Damo, you know the Bostrom is the way ahead..... fully blinged up to your liking :D

I have gone to the dark side...

<<<<<< See the pic

Not as dark as you though ;)

She's a e beaut! the 749/999 series don't normally do it for me, but the R is a different matter. I'll just have to stick with my CBR1000 (until I've saced enough pennies for a desmocedici!)

Good story CK :lol::lol:

The thing is that whatever the rights and wrongs of it all, shouldn't we expect some consistency from the law? Let's face it, we've all eaten a sandwich/choccy bar/sausage roll or whatever at the wheel. I think that since everybody has done this type of thing without ever feeling out of control that the police would inevitably have almost zero public sympathy nicking people for it.

Mobile phones and turning round to deal with kids are a different matter, but....

A few years ago, about this time of year, I was on the last stretch of my commute home from Bracknell (thank God I work from home nowadays). I was on the M1 going north near Hemel Hempstead and I was in the middle lane, following the flow of traffic, but still going too fast. I was only doing 40mph, but the Friday night traffic was very heavy and what made it so grim was the sort of rain and spray where your wipers are on warp speed but still don't clear the screen. And it was about 7:30 pm so it was dark.

Two things drew my attention to the Rover 75 in the outside lane. First, it passed slowly but so closely that it actually flicked my offside mirror. Second, the interior light was on, which, as we all know decreases your visibility even further. I looked across at the driver (looked a bit like that bloke who narrates 'Grumpy Old Men') and he had a book propped up on the wheel. This wasn't a quick glance at a map book or something, he had a paperback novel on there and was engrossed in reading it. I blasted the old airhorns at him and he lazily looked across. I gave him the international sign for 'you're a nutter mate' and he flicked me the V's :flame:

I was so mad that I followed him all the way up the motorway (he was reading all the way). I'd memorised his numberplate and as we passed Toddington services I pulled in to report it to the Motorway patrol office there. Gave them the reg number and this guy's unbelievable behaviour and their response? "Your word against his mate, can't do nuffink".

....Join the queue!

Here's one for u !
(wait for it Andy B along in a minute:lol:)

Last year poodling along in my jamjar on a busy "A" road back from Wolverhampton!

it was 3.15pm and the next thing i see is a Panda car with Blues on coming up behind me at a fast rate of knotts!!

i move over to left, and he passes me on a zebra crossing with kids waiting to cross! when it goes past me, the WPC in the passenger side is sitting with her arm around his neck and the driver switches the blues off and carries on at speed up the road.

I catches up with it and look at my speedo and we are doing 65mph in a 30!

it then turns in to the nick a few yards later, and they get out and walk casualy across the car park and into the station.

so i walks into the station and asks the duty sarge if there was a log of an emergency at the station , he looks at me a bit bemused and ask's why!!!!!!

so i tel him the story and asks him if he thought using the blue lights as a means to get through traffic was acceptable?

to which he replies he must have just left them on from a previous shout!

so i ask him if overtaking on a zebra crossing was in order?

to which he replies as long as the officer was in full control of the vehicle not a problem!

so i ask would he think it was acceptable for the WPC to have her Arm around him ?

to which he replies perhaps they are lovers!

to which i replied ok then i would like to see the inspector!!!

he asks me why ?
and i tell him i'm gonna make a formel complaint and follow it through as he was driving dangerously and without due care!

to which he replies!

sonny if you want to drive your car around these parts in the future, without getting stoped for every minor offence we can find! i suggest you withdraw your complaint and leave it at that and i'll have a word with the two officers!

say no more and i left :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

And this no doubt is one of the things that contributed to you being 'mad'! :mad:

Why is it posting twice?

dont know

dont know:lol::frog::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:;):D

If you ask me, I think the real problem is with the judicial system that actually decided to hear the case. With all the presure on police officers nowadays with quotas and targets etc, it's hardly surprising that offences that in the past would have been looked over or dealt with by a 'discussion' at the roadside, now get taken to the enth degree. I'm not saying that there's never an officer who resembles Constable Savage from the Not The 9-oclock News Sketch and take things way too far, but there's pillocks in all walks of life isn't there.

In this case I think my gripe would be with a) the self righteous, trumped up magistrate etc who thought their time and taxpayers money was well spent entertaining such a charge or b) the system that makes them entertain it in the first place.

Either way, it was a bloody expensive apple.

[Edited on 25-1-2005 by Guido]