Oh man! It's too late in the night to start but I'm certainly going to add to this thread when I get a chance. I've got almost 40 years of stories......
Oh man! It's too late in the night to start but I'm certainly going to add to this thread when I get a chance. I've got almost 40 years of stories......
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
I want to know more about number 4 on Damien's list, did I read right?, you got let off for admitting to drinking a bottle of scotch? I might use that one haha
Bought a car that used to belong to a drug dealer and I was always being stopped and searched but they never found anything so I copped a lot of defects from some very frustrated cops,also remember driving home from the beach about an hour away from where I lived and we were passing food and drinks between cars as we were driving,we didn't know at the time there was an off duty cop following us so when he went back to work he drove an hour to my house just to give me a warning. I also remember getting a defect for number plate light not working,I replaced the globe and took it to the police station and got the defect off,lucky for me they didn't check the brakes
Well once upon a time......Originally Posted by Sandaro
This one is a fully irresponsible story in today's light but back then it kind of made sense. A mate and i used to take turns each Tuesday night to drive from Rivervale in Perth to Cottesloe Beach, where we would purchase and drink a bottle of Johnnie Walker Scotch while spinning yarns and then grab Hamburgers from a now long gone 24hr burger bar (caravan) right on the beach front. Great night out for a Tuesday!! Anyway, the trick was to then drive home to Rivervale so we swapped the driving risk each week.
Anyway, this particular Tuesday it was my turn to drive in my Jamaican Lime Sandman. We finished drinking and i pulled out of the Cottesloe Beach car park around 10pm. I immediately spotted an unmarked pursuit car coming the other way and it turned straight around to pull me up. In a life saving move, I pulled over even before they had completed the u turn and was out and waiting with my licence in hand as they pulled up behind me. FOUR coppers climbed out and i was chatted to by the driver while the other three went straight to the front of my van and inspected it. The old salt copper explained that they were urgently looking for a hit and run driver in a green van and as soon as the cops worked out my van wasn't the culprit, they prepared to leave.
Alas, by that stage, the senior cop had worked out that i had had a few and he grilled me about how much i had drunk. I was honest about the bottle of Scotch and after some quick chit chat, he asked me.....wait for it!.......DO YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT HOME!!!!! OMG WTF? I confidently stated that i could and he sized me up a bit more.Then he said 'don't get pulled over by any traffic cops', turned on his tail and walked away.
The cops piled back into their pursuit car and took off towards Fremantle. I carefully got back in the Sandman and with my mate bug eyed and his jaw on the ground, i quietly fired up the 308, found first gear via the click clacking All Aussie 4 speed shifter and eased off the clutch for a very low key drive home.
Classic old school on the spot judgement call more suited to a country cop than a city cop. Wouldn't happen today and probably good that it doesn't.
Cottesloe to Rivervale not a close trip at all especially when your full of J.W. lol
That's a classic Damian, very lucky. Made some similar decisions when young, but never had the luck to be effectively let off.
Middle aged Sargent in a one cop western Qld town used to turn a blind eye to pretty much anything that wasn't overly dangerous or just blatantly stupid. It was quite clear though, that as soon as you went over the grid, all laws applied and would be enforced. Died of a heart attack in his mid fiftys unfortunately. Real good bloke.
Paddy
Sandman...Just Drive It.!
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