Your experiences with the Police?

[orange71]

My favourite was in Hawaii (clang... just dropping a name there... ) - 4 of us hired scooters to go out to see Pearl Harbour, however we got lost and ended up on the 5 lane highway out of Honolulu. Not long later we see the copper on his motorbike and he pulls us over. He says 'what are you doing on those on the highway?' We pointed to the sign that happened to be nearby stating that motorbikes are ok on the motorway - he then stated 'that ain't no motorbike (pointing to our scooters), this is a motorbike' (pointing to his Harley).

Anyway he was very good about it and told us we need to come off at the next junction - the problem was this was on the other side of the highway and we couldn't get across, so he justs calmly walks into the traffic holding out his hand to stop all 5 lanes of rush hour traffic to let us across

 

[Supratada]

Good and bad, been let off many a time for excessive speeding. I used to get stopped a lot as a student, as in my eyes I was being oppressed by "the man" but from the police's point of view I was a scruffy bloke walking through town at 2 am with a big holdall.

Thw worst one was a stop and search as I walked home from the pub, I was about 18, and they pulled me for my keychain which was in my pocket. Unfortunately, instead of keeping my gob shut when they asked me if I would use it in a fight I said I would probably use anything to hand.
Four court visits later including one to Crown Court with a jury and I was bound over for a year to "keep the peace." The most annoying thing was that the two coppers fabricated their report and said they stopped me because I was swinging it round my head while walking.
An excellent use of public money.

 

[grahame]

There was one time when I was working for the company that made the comms systems for several Police forces. We were based in the South West. Just before Christmas one year, we got a call from a force in "the north" saying that almost all their radio link cards had been knocked out, and could we send some more ASAP.

Their HQ was about a 5 mile detour from the route I was going to take the next day to get to my parents for Christmas, so I volunteered to go a day early and drop the cards off on my way. When the cards were ready, and I'd been home and packed, I was given a contact name at the Police HQ and asked to get there as quickly as possible. If I was stopped, I was to ask the officer to get patched through to the HQ and speak to my contact.

I set off, and on the M42, was doing 70-and-a-bit (quite a bit )mph, when the inevitable happened and Mr Plod had put his blue lights on to let me know that he wanted to discuss something. I pulled over, he asked me what speed I was doing, I told him, he asked me what was the limit, I told him. I then told him why and asked him to speak to the guy in "the north". He went back to his car, picked up his radio, talked for a bit, and came back.

"How fast will your car go, sir?"

"I don't know, but the manual says it should do more than 90mph"

"Right then, that's what we're going to do. We'll be in front of you, and when we get to Liecestershire, they will meet us and take over, and take you to Nottingham, then South Yorks, etc. You will stay behind one police car, and in front of the other. They will have their lights and sirens on. Are you ready?"

From there until the police HQ, I don't think I did less than 10mph more than I'd been stopped for. Even after fitting the cards, I got home 1/2 an hour faster than any previous journey.

Good guys in my opinion

 

[The Ken]

Student antics, long time ago....

Once on way back from pub ('89 or there abouts) - very drunk - I hopped up onto a small brickwall to ride along it.
I stopped to watch the police that had screached to a halt and with a siren burst. Where are they off to I thought? they are heading in my direction, I looked behind me to see what was going on - nothing - when they reached me I realised it was me they were after and I was 5 feet higher than them about a metre from a 6 foot drop on a rigid bike.

They got me down and made my flatmate take my bike. Very nice they were, if a little sharp with the telling off.