Bootboy
You know the formula, if theres someone at the pub who is driving there is always x - 1 spaces available (where x is the number of people in the group).

So 6 of my mates are drinking late one night when last orders are called and then not long after they amble out into the street. 6 does not go into 5 and so they start to discuss options:

*taxis for some
*walk home
*2 journeys

Someone pipes up with the genius idea of put someone in the boot! Its a short distance for 1st drop off so it wont even be long. A fairly eccentric mate leaps in and they take off. About 300yards around the corner they are flashed by a squad car and driver is asked to step out and come to their car.

Everyone is shitting it, they somehow knew....but how!?

Mate is taken to cop car where after a few innocuous questions he blurts out "theres someone in the boot!"

Cops are baffled, utterly fucking gobsmacked.

One steps out and walks back to mates car, "alright lads, anything you'd like to tell me". Everyone is bricking it and no-one speaks. Copper walks to the back and pops the boot, up pops one idiot with a big stupid grin on his face, "Wahe....wha!?".....

"get out will you son"

Turns out there had been some break ins around the area and the description they had was a saloon with 5 people in. Mate was seriously bollocked for:
1. having someone in the boot and
2. being so stupid as to confess

They told him they could do him for kidnapping as well as driving offences and then told him to go straight home with lessons learned. Told the bootboy to get in the back and just squish up with the rest.
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Tue 10 May 2011, 15:35, 4 replies)

Kidnapping?
Unlikely I would think, unless of course, the grinning mate decided that that's what had actually happened.
Coppers say the most idiotic things sometimes.
(dchurch bah, Tue 10 May 2011, 15:52, closed)

i think it was just to scare him to be honest

(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Tue 10 May 2011, 15:53, closed)

Why did you discuss other options
surely 2 in the front, 3 in the back and 1 in the boot is the simplest and most effective way of getting 6 people into a 5 seater car. I thought travelling to/from a pub/club in the boot was some kind of right of passage that everyone experiences a few times in their life.
(Figmaus, Tue 10 May 2011, 17:42, closed)

yeah but its illegal
so rather than impose themselves on mate, they looked to spare him the risk

i guess?

*btw i wasnt there
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Wed 11 May 2011, 8:48, closed)