Being pulled by the plod

[ZZR Girl]

Anybody got any funny stories to tell about being pulled over by the police?

Mine happened years ago when I was riding my CG125 along Worthing seafront. It was in the evening and there wasn't much other traffic about. I was minding my own business and keeping within the speed limit (40mph) when this police car drove past me and pulled in front, with its STOP sign illuminated. They can't mean me I thought, so I overtook it!! Beeeeeeep went their horn. I duly pulled over.

They didn't want me for anything and all they asked me was whether it was my bike. They did accept my apology for trying to out run them.
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[ZZR Girl]

Not quite the same. I didn't ask whether you've ever been pulled by the plod but whether you've got any amusing stories to tell about being pulled.
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[Sparks!]

I undertook a car and wheelied off down the road, heard sirens, looked back (front wheel still in air) to see blue lights, I'd undertook a fecking undercover cop car!! spent 10 mins reading me the riot act then suddenly said don't do it again and they got back in their car and drove off! lucky.

The worst bit was that as I parked my bike up after being pulled the sidestand flipped back up and I dropped the bike LOL..

[colin1]

cant have helped an argument that u were still in control of the bike when wheelying
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[moonym20]

think i mentioned it before on here

was on the NSR last year before the carb needed cleaning so it was in shit state performance wise so had trouble crusing at 60 at the time,

anyway, A64 home from Askham by York and an R1 and Duke come thundering past on the fast lane both doing other a ton, i laughed turned off the A64 to head home, 3 miles down the road after turning onto another small road i get a panda car comming up my arse at great speed, assuming it was on a call I slow down and pull in only to have it pull in behind me, when i got off the bike i was accused of being seen doing well over 100mph on the A64 with other bikes i pointed out it was only a little 125 and was not capable of such speed esp in its current condition. after a good look at the bike a vehicle check and a bit of banter the (rude not too!) WPC was back in her car and off she went.
I was bricking it at the time cos being accused of doing a ton on any road is a serious offence she was very polite though
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[Finglonga]

Had one years ago..A bike cop following me I was on my KLR600. I was running it in so just going anywhere and everywhere.

Got to a large motorway Island and thought 'I will just keep going round and round to see what he does'. He followed me around 14 times before the lights and siren went on. When I pulled over I was pissing myself laughing and eventually he saw the funny side and let me go on my way.

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[cestrian]

laffin my a$$ off....

[colin1]

[moonym20]

it does make me wonder cos she was very sure of her accusations until its was made obvious that my machine was not capable of doing the alleged speeds

so where would someone be left who was innocent on a high powered machine if they were in the same situation?
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[steveh]

hmm, was doing around 90 on an empty A-road, only saw 2 cars one of which was on coming and was a cop car.. woops i thought, anyway didnt really slow down but saw him swing it round, didnt see or hear him after that, there was no sirens/lights so i carried on (it was one of those small doggy vans me thinks)

got pulled for banking over on my 125, the copper said the usual "you could fall off and id be scraping you off the floor" buisness, then got his book out, clipped me over the head with it and told me not to do it again.


Steve.
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[alliamc]

I think i've been let off lightly, got caught overtaking a car on the A21 on my way home from a very long and testing shift. I saw the fluorescent jackets too late when a little man stepped out with his hand up. I didn't really slam on the breaks, I just slowed down as planned for the roundabout. He did the usual 'whats the speed limit on this road?'
'erm, 30mph'
'and what speed were you doing?'
'about 40...?'
'I think you need to get your speedo checked, I have this gadget here that records the speed you were travelling at. It says you were travelling at 53mph.'
'oh shit'
'but we're going to let you off today because we're both bikers and we understand that sometimes it's easy to twist the wrist that little bit further when you've got a straight road like this one'

and then I said thankyou about a million times and ended up talking to them about my bike while they checked it out (luckily I had changed the tyres the day before and they ignored the racecan).

Anyway mission accomplished for the plod, I follow the speed limit all the time...





