jobsworth copper
I got a letter from the crown prosecution service the other day. After carefull consideration, they have decided not to prosecute me over a "dangerous driving" offence I committed a while back. Presumeably due to them realising what a fuucking joke the whole case was.
I really hope the jobsworth coppers got an earfull for wasting time and resources for it, but I would bet on it

A friend called me a while back, her battery was flat and the car needed jump-started. I went out to help her.
Its hard to explain by text so look at the hastily-drawn diagram here...

www.asvq82.dsl.pipex.com/diag.JPG

Hers was car B, parked at the side of a one-way street. I was in car A. The wee arrows on the cars show which way they were facing.

Half-way through getting her car started, a police car pulled up and things went down-hill from there. They reckoned they were going to charge me with dangerous driving. Bear in mind they never saw me sitting in the car at any point so i wasnt even "driving" at the time. They said I had driven the wrong way up a one-way street.
Technically speaking I am guilty, As you see from the diagram, I parked on the corner with the car facing into the street. The only other way I could have started her car was to go round the one-way system and park next to her, which would have blocked the road totally. Once the car was started I was just going to turn accross the mouth of the junction and carry on along the street I had arrived by. The position I stopped in wasnt even 1 car length into the street. The coppers wouldnt listen to reason though. I had driven up the street and that was that.
They took my details, breathalysed me, and told me I would hear about the charge in due course.
Surely if it was dangerous driving, I should have been arrested at the scene?
anyway, at least someone at the CPS has some common sence and threw this out before it got to court.
(dave likes cheese, Thu 12 May 2005, 19:59, Reply)