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So my car's in the garage for a recall and in the meantime I've been given a rather nice little 240i to run about in. So far so normal.
So, this afternoon I'm coming west on the M62 and just past the M1 interchange and I've clocked the patrol car about 250m behind me keeping a steady distance, then another coming of the overpass, and another on a slip road, oh aye I think, I wonder who these guys are here for... Turns out it was me!!
Hard stop in lane 3.
They think the cars been nicked, then they realise that it may be cloned, then they tell me BMW have actually but the wrong number plate on the freaking car!!
Had to laugh... I'm at the garage getting it sorted.
Oops!
in lane 3.
Where else would a BMW be?
Hard stop in lane 3 for a possible stolen car? That's ****ing ridiculous! At least put the blues on and signal for you to pull over, yeah have the hard stop option available if the would be perp (you) were to make a dash for it but Christ it seems over the top!
Blimey, bet that was exciting!!!
Not your motor - should have floored it 🙂
Blimey, bet that was exciting!!!
Woah,total line of duty. Are you H?
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Always knew you were a wrong'un. Book him Danno.
Wrightyson I thought so too at first but as the cops explained, once they think its nicked, they've no idea whats in the car, who I am, what I'll do if they try to stop me... Safey in numbers is the safest thing all round for them, and everyone else.
Makes sense really, bloody scary at the time mind!
You should have floored it and said you thought it was a potential carjacking by pretend coppers...
I tried that recently - had a car close rapidly on me at 3am. Floored it, bye-bye. Then I see the faint blue light come on. Slowed down at that stage.
Well done for being in a 240 and not actually getting stopped for doing something illegal!
Dealt years ago when i worked as a lawyer for a guy who lived near Leeds who had a Yamaha R1 motorbike that had a custom plate worth more than the bike.
He was riding along one day and got hard stopped then surrounded by armed police with sub-machine guns, turned out that registration had been cloned and used in three armed robberies in London where someone had been beaten, said it made for an exciting day.
Will you be featured on the next series of Police Interceptors? 😉
Judging by other hard stops on the M62 recently, you got off fairly lightly.
All day, all night you keep an eye out for a copper when you need one..
Then when you don’t 3 turn up all at once 🤷♂️🥴🧟♂️
Maybe they were bored, hard stopping in lane three means more to them than you... think of the report and stories they will be able to dine out on for years and years and bore everyone in earshot too.
Glad you are safe, it’s a bit of an adventure and puts you in a position where you’re not quite sure of your own actions.
Not your motor – should have floored it
Exactly. It’s a rental, let’s go mental
Oddly, whilst I'm sure it wasn't pleasant at the time, I'd have LOVED that!
Did they go full 'Interceptors' and smash all the windows and drag you out shouting "stop resisting" whilst giving you a bit of a dapping?
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I know of an arms dealer whose car was stolen. The kids responsible were merrily zooming around London in it, utterly ignorant of the (full) gun-safe in the boot until they were hard-stopped by the armed police. Quickest car recovery ever by all accounts...
I know of an arms dealer whose car was stolen. The kids responsible were merrily zooming around London in it, utterly ignorant of the (full) gun-safe in the boot until they were hard-stopped by the armed police. Quickest car recovery ever by all accounts…
Leaving guns in the car? That’s a loss of license isn’t it?
hard stop in lane 3 in the middle of the day?
how do they avoid a pile up among the following cars?
Worst "I've got a BMW" humblebrag EVAH!
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I've had similar on the A3 in Surrey!
Middle of the day, going somewhere for work, doing 55-60 (zero hurry, I'm on the clock), not bothering to overtake another car ahead of me. Then I clock the police car behind me. Then another, then another! So I assume it's nothing to do with me but not wanting to give them any reason I get back upto 70 and overtake whoever it is dawdling in front. Then they box them in and stop them!
Worst “I’ve got a BMW” humblebrag EVAH!
Haha. Every car involved was a Beamer! mine, a couple of X5s a 5 estate and a saloon 5...
Good job they disobeyed that ‘Fahrenheit’ order 😳
I had the same in my early 20's; me and 3 mates all loaded up on our way from Clapham to Gatwick for a stupid early flight for the boys' ski trip. We'd taken a wrong turn somewhere (no satnav in them days) and already done a u-turn, when a full blue lighted unmarked car came towards us when we were stopped at some lights....I said 'they're in a hurry' which was when they pulled across the front of us; another appeared from a side road and boxed us in, and before we knew what was on all doors were being pulled open and we're being dragged out!
Fair shat ourselves, answered a few quick questions with hands on our heads while knelt down on the sopping wet tarmac at which the police attitude 'softened' a bit, realising they'd made a bit of an error and had been somewhat over zealous in their treatment of some young professionals.
They fumbled it a bit over 'early hours, car loaded down, number plate indicates car from out of the area' and accepted our story for the U-turn after seeing our tickets.
At which point we then had a blue light escort onto the A23 so we could make up the time we had lost rolling round in the oil and wet
Not fun......
You should have floored it and said you thought it was a potential carjacking by pretend coppers…
Tricky. Almost happened to me. Turned of main A road at night into country lane, 200yrds later a man dressed all in black just stepped out of the hedge in front of me, pointed a large gun at me and motioned me to stop. First instinct is that it is a car jack, and to floor it and run him down.
Just clocked the parked police van in the field gateway in the nick of time and didn't actually run him over.
What would have happened if I did? His mates, who I hadn't seen, would almost certainly have shot me.
Worst stop ever, nothing to indicate who he was if I hadn't glimpsed the van out of the corner of my eye in the twilight. They had a quick look in my van, decided I wasn't a deer poacher and let me go again, could have been nasty if I'd reacted differently.