...down Bromley Common anyway
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[sagalout]

In my young and stupid days, on my TZR on the way back from the girlfriends house, about midnight, I was riding along a deserted main road doing 40 in a 30 when some idiot in what looked like a capri (circular lights) came right up on my back wheel. Obviously some prats just come out of the pub I thought so I accelerated to about 50ish to make some space. Car edges right up to my backwheel again, probably only a foot or 2 off it. I got a bit freaked out at this point so clicked it down a couple of gears and hit 70mph to get away.

At this point the 'capri' put his flashing blue lights on and pulled me over. Turned out to be BMW 5 series Traffic car. To this day I have no idea how I didnt realise. Only thing I can think was that my mirrors where badly adjusted or something :/

Earned me a day in court and 3 points (quite a light punishment considering the final speed). 16 years later and I've managed to keep my license intact from that point on

[stinkwheel]

I was heading back into Edinburgh from Bilston once. Along a bit of Dual carriageway near the Ikea shop which is a 40 limit. I was cracking on, maybe doing 90 or so when I saw a guy inh a reflective jacket in a laybye up ahead.

Thinking that it could be a copper I slammed on the brakes, hard, hard enough to do a rolling stoppie because the rear wheel was skipping and I wasn't touching the rear brake.

Sure as hell it was a copper with a handheld 'hairdrier' speed gun and he waved me in to the laybye. I remember thinking that I was doing well under 40 by the time he got the thing pointed at me.

"Right! How fast were you going there sonny?!"

"Forty miles per hour officer."

"Were you fuck! I've never seen anybody brake so hard in my fucking life! (sure enough, the front disc was 'pinging' away like a good un, it was so hot). "Now how fast were you really going?"

"Forty miles per hour officer."

Coppers face starts to go purple, I think the phrase 'incandescent with rage' would be appropriate.

"You were fucking not! You must have been doing at least eighty!"

*shrugs shoulders, holds hands out palm up, face a picture of innocence*

"Blah, blah, blah. Irresponsible. Blah, blah, Dangerous. Blah, blah, shouldn't be on the fucking road etc."

*Quizzical look, one eyebrow raised as if asking 'going to get to the point or what?'*

"Well. As it happens, you were going so fast, I couldn't get my speed gun up in time *smirks*. If I see you doing that again, you'll be under arrest, now fuck off out of my sight."

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[colin1]

they can get away with beating people up, and shooting people in the head, so a bit of swearing isnt really gonna be a problem
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[kawakid]

[moonym20]

LOL
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[Dragonfly]

[FreshAL]

Can someone dig out get-yer-knee-downs tale? Lead to him getting banned I think but made me laugh at the time
I've had a search and can't find it.

[Adam_P]

Not me but my dad was once with a mate when they pulled over by a motorcycle policeman on the way to Birmingham. Dad's mate was driving and he'd been cracking on (just a shade under 100mph )

My old man said to his mate that if he talked nicely he might get away with it as the road was really quiet.

Officer walked up to the driver's window and my dad's mate said: "Now bastard!"

To which the police officer said "There's no need to speak like that sir"

To which he said, "Well, you're going to nick me for speeding, aren't you?"

Officer: "Well, you were travelling in excess of the limit."

"Right, then, as I said, now bastard."

My dad just looked out of the passenger window thinking that any hope they had of getting away with it was long gone.

He got a fairly hefty fine and 3 points. It was a lng time ago when 'speeding' wasn't the latest crime of choice for the police to crack down on though. If he'd done it today he'd probably get shot!
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[lumphammer]

Not bike related but back in the dark ages (before the breathalyser even) I used to do a few evening shifts behind the bar in my local pub which was about 8 miles away (Figured that I could get some of the money back that I had put over the bar ). Used to leave about midnight and often got the odd tug from the local plod.

One night, after a heavy "afters" session I was on my way home (with one eye closed for better vision ) when the plod pulled me over again. Thought that I had blown it this time . Turns out that both plod were smokers but had run out of matches. They knew that I would be along soon and that I smoked so they stopped me. Happily gave them a couple of boxes and we both went on our merry way .