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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Sixstring on 17 August 2010, 15:23:22
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Did a little "run" up to Doncaster last night,( 430 mile round trip) to get my Pikey wagon. Saw the local plods new "weapon"........
Sneaky Barstewards are using a black Subaru Forester estate with cameras front and rear in it. They park up with the bonnet up so you think its broken down, the front camera looks out under the bonnet to scuttle gap. About 1/2 a mile down the road, an officer jumps out and stops you. Video evidence, bang to rights, no defence. On the A38 towards Derby last night.
The Subaru is on a 59 plate, and had no aerials or visible signs of "plod" use.
Be Warned!!
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Did a little "run" up to Doncaster last night,( 430 mile round trip) to get my Pikey wagon. Saw the local plods new "weapon"........
Sneaky Barstewards are using a black Subaru Forester estate with cameras front and rear in it. They park up with the bonnet up so you think its broken down, the front camera looks out under the bonnet to scuttle gap. About 1/2 a mile down the road, an officer jumps out and stops you. Video evidence, bang to rights, no defence. On the A38 towards Derby last night.
The Subaru is on a 59 plate, and had no aerials or visible signs of "plod" use.
Be Warned!!
Just keep to the speed limits ;)
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Not me speeding........ I was towing a Pikey wagon at 60mph when I saw it, and LOADS of people were passing me at a lot more than that, Mr Plod had a tidy amount last night of speeders. :-[
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they have quite some kit round here, seen a fe imptretza and T5's all in coloors you would not expect.
Volvo's in dark green patroling the M1 etc
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Nice bit of country up your way Steve......
Will have to come back up sometime, Bolsover is pretty landscape, isn't it?
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They do have all sorts, some vehicles can be easy to spot...but others not so.
They do indeed have some green S60's about, I saw one recently at auction. It was a 2005 '05' S60 T5 in green, with 265,000 miles. The outside looked like it'd done 50,000...it was really good. Interior wasn't bad either.
TVP have had a few Seat Leon Cupra R's, you get a smattering of 3 and 5 series across a fair few forces...and Skoda's, Focus ST's a few Lexus'. The Met have a few Range Rover's, although very few are on standard duty, most are with the SEG or DPG.
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In Swindon they have BMW's and a Honda Civic have not seen the Omega Estate for a bit now about a year will have to ask sir plod when I see him next
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
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Mmm.....fancy an ex-plod S-MAX.................loads of room, and six speed TDi?
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Mmm.....fancy an ex-plod S-MAX.................loads of room, and six speed TDi?
I'll watch out for Kent Police getting rid SS!! :D :D :D ;) ;)
At the moment they are replacing their fleet of Skoda Octavia's for - more Skoda's!! :D :D :D :D ;)
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
I'll have to keep an eye for that one then. Was doing 145 MPH on the autobahns the other day ::)
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
I'll have to keep an eye for that one then. Was doing 145 MPH on the autobahns the other day ::)
:D :D :D :y
The S-Max is being used a lot around the ringroad and generally the local roads of Ashford Del ;) ;)
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ROTTERS!!
reckon they ought to be MADE to drive white cars with red stripes along the sides, like in the good old days!!
Dashed poor sports!!
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
I'll have to keep an eye for that one then. Was doing 145 MPH on the autobahns the other day ::)
:D :D :D :y
The S-Max is being used a lot around the ringroad and generally the local roads of Ashford Del ;) ;)
I'll keep my eyes peeled thanks LZ :y :y
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ROTTERS!!
reckon they ought to be MADE to drive white cars with red stripes along the sides, like in the good old days!!
Dashed poor sports!!
the good old jam buttie! :y :y
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So much for them being visible.
Having said that, I have done well for 10 years driving and never been caught speeding. Only a matter of time lol. :-[
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On the A55 at Broughton the other day, going West-bound though a well signed and long term 50 MPH roadwork section; I was on cruise at 49 MPH and was overtaken by a line of nose-to-tail`ers doing well over the national speed limit: the clearly visible fixed Gatso had a field day.....there`s simply no telling some people! ::)
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M5 (Mostly south)... Between J14 & 30.. Some 09 plate silver skoda's... 2 BMW 5 series 07 & 08 (08 is blue & 07 is silver) both saloons... silver T5 est and a black range rover (only seen that once & on the other carrageway...
