Re: UK police, (low audi content)

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <1D1C8E12DB4@fs1.me.umist.ac.uk> "Edward Shiers" writes:

> I was stopped by a marked police car the DAY before literally no more
> than 1 MILE from where I got stopped yesterday!!!
> Within 7 months that means I've been stopped  4 times by the police
> for doing absolutely nothing wrong! Is that age discrimination or
> what!!. God knows what it would be like if I was black.

Amateur.  I was stopped six time in five weeks, mid-November to
end December.

>  I know that S. Man police also have an unmarked Golf VR6, a BMW 328
> and I think a volvo T5 estate. (I know about the BMW because a mate
> got stopped by it and gained 3 points. he said the only way u could
> tell was a by noticing a camera on the dash and, if ur observant, blue
> lights in the grill (In this country I don't even think a ur-q could
> get away from a 328!))

West Midlands have the ultimate weapon - a White Van!  What do you do
a White Van Man on your tail?  Floor it to get out of his way?

WRONG!!!

An ur-quattro can _easily_ leave a 328i.  Ask the guy who rolled his
328i trying to follow me up an M25 slip road a few months back.

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 Phil Payne
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