What would you do in this situation?

[blackburn_stevie]

Driving home tonight I was on a two lane, one way road the formed the tail of a T-Junction. I stopped and a Police car drove across from my right. I then turned left and followed the police car. We are still on a 2 lane, one way road with the Police car about 30 yards in front and both of us doing about 25 mph as we approach a complicated traffic light system. At this time, the Police car is driving in such a way that he is 3/4 of the way into the right hand lane. But not being the trusting sort, I hang back a bit. Good job too, because as we got close to the lights, he swung over to the left lane. Once through the lights we are into a three lane road which branches three ways about 150 yards ahead. Left lane goes into a shopping centre, middle lane MUST go straight ahead and right lane MUST turn right. So now this guy is half in the left lane and half in the middle lane. I'm a bit wary by now and hang back to make sure which way he is going to go when we get to the lights and he has to make a choice. While holding the same half and half position on the road, he drove straight up the middle. I followed and the next obstacle was a mini roundabout. There was no traffic in sight so he just drove straight across. We are now driving up a hill with him at the front followed by me and then 3 other vehicles behind me. So what does the Police driver do? He stops to let another vehicle out of a side road on the right.

It is at this point that I turned off to go home.

There is one thing that I am sure of. If the roles were reversed and it was me in front and the Police car following me, I would have been pulled over and told to "Breathe into this, please, Sir"

So what would you do?

Report it to the local Police station.

Report it to the head boy at Lancashire Police HQ

Send it to my MP, Jack Straw

Something else.

Just forget it.

[aernethril]

I think you should train to become a driving instructor for the police because the one they've got isn't doing very well.

Other than that, if your local plods are that impulsive and unregulated, I would not be inclined to put your name to anything.

[cee-dee]

Without a dash-cam, I'd forget it.

[ronnie-dog]

or, they could have been looking for someone / something and were making their car as wide as possible to stop people passing them incase they had to suddenly deviate direction.

[charliebird123]

Forget it Steve,lose,lose situation.

[tommy.irene]

Go to the Police and ask for the driver..tell him what you think of him and that he must have got his licence in Africa.. tell him who you are and were you live,,go home and wait and see what happens..

[blackburn_stevie]

You're probably right. All bar Tommy who just wants to see me get into bother.

It's just so blooming annoying to think that drivers like that can pull us over for the slightest thing and what's more, have the full weight of the entire Police Force on their side.

[tommy.irene]

A male driver is pulled over by a cop and the following conversation takes place:
Man: What's the problem officer?
Cop: You were going at least 75 in a 55 zone.
Man: No sir, I was going 65.
Wife: Oh Stevie. You were going 80.
(Man gives his wife a dirty look.)
Cop: I'm also going to give you a ticket for your broken tail light.
Man: Broken tail light? I didn't know about a broken tail light!
Wife: Oh Stevie, you've known about that tail light for weeks.
(Man gives his wife a dirty look.)
Cop: I'm also going to give you a citation for not wearing your seat belt.
Man: Oh, I just took it off when you were walking up to the car.
Wife: Oh  Stevie, you never wear your seat belt.
Man: Shut your mouth, woman!
Cop: Ma'am, does your husband always talk to you this way?
Wife: No, only when he's drunk.

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

I had an incident a few years ago when a white unmarked car with darkened windows (so I couldn't see inside) came racing up behind me on the A49, drove alongside me on the wrong side of the road round the next bend then pulled back behind me.I was quite bothered so on the next straight section I signalled for the car to overtake me and again it drove for about a quarter of a mile alongside me on the wrong side of the road. Eventually I braked, beeped my horn and waved for the car to get past, at which it pulled in front of me and braked sharply to a stop.

The occupants turned out to be four policemen, two of whom got out of the vehicle, and one asked to see my driving licence (which he just glanced at for a second) and asked me why I had beeped the horn and made gestures to them. I said that I was concerned that they were driving mostly on the wrong side of the road and I didn't want to get involved in their accident, to which they just smirked as they told me that they were police driving instructors on a training exercise. 😮

They told me I shouldn't use the horn or hands to other vehicles as it could be considered aggressive driving, and they were sure I wouldn't want to spoil my unblemished 40-year driving record: they had looked up my car registration on the police computer and glanced at my licence to check that it was my car. X-( There were no witnesses to their intimidatory behaviour so nothing I could do.

Similarly, there is nothing that you can do, Steve, so forget it. The Police know they're untouchable; indeed their union is trying to bring down the elected government by lying about Andrew Mitchell, parking ministerial cars in prohibited places and blaming the minister, not to mention Hillsborough, Ian Tomlinson G20, etc.

[Anonymous]

you CAN use your horn, to let other drivers know of your presence, and by doing so stops an accident happening. you cannot sound your horn while stationary between the hours of 2300 to ( i think ) 0700 hours in built up areas, so those taxi drivers that do are breaking the law, and quite honestly if thats the attitude of the police i am surprised that there has been as few accidents with pedestrians due to their careless driving, this unelected goverment must train them better before plod kills another innocent.