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Can the Police stop you for no reason?

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    #41
    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    What are you on about you bell end?

    I don't think I would ever try to make a citizens arrest.

    I was just saying, that's what a PSCO does, effectively.

    Learn to read, you tool.

    Oh and cut you sig down. It's facking annoying.
    It's a PCSO you bell-end.
    You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.

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      #42
      This is a difficult question to answer... I would imagine that the police would have to stop you first before they could tell you that they stopped you for no reason...

      PZZ

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        #43
        I'd love to see a member of the public try to give me an £80 PND for being disorderly.
        Last edited by Moscow Mule; 24 June 2009, 15:34.
        ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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          #44
          I've been stopped for:

          "looking too young to drive that kind of car"

          Allowing the car to slow down up hill because I knew there was a zebra crossing over the crest that I'd probably have to stop for as it was school out time.

          Slowing down to let a police motorcyclist past because he had his lights flashing (and he didn't know it).
          Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
          threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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            #45
            Originally posted by threaded View Post
            I've been stopped for:

            "looking too young to drive that kind of car"

            Allowing the car to slow down up hill because I knew there was a zebra crossing over the crest that I'd probably have to stop for as it was school out time.

            Slowing down to let a police motorcyclist past because he had his lights flashing (and he didn't know it).
            I find that incredibly hard to believe (as with so many of your musings).

            You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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              #46
              Originally posted by threaded View Post
              I've been stopped for:

              "looking too young to drive that kind of car"

              Allowing the car to slow down up hill because I knew there was a zebra crossing over the crest that I'd probably have to stop for as it was school out time.

              Slowing down to let a police motorcyclist past because he had his lights flashing (and he didn't know it).


              Being a wide load without an escort!

              Shirley

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                #47
                Threaded wrote : Allowing the car to slow down up hill because I knew there was a zebra crossing over the crest that I'd probably have to stop for as it was school out time.
                Do zebra's go to school now, these days ?

                Well I never...
                Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                C.S. Lewis

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
                  Do zebra's go to school now, these days ?

                  Well I never...
                  Yeah, didn't you notice, they shared the same class with you and the other asses.
                  Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                  threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                    #49
                    Somewhat uncalled for Mr T.
                    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                    C.S. Lewis

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                      #50
                      Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
                      In theory they are supposed to have a reason. In practice they make up the law as they go along and "these nothing to hide " twats help them (nb not you Churchy I can see you were kidding). Sadly there is no-one looking over their shoulder.

                      Not technically correct. The Road Traffic Act 1988 s163 gives any officer the power to stop you. This is the section relied upon for random vehicle checks. Consequently from that check they can ask you for a breath test under section 6 if they have reasonable grounds to suspect you've been drinking. What is reasonable is up to their interpretation.
                      "I hope Celtic realise that, if their team is good enough, they will win. If they're not good enough, they'll not win - and they can't look at anybody else, whether it is referees or any other influence." - Walter Smith

                      On them! On them! They fail!

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