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Stuck Police van!!
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "V8MoneyPit" ---Just had a call from Sarah who was on her way to feed the ponies. A Police van had taken 'a wrong turn' and ended up along our track leading to the fields. Now, this is an unmade track and we've had a fair bit of rain recently........ you can guess the rest, I'm sure :lol:
Sounds like they've bogged it up dreadfully trying to get the van out. They aparantly had a winch but didn't know how to use it :shock:
I was about to leave work to go and pull them out when Sarah rang back and said they'd made it. What a shame, I would have taken some pictures before helping them :twisted: :lol: I'm feel sure it would have provided entertainment for you lot!
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Where roughly was this? It might be some of my old shift that got stuck. I feel some making fun coming on.
lenrover:
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--- Quote from: "91Steven" ---:lol: arr they need a Land Rover :lol:
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its only cos they are police....they aint got a bl**** clue how to drive a 4x4 offroad only on road :roll:
them terrano's aint that bad yano, well if you take fuel outta the equasion :lol:
dan
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Excuse me, dear chap, I beg to differ! Most of my time with Norfolk Police was spent driving Plod 90's and Discos in varying types of terrain and conditions at various types of incident! :shock:
I did the Police Off Road driving course and the official Landrover one.
My sergeant used to get very annoyed with me due to the 90 being covered in mud, after I had finished with it.
My best moment was chasing a load of travellers who were hare coursing near Downham Market.
One of their Isuzu Troopers ended up in a ditch. I don't know how that happened as I was looking the other way at the time, although I did feel a sudden loss of acceleration before I went past them.I then went head to head in a game of chicken with a Subaru Legacy on a dyke top (for the none Norfolk folk among you, a dyke is a water drainage channel, not a lady in comfortable shoes), which ended up with the Subaru skidding to a halt inches from the bumper of my 90.
The final score was Police 5, travelers 0.
We got them done for poaching, trespass with intent to take game, possesion of offensive weapons and criminal damage.
Big fines and they got their shiny cars seized and crushed.
As Sheriff JW Pepper said "You picked the wrong county to haul ass through, boy!"
So in answer to your remark, yes, we do know how to use them! It is also great to be able to drive greenlanes whilst getting paid, and the ramblers can't say a word! :twisted:
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Funny stuff pmsl :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Just as an aside to this topic, if any of you have the 1/18th scale Universal Hobbies diecast model of the Norfolk Police Defender 90 with the red spot and number '26' on the roof, that is a model of my old partner AO52PKZ. She had a very specialized piece of equipment fitted, a cow herding stick!
We had some wonderful times together, blasting across the marshes, cruising along the beach. Oh, happy days!
I remember stopping a chap for speeding down the A47, and he was most cheesed off at A) having been caught, and B) having a Landy keeping up with him. That TD5 used to go like s**t off a shovel!
In fact if any of you have got a model with the left flap guard missing off the rear, that is how they were made, and the story goes something like this.
That particular Landy was based at Acle, my old station. One of my colleagues was out, 'patrolling the country lanes' when the nearside rear mud flap 'fell off'.
It stayed like that for months, and in the meantime, UH models must have taken some piccys of it and produced the model. They did a run of about 200 before one of my oppos phoned them up and told them, having bought a model with the flap missing. I have one of the later models.
Unfortunately they use Terranos in Hampshire. Not a patch on my old girl, bless her.
Boggert:
--- Quote from: "thebiggreenthing" ---
--- Quote from: "91Steven" ---:lol: arr they need a Land Rover :lol:
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its only cos they are police....they aint got a bl**** clue how to drive a 4x4 offroad only on road :roll:
them terrano's aint that bad yano, well if you take fuel outta the equasion :lol:
dan
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:roll: :roll: :roll: Sorry but I agree with Lord Shagg-Pyle, We do off road driving classes. There is always somenone who is going to make the odd mistake, it happens, expecially if there is lots going on around you :!:
Hare coursers are the bind of my life in Lincolnshire at this time of the year.
I had one run from us on the on a cold frosty morning, he forgot that even 4x4's are not good on a sheet of Ice and ended up in the river Witham... :lol:
TDi90:
people make mistakes... i rolled my landy in october :cry:
mistakes happen. its life.
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