Stand and Deliver. £30 or your

kev1n3

Here is one to ponder over :mad:

Yesterday I was on my way to a friend’s house to take his children’s presents round. As I get to the bottom of my street I notice a cop car parked up over the road with two cops sitting in it. . It didn’t bother me because my car is taxed, insured got a full licence and don’t have any ASBOS..

I turned right onto a busy main road. About 100 yards along the main road I pulled into a lay-by right outside the newsagents, I had to get a 4 pint of milk.

I was in the shop for no longer than 3 minutes. I returned to my car put the keys in the ignition and started it up to tick over while I opened the milk and took a mouthful. I Put the cap back on the milk, put my seat belt on, and ready to go.

Suddenly, a cop tapped the driver’s window, :eek: (where the hell did he come from?) He asked me to turn of the engine and step out the car. He proceeded to lecture me on how dangerous it is to drink any liquid while behind the wheel of a car. WHAT? I said. I wasn’t driving, its only milk and I was parked up and wasn’t causing a danger to anyone, what is the problem officer?
He continued to explain that what I had just done was as bad as using a mobile phone behind the wheel. YEA RIGHT !! I thought, i was absolutely gob-smacked when he gave me a £30 fixed penalty ticket.

Funny enough a strange thought flashed through my mind of a 17th Centry highwayman jumping in-front of me shouting “stand and deliver” because that’s all it was.. ROBBERY I can’t believe how low some coppers will go, i recon they’d sell there own mother to a wh*re house if it helped them reach there targets.

Well there’s my Christmas moan.

Happy new year everyone, and remember.. Don’t be drinking milk in your car while parked up :rotfl:

Kev

HugoSP

In the first instance - go to the station he's based at and make a complaint - regarding his attitude and question his 'use' of powers with them.

99% of coppers either wouldn't have bothered or at the very most, had a friendly chat with you. You got the other 1%. This guy and people like him make 100% of the headlines.

£ to a penny he's fresh out of training. Chances are that his colleagues would probably agree with your views on this.

moonrakerz

You were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Coppers like all "public servants" have targets to meet; in his case X tickets or arrests a month. An you were an easier target than a man with a gun trying to rob a bank !

The whole thing stinks !

kev1n3

Britain has one of the highest crime rates in the developed world, and one of the most ineffective police forces. However, whatever tactics are adopted, a society in which crime is rising as rapidly as it is in Britain at the present time will always be an unpleasant and dangerous place to live, much we might try to improve policing, the real problem is the loss of internalised moral principles that prevent people from committing crimes in the first place.

The reason for the striking success of policing in New York, and other US cities that have adopted the Broken Windows approach to crime and anti-social behaviour is that it revives this tradition. The police pay attention to low-level acts of disorder, and deal with them before they create an environment in which the anti-social elements feel in control. (i can't see drinking a little milk in parked up car as being low level crime)

Almost a third of migrants ready to head to Britain from Romania and Bulgaria in a few days time will be 'undesirables', 140,000 people will arrive from the two countries. Of these, an astonishing 45,000 are estimated to have links to crime, and will obviously re-ignite the debate over whether enough is being done to protect Britain from overseas criminals in the wake of the foreign prisoner release fiasco.

The goverment, with there heads firmly up there asses reasure us they will have a grip on it.

We will see !!

Kev

Hot_Fuzz

I don't know if this helps BUT the best thing you can do is request a court hearing, using the back of the ticket, there would be no point going to the station and reporting this officer, they would state he/she was executing there duty and it would go no further.

Given the fact you have insurance etc the court would then take a view and prob throw the ticket out.

On the subject of targets for tickets/arrests etc, i have done the job for twenty years and will state that i have never heard of any such targets for officers, the chances are the officer IS straight out of training school and trying to get his first ticket out of the way, it is a shame it was you for that offence but everyone had to start somewhere.

I'm not trying to justify his action just explain a possible motive.

Hope it helps

chuckles1066

HugoSP wrote:

In the first instance - go to the station he's based at and make a complaint - regarding his attitude and question his 'use' of powers with them.

99% of coppers either wouldn't have bothered or at the very most, had a friendly chat with you. You got the other 1%. This guy and people like him make 100% of the headlines.

£ to a penny he's fresh out of training. Chances are that his colleagues would probably agree with your views on this.

I'll bet my mortgage (if I had one) that this is a hoax.

magyar

Agree - don't believe a word of this.

Hot_Fuzz

Why do you think that? I've read this sight for about three months but registered today to try and help out, if you think i'm joking about something tell me what and i'll try and explain it some more

magyar

Hot_Fuzz wrote:

Why do you think that? I've read this sight for about three months but registered today to try and help out, if you think i'm joking about something tell me what and i'll try and explain it some more

Why do you think anyone's under the impression YOU were joking?

Rex_Mundi

Hot_Fuzz wrote:

Why do you think that? I've read this sight for about three months but registered today to try and help out, if you think i'm joking about something tell me what and i'll try and explain it some more

I don't think anyone is doubting your post. Welcome to MSE by the way.

I've been doubting this thread myself. When I first saw it, my first and overriding impression was that it was a troll. It seems I'm not alone in thinking this way.

Hot_Fuzz

Oh sorry wrong end of the stick.

I have seen a ticket given to a man for eating a twix on the motorway.
As someone said its the 1% that give us a all a bad name