Question for the BiB out there
Discussion
Gentlemen, is it true that the police sometimes take observers out with them? We were chatting in the pub the other night (a bad habit I know) and we were wondering what it was like out on patrol with traffic. Is it possible to go out and see what life at the sharp end is like, or were we just in a beer fueled fog and talking out of our hats?
Comments please.
Chris
Comments please.
Chris
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Gentlemen, is it true that the police sometimes take observers out with them? We were chatting in the pub the other night (a bad habit I know) and we were wondering what it was like out on patrol with traffic. Is it possible to go out and see what life at the sharp end is like, or were we just in a beer fueled fog and talking out of our hats?
You can go out with most forces as an observer. Probably need a valid reason though, something like...'I was thinking of joining and wanted to see what its like'
Rob
I think this is a first rate idea. Just think how much the likes of MadCop & Co could earn in back handers from PHers, desperate to go looning around Britain's motorways at break neck velocities with little or no chance of prosecution?
This eminently cunning plan, by making said officers of the law considerably richer than yaou would mean their obvious pleasant disposition unto any displaying the PH sticker...
...so our own speeding trangressions would simply follow the process of being pulled, identification by Judge Dredd of said sticker, a quick chin wag and then a hearty 'see you anon!'
Indeed, I reckon enough motorists would be more than willing to pay the equivalent of several anual fines in the form of multiple mega speed rides with the BiB that the necessity for revenue raising bullsh1t c/o Gatsos, etc would be redundant - the force would make a fortune.
Indeed, why not persaude the Met to take over EVO magazine and stop pretending to bother with all this speed kills silliness and concentrate on honing everybody's oversteering capabilities? Then, transform the fleet from dull Vectras into largely unadorned Italian exotica and encourage the chaps to 'large it up' as much as possible, thus converting them into unabashed PHers. Chances are, they'll be so proud of their Lambos and Masers that they'll be too busy pulling dawdlers and mid-lane numpties to worry about some peasant in a Porsche or Tiv, wheezing along at 150 or so; thus our problem on speed control could be gradually eroded from within, as it were.
Insane? Impossible? Well who'd have thought some bloke with a spanner in Gdansk would've precipitated the fall of communism? I rest my case!
This eminently cunning plan, by making said officers of the law considerably richer than yaou would mean their obvious pleasant disposition unto any displaying the PH sticker...
...so our own speeding trangressions would simply follow the process of being pulled, identification by Judge Dredd of said sticker, a quick chin wag and then a hearty 'see you anon!'
Indeed, I reckon enough motorists would be more than willing to pay the equivalent of several anual fines in the form of multiple mega speed rides with the BiB that the necessity for revenue raising bullsh1t c/o Gatsos, etc would be redundant - the force would make a fortune.
Indeed, why not persaude the Met to take over EVO magazine and stop pretending to bother with all this speed kills silliness and concentrate on honing everybody's oversteering capabilities? Then, transform the fleet from dull Vectras into largely unadorned Italian exotica and encourage the chaps to 'large it up' as much as possible, thus converting them into unabashed PHers. Chances are, they'll be so proud of their Lambos and Masers that they'll be too busy pulling dawdlers and mid-lane numpties to worry about some peasant in a Porsche or Tiv, wheezing along at 150 or so; thus our problem on speed control could be gradually eroded from within, as it were.
Insane? Impossible? Well who'd have thought some bloke with a spanner in Gdansk would've precipitated the fall of communism? I rest my case!
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