]

I'm not saying @gremlin rides like a gurl, but apparently he was done for attempted speeding

[Bustaspoke]

I got done by Vascar back in 1988, which is pretty much the same as the above.

A Lancashire traffic cop in an unmarked Impreza on the A65 oop north tried to do me for almost 80 mph in a 60 quite a few years ago using Vascar which was complete bollocks as i had clocked him in the layby as we came off the roundabout and saw him try to hide his uniform epaulettes behind the B pillar so made sure i was bang on 60. After he screamed up behind me and pulled me over i got the the invite into the car to watch the heinous offence on the screen. He got the hump when i refused his generous offer of a 3 point and 100 quid as a "favour to save me being summonsed to court". He got even more of the hump when i pointed out his Vascar reading was of his speed to catch me up from a standing start after watching me go past and almost disappear from his screen.

The only bad experience I've had with plod was pretty similar to what you've posted & also in Lancashire.
This was mid 80's,I filter through standing traffic at some lights,overtaking a marked Rover traffic Police car.Lights change to green & I ride away,a few minutes later plod has the blue lights flashing & pulls me over for'Going like shit of a shovel away from the lights'.
I point out that I was staying below the speed limit as I had just passed in him in standing traffic.He then got me to sit in the passenger seat where he showed me the speed on his Vascar,I pointed out that that was the speed he was traveling at & he had been speeding because he was stuck in a queue of cars & wanted to catch me.At this point he told me to go ...

[Cousin Jack]

I have managed to avoid being nicked, for speeding or anything else. Several close calls, including a genuine 60 in a 30. Stopped and asked where I was going in such a hurry so I truthfully said I was going to stay with a Police Sergeant a few miles away, as I was engaged to his daughter. I got away with a bollocking.

[gremlin]

I'm not saying @gremlin rides like a gurl, but apparently he was done for attempted speeding

Tortoise and the hare, my friend.

[westers151]

I have managed to avoid being nicked, for speeding or anything else. Several close calls, including a genuine 60 in a 30. Stopped and asked where I was going in such a hurry so I truthfully said I was going to stay with a Police Sergeant a few miles away, as I was engaged to his daughter. I got away with a bollocking.

Go on, where you to in Cornwall?

[Wossname]

I have managed to avoid being nicked, for speeding or anything else. Several close calls, including a genuine 60 in a 30. Stopped and asked where I was going in such a hurry so I truthfully said I was going to stay with a Police Sergeant a few miles away, as I was engaged to his daughter. I got away with a bollocking.

Gesson you, where you to in Cornwall?

FTFY

[Rockburner]

I got done by Vascar back in 1988, which is pretty much the same as the above.

A Lancashire traffic cop in an unmarked Impreza on the A65 oop north tried to do me for almost 80 mph in a 60 quite a few years ago using Vascar which was complete bollocks as i had clocked him in the layby as we came off the roundabout and saw him try to hide his uniform epaulettes behind the B pillar so made sure i was bang on 60. After he screamed up behind me and pulled me over i got the the invite into the car to watch the heinous offence on the screen. He got the hump when i refused his generous offer of a 3 point and 100 quid as a "favour to save me being summonsed to court". He got even more of the hump when i pointed out his Vascar reading was of his speed to catch me up from a standing start after watching me go past and almost disappear from his screen. The final straw was telling him i had taken his number and would be making a formal complaint and to stop calling me mate and Det Sgt was more appropriate given the circumstances and conversation we were having.

His final attempt to wriggle out of the situation was telling me he was putting it down as a verbal warning to which i said "no it isnt" got out of the car and left. I did subsequently report him to Lancashire Plod when i got back home after the weekend away as he might have done loads of others in the past and future with the same bullshit. At the time i was in a large group on our way to Penrith for the VD Easter tour so luckily i was the one he stopped as i was number 2 on the road behind Adam and while sat in the plod car heard the rest of the group revving their tits off coming up the road till they saw the blue lights in the layby WWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH, oh shit brrrrmmmmmmmmmmm

I remember seeing you pulled over and you giving me a slight shake of the head to stop me pulling in to see if all was ok.


I can fully understand the Police's reliance on 'remote-speed-policing', it's far less financially dependant on expensive highly trained officers and bespokely equipped cars driving around visually eyeballing potential offenders, I just don't know quite how effective it is at prevention, especially prevention of recurrence.

