Plod at the door....

[Fat Albert]

On the way home I was stuck in a column of traffic and was unable to fully discover what was going on with my exhaust, so as I came off a roundabout the traffic thinned, so I gave her the beans and passed the final 5 cars remaining, to the top of third, noting that the exhaust blow changed as the wastegate operated.

I got home poured a glass of wine and preparted to start my weekend...

The doorbell rang, I opened the door to find a short but stout traffic policman standing there:
"Good evening sir, are you the owner of a Red Porsche?"
erm, yes
"Were you driving it a few moments ago on the Bypass?"
erm, yes
"Were you aware of your excessive speed?"
erm, yes
"We were in an unmarked car that you overtook at hugely excessive speed, but were unable to catch before you turned off"
erm, sorry

It went on from there to be a rap on the knuckles, for which I was very grateful.... [][]

 

[Copperman05]

A close shave you probably wont forget for a while. I presume you blamed the colour of your car for the excessive speed?

Edd

 

[944s2]

Good old "traditional policing" where they can check car insurance, driver, warn and judge circumstance rather than snap £60 & 3points

 

[Fat Albert]

I was very chastened and relieved at the outcome, a much more effective end result than a faceless £60 speeding tax bill

 

[dirtydirtyharry]

If you got away from then then they would probably have struggled to give you a fine since they could not prove you were driving! Hence why they gave you a verbal warning! Ironically had you gone slower (but still at excessive speed) and they caught up to you while you were in the car you may well have got points/fine. Thank god its red! []

 

[Copperman05]

ORIGINAL: dirtydirtyharry

If you got away from then then they would probably have struggled to give you a fine since they could not prove you were driving! Hence why they gave you a verbal warning! Ironically had you gone slower (but still at excessive speed) and they caught up to you while you were in the car you may well have got points/fine. Thank god its red! []

He addmitted driving the car...

TBO you were lucky, even if they could'nt prove the speed you were going sounds like they could have stuck you on for driving without due care, and that would mean a court appearance and upto 9 points..

I guess sometimes a good b**locking is sufficient!

Edd

 

[Suffolk944]

Yikes that must have been quite a shock, but least it was either a bit of luck or an unusually "reasonable" officer that meant it went no further. Bet you needed an extra glass of vino after that !

Just think if you had been driving an S2 (and thus of course going even faster) the outcome may not have been quite so happy. []

 

[barks944]

Good thing you were in a turbo and not somthing slower like an S2, you would have certainly been caught and banned then!

Edit: Damn somone got the S2 vs Turbo comment in before me.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: barks944
Edit: Damn somone got the S2 vs Turbo comment in before me.

'Right first time', I think the phrase is ... []


Oli.

 

[Pastry]

ORIGINAL: Fat Albert

I was very chastened and relieved at the outcome, a much more effective end result than a faceless £60 speeding tax bill

effective how? the only time i really found my driving changed was when i had 9 points on my license [] congrats on getting away with it []

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: barks944

Good thing you were in a turbo and not somthing slower like an S2, you would have certainly been caught and banned then!

S2 owners get there in the same time with a smoother ride lol[]

 

[DivineE]

I once got something very similar. For me it was a phone call on the Monday asking me to come down to the station. Turned out I'd overtaken him in a line of cars whilst he was off duty on a Saturday. He was not a nice Policeman and very angry. He lied about what I'd done and wrote it all down in an interview room. Fortunately I had the good sense not to sign anything and he wasn't able to get a confession. After much swearing he resorted to intimidation by parking outside my work place for three days in a marked car.

Talk about wasting police time! Having said that during my driving career I've met lots of nice police officers too so its all a balance.

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: DivineE



Talk about wasting police time!

it would have been tempting to report him but they can make things extremly tedious if they want to like knocking on your door at 2.30am in the morning etc[]

Last year I had a young WPC follow me down my private drive and park outside my neighbours . I had to sit in her car with the light on whilst she admonished me and gave me a ticket for no MOT (I'd forgotten it was due)

I swear she was only 17 years .![]

 

[Iain Cleghorn]

ORIGINAL: peanut

ORIGINAL: barks944

Good thing you were in a turbo and not somthing slower like an S2, you would have certainly been caught and banned then!

S2 owners get there in the same time with a smoother ride lol[]

Are you sure it's not "Quicker" than that?

 

[Mr968]

Could have been worse []

 

[Eldavo]

Haha, explain?

 

[idwoodvale]

ORIGINAL: DivineE

I once got something very similar. For me it was a phone call on the Monday asking me to come down to the station. Turned out I'd overtaken him in a line of cars whilst he was off duty on a Saturday. He was not a nice Policeman and very angry. He lied about what I'd done and wrote it all down in an interview room. Fortunately I had the good sense not to sign anything and he wasn't able to get a confession. After much swearing he resorted to intimidation by parking outside my work place for three days in a marked car.

Talk about wasting police time! Having said that during my driving career I've met lots of nice police officers too so its all a balance.

We can attract bitterness I've found. I passed a bobby standing next to his car on the hard shoulder before accelerating away fairly gently. He pulled me a mile later at the end of the motorway and threatened me with court pointing out the 115mph figure his onboard computer showed and telling me this was my average speed over that mile. He also told me that he'd come after me because he heard me accelerate and thought, quote 'you cheeky bas***d'. He had nothing on me in reality - the 115 was his average speed catching up with me. His intimidation worked and I paid the fine and took the 3 points. Really should have contested it.

I'd be well pleased with that average speed!!

 

[944Turbo]

ORIGINAL: Pastry

ORIGINAL: Fat Albert

I was very chastened and relieved at the outcome, a much more effective end result than a faceless £60 speeding tax bill

effective how? the only time i really found my driving changed was when i had 9 points on my license [] congrats on getting away with it []

Well I currently have 12 points and it hasn't made me safer - slower yes but definitely not safer - I miss motorway junctions now, that never happened before -I switch off and find it really hard to maintain concentration.
Still on the plus side I am getting much better fuel economy - wont be much comfort if I crash though.
As a double blow I should have got a 1 or 2 week ban at christmas as this was the judges first instinct, however to get the defence heard I had to plead exceptional hardship which then meant a short ban was no longer possible.

Tony

 

[DivineE]

ORIGINAL: Mr968

Could have been worse []

Ha ha ha excellent work You just need a helicopter hovering to finish the photo

 

[Mr968]

Well chaps, just got back from a long trip across europe in a car and on a ferry(bloody volcanoes) got through Hungary, Austria, Germany, Belgium and France and back to the North West in 22 hours, set off from Budapest at noon yesterday and got back home at 2pm today.
What a journey, part of the fun was trying to book hire cars and ferries when all the websites are down and the answers you get on the phone are 'computer says no'.

Anyway the picture, cutting a long story short there was a pretty severe road rage incident that ended in somebody getting hurt, my car just happened to be parked at the side of the road where the altercation ended..
The 3 Police cars and also 2 ambulances turned up and surrounded(parked) around my car, the officer you can see in the shot wanted to know why I was taking pictures, in the end we were having a good chat about cars and he had a good look round the 968.