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Red Devil
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PostPosted: 12:56 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Nearly lost my licence... Reply with quote

I was extremely lucky on Saturday, came very close to loosing my licence!

There's a stretch of road around here which is a dual carriageway just under a mile long and has a roundabout either end. I was trying to get a video of me doing a wheelie the whole length of it because my mate said I couldn't (stupid idea I know).

My mate was stood on the path which runs alongside it filming off my phone and I joked before how on the video you are going to see me wheelie-ing then a police car chasing me with the blues n twos on...well that happened!

I popped up a stand up wheelie in the left lane of the dual carriageway but didn't notice the car to my right was a unmarked police car. Rolling Eyes

So I held the wheelie most of the way down the dual carriageway (didn't quite hit the balance point so ran out of revs) and had a quick glance behind me when I put it down and saw the car chipping it up behind me and instantly got that horrible feeling in my stomach. Another glance behind confirmed my bad feeling as the grill and windscreen of it were lit up like a chirstmas tree. Sad

So I pulled over just off the roundabout at the bottom and it was just the one copper, got the usual get in the back of the car routine. I hopped in the back and he just sat there in silence for a second looking at me before saying right...and began the usual caution. After that he told me that I'm not under arrest so I can leave now if I want because he is happy that he has my details (he wrote my number plate down on his hand before we got in the car).

At this point he told me that the car is equipped with a full video recording system and that I am loosing my licence.

I didn't leave obviously and we began talking, I took the sensible approach and was saying I'm a f*cking idiot for doing that, I should save it for the track ect (I told him I do track days, only done one so far and have quite a few booked for over the summer but made out I do a lot more than that to him).

He then went on to explain what would of happened if that was someone else behind me and I had come off and they had hit me, the person who hit me would of been arrested for dangerous driving and gone through a long process to clear their name. After that he started talking about how he has to attend a lot of biker accidents and inform families of deaths (very deep hearing it in person) and he doesn't want to have to do that for me. He also had a mate who hit a lamp post after coming off at around 100/110 on the road and lost his leg.

We sat talking for around 15 minutes and he asked what I do for work (I have a decent job which helped) and if I have a car, how I get to work ect. We talked a lot around the track day/racing front and he asked me if that is what I aspire to do (I know I will probably never get to a high level of racing but I am looking to get into it in the next couple of years).

So I told him I only have the bike and that's what I use to get to work, he asked me how I plan to get to work now I'm loosing my licence and obviously I said I have no other way (my work is about a 25/30 minute ride away). He said you have really f*ucked up now haven't you, looks like you are going to loose your job as well as your licence.

Anyway...we talked about a few more things and he was telling me he was exactly like me when he was younger, he is a complete petrol head and it was a lottery to which done up car he was going to write off next when he was my age because he went flat out everywhere.

After all this he paused for a minute or two while looking out the front of the car (debating what to do) then turned around and said look...I'm not going to take your licence away but I want you to learn a serious lesson from this and save that sort of riding for the track from now on. He told me to sort out my number plate (I had a 7" x 2" one line plate on it) because he knows I have it on there because I like to f*ck about on the road and he is popping up to my house over the next couple of days to check I've changed it.

So I got away with 0 points and £0 in fines in the end and I still can't believe it! He said he would show me the video but the ANPR screen in his car was smashed (I don't know if the car was actually recording and the screen was just broken or if the whole system wasn't working because of the screen). He said the video would show me on the back wheel at around 70/80 MPH then me pulling away from him while he was doing around 90 MPH in a 50 limit so I was looking at a 18 month ban and a tasty fine if he had decided to take me to court.

Definitely going to save the wheelies for quiet roads now and not in stupid places like on Saturday, far too close for my liking! I would post up the video from my phone but I don't think it's a good idea considering what I've got away with...
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PostPosted: 13:12 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't care about all that, Show me the video! Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:25 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would probably be a good idea to edit your post and remove anything that could identify the good cop or the location of your misdemeanor. You could get him in some serious trouble by shouting about his good natured deed.
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PostPosted: 13:30 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raffles wrote:
It would probably be a good idea to edit your post and remove anything that could identify the good cop or the location of your misdemeanor. You could get him in some serious trouble by shouting about his good natured deed.


True...edited slightly, think it's alright now?
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PostPosted: 13:30 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

lllN30lll wrote:
I don't care about all that, Show me the video! Laughing


Bit risky uploading it I think personally...
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PostPosted: 13:33 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like he played it right. Fair play to him.
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PostPosted: 13:34 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raffles wrote:
It would probably be a good idea to edit your post and remove anything that could identify the good cop or the location of your misdemeanor. You could get him in some serious trouble by shouting about his good natured deed.