"Damm unsportsman like I say..." I mean they get all bent out of shape if we started going to work in "Marked Cars"
... Smart weapons - thats the way forward.... and they'd fit on my roof bars :o
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The other thing i object to is being made to wait at the end of the M4 (the bit by the bus lane as you go into london) for 20 mins....whilst a convoy of 9 range rovers & 15 police bikes come past at 90..... expecting to see a glimpse of HRH or even "Phill the Greek" But no, Imagine my displeasure when a bently came past full of "ethnic diplomats" from bloody Madeupistan....
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Bloody traffic coppers participating in their favourite part of the job.....Raking in the money!!!!!
Traffic police officers.....robotic miserable Mr bean Jobsworths...every bloody one of them.
As for those skoda estates in kent....lots of leg room in the back, and very comfortable as well....even with a pair of handcufffs on ::) ::) ::)
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Bloody traffic coppers participating in their favourite part of the job.....Raking in the money!!!!!
Traffic police officers.....robotic miserable Mr bean Jobsworths...every bloody one of them.
As for those skoda estates in kent....lots of leg room in the back, and very comfortable as well....even with a pair of handcufffs on ::) ::) ::)
So my son says after a recent to do >:( Although without cuffs.
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i seem to have a knack for spotting unmarked plod in this area, and have seen a couple of cars i didnt expect to be plod, one being a toyota avensis, and one being a white BMW 3 series
my brother and his mates didnt spot a black zafira though until it pulled them over ;D
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ROTTERS!!
reckon they ought to be MADE to drive white cars with red stripes along the sides, like in the good old days!!
Dashed poor sports!!
Was just thinking along the same lines, gone seem to be the days of looking in the mirror for a 'White' car.... :D :D
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ROTTERS!!
reckon they ought to be MADE to drive white cars with red stripes along the sides, like in the good old days!!
Dashed poor sports!!
Was just thinking along the same lines, gone seem to be the days of looking in the mirror for a 'White' car.... :D :D
cos sitting there on the side of the motorway, like in the olden days in full livery only slows cars down, it doesn't bring in the fines that covert cars do.
And I thought the idea was to help us from speeding in the first place ....... :-/ :-/ :-/
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ROTTERS!!
reckon they ought to be MADE to drive white cars with red stripes along the sides, like in the good old days!!
Dashed poor sports!!
Was just thinking along the same lines, gone seem to be the days of looking in the mirror for a 'White' car.... :D :D
cos sitting there on the side of the motorway, like in the olden days in full livery only slows cars down, it doesn't bring in the fines that covert cars do.
And I thought the idea was to help us from speeding in the first place ....... :-/ :-/ :-/
Do you remember when some forces had 'cardboard' police car cut outs on motorway bridges, did the trick.. :y
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Do you remember when some forces had 'cardboard' police car cut outs on motorway bridges, did the trick.. :y
My Dad's told me about them ....... ::) ::) ::) ::) :y
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Do you remember when some forces had 'cardboard' police car cut outs on motorway bridges, did the trick.. :y
My Dad's told me about them ....... ::) ::) ::) ::) :y
Yeh right... :D :D I was talking about White ones, not Black Ford V8 Pilots.... :P :P
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ROTTERS!!
reckon they ought to be MADE to drive white cars with red stripes along the sides, like in the good old days!!
Dashed poor sports!!
Was just thinking along the same lines, gone seem to be the days of looking in the mirror for a 'White' car.... :D :D
cos sitting there on the side of the motorway, like in the olden days in full livery only slows cars down, it doesn't bring in the fines that covert cars do.
And I thought the idea was to help us from speeding in the first place ....... :-/ :-/ :-/
Do you remember when some forces had 'cardboard' police horse cut outs on bridges, did the trick.. :y
Fixed that for you V. ;D
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Recently saw a boy racer pulled by plod in a totally plain looking graphite grey Golf TDI in Llanelli. (Although, good on them for that pull. :y)
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
I did not know that :-[what about driving instructors, or do they not have them now?
I put one into Master Vamps car when he was a learner, so that I could see what was behind as well, I had not idea I was committing an offence.. :o
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
Amazing all those years the boys in blue were driving round so dangerously, it must have caused millions of accidents too.
Another one for the H&S bollix file methinks.
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Not particularly clear (or current) but you get the gist...
http://www.life.com/image/695330
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
Amazing all those years the boys in blue were driving round so dangerously, it must have caused millions of accidents too.
Another one for the H&S bollix file methinks.
Agreed, to an extent. It did get a bit bulky for a while with two full size rear view mirrors and a chunky 1980/90 style video camera hanging from the roof. There was a fair old potential blind spot that you had to work around...
