I agree - the traffic police over here are absolute pigs the way they talk to you.
I come out of a garage after just having some rtepairs done to the car when about a few mile down I was waved into a layby by some traffic police. They were pulling in loads of drivers at random for various minor motoring offences (meanwhile local muggings and burgalary goes sky high unsolved - they dont give a sh!t about that stuff). Anyway, I got flagged over and they ask me to get out of the car - for a moment I thought I was a suspect for a local armed robbery or something? Anyway the fat one of the two points to the distance and says 'is it a clear view this evening you think'? 'Yes' I said. Still hadnt the foggiest what he was on about. Then he asks me what I was doing with my fog lights on? I apologised and explained the car had been in the garage all day - perhaps someone had been messing with the lights (this wasnt the golf at the time).
Anyway, talks to me like sh!t all through the process of checking the car over, breathlizing me and making me read number plates - then fines me ?30 for miuse of lights. This man was an absolute wayne kerr! He really was! I mean I dont use that word lightly - but if ever there was a reason to hate the traffic police and never ever help them in any enquiries for whatever reason he was it!!
My point is - the guy who lived in the flat downstairs - was violent, always drunk, smashing up the place (when he wasnt smashing up his wife), abusive to everyone. Done for nicking cars, possession of stolen goods, assault... the list was endless. Yet whenever the police came round to sort out the grief he was given everyone they would speak to him nicely, politely - wrap him up in cotton wool virtually everytime they had to nick him.
Yet I have my fog lights on by mistake and I'm Britains most wanted!!!!
I'll get of me soap box now
...but it does annoy me that they seem to be policing only those who accept being policed. Those who stick two fingers up to it all just seem to get ignored!
I'm off to lie down in a dark room now
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Nighty night!
