Tonight i shopped in a drink driver...

[454697819]

Iv called the police over many things in my past.... but tonight was the first time iv activly called them over a drink driver.....

I was in a shop buying some milk when this guy came in jumped the que to buy a lighter...acting "****ed" with a bottle of beer in his hand....

i walked out to find him sat in the drivers seat and whitnessed him driving off... so i dobbed him in as a drink driver....

i hope the catch the " expletive delete " and shoot him....

iirc as i walked in to the shop i over heard the group around his car shouting... "well come tonight its only a tenner a gram"


hmmm nice area i live in....

oooooh me 2000th post.. night of firsts tonight...

[the_runt69]

Well done mate dont like drinking and driving

[kwak zzr]

i'd have done the same mate.

[hovis]

well done, you did the right thing IMO

[Stingo]

Eeee Bramley - I were born in't Pudsey...nice folk round there!!

[seedy100]

Well done!

No sympathy for for someone who would risk my life and my kids life for a drink.

[Luckypants]

What they all said!

[Stu]

Did the polis sound interested?

[Rog]

Good job. If you drink then drive you deserve to have the book thrown at you. Although the police probably wont have the resources, as they were out busy trying to catch bikers with loud zausts and naughty number plates, now theres a real danger!!!!!

Rant over.

[ASM-Forever]

Good on you mate....i shopped someone in myself on Tuesday. Some tit in a BMW convertible with 3 teenage barely legal girls. Trying to handbrake around a corner("drifting" i guess...been watching too much fast and the furious). Quel surprise when the back end steped out entirely and he came skidding across the road, just missing my mates car and disappearing into the foliage.

Lots of rubber marks few hundred yards down the road as well. Wrote the car off anyhow which is always good...if it was his!

[Baph]

Well done that man!

I used to work in a Wetherspoon pub, and if we knew someone to be over the limit and suspected them of being about to get in a car, I'd jump on the police radio & inform the control centre. They'd then dispatch a car to the area regardless, and watch CCTV (the pub was covered on all exits) for the person I described. They definitely were interested, and it meant that when times were rough, the pub got an easy break from plod.

Yet some people I worked with classed it as "not my job" to do what I did.

I'm glad there's someone else around like me that doesn't care about the stigma of being a "grass" & will happily shop someone for doing something downright dangerous.

[Colby]

I've reported a couple of drunk drivers and not one of them has been caught. I know thru a contact I had in the control room of the local police station. The police would send someone, if they had the resource, to their home and wait for a while, they may also put obs out for the car. If the driver didnt return home straight away or managed to not get seen by Police then nothing would be done.....

Its rubbish.

Even if they do get caught (like a guy across the road from me) they dont always get a ban...

[keithd]

grass

hth

[Biker Biggles]

If you drove an electric car=====




Would the grass be greener?;)





Coat please.:D

[Lou M]

Well done mate!

I dobbed my neighbour in Northampton for drink driving, many years ago now. He got banned, and hubby at the time worked in the courts, so made sure that he was seen on the day of the hearing.
The idiot then went to drive his car a few weeks later, so I stood out on the drive watching him, he then parked back onto his drive. Never tried to drive it again after that.

Strangely we never got victimised by him, he must have realised he was losing the battle.

Lou x

[silent]

firstly, well done!


Secondly, in my experience from working for the police in a couple of roles, they take drink driving very seriously and love to nick one, however having the resources available to get there and do it these days is the hard thing....

Andy

[454697819]

the police seemed to be quite interested, but i doubt they will have cought him as he was off out.. but i dont know where too...

it sometimes makes me wish i could be a super hero so i could have picked his car up and crushed it so he couldnt drive it....

i will do it again..... i HATE drink drivers....

[snackbar]

My grandma lives in Bramley, wonder if she was involved

[silent]

I know the feeling.

when calling in the simple things will help the police but so man people forget to get them.

description
reg of car
make and color of car
direction of travel
distinguishing features of car and person
where last seen going

what they will have probably done if he was leaving already is put out a general obs on the radio, so if people see them they know to pull em over and test em. Quite entertaining how often they pass obs and a unit is sat right behind the vehicle already...

[gettin2dizzy]

so would anyone follow one whilst on the phone to the police? I heard that it wouldn't be classed as an offense to be on your mobile in this type of situation.

[Baph]

so would anyone follow one whilst on the phone to the police? I heard that it wouldn't be classed as an offense to be on your mobile in this type of situation.

Drunk driver gets into their car & drives away, someone else gets on their phone & gets in their car to follow.

I'd shop them both! Talking on the phone whilst driving is almost as dangerous as being drunk behind the wheel IMO!

Helping police or not, I sincerely hope that is an offence. I suspect the police would frown on it too, since there's a possibility of putting yourself in harm if the drunk driver realises you're following them.

[gettin2dizzy]

I heard it could be classed as an 'emergency situation'. I suppose you'd be narrating your journey to them like they teach you at IAM, so not as dangerous providing you've got handsfree. Mythbusters did a drink driving vs. mobile phone test a while ago and proved them as bad as each other!

[silent]

my advise is don't phone and drive, even for this situation.