Lightning McQueen wrote:wristwatcher wrote:
Yes as a 19 year old I got pulled over and asked to lift up my bonnet. The cop said " I can smell petrol"... I said " it runs on petrol dickhead!, let's go lift your bonnet up" . This got a hilarious reaction and was a truly magical moment. The defect, fine and demerit points lost didn't end up being quite as funny. You live and learn.
No, they don't seem to share our humour.
I got pulled over just as I left my driveway and started putting my seatbelt on, I asked the officer if they'd solved the Beaumont case to which he found my tyres needed attention too.
It did teach me to fasten my seatbelt before driving though.
I've successfully had a fine for not wearing a seat belt over turned. Fortunately a friend who is above Detective rank in the force was able to pick a nice little piece of information from the report.
While sitting at a set of lights I pulled the belt away from my chest as I was in a nicely ironed shirt, to avoid creasing beyond what would normally occur. An unmarked car sitting to the left of me at the intersection, he was on the road adjacent to the one I was on, radioed to a marked car he must have seen sitting some 4-5 cars behind me that I was not wearing my belt.
The traffic, including the unmarked car went across in front of me and I noticed the driver looking in my direction, by this time I had replaced the belt as it should be.
I move through the intersection and subsequently get pulled over and receive a ticket. At that point, I had no intention of paying it as I knew I had done little / nothing wrong. I went and challenged it and had 30 days to respond to the police.
A nicely worded letter noting the officer who completed the ticket did not actually witness the event was enough for the police prosecution division to ring me and ask me did I intend to take it back to court and fight it, well, yes I said.
The office said "Let's pretend this never happened and I'll make this all go away". "No problem", I said, "Thank you".
He parted with "Is the person who wrote this a lawyer mate or a copper?" ...."Neither", I said, "I'm just a clever cookie".....*chuckles* on the other end.
PAFC. Forever.
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