Police road block vs ex-military truck

[eharding]

BBC: Taunton man uses vintage military truck to demolish road-block

Video from reddit (includes NSFW language)

As the video says, not something you see in Taunton every day. That being said, the road signs do seem to indicate that he had priority over on-coming traffic, but I don't think he was acting strictly in the spirit of the Highway Code.

Edited by eharding on Monday 11th September 11:51

[poo at Paul's]

Needs 20 years inside for that. Mental

[dudleybloke]

What the deuce.

Edited by dudleybloke on Monday 11th September 13:28

[hidetheelephants]

dudleybloke said:

What the duce.

Deuce(and a half). Not exactly high speed chase material, they're flat out at ~45 or so.

[williamp]

Exempt from the London ULEZ scheme.

[jonnM]

Love the way he carefully squeezes past the last police vehicle to avoid damaging it!

[Murph7355]

Crikey.

[g4ry13]

I wonder if those are ULEZ compliant

[Silvanus]

Hope someone like porridge

[dxg]

Nice turbo whistle.

[Silvanus]

Any know what vehicle it is? this is PHs after all

[TheRainMaker]

That’s a hell of a bit of kit, what’s the price of one of those?

Asking for a friend

[TheJimi]

jonnM said:

Love the way he carefully squeezes past the last police vehicle to avoid damaging it!

My thoughts exactly

[mac96]

Silvanus said:

Hope someone like porridge

Well he is being investigated for attempted murder so he might be getting plenty. How do you prove intent though? Judging from the video the officers were standing well back avoiding any rash heroics, and he drove into empty police cars.

Of course he may have driven at an officer out of sight of the camera which would explain it.

[Murph7355]

Silvanus said:

Any know what vehicle it is? this is PHs after all

See hidetheelephants' post.

[gruffalo]

g4ry13 said:

I wonder if those are ULEZ compliant

Probably classed as a classic so exempt.

[williamp]

Only one person can stop him:

The Yeovil Ninja

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/...

[Janluke]

Wasn't that a scene from Rambo?

[hidetheelephants]

Murph7355 said:

Silvanus said:

Any know what vehicle it is? this is PHs after all

See hidetheelephants' post.

Strictly it's an M35, which is the postwar replacement of the Deuce and a Half.

[Silvanus]

mac96 said:

Silvanus said:

Hope someone like porridge

Well he is being investigated for attempted murder so he might be getting plenty. How do you prove intent though? Judging from the video the officers were standing well back avoiding any rash heroics, and he drove into empty police cars.

Of course he may have driven at an officer out of sight of the camera which would explain it.

There's no way to know for sure, whilst driving like that, if the police cars were empty. If anything you'd assume they would be occupied ready to take pursuit.