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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 22:01 
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OK, it's my turn to make everyone strain their brains for a week for something witty, or silly, to say.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 22:06 
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I know you were told in training to get concrete evidence but...

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 22:34 
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Well it was like this gov, I was just checking my speed and then the next thing I knew ...

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 22:48 
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What they didn't teach you about the problems caused by tram lining in training?

Police department test new door ding limitation measures for their parking areas


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 22:56 
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Christ, they said that these tyres were "grippy"

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 22:59 
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American (or are they Canadian?) police test their latest speed trap.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 23:28 
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Lady - did you not see that soft ground warning sign

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"Affirmative 10-50, confirm successful deceleration of throttle acceleration runaway vehicle, now apprehended ! 10-42"
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Failure of the latest environmentally sound alfalfa based road surface blamed on climate change.

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"What is your current status deputy Johnson?"
"Status Quo Sheriff"
"What???"
"Down, down, deeper on down"

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"Did you get any evidence of problems "-"yes Captain -CONCRETE EVIDENCE -it's under the car "

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 23:56 
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Now when the chief said take the "softly, softly " approach, I don't think thats exactly what he meant.

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"skid marks, what skid marks?"

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"you know, I hate getting bogged down with paper work"

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"I don't think that this is the hard shoulder"

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graball wrote:
"I don't think that this is the hard shoulder"

:) That'll be the 'soft verge'or at least the 'soft' soon to be hard one !

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 08:22 
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so much for your...."we're the police, those signs don't apply to us, we can go anywhere"

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They're just ACPO guidelines... they're not set in stone... yet!

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"these motorway patrols can be a real drag"

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:14 
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All good stuff :bighand:

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