Pulled by the Police 12 Hours after passing!

[L44BulmerLTB]

Hello all, I thought you might all like to laugh at my mis-fortune!!

I passed my driving test on thursday morning at about 10am. After giving the insurance a quick call, i was having my first solo drive (woo!). However, all day it had been raining pretty badly, and traction wasnt at its best.

So, after day of driving (100 miles later...) and dropping off my mum at the airport, i went to see some mates who happened to be in a car park nearby. Unfortunately the police were watching, seeing what a bunch of 17 year olds were doing in a car park.

I pulled up by my mates, and they came over to chat. The police thought i got out, and someone else got in to drive my car (which they didnt) and then i proceeded to go once around the car park to show off a bit. A couple of minutes later, i went to leave the car park, for which i had to go up hill in the pissing rain for, not fun at all. I ended up wheelspining by accident (yes, by accident...) for about 3 or 4 metres, and then i went to pull out of the car park thinking "ohhh dear, that wont do the tyres any good" when a policeman shouted for me to stop.

B0LLOCKS.

They then took all my details, and asked to see the CCTV of the store we were at. The police saw exactly what i did, and i was poo-ing myself, thinking i would get 3 points or they said "your car will be impounded and your license will be taken off you for 2 years". Fan-bloody-tastic. All my mates thought it was hilarious, adding "he has a kilo of drugs in his boot" which, to be honest, didnt help my case in the slightest.
Over the radio i heard "we have no insurance details for that car..." also wonderful!
They even threw the words "you will get sent to prison for a long time" just to make sure i was crapping it.

After stopping me at 9:30pm, they finally let me go at 10:30pm, after a good stern talking to, and me needing new underwear. I told my dad, who was not impressed to say the least, and thankfully all that happened was that i had to show my insurance documents to the plods the following day.

All in just under 12 Hours, which i think must be a record for the forum, I CHALLENGE YOU TO BEAT IT!! haha

Thought i'd tell you all so you can have a good laugh about it!!

Moral of the story: Police will stop young drivers for literally anything. I genuinely did NOTHING wrong!!

be careful

 

[1.8Stilo]

If you were unhappy with the way they dealt with you the ring up and make a complaint. If they issued you a HORT there should be some sort of details from the officer at the bottom.

 

[tom555tom]

report them for what?
fool.

epic ive been stopped plenty of times.
depends on the coppers mood. but if you;ve done nothing wrong nothing to worry about.

 

[Kier]

Not really something to be proud of getting pulled within 12 hours of passing...

Gone over three years of driving since passing my test (over 4 years since I started learning) and not been pulled once. Then again I don't hang around in car parks...

 

[Booth]

losing respect for a lot of them.

Was genuinely doing 35mph the other day down a main road. Police were behind me etc. They pulled me over, said i was doing 55mph (which I actually wasnt!) and said i was holding my revs on full at the traffic lights?!?! (now why would i be doing that????????)

Im 18 so i agree with you with the whole they'll pull us young'uns over for anything.

He did a full insurance check on me.

 

[Fiatseicento2002]

I agree the always seem to pull me over when i'm being sensible

but then again im never immature

 

[sledge]

All in just under 12 Hours, which i think must be a record for the forum, I CHALLENGE YOU TO BEAT IT!! haha

Thought i'd tell you all so you can have a good laugh about it!!

Looks like you are going to grow up and become a mature, sensible and responsible road user.....doesnt it , assuming you dont become a statistic first.

 

[Ffoxy]

Thing is the Police will have you "tagged" now, see you... stop you... so you need to be cleaner than clean in everything you do in your car.

A lad I know, 25, been driving 15months, has now had his licence revoked in exactly the way I described, for doing the kind of things the OP does.

So... avoid Supermarket car parks, avoid accidentally spinning your wheels and get some mates who dont laugh at your "misfortune" or try to get you strip searched for drugs....

Police have a job to do, they see the results of tools driving cars & noob drivers wrapped around various bits of street furniture on a daily / weekly basis.

 

[Rawb]

You give 17 year olds a bad name.

I've been driving since middle of January and I haven't been pulled over once...

Sure i've had my irresponsible moments like pulling a huge wheelspin in the college car park or quite literaly doing a 4 wheel slide around a roundabout in the wet... But all i can say is... avoid car parks It's about as simple as that, if you want to meet mates, go over there house. less trouble and that way you don't need new underwear...

Learn by this experience.

 

[bredsticz]

Even with a big England flag across my bonnet and all my mods now. The only time I have ever been pulled over in 3 years of driving is coming home at about 11 at night from my girlfriends house near christmas. She did live in the most crime ridden place in Manchester mind you and he just wanted to do a breath test. Saying it was a random stop.