Hard stop in lane 3 for a possible stolen car? That’s **** ridiculous! At least put the blues on and signal for you to pull over, yeah have the hard stop option available if the would be perp (you) were to make a dash for it but Christ it seems over the top!
I guess that once a 240i has made a dash for it it's a bit late to try to get some diesel saloons in front of it.
Not your motor – should have floored it
Drive it like you stole it!
OP is your full name Nick Carr
The wrong number plate thing must be quite common. My mate had just taken his Ducati in for its first MOT to find out he’s been rolling around on some plates registered to an HGV somewhere.
I guess that once a 240i has made a dash for it it’s a bit late to try to get some diesel saloons in front of it
550d is fractionally quicker to 60 than 240i, X5 50d fractionally slower, police pursuit drivers generally pretty handy too...
Exciting police chase on the M61 a couple of weeks back in the middle of the day. Some loon in an old black Clio swerving in and out of all the traffic, up the hard shoulder etc. Closely followed by the rozzers with blue lights. Can't imagine he got far!
police pursuit drivers generally pretty handy too…
Compared to the "average" STW driver? Nah, it's not like they're surfmatt or anything is it?
OP keep an eye out for yourself on Dave in the next 10 years.
<Manc accent>"This doughnut on the M62 in a runaway Beemer didn't know what had 'it 'im when 'e got 'ard stopped by three 'o GMP's finest. His own car was in for a recall and it was a case of mistaken identity. Back on 'is way leaving a 10 mile tailback I reckon 'e'll be Total Recallin the doughnut at the service centre. Doughnut"</Manc accent>
Haha thanks scuttler. Fame at last!!
What is a "hard stop"? And a soft stop?
550d is fractionally quicker to 60 than 240i, X5 50d fractionally slower, police pursuit drivers generally pretty handy too…
Some car thieves give significantly less of a shit about public safety and have similar driving skill to the police (not most, I'd freely admit - I remember chatting to a former joyrider once and some of the techniques he thought were of use would do nothing helpful whatsoever, but give a significantly higher chance of the car breaking).
What is a “hard stop”? And a soft stop?
I'm not sure they call them a 'soft stop' but generally a Police Car will appear behind you' lights flashing and sometimes siren going and you pull over to the next safe spot for a chat in the back of their car.
A "hard stop" usually involves 3 Police cars who'll move as quickly as possible to form behind, in front and to your right (or left I guess in OPs case) the front car will brake quite hard forcing you to stop and ideally forcing you to move to the left, sometimes if they really mean it they'll even smash all your windows with batons to distract you, come out guns drawn and very very occasionally in an 'intelligence lead' operation shoot you in the face if you do anything as stupid and as not have both hands on display when they do it.
Some hard stops, even when the person they're stopping is innocent result in a crash, it's meant to be an aggressive move to shock the driver into stopping and some people just don't brake hard enough, you can't really blame them, but as everyone is travelling in the same direction it's rarely a bad crash.
I guess that once a 240i has made a dash for it it’s a bit late to try to get some diesel saloons in front of it
The problem for the 240i driving getaway driver is that the M62 isn't a race track, it's a motorway, plus the Police have lots of cars and Helicopters. According to 'Cop Car Workshop' (yep, a real TV programme) the Police use 330d and 530d, they might be theoretically a little slower than the Police cars, but it's not going to disappear in a cloud of dust not to be seen again, even on the worlds longest drag strip, it might pull away a bit, but it's only going to run into a few more down the road.
Criminals mostly just drive as dangerously as possible that the Police give up for their sake and the sake of the public, well they let the Helicopter follow them anyway.
It's not a 'helicopter' it's Zulu-donkey-nine-nine or Treacle-seven-zero and it provides specialist ground teams with a proactive force multiplier. And I'll bet you didn't know it had infra red cameras to spot baddies in the dark. Hard-stop, soft-stop. Do you lot never watch this shit on the telly?
I know Nick. He’s a shifty looking fella- not surprised he was pulled over 🙂
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Exciting police chase on the M61 a couple of weeks back in the middle of the day. Some loon in an old black Clio swerving in and out of all the traffic, up the hard shoulder etc. Closely followed by the rozzers with blue lights. Can’t imagine he got far!
If that was the last week in March then I was on that motorway at the same time. Came razzing down the hard shoulder being chased by at least 3 police.
550d is fractionally quicker to 60 than 240i, X5 50d fractionally slower, police pursuit drivers generally pretty handy too…
But are they in 550ds and X5 50ds?
Either way, why have a high speed pursuit when you can just block the scumbag/innocent member of the public in and get them to stop straight away?
Leaving guns in the car? That’s a loss of license isn’t it?
No. Firearms act requires you keep guns secure and prevent access to them by unauthorised persons. The law doesn't define "secure". Leaving guns temporarily unattended out of sight in a locked vehicle is acceptable. Home office guidance suggests, but doesn't mandate that it is good practice to remove a part of the gun necessary for functioning if you have to do this.
Can I just politely suggest to all those of a Smurfmatt - ish* tenancy:
there seems to me at least pretty much no way of not getting stopped in one of these manoeuvres. The patrol X5 in front of me pretty much stood it on its nose he was braking so hard and I missed ramming it by literally inches, the cars immediately behind and to my left where in place in seconds, far far faster than I could do anything constructive to get away even if I'd wanted to.
*I know a lot of you are joshing...
So it must be you! You managed to blag it when we were tracked by the police helicopter with its spotlight on us many years ago.