Has no bearing at all. Rolling Eyes

The copper has the power of discretion, and if he feels that a bollocking or good talking to is going to be more affective than a court appearance, then he is not obliged to report for offences.
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PostPosted: 13:40 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete. wrote:
Sounds like he played it right. Fair play to him.


He was a good chap, at the end we shook hands and headed our separate ways. Karma
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PostPosted: 13:40 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Re: Nearly lost my licence... Reply with quote

Red Devil wrote:

He then went on to explain what would of happened if that was someone else behind me and I had come off and they had hit me, the person who hit me would of been arrested for dangerous driving and gone through a long process to clear their name.

And so they should - probably should get done for dangerous driving if they manage to hit someone sliding down the road - if you'd had to do an emergency stop they'd have definitely hit if they couldn't even cope with a bike sliding.
Think of the kittens, etc.

Nice result for you, however Thumbs Up.
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PostPosted: 13:48 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Video or it didn't happen Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

*This photo bears no relation to the events described above, I have no idea who the rider is in the picture, it was just a photo found on the internet which I thought resembles the events from Saturday*

(Click to see full size picture)

https://www.freeimagehosting.net/t/c1k8c.jpg
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PostPosted: 14:06 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is a really bad place to pull wheelies.
Glad you got out of that situation okay though.
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like a decent and fair cop who knows how to use the law to educate and teach people the errors of their ways, without just following proceedure's and being a gung ho lets have em all kind of cop, of which there are always a few of who just want to get people!
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Red Devil wrote:

He was a good chap, at the end we shook hands and headed our separate ways. Karma


I would've double dared you to have left on one wheel whilst beeping cheerfully.
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PostPosted: 15:43 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

goto10 wrote:
Red Devil wrote:

He was a good chap, at the end we shook hands and headed our separate ways. Karma


I would've double dared you to have left on one wheel whilst beeping cheerfully.


Laughing

On the back wheel with a cheery wave! Cool

He knew where I live so he would of been outside my house 2 minutes later! Sad
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PostPosted: 15:59 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Red Devil wrote:
lllN30lll wrote:
I don't care about all that, Show me the video! Laughing


Bit risky uploading it I think personally...


Cheshire Police are subscribed to my youtube account, I'll host it for shits n giggles and say it's me..... again
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PostPosted: 16:17 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

lllN30lll wrote:
Cheshire Police are subscribed to my youtube account, I'll host it for shits n giggles and say it's me..... again


Laughing

I don't think I should push my luck with this one mate.
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PostPosted: 18:03 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, I've lost my license a couple of times already. Every time I need it updated, in fact, but I always find the old one in the cupboard under the stairs. Wink

Well, in this case, you did deserve a bollocking from someone, but I'll bet my (old) lid that his camera wasn't working, and you took one for nothing. As to you losing your license, he's a copper, not a judge.

Still, cool story, daft place to pull a wheelie, no kittens were harmed, and all that. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:08 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
As to you losing your license, he's a copper, not a judge.


If his camera was working and he decided to take me to court I would of lost my licence 100%, that road is a 'target' road for the local magistrates apparently because rude boys like to use it to race on (due to the maccers just off the top roundabout Laughing ) and people have lost their licence for a couple of months for doing 70mph up there never mind that speed minimum on one wheel the 100+ once landing it.
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Camera makes it easier; but a cops word saying "I watched him doing a wheelie down the road while I followed him at 80mph" is enough generally.
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PostPosted: 18:52 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like a good cop, a rare find Thumbs Up

You were more than lucky. But at the same time kudos to you for passing the 'attitude test'. I completely believe had you been a bellend he (and the judge) would have well and truly thrown the book at you.
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PostPosted: 19:46 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

you lucky, lucky bastard!
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PostPosted: 20:12 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope OP learns a good lesson out of this, because by the sound of it he was inches away from facing life changing consequences.
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PostPosted: 22:27 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:


Well, in this case, you did deserve a bollocking from someone, but I'll bet my (old) lid that his camera wasn't working, and you took one for nothing. As to you losing your license, he's a copper, not a judge.


Why do people like you keep banging on about cameras?

A copper does not need a camera to corroborate an offence just in the same way he does not need a camera to corroborate a speeding offence.

He is perfectly entitled to report for summons based on what he saw/wittnessed, and if the alleged offender disagrees then he contests it and pleads not guilty at court.

It is no skin off the coppers nose, probably gets him off a night shift (or earlies Twisted Evil ) to go to court, and if the case is lost, so be it.

But don't keep banging on about cameras and that is why they don't do you if they are not working, they are simply an aid, nothing more, nothing less
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PostPosted: 23:29 - 07 May 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep - rightly or wrongly the Police's word is gospel - unless you can prove otherwise.

Good copper - balanced bollocking is probably more effective than throwing the book at you in the long term... next time you think about it, I bet you think twice! (Before doing it anyway Wink )
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