RLJ ??

[jimboalee]

Out and about today somewhere in Shropshire.

I approached a red lamp and duly stopped in 'Primary'.
There was not a fat lot of traffic and I thought of all the rhetoric on this chatboard.

I heard the tooting sound of a car's horn behind me and saw a man in the car waving me to go across the red lamp.

I didn't. The car tooted again. I looked round again and saw two blue lamps flash inside the grille of a silver BMW.

I jumped off and pulled my bike onto the pavement.

The POLICE car came up alongside and the passenger bobby said "you could have gone then" and what do you think happen next?

They turned left against the red.

Wish I had a helmet cam.... then again, if I did the cops would have seen it and obeyed their own laws.

 

[Arch]

<bangs head on table>

 

[TheDoctor]

On a similar note, I recently saw a police car parked, engine running with no-one in it.
'How odd', thought I.
As I walked past, the policeist appeared back from the vital task that necessitated them leaving a car on double yellows with the engine running.
Getting a Subway...

 

[Garz]

Speaking of police jimbo..

I was walking through a town centre going back to my work van (left in a loading section) when I seen a PC and a CSO ticking off a young lad who was cycling in the pedestrian zone. Didn't think much of it and listened to the PC telling the CSO to basically enforce it, naughty naughty etc.

Then turn a corner and another only to see one of them police-on-mtb officers riding along a pedestrian zone!

*sigh*

 

[Jonathan M]

I've seen a PCSO-on-a-bike jump a red light. I've always thought that these guys didn't have really any significant rights above & beyond joe public, so I've wondered since exactly what that PCSO thought was so urgent that he could RLJ......

 

[2Loose]

I've always thought that these guys didn't have really any significant rights above & beyond joe public, so I've wondered since exactly what that PCSO thought was so urgent that he could RLJ......

They don't seem to have any rights, but they do have a lot of patience. The teenagers around here seem to use them as an excuse to gather and practice their swear words and grammar. Never ever seen one even get slightly agitated.
...or do anything about it tbh.

Shocking behaviour from proper coppers though, especially the encouraged suggestion that Jimbo SHOULD have RLJ'd. I think I'd want that in writing and then ignore it

 

[jimboalee]

Speaking of police jimbo..

I was walking through a town centre going back to my work van (left in a loading section) when I seen a PC and a CSO ticking off a young lad who was cycling in the pedestrian zone. Didn't think much of it and listened to the PC telling the CSO to basically enforce it, naughty naughty etc.

Then turn a corner and another only to see one of them police-on-mtb officers riding along a pedestrian zone!

*sigh*

Don't worry. I have a piece of video off my phone of a PC on a bike riding along Solihull's ped zone.
For use if the occasion arises.

 

[Alan Frame]

Don't worry. I have a piece of video off my phone of a PC on a bike riding along Solihull's ped zone.
For use if the occasion arises.

Think you'll find that a special dispensation has been given to the police allowing them to cycle in pedestrianised areas.

 

[jimboalee]

Think you'll find that a special dispensation has been given to the police allowing them to cycle in pedestrianised areas.

So the long and the short of it is :-

"Do as I say, not as I do".

No wonder the young hooligans swear at the Police.

 

[jimboalee]

A favourite 'trick' question in a driving exam was

"When is it OK to drive across a red traffic signal?"

The answer is ,,,,

"When instructed to do so by a Police officer"

 

[Alan Frame]

So the long and the short of it is :-

"Do as I say, not as I do".

No wonder the young hooligans swear at the Police.

The police are in pedestrian areas with their cycles for a purpose.

And it is not just young hooligans who swear at the police; many people have sufficiently-agitated skeletons in their cupboard to cause them to.

 

[peanut]

good for you Jimbo for standing your ground.
Not sure it would have worked against an HG though

 

[Garz]

A favourite 'trick' question in a driving exam was

"When is it OK to drive across a red traffic signal?"

The answer is ,,,,

"When instructed to do so by a Police officer"

LOL, true story!

 

[Typo]

"When is it OK to drive across a red traffic signal?"

The answer is ,,,,

"When instructed to do so by a Police officer"

On my wife's speed awareness course a fellow speeder had been threatened with prosecution for going through a red light to get out of the way of a blues-and-twos fire engine. So is it only the polis who can "instruct"?

 

[jimboalee]

On my wife's speed awareness course a fellow speeder had been threatened with prosecution for going through a red light to get out of the way of a blues-and-twos fire engine. So is it only the polis who can "instruct"?

What is worse?

Going through a red light in this situation, or "Obstructing the thoroughfare of an emergency vehicle".

Incidentally, a friend of mine was successful in court when he pleaded "If I had pulled up to stop at the red light, the following car would have hit me. He was driving like a lunatic".

He stated he couldn't identify the following car because he couldn't see the reg plate, it was so close.

I couldn't see his rear plate, I was so close.