Is it worth phoning...

[M@H]

M50 this morning.. I'm minding my own business and overtake (at legal speeds) a white Fiesta van.. my attention is drawn to it by the smoked rear lenses for some reason..!?

Anyway.. as I pull alongside I notice that the cap wearing youngster driving is actaully reading the paper..! Its on his steering wheel and he's intently reading away and very occaisonally he's idly glancing up to check the road.

My first instinct is to get his numberplate, then phone police to have this danger to society removed from the highway.. but then the nagging doubt creeeps in..

" and you sir are using your mobile phone?"
" well we aren't in the area so your wasting your time.."
" we've got better things to do.."

etc etc...
So I didn't phone them.. what would you lot have done then ??

Cheers
Matt

[Bonce]

If I'd have been able to give him a wide enough berth (i.e. him in lane 1, me in lane 3) I'd have attracted his attention with the a friendly toot of the horn and then acted out via the power of mime that I think reading whilst driving is a bad idea.

And if I hear any smartarse comments about miming whilst driving being a bad idea....

[Fer]

quote:
And if I hear any smartarse comments about miming whilst driving being a bad idea....

"First word, sounds like Banker"

Or just mention Gareth Hunt? (Coffee beans, not rhyming slang)

[M@H]

mmm.. that wouldn't however have removed the danger to society from the road..??

[Bonce]

It would, my mime skills are second only to Marcel Marceau. He'd have looked up, seen my cleverly crafted mimes of warning and changed his ways immediately.

[madcop]

At least it was just the paper he was reading. Several years ago, whilst stationary on the edge of an emergency turn around point on the M25 watching the traffic crawl past at about 20 to 30 ish, a lorry driver pulled up to tell us of a chap in a blue cavalier who was in the middle lane and spanking the monkey over a top shelf magazine. When stopped, the magazine was still open on the passenger seat and he didn't deny it either

[mondeoman]

Just tell em you're pulled over on the hard shoulder and reporting dangerous driving/hit n run or some such ........ make it serious enuff n the BiB will attend.

[tvrman]

I know the M50 is boring but this is madness. It's people like us who take a pride in our driving who never get recognised, and these others who don't care who get away with it.

I feel there should also be a way of removing the odd point from your licence, such as a days training with the Police or similar.

Ian

[CarZee]

quote:a lorry driver pulled up to tell us of a chap in a blue cavalier who was in the middle lane and spanking the monkey over a top shelf magazine. When stopped, the magazine was still open on the passenger seat

it's like so many on-road pecadillos, Mad Cop - it's not the doing that's bad it's the getting caught

BTW.. I'm getting a sense of some sucking up to authority going on here, Ted..

These here new smilies..

MadCop, JR, Relax , Gemini and Blues have all got a personal smiley:

And Bob The Bench has got his own..

Wossat about?.. happy smiley faces indeed..

Where's the with the wig?

Where's the with the policemans hat?

Just a little balance is all I ask

[Moschops]

...yeah, right, and this guy was like doing seventy, right, and changin' his flippin' CD. I dunno, like, how he could even reach the changer in the boot...

[outlaw]

had some bird writing a letter on a clip board not so long ago

all so rang on handfree of couse 999 to ask them to sort out a tail gater about 18inch off my rear pipe one time. I was told it want an emergency, I replied I will be If I put the brake hard in a sec. Im shaw you dont wanrtone of you riot vans scraped off my rer end so could you pleace radio van index so an so .

As the driver seem unable to reconiz the morse code iv been flashing with my brake lights for the last 2 miles.

strangly it backed off a few mins later and left the m1 at the next exit.

>> Edited by outlaw on Wednesday 9th October 05:06

[M@H]

what sort of reception dod you think I would have got from the police if I had phoned them though ..??

a polite "piss off"... ?

[charltm]

tailgaters... I have a simple method for dealing with them... gradually slow down to about 30-40 (still in the outside lane), change down, and then leave them for dead - the inconvenience to them tends to stop them doing it again

[tone]

Matt,

I tried to phone through to the local traffic to advise them of a complete d**khead and was asked "Do you want to make a formal complaint?", if yes, go to the nearest station - ie they wouldn't take anything over the phone.

[M@H]

quote:
Matt,

I tried to phone through to the local traffic to advise them of a complete d**khead and was asked "Do you want to make a formal complaint?", if yes, go to the nearest station - ie they wouldn't take anything over the phone.

marvelous..

[mondeoman]

"Thank you for calling the automated police service"

"Sorry all of our operators are busy down the canteen right now"

"If you care to leave a message we might get back to you, unless of course you're a motorist/mugging victim/had your house burgled in which case we'll arrest you for breach of the peace or somesuch nonsense that we'll make up on the day"

"Have a nice day now"

[CarZee]

Welcome to Toms valley Police Farce.

please ask your assailant to speak their name now:

thankyou.

If you're being carjack, robbed or assaulted, press 1
If you're giving yourself up, press 2
If you've 'fallen down the stairs' press 3

#1

If you're being carjacked and have RAC cover, press 1
If you're being carjacked and have a sports, car press 2
If you're being robbed and you have an expensive watch press 3
If your mobile phone is being stolen, press 4

#2

If it is a company car, please call your company.
If it is your own car, please call your insurer.

Toms Valley Police regret any inconvenience caused, however in this day and age, you really should know better than to flaunt your wealth, sir. GoodDay...

[Deester]

I once read about a guy driving on the M25 with a bowl of melon between his legs munching away with a spoon as he was driving.

It was in the papers years ago.

[gro]

My experience is it very much depends who you get on the other end of the phone.
One called to report a guy must have been pi**ed out of his head. Speed varying between 10 & 50mph, bouncing of the kerbs every so often. On this occassion I got a local copper on the phone who knew exactly where I was and 2 patrol cars arrived in no time.
Not that long ago called 999 to report a broken down car on a blind bend on a NSL road. I only narrowly missed it myself. The first question the bint on the other end asked was "why I was I resporting it to the Police " Hmmmmm...

[Jackass]

My mate once called the Police to report a car that had either caught fire or severely overheated in the middle lane of the M25 (Junc 10). I only heard his side of the conversation, but I assume the question was something like "Do they need help?" to which his reponse was "Well they look quite worried and with car swerving to left and right of them, can't go anywhere." A moment later a T5 sped past, blue disco and all, on the other carriageway.