I have not yet had occasion to interact with UK police. On our 2006 visit to
London, they were all over the place, all of them in full kit with automatic
weapons. There never seemed to be fewer than two, though I seem to recall
seeing the occasional standard-issue bobby—maybe I was hallucinating. While in
Scotland, I saw four police cars in two weeks. Two parked, one rolling past our
inn on Skye, and one with someone pulled over on the motorway between Stirling
and Glasgow. The parked unit was in Killin, and didn’t move in two days. Come
to think of It, I’m not sure I ever saw a light on in the small station there.
Maybe it was an inflatable car, just to keep motorists on their toes.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A good chap. I remember driving a friend’s horrible old Vauxhall 101 in
> London in the early 70s: we had parked just off Piccadilly Circus and I
> drove off without switching on the lights. Some police stopped us, let me
> understand the error of my ways and then let us go. It was a Saturday, it
> was just before midnight and we had been to the pub. There was no hint of
> checking my state of inebriation (not high, as it happens). I still remember
> that incident when I walk across Piccadilly Circus . . .
>
> I’d better check my light bulb spares.
--
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