18-12-2021, 11:21 AM
(18-12-2021, 10:06 AM)John Mason Wrote: Parazine, Hope you were no driving it on the road. Custom and excise ?
John Mason
When did you last see a patrol car, never mind a C&E officer with or without a sniffer dog (or device)? ANPR has done away with the need to check MoT, road fund licence and Insurance documents so the "producer tickets" of my feckless youth have vanished.
Our local cop shop in the City of Ripon (pop.15,000 approx) closed down and moved into the Fire station, a money saving exercise I gather. I haven't seen a patrol bobby (with or without bicycle) for a year at least and judging by the number of vehicles with a faulty tail or brake light they no longer bother with minor infringements as the force is, as ever, underfunded and overworked.
While I was driving the Pembleton around with naked front wheels for two years, to and from the workshop and into town shopping I was never stopped or questioned.
The days of sharp-nosed bobbies sniffing the smell of red diesel/petrol mixture coming from a Norton 16H or BSA M20 exhaust in a traffic queue are long gone!
PS I'm not suggesting we should all start lives of crime, most of us couldn't run fast enough anyway!
