Have you been stopped by police at night ?

[2uk]

BTW I'm not going to lie and claim I never did this before I realised how tuilp it was. I did it twice and it was shocking and wrong, and more 20 years ago, but it was still wrong.

And your soul will be now forgiven son ! Amen.

[ferret]

I doubt any of us here are sinless virgins. From what you have posted though we can all rest assured that you are a bit of a plonker. Whether there are many cops on the road at night or not it is your responsibility as an adult to never drink and drive. Like Peoplesoft bloke said just get a taxi, its not like you haven't got the cash.

[blacjac]

I drove home a few times after having a few drinks. I would never drive If I am not positive I am in control , but this surely is not what the law says. From where I come from , night checks for alcohol are standard , but then you can bribe there...

You sir, are a prize c**t of the highest order.

[Diver]

I drove home a few times after having a few drinks. I would never drive If I am not positive I am in control , but this surely is not what the law says. From where I come from , night checks for alcohol are standard , but then you can bribe there...

It's people like you that kill a child and drunkenly say "I didn't mean to do it".

Some consolation for the parents that is.

congratulations, you are the first poster on this board to nearly achieve my ignore list

[swamp]

I would never drive If I am not positive I am in control , but this surely is not what the law says.

Got to put the boot in here.

You're always in control of your car, whether you're sober, slighly inebriated, or three sheets to the wind. Therein lies the problem.

[dude69]

where did the vicars come from?

[AtW]

True story.

Not UK cops though - Soviet ones, it was also day and not night.

Right about 10 years ago in my ex-ex-life I was working for a bank and one day me and some collegues were in a car going to another bank to cash in some bonds.

All of a sudden during mid-day police pulls us over, supposedly because of wrong turn or some BS like that.

So, they stop us and search car - find firearm with the guard and my mobile - at the time (1998) people could not just have mobile without permission issued to your name, so they picked on that boarded our mini bus and said lets go to police station. They were armed and could have driven us into forest and kill everyone so that I would not live to tell you this story

[Board Game Geek]

I was stopped twice in Yorkshire after midnight coming back from my girlfriends a good few years ago. As my car was registered in Manchester and they wanted to know what I was doing so far away from home, "it's a car officer, thats what its designed for, going away from home"

Something similar happened to me a few years ago.

Me and Mrs BGG travelled from our domicile in Essex to her parent's residence in Wales, using my motor car.

Welsh plod pulled me over 3 days later as I was exiting their country. "We note that your vehicle is not from round here, who are you, where have you been, blah blah blah."

Once I got home, I had the same rigmarole with the Essex Police.

Apparently, welsh plod had informed the Essex Police, of a possible stolen car, so they went to my house, and since it was empty, raced around to my parent's house. My mum was 70 at the time, and quite frightened when 2 police cars turned up, and told her that my car had been stolen.

When I got home, she rang me, so I had to go over to explain all the fuss and hassle.

Since then, I don't bother travelling beyond Essex, if plod don't like it.

It's made me acutely aware that It's just not worth the hassle and grief.

[threaded]

I've been stopped for "looking too young to drive that kind of car","not speeding, like everyone else", and once a motorcycle plod pulled up behind me as I was exiting my vehicle after parking outside my parents and started giving me the third degree about where I was going and getting quite heated for reasons I hazard to guess were straight up jealousy (to which I have an amusing video captured by my parents very high quality CCTV system).

[Diver]

Many years ago I was followed to work by a police car for approx 3 miles. They pulled me over eventually and gave me a pen.
Apparently they had some scheme going to boost their image with the motoring public by rewarding safe drivers by stopping them, praising their driving skills and rewarding them with a "Safe driver" pen.
I was thus ten minutes late for work.