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Police pick on cyclist
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:09:40 +0000, Rob Morley
wrote: If he'd given his name and address rather than acting like a silly bugger he'd probably have got away with an informal caution. Acting like a silly bugger can be a help. In my much younger days I had an interesting encounter with the police and played a silly bugger... My front light was faulty - it needed a bang on its side to get it working. At about 2am I was at a set of red lights very close to my home with a police car behind me. There was no other traffic and I went straight over. The police car followed, it flashed and put on its blue lights, I ignored it and turned into my service road and to my front door. The police parked up and confronted me. They challenged my lack of a front light, and I showed them that it worked. They challenged that I went through the red lights, I claimed they were green. The challenged that I did not stop, I claimed I did not know they wanted me to stop as I couldn't see behind me. There was a bit of other stuff that I can't recall. They asked for my name and address, I gave them my name and said (in a silly bugger way), "My address is here". Some nine months later I received a threat of bailiffs if I didn't pay the fine (I can't recall the amount) for shooting lights, no lights at night and failing to comply with a request to stop. I didn't even know I'd been taken to court. Because I had played silly buggers the police copied down my neigbours address, not mine, and I never received the summons (at that time a pair of prostitutes were living in the flat above mine and they had never passed on the court summons). Because I never had the chance to defend myself the conviction and fine were quashed. Perhaps I'm a lucky bugger, not just a silly bugger. ;-) **Troll bait** - I will welcome some relevant and pertinent statistical blurb from judith demonstrating that he has a clear understanding of statistics. I, and others, will read his post with careful scrutiny, and be so awed that we shall not respond. |
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