Fernandez
Gold Member
So I'm flying up the M1 this afternoon and noticed an awful lot of coppers about. Obviously I stayed at the limit set by her majesty and decided to pull into Tibshelf services for a slash, as I entered I noticed another copper sat watching cars, not a traffic officer though, as I was parking he came up behind me with light ablaze pulled up next to me and said "theres a problem with your numberplate, follow me"
Followed him round the back to the lorry park where they had one of their makeshift compounds, there must have been 10 coppers there. Now most of you know that one of the letters in my number plate its spaced a bit differently than shall we say legal. So its a fair cop if I get a ticket.
Once I got out if the car the attitude out the officer was dispicable, moody as hell, very rude and very abrupt, he asked me what the problem was and I replied very politely that it was probably the spacing on my plate. He then told me it ment thet my car was defective and I would be getting a summons.
At that point one out his superiors who was a traffic officer came over, looked over the plate and asked me a few questions then asked the officer if the ANPR read my plate correctly to which the answer was yes, he then said that although wrongly spaced it wasn't that bad and that he would let it go with just a warning.
The copper was clearly not happy and said but the vehicle is defective, his superior said that it wasnt, the plate was illegal but the vehicle was not defective, he said that the officer could give me a fixed penalty non endorsable if he wanted but advised him to give me a verbal warning to get them replaced. Result I thought.
The officer then asked for my driving licence which has a ten year old picture in which I have a cheeky grin, he obvously took offence to this and informed me the the picture was invalid, I was not allowed to smile and that would be a 60 pounds fine. Again his superior said it was not important, by this time the copper is seriously pissed off, giving it how its my lucky day but he knows where I live and if I dont change the plates in 24 hours he will issue me with a Summons.
Now I have a lot of respect for the police and I know they have to put up with a lot of
crap and I wws technically in the wrong but this officer seriously needs a personality transplant, several descriptive words spring to mind. Best bit was how his superior dismissed everything he tried tho. Lol
Rant over but still laughing...
Followed him round the back to the lorry park where they had one of their makeshift compounds, there must have been 10 coppers there. Now most of you know that one of the letters in my number plate its spaced a bit differently than shall we say legal. So its a fair cop if I get a ticket.
Once I got out if the car the attitude out the officer was dispicable, moody as hell, very rude and very abrupt, he asked me what the problem was and I replied very politely that it was probably the spacing on my plate. He then told me it ment thet my car was defective and I would be getting a summons.
At that point one out his superiors who was a traffic officer came over, looked over the plate and asked me a few questions then asked the officer if the ANPR read my plate correctly to which the answer was yes, he then said that although wrongly spaced it wasn't that bad and that he would let it go with just a warning.
The copper was clearly not happy and said but the vehicle is defective, his superior said that it wasnt, the plate was illegal but the vehicle was not defective, he said that the officer could give me a fixed penalty non endorsable if he wanted but advised him to give me a verbal warning to get them replaced. Result I thought.
The officer then asked for my driving licence which has a ten year old picture in which I have a cheeky grin, he obvously took offence to this and informed me the the picture was invalid, I was not allowed to smile and that would be a 60 pounds fine. Again his superior said it was not important, by this time the copper is seriously pissed off, giving it how its my lucky day but he knows where I live and if I dont change the plates in 24 hours he will issue me with a Summons.
Now I have a lot of respect for the police and I know they have to put up with a lot of
crap and I wws technically in the wrong but this officer seriously needs a personality transplant, several descriptive words spring to mind. Best bit was how his superior dismissed everything he tried tho. Lol
Rant over but still laughing...