One rather frightening statistic I remember from when I was working with Thames Valley Traffic* was that over the previous 20 years or so, traffic levels had multiplied by 10 (or something in that magnitude), but their team strength (about 8 -10 vehicles iirc) had not grown at all in that time.

* I was working with TRL at the time, helping with an accident investigation project.


I think my best 'get away with it' was in London. Lined up at the lights somewhere south of the river on my brothers F-model ZX6R, a lairy sounding Triumph pulled up beside me: game on!
Obviously I didn't notice the fully marked up BMW directly behind me, (but the fellow on the Triumph did), so I was a little surprised when I saw the blue lights... after I'd hit about 70 in first blasting away from the line.

Pulled over and whipped my helmet off as fast as I could and somehow managed to persuade the officer (who never even got off his bike), that it was just a matter of not being fully aware of the full performance of the bike (my first ride on it), and being late for work. I must have looked particularly contrite (or he wasn't in the mood for paperwork), for he just told me to take it easy and rode off.

[Yorick]

In my yoof the road up to Kirkby Lonsdale from Skipton was amazing before the filth were about. We always maxed out on the Skipton bypass.
About 92 I was on my new CBR600 and had been racing an FZR600 home.
I was looking forward to top speed race on the Ingleton bypass.
I dropped him, so slowed down to wait for him.
Trundled all way along the bypass. Turned the tight corner at the end and saw cops parked up.
If the lad hadn't dropped back we'd both have been doing 150 ish.
Lucky boy that day.

[Yorick]

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[Whysub]

I was riding with two mates, heading south down through France. We had left Aleçon and on the way towards Le Mans.

I heard an emergency vehicle siren, and looking in the (useless) mirrors on my 'Blade, saw the blue lights of s vehicle, so I moved over to let it pass. Except what turned out to be a police car slowed down too. I pulled up on to the verge, followed by the car. Looking to my left, my mate on his BMW GS pulled along side of where I had stopped. Then he gunned it away, followed by my other mate on his Blade. Bollocks.

Got off the bike, took my helmet off, and got my papers from the top box bugee'd to the seat. Copper was not pleased, even less so because I knew little French. He spoke some English, and said he had been following us for 16 kms at 150 kph. He asked who the other two were, I said I did not know, and that I did not know anyone was behind me, as my mirrors were very poor. For some reason he accepted that excuse, told me to keep my speed down to 90kph, and waved me away

Incidentally, a few years later, my brother was heading into Le Mans and overtaking two slow trucks, was clocked by a police radar at 120 kph. He was stopped further up the road, instantly fined of €750, taken some miles away to a police station where his bike was impounded. Due to the incompetence of the Magistrate in not completing the paperwork in time, he could not be ban my brother, who was then allowed to collect his bike and ride it to Calais. A few days after he got back home, he received documents to say he was banned from driving in France for 6 months.

[mangocrazy]

In 2010 Mrs Mango and I decided to use the Falco to visit the ancestral pile and were proceeding south from Le Havre on the D roads when we were aware of a little white and blue French police Renault following us with its strap-on light going. Foolishly, I stopped. Given the traffic stuation I could have pissed off and they would never have caught us. But, as I say, I stopped. Apparently I'd been doing 90kph in an 80kph zone and a fine (of I think €90) was due. I didn't have that much cash and they didn't have a card machine. Then followed an entirely comedic routine whereby I had to try and find a cashpoint while they followed me from place to place until I finally found a Supermarche that had a cashpoint.

I still don't know to this day why I didn't just fuck off when I first saw the blue lights.

[The Spin Doctor]

I have to confess to getting a bit of a tramp on, on the old FZ through deserted bit of France somewhere near Saulieu in the Morvan... lovely undulating roads with fast bends, few villages and fewer towns, and nary a car in sight for miles and miles.

I had a stealth road-legal can on the bike and when I topped a crest at around 120 mph to find a gendarme having a ciggie next to his bike in a layby a few hundred metres ahead of me, it was the same moment he obviously heard me coming.

He whipped round, threw the gasper on the ground, grabbed his lid off the mirror, made to put it on his head...

...then clocked the bike.

He watched me go past, shook his head and stuck the helmet back on the mirror.

The bike was a BMW R80

[David]

I really expected this to be about LE's....my first traffic pull was in one that wafted up beside and bollocking me for stopping on double yellows...I was in a messerschmidt.