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In news:1gmsu6h.1n7ot711ri1rpzN% snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk, SteveH decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

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Had something very similar happen to me with my Integrale, but that's for another time..

It happend to us in a firends alfa gtv, my friend on the passenger side (left hand drive) leant out of the window to get the crap that gets posted under the wipers. Police tailing us imeadiately turnded the blue lights thinking it was my friend who was driving and leaning out of the window at the same time!

Very good steve :)

LOL My housemate is driving a LHD Xantia at the moment. Will have to give it a try :)

Sounds like a laugh. Must find someone with a LHD drive car and be coming out of a pub car park at closing time.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

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Its got Belgian plates at the mo, so it would have to be a pretty stupid copper!!

Although saying that in his old 205 (LHD, Belgian plates) he was in a petrol station with a passenger, and i was a couple of pumps along. He was still in the shop, but the passenger came out and got in (the RHD side onviously). After about 30s the car behind started beeping and shouting at him to move. I was just stood there laughing!

Brilliant!! I must admit I can be a bit impatient when people get in their car and literally take about 5 minutes before they move off. The other day in Sainsbury's petrol station this bloke in a Merc was in the middle of 3 pumps, and the front one was free, but I needed to back up very close to his Merc (close enough to give him zero room to manoeuvre to get out). I waited a short while, and he got in, so waited a bit more, gave up and found another pump. He was still there a good 3-4 minutes later.

Of course, it could have been a LHD car and I could have been being a complete numpty.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

I wonder if they still do that?

Used to be, that a targeted pub would get someone to come out at closing time, staggering about and dropping their keys, giggling, then climb into a car and drive off with the wrong indicators and similar.

A mile down the road, they'd be pulled over by the police car that had watched this happening and would, of course, be sober as a judge. Meanwhile, the rest of the pub had made good their escape.

I don't think I've seen a police car watching a pub car park for years now, though.

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A while back we were getting totally wankered in our local and the landlord came round to warn everyone that the Police were sitting 200m up the road waiting to pull anyone that was driving suspiciously, so i guess it still happens.

i got pulled up in the MK1 MR2 when i left a pub and got back close to home, copper pulled me over and said he pulled me as he saw the car in the pub car park a few miles away and reconised it. they were doing random breath tests near xmas at the time. i only had 1 beer so wasn't bothered and passed the test easily as it didn't even show up. then the copper asked about the car saying how rare it is to see a B reg car that still goes :)

copper pulled me over

and reconised it. they

wasn't bothered and

the car saying how

I recall wondering about tiny little circular stickers I found on the rear bumper of my car. At the time, I used to park outside a pub.

Turned out, these were put on the rear bumper so that a police car could see the car had been parked near, or in, a pub early evening when whoever did the stickers came round.

Made sense, except for me because I kept being stopped for no actual reason whenever I was out and about late evening. Remove the stickers, no longer get stopped, until they started turning up again.

Took a while to spot that. I've been told they use UV pens and fancy headlights now, but I dunno if that's true.

home, copper pulled me over

away and reconised it. they

wasn't bothered and

about the car saying how

And its even got less rust now :)