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minor things that make you fume


The Cowboy said:
Tbh I always believed passing through on amber was fine (though you run the risk of it changing to red and getting caught), now I know amber is bad too, I'll be changing my ways!
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I went through an amber several years ago and a rosser (from a side entrance) pulled me over. I said it was amber, I was doing 40 (the speed limit) and I couldn't just ram the brakes on as they just went amber as I went level. I refused to take his ticket, so the rosser said he had video evidence which he offered to show me if I took the ticket. I told him that it was unlikely as he came from a side street, so his camera probably didn't see the lights, therefore it would be his word against mine, and my passenger - a work colleague who immediately said the light wasn't red.

I suggested to the constable (he really didn't like being called that) didn't have the evidence (he'd withdrawn his offer to show me by this stage), and was simply hoping to tick a box to meet a target. I suggested that as his tax paying employer, that I was revolted by his filthy uniform and filthy squad car and he ought to buck his ideas up by protecting the public, rather than fabricating crimes. I said I'll take the matter to court and got out of his car. I was utterly calm and good mannered throughout (years being a teacher helps here!) and he didn't know how to react.
Weeks later I realised that to go to court I'd lose a day's pay as would my witness. Since that would be greater than the fine, I wrote to the court saying I would not attend, am not guilty, the constable has no case, his pc number was illegible on his ticket (a technical get off as far as I know) but offered the fine money. Still got the points though, so the police did a job, money for the state and providing an excuse for the insurance institutions to up their bill.

What made me laugh was the note the pc wrote on the court chitty, that I "was the worst member of the public he had ever Bradstock deal with." Me - a middle aged teacher in a smart car! He really needs to get involved with more serious stuff then!

I have zero respect for the police now. It was waning before but is zero now and since and always will be.
 
LEONARD said:
Me= ' A cup of hot chocolate please'.

Barista= 'Would you like marshmallows on that?

Me= 'No thank you'.

Barista= 'Are you sure it's only 10 pence extra?

Me= ' No thanks, just the hot chocolate please'.

Barista= 'Just the hot chocolate then?

Me= 'Yes please'.

Barista flashes a sarky smile, and heads off into the steam to work his magic.

(6 minutes later)= the drink arrives, and I attempt to pay.

Barista= 'Can I stamp your loyalty card?

Me= 'I'm sorry I don't bother with loyalty cards'.

Barista= ' Are you sure, your 10th cup of coffee will be a freebie'.

Me= 'Honestly no thanks'

Barista=' would you be willing to go on line and detail your experience with us today?

Me= ( rapidly losing the will to live and lying through my teeth) 'Sure'.

Barista explains the process of how I should do this.

I finally sit down with my chocolaty beverage rapidly turning cold, and myself reflecting on a good 15 minutes that I will never get back in my life.:dodgy:
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Upselling and scripted cheerfulness are diseases we've caught from over the Atlantic. As for the feedback fad they can sod that unless they pay me, as it's used for their advertising.

Toolstation recently asked me to feedback on my purchase which was a box of screws Ffs.

They were good screws, I said. Use a turnscrew to turn them the same way as a clock goes around and they go into wood. Turn the other way and they come out. It's amazing, and they're far easier to turn with my turnscrew than a nail is, which are utter bitches due their badly designed heads.

I went to all that trouble and they replied saying my feedback wasn't going to be used. Gets.
 

chrismpw said:
I went through an amber several years ago and a rosser (from a side entrance) pulled me over. I said it was amber, I was doing 40 (the speed limit) and I couldn't just ram the brakes on as they just went amber as I went level. I refused to take his ticket, so the rosser said he had video evidence which he offered to show me if I took the ticket. I told him that it was unlikely as he came from a side street, so his camera probably didn't see the lights, therefore it would be his word against mine, and my passenger - a work colleague who immediately said the light wasn't red.

I suggested to the constable (he really didn't like being called that) didn't have the evidence (he'd withdrawn his offer to show me by this stage), and was simply hoping to tick a box to meet a target. I suggested that as his tax paying employer, that I was revolted by his filthy uniform and filthy squad car and he ought to buck his ideas up by protecting the public, rather than fabricating crimes. I said I'll take the matter to court and got out of his car. I was utterly calm and good mannered throughout (years being a teacher helps here!) and he didn't know how to react.
Weeks later I realised that to go to court I'd lose a day's pay as would my witness. Since that would be greater than the fine, I wrote to the court saying I would not attend, am not guilty, the constable has no case, his pc number was illegible on his ticket (a technical get off as far as I know) but offered the fine money. Still got the points though, so the police did a job, money for the state and providing an excuse for the insurance institutions to up their bill.

What made me laugh was the note the pc wrote on the court chitty, that I "was the worst member of the public he had ever Bradstock deal with." Me - a middle aged teacher in a smart car! He really needs to get involved with more serious stuff then!

I have zero respect for the police now. It was waning before but is zero now and since and always will be.
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I got pulled followed and pulled over for using my phone.

They claimed I picked up my handset at the lights and started using it, I never, I was literally at the lights for a few seconds where I plugged my phone into the car charger.

They asked me to unlock me phone, check my recent texts, whatsapps and call history and there was nothing since the night before. I argued my case with them and they said as there were two officers in the vehicle it'll be their word over mine.

They still went with it and I ended up on that course. Proper disgusted me that and have since been sceptical of how the police deal with "criminals".

Another time I was randomly pulled over to be breathalised as the police officer claimed I came out of a pub car park erratically. I had actually in fact, proceeded from a junction on a road which had no access to the pubs entrance.
 
GwladysPhil said:
I got pulled followed and pulled over for using my phone.

They claimed I picked up my handset at the lights and started using it, I never, I was literally at the lights for a few seconds where I plugged my phone into the car charger.

They asked me to unlock me phone, check my recent texts, whatsapps and call history and there was nothing since the night before. I argued my case with them and they said as there were two officers in the vehicle it'll be their word over mine.

They still went with it and I ended up on that course. Proper disgusted me that and have since been sceptical of how the police deal with "criminals".

Another time I was randomly pulled over to be breathalised as the police officer claimed I came out of a pub car park erratically. I had actually in fact, proceeded from a junction on a road which had no access to the pubs entrance.
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Years ago I got pulled for doing doughnuts in a park in Hoylake.

Jobsworth b******* !!!
 
GwladysPhil said:
I got pulled followed and pulled over for using my phone.

They claimed I picked up my handset at the lights and started using it, I never, I was literally at the lights for a few seconds where I plugged my phone into the car charger.

They asked me to unlock me phone, check my recent texts, whatsapps and call history and there was nothing since the night before. I argued my case with them and they said as there were two officers in the vehicle it'll be their word over mine.

They still went with it and I ended up on that course. Proper disgusted me that and have since been sceptical of how the police deal with "criminals".

Another time I was randomly pulled over to be breathalised as the police officer claimed I came out of a pub car park erratically. I had actually in fact, proceeded from a junction on a road which had no access to the pubs entrance.
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They're just finding easy jobs to meet targets. Nothing other than lazy bullies with a licence.

Pulled me over at 11.30 one night and breathalysed me because he'd smelled I was smoking a cigar.

Fricking chancers. Some of the biggest crooks there are.
 

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