Finally!

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Finally got a bit of attention from the cops!

I pulled into a petrol station in the 19 as they drove by, i seen them swing round as i parked. Over the come and one of them says

"Is that thing taxed and insured?"

"Yes it is, well no, its not taxed"

I procede to lauch into my story about the missing tax book and many phone calls

"Ok, can i see your insurance cert"

I procede to take the insurance disc from out of the window

"No, your insurance certificate, thats a disc" - irish law says 2 points for not having your insurance cert with you

"let me see the disc anyway"

"Well...actually...this is me old disc, i haven't got a new one" - Insurance disc is 3 months out of date

Cop 1 looks and cop 2

"I don't suppose you happen to have your licence on you?"

Me gettin a little bit excited that i might actually do something right"I do!"

I hand him the licence which promptly falls to pieces when he takes it out of its plastic cover. I dunno if anyones familiar with irish licenses but they are made of paper and don't take too well to being put thru the wash 3 times

"Where do you live Michael?"

"There"

"Where?"

"The address on my licence"

"Ok, you have 10 days to produce a copy of your tax and insurance to a station of your choice"

"The local station already has a copy of my insurance"

"Ok, you have 10 days to produce a copy of your tax and insurance to a station of your choice"

"Ummm, right, ok. I've no tax book"

I procede to explain the tax book story again

"So i don't know if i'll be able to get it taxed"

"Just get it sorted"

"Thats what i've been trying to do!"

"Ok, michael"

They looked like they were about to leave and being a bit disappointed they didn't ask i pulled the NCT disc from the windscreen, held it high in the air out the window

"But look! She's tested!"

Two cops laugh and drive off.

I ring all the lads to tell them i've finally been got by them.

Sorry about the full transcript but it was a long awaited moment in the life of the Lee Laughing

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:26 pm

Did they look like this?

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

brilliant! Sound like fair cops to me! they could have ripped you to shreds, at least over here im sure they would have checked every little bit of it to find as many different things as they could.

Very good. Keep runnin from that hog!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

do you not get them radioing in to check an insurance database?

Level 10 User Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 570

I don't see why it's a good thing