....but don't dare look !
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170338/Driver-Doug-Maclean-fined-60-police--admiring-pretty-girl.html
Been away in leafy mid-Cheshire with the caravan so I don't know if this has been mentioned on here.
Anyone else guilty of this sort of behaviour ? I have to have numerous offences taken into consideration !
Ted
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He's right, it's no way to earn a living. Clearly not much job satisfaction in the police these days.
The police will always need the support of the wider public - so why create a system designed to destroy all public sympathy?
Sadly it's pretty much worked on me, and the remaining front line police seem to have no time for anything except humouring low-lifes or nicking easy targets for non-offences, to satisfy the new non-targets, which presumably replaced the counter-productive old targets that were ostensibly removed.
Stories like this don't help - DM, woman accused of racially aggravated assault -
goo.gl/66ft9
Last edited by: Manatee on Sun 8 Jul 12 at 22:10
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Mr Maclean admits that the photographic evidence shows him leaning over and staring out of the back window, having driven past the good-looking stranger – but he insists he was in full control of his car.
It was a really high-quality picture of me leaning across the seat of my vehicle,’ he said. ‘
Combined with what was probably a severe failure in the attitude test, I would say a nick was inevitable.
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Aw, why spoil a good story?
I use the mirrors myself.
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I turn the car round for another look
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I knew Cinnamon at University (who is in that latter story), although lost touch after graduation. Thoroughly nice girl.
Motoring link: she drove a mid 70's BMW 1602 back then, navy blue.
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Letting him off with a caution would have been the obvious thing to do: don't they get any training in people-skills nowadays?
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I stupidly did this once with SWMBO in the passenger seat. The look didn't compromise my ability to drive the car safely. The punch in the side of the head I got from SWMBO, which made me see stars, most certainly did.
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we need eyes like a camelion to get away with that carry on , one eye on the SWMBO and the other eye on the crumpet....if you see what i mean
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Someone in the same class as me at age 14 or 15, cycling to school in Plymouth, rode into the back of a Standard Vanguard while looking at a girl on the pavement. He lost a couple of front teeth and his book-laden satchel swung over his head and made a dent in the middle of the Vanguard's roof.
He was much teased, but also much admired, when he reappeared.
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Sat outside a cafe in Florence in 1966 (yes, I know!!)(I was very young!!)there was a crash at the adjacent junction - wing to wing - no injuries, but the drivers got out to "discuss" fault, then agreed that they had both been looking at the attractive girl on the opposite corner, shook hands and both drove off.
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On the way from the station to our hotel in Rome in 1969 the taxi driver, giving a fine exhibition of rapid, insouciant and stylish progress, alarmed even me by swerving at undiminished speed towards a young woman who was walking rapidly across the road.
She didn't break into a run or even look round, but with a matador-like twitch of her very shapely nyash moved it just far enough for the taxi's right front quarter to miss it by what looked like millimetres.
Herself nearly had a heart attack and was inclined to disapprove, but I was immensely impressed by the full-blooded Italianness displayed by both parties. Utterly brilliant spontaneous street theatre.
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She's a cracker..... - Manatee