I look alot younger than I am aswell, the time I was pulled was in a bog standard car with no mods aswell

 

[Rigby]

Ive been stopped once, well i say stopped was in a car park, with a mate in his own car. Pulled into a car park which has now got signs up saying they can take your car away for anti-social driving, they wernt there then, because the people that live along the back have been complaining, ive been there a couple times with a group of people and we just sit there and talk then drive off eventually. The time we got stopped i had literally just put the handbrake on and they came down the road and did checks on us and we had a little laugh with them. We didnt have anything to hide and hadnt done anything wrong so why argue back? Which is what most people in Chatteris that go there would do.

 

[claymore]

Only time I was stopped was going through a no entry sign that wasn't clearly marked and getting away with it because the police had a passenger in the rear seat (a wee boy of all people!). Got off lucky.

Second time. Just finishing a delivery for work (folks always order pizza at crazy hours!) and come home. It's a short journey I'm just approching the house after noticing a ploice car following me...now he's not going to *blue lights flash* Oh come on! You don't pull over the youngsters on the other streets and they're as high as kites.

It seems they thought I was drunk, wobbling about. No breath test (would have it on my breath anyhow) just hand over the lisence and check the details. They let me go.

If I have coffee before I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't I drive tired. I can't win.

Either way, that's the best escape I've seen but I'd best be careful. You never know.

 

[zazadavison]

I have only ever been stopped once on a freezing cold snowy night near xmas when I had my Brava, I was on my own and 2 male officers in an unmarked car stopped me on a dead road in the middle of shropshire saying they were doing "random" stops to breathalyse people as part of the xmas festivities, it was freezing cold, and they asked me to step out and hand them the keys, I refused as I and the the car had only just warmed up Explained that I did not feel comfortable getting out of the car, as I was on my own and they were not in a marked car, but that i would willingly cooperate through the open window.

The officer returned to his vehicle( 5 series BM ) and said something to the other officer, he then returned and said ,"sorry miss it is not our intention to make you uncomfortable,have a pleasant evening" and let me on my way without breathalysing me or checking my papers or anything. They were genuine officers, and I was actually shocked that they let me go like that!


as for you L44BulmerLTB that is just bloody unlucky, and I hope your driving in the wet improves soon

 

[volxstu]

Thing is the Police will have you "tagged" now, see you... stop you... so you need to be cleaner than clean in everything you do in your car.

From what the op said there is no reason for this to be trrue. They were just giving him the scare factor because he is a new driver. They will only hound him if he did something illegal, had a defective car, no insurance or had drugs.
Police really arent going to worry about some kid who did a wheelspin once.

 

[The Beard]

.....11 at night.....in the most crime ridden place in Manchester.....

The only time I've ever been stopped by the Police (in 36 years) was in my first year of driving in 1974 while travelling with 3 mates in my Mum's Viva. We'd decided, after being in the pub, to go for a drive through Moss Side and look at a side of life we didn't normally see. As we were travelling down Princess Rd (I'm sure bredsticz will have an idea where that is) I was pulled over by the 5-0h and greeted with the words...."The cows have all gone home lads."

Life was slightly more innocent then. After shining his torch in our faces and asking us who's car it was, we turned round and headed back to leafy Hazel Grove where they don't have prostitutes.

 

[The Beard]

Er, I've just realised that I've inferred that bredsticz is, or has been, familiar with the red-light districts of Manchester. I would like to apologise unreservedly for any suggestion that he/she is a visitor to areas where sex is paid for.

Unless of course he does, in which case; where are the best places and do you know anyone called Fi-Fi?

 

[pooroldcodger]

They have them Beard, but they're called Escorts. (Or so I'm told!).
I have only (touch wood) been pulled by the fuzz (always made me laugh that one) once in about 35 years, and that was driving my old Escort in Sheffield. The 2 bobbies tried to heave my car forward to "prove" my handbrake wasn't working. Then one of them noticed I have the footbrake on! Luckily it was still ok even without the footbrake, but it still shakes you up.

 

[bredsticz]

Haha yeah, gotta love moss side!
It was Partington I was referring to though but they're close enough with their reputations!

 

[bredsticz]

Haha, tbh I thought the only hookers were in the town centre and around strange ways.
I also don't need to pay for sex, I get plenty for free

 

[pooroldcodger]

They have them Beard, but they're called Escorts. (Or so I'm told!).
I have only (touch wood) been pulled by the fuzz (always made me laugh that one) once in about 35 years, and that was driving my old Escort in Sheffield. The 2 bobbies tried to heave my car forward to "prove" my handbrake wasn't working. Then one of them noticed I have the footbrake on! Luckily it was still ok even without the footbrake, but it still shakes you up.

Correction.... the Escort I was driving in Sheffield was an old banger.
Nothing to do with the escorts that (allegedly) exist in Hazel Grove.