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
Thought were not aloud to mention them on here any more ;D ;D
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
Amazing all those years the boys in blue were driving round so dangerously, it must have caused millions of accidents too.
Another one for the H&S bollix file methinks.
Agreed, to an extent. It did get a bit bulky for a while with two full size rear view mirrors and a chunky 1980/90 style video camera hanging from the roof. There was a fair old potential blind spot that you had to work around...
See what you mean but surely at the top of the screen it's a less used area, unless you spent all day chasing the force helicopter.
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Many parts of Cumbria use modest spec silver Skoda estates. The usual giveaway is a total lack of dealer or other window stickers, Magic ~Trees??? or anything else civilians might carry in thier car.
In other words plain cars are just too plain!!!! ::)
Look for the extra 'bump' on the top of the passenger mirror. Not allowed to have interior passenger rear view mirrors these days... ;)
Bit difficult to see some times H21 but why no interior rear views :-?
For the same reason why air fresheners from the interior mirror cause it to fail an MOT - it obstructs the drivers view of the road ahead.... ;)
Amazing all those years the boys in blue were driving round so dangerously, it must have caused millions of accidents too.
Another one for the H&S bollix file methinks.
Agreed, to an extent. It did get a bit bulky for a while with two full size rear view mirrors and a chunky 1980/90 style video camera hanging from the roof. There was a fair old potential blind spot that you had to work around...
See what you mean but surely at the top of the screen it's a less used area, unless you spent all day chasing the force helicopter.
I have been searching google images for something suitable but nowt available yet.
Imagine the standard mirror fitment for the driver.
Then add a same size mirror for the observer attatched and hanging directly beneath and pointing in completely the wrong direction.
Then a 80's/90's Hi8 camera hanging beneath that again. Your available screen in the centre is getting distinctly crowded, Cap'n... ;)
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I get what you mean B.
I was thinking of them mounted along the top of the screen rather than one below the other.
Still makes you wonder how we managed to survive so long before the H&S brigade were here to save us all though.
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This is the only kind of relevant pic I've got H21, it's from an 'X' reg Omega saloon that was in service with TVP.
It only has one mirror, but has the camera shown.
(http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv110/joshwyatt/tv157.jpg)
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No problem with all that ANPR, which is a constant distraction to Police Drivers. You cant legally have a DVD playing, but the 'old bill' can watch the next episode of 'Police Camera Action' even before its been filmed.
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
I'll have to keep an eye for that one then. Was doing 145 MPH on the autobahns the other day ::)
WOW :D :D :D ;D
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
You know the colour of this LZ?
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
You know the colour of this LZ?
Blue ;) ;)
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Don't ever look at any motor on the road and think to yourself ' There's no way thats old bill ' .
Around our way I've seen the rozzers driving around in a brand new dark blue Ford Transit van!!!!
My house is right on a main road and late one night when I got up to have a piddle I looked out the window and saw this van just slowly cruising up the road, it got my attention just because of the slow speed it was doing.
During the next week or so I saw it a few more times late in the evening and started to think that they were either burglers cruising around looking for targets or drug dealers trying to be clever.
Imagine my suprise one night when I was out taking the dog for a walk and it came tearing up the road behind me with sirens blaring and blue flashing lights behind the front grill!
Sneaky sods :o
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If it's any help, the m56 is being targeted by mobile camera teams at the moment. Since Monday, every day there has been mobile cameras on the bridges. The cunning sods only have one man with a tripod up there, by the time you see him you'll have been nabbed.
They must be making a fortune as there are loads that go down the m56 at warp 9.
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Down here we have a light blue Volvo S60, a Seat Leon Cupra, quite a few Skoda Octavia VRS', a green BMW X5 and a black BMW X5, all of these unmarked, there'll be more than that I'm sure too. Tell tale sign is the aerials which is what I look out for, for when I'm doing under the speed limit, so I don't get pulled for curb crawling ::)
................and a Ford S-Max Del; it has stopped a lot of people!! ::) ::) :D :D ;)
You know the colour of this LZ?
Blue ;) ;)
Thanks Liz :-* :y
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Not just using cars or bikes but also undercover trucks, well tractor unit anyway, as shown on Police Camera Action tonight...... ::) ::) ::)
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Not just using cars or bikes but also undercover trucks, well tractor unit anyway, as shown on Police Camera Action tonight...... ::) ::) ::)
It was a good one tonight :y