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Stuck Police van!!
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
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--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---West Yorkshire have a couple of 110's, plus some ex-Northern Ireland amoured
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I had a drive in one of those whe I did a course with the Met. The Met ones were all V8's and the one I went in had a big sticker on the dash, saying "Do not exceed 40Mph, as the brakes may not function". :shock:
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LOL I take it when you filled out the driver log it said, "please throw grappling hook out of the window to stop!"
We had an old rover 400 once, thee was a problem with the throttle and it was so slow... on the log sheet it said at the top "Low powered vehicle" some one had written beside it "Your not kidding"
I remember on the way to an RTA one of the response drivers trying to accelerate on blue lights down the bypass :lol: its become a bit of a legend as he never made it above 40 mph, I overtook him in a Corsa, he never lived it down. :lol:
The car was disposed of not long after that.
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Norfolk used to have up until a few years ago one of the last marked up Ford Sierra Sapphires. It had been the Inspectors car and it was very low mileage, as it never used to go out :lol:
Anyway, it was decided to get rid of it, but it hadn't hit the required mileage, so it was sent out as an urban response car. It got thrashed, and as a result developed a coolant leakage problem.
Workshops didn't want to spend the money on getting it fixed, so every morning the thing had to be topped up with water.
First thing one morning, a 999 shout comes in for a violent domestic, so off goes the Sierra with two of Norfolks finest on board.
They get to the job, and end up fighting with, sorry, helping the suspect to calm down, when a kid pokes his head round the door
" 'ere Copper, your cars smoking!"
"Yeah, alright, very funny, we're busy"
They carry on 'helping the customer up from off the floor.
Kid re-appears, " 'ere copper, you know I said your car was smoking,well, its on fire now!
They drop the customer, and go out and sure enough the poor old Sierra is now going to Valhalla.
Fire are called, and so one rumour goes, took quite some time to get there!
Needless to say, it got written off.
The legacy to this incident was that lots of claims for new kit went in to Uniform Stores, who took some time to work out, that if it was correct the amount of coppers who claimed to have had kit damaged by smoke numbered in the region of 50+, and the combined amount of said damaged kit would have been enough to fill a Transit, let alone a Sierra!
Only rumours of course! :wink:
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Boggert:
:(biggrin): LOL that sounds about right, however the kit we get from stores is crap... tend to get our own.
I had a guy in the street cpme up to me and say "Hi mate I just bought one of your old police cars"
A nice ice breaker, but he wasn't happy when I explained it was probably thrashed to death...
We had a ford focus 115tdi and in one year I had 3 sets of tyres and 2 new wheels!
TDi90:
--- Quote from: "Boggert" --- and 2 new wheels!
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oh dear, you not a very good driver then? curb kissing?
:lol: just joking officer :lol:
wonderboy:
There has been more than one land rover rolled at the local RAF bases. We 'lost' two last year, one was rolled, claiming they were doing 10mph round a 90 degree bend, the other found its way in to the perimiter fence. Hunters must be doing a roaring trade in body panels :lol:
Boggert:
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--- Quote from: "Boggert" --- and 2 new wheels!
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oh dear, you not a very good driver then? curb kissing?
:lol: just joking officer :lol:
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LOL its ok :lol:
The first wheel was a curb while after a shop lifter :oops: the second was blow out at speed, if there was a smiley for brown pants i would put it in! very scary. :shock:
Most of the tyres were damaged off road on tracks. I could do with a 4x4 in my job but sadly the won't provide one.
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