PoliteNotice: "life ruined"

[johnsmith222]

It seems like the polite vest wearing brigade are getting some consequences for trying to look like a police officer.

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2019/june/polite-vest-ruined-life/

Good to see some consequences for these Walter Mittys.

[Polarbear]

They are either legal or illegal.

The fact he was on an ex plod bike and was wearing a white helmet is immaterial.

But yes, anyone wearing one is a dick.
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[johnsmith222]

[hellkat]

Knob.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Thats an incredibly old story but still a wanker-vest (tm)
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[grr666]

Wears a "Polite" vest yet spuriously claims to have a life to ruin....

Doubtful.

It was the ex police bike that did it. Only reason to buy one is so you can pretend to be old bill while wearing your white
flip lid and POLITE cun-tabard.
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[BTTD]

I'm not sure what's worse, actually being a complete tosser, or trying to look like one.

I just don't get the attraction of those vests.

[Bhud]

Saw one of these when riding around Ascot (a portal that branches into some fun riding destinations). He overtook a row of traffic on the wrong side of traffic islands, even at junctions to side roads and over crosshatches. When the traffic crawled to a stop, I filtered to the side and caught up with him. He looked exactly like a cop to my inexpert eye, save for the "POLITE" wording. At the front of the queue, he was raging through some car driver's window like a knob, or like a teenaged moped rider. Had it been a teenaged moped rider on L-plates, I could have understood it, because I was myself a bit tetchy and inexperienced at that age. But coming from a full-grown adult man, riding a BMW sports tourer, it was just an ugly sight. In that moment, right or wrong, I made a lot of assumptions about him which, to this day, I still suspect are true. IAM/ROSPA guy? Check. Vlogger? Check. Everything I can't abide.
On a sunny day, riding in good conditions on good roads to good destinations, on a relatively good bike, and still not happy... No actual experience of the world commensurate with a middle-aged man and just how rough things could be, nothing real to complain about in his life, just self-important posturing and pretensions to a status he hasn't earned. Despicable.

[Disclaimer: this is just my opinion]

[Kentol750]

Cuntabard... 2020's omnishambles!! Def... what is worn by an absolute bellend.
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[Sister Sledge]

Yup a knob. Should throw the f*ck*rs off horses too. They started it.
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[Polarbear]

[EazyDuz]

[1198]

[grr666]

[bhinso]

PolitePal.

[Easy-X]

...and at the other end of the spectrum my mate at work rides his black CBR650RR wearing all black leathers and a black helmet.

"You do know that makes you harder to notice on the road?"

"Yeah but I look kewl!"
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[hellkat]

Looking cool is always going to be preferred over looking like a knob.
Particularly a policeman-shaped knob.
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[MarJay]

Apparently he got pulled over, released and then went to the station to complain about getting pulled over and that’s when he was arrested.
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[Bhud]

There is a certain sort of person who, when they know they've done something wrong, seems to have a "get your complaint in first" attitude to their own defence, i.e. they believe that it seems that the first person to complain about something is the one who was truly aggrieved, so if they've done something wrong, bring it up to the HR hag before the other "person", as this makes them seem in the "right" and as the real victim. To be fair, this tactic would probably work in a HR scenario in, just for example, a banking environment. Some may say only a psychopath/sociopath narcissist would resort to such tricks, but then again, the rewards are great. Well, I'm not sure if they are so great, if you blow all your money on lawyers on the stupidest case to hit the headlines, look 20 to 30 years older than you are, and still don't own your own home.

I haven't yet read anything in any statement or news report to support the contention that the prosecution was brought maliciously, in revenge for the knob having made a complaint about the initial stop. This allegedly nepotic connection between the complaint and his subsequent prosecution seems unlikely. He is clearly suggesting that they only prosecuted him because he complained. I don't believe this for a moment. If it were true, then the outcome of the complaint would have been upheld against the police officer who stopped him. The opposite happened. There was a successful prosecution, which was later overturned at appeal (you get the lawyers you pay for). Furthermore, I don't see that the knob has provided the grounds for the complaint he made. Perhaps he has come to consider the grounds to be wholly unsubstantiated and that it would not be helpful if we saw exactly what knobbery he had written? Who knows. But on the face of it, there's no information to suggest the traffic stop was unlawful.

I find it more likely that when he was stopped with his white helmet, ex-police motorbike and POLITE vest, and the policeman "took notes" as he says, the notes were made about his appearance. A police constable has to present evidence and information to his supervisor to decide whether to attempt to charge a person with a crime. That this would happen after he made his complaint about the initial stop is only natural - time moves in one direction after all.

[Sister Sledge]

I'll add further ^^
His life seems to have imploded because of this one event?
Nah - to me the implosion of his life shows us how he lives his life. I think the polite knob incident is done in many variants from arguing with neighbours, employers etc.
Now and again we see stories of them in life and how they just can't accept or leave things be.
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[Triton Thrasher]

A ruined life is too good for the piece of polite shit!

Why wasn’t he kicked in the balls as well?
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[Andy_Pagin]

While I agree that Polite vest = total knob end...

The Police Act 1996 says:

90 Impersonation, etc.

(1)Any person who with intent to deceive impersonates a member of a police force or special constable, or makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he is such a member or constable, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.

(2)Any person who, not being a constable, wears any article of police uniform in circumstances where it gives him an appearance so nearly resembling that of a member of a police force as to be calculated to deceive shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.


(4)In this section—

(a)“article of police uniform” means any article of uniform or any distinctive badge or mark or document of identification usually issued to members of police forces or special constables, or anything having the appearance of such an article, badge, mark or document,

Magistrates said:

Despite the magistrate recognising that Emanuel did not intend to deceive the public, he was convicted but handed a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £670 costs.

So why, having concluded that he had not committed an offence, did they convict him?
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