Thought about putting this in General Chat, but I guess it is car related (plus I like to spread my posts around!)
I was driving in Luton yesterday afternoon. An unfamiliar town to me, so I had the GPS going to direct me to a party. It told me to turn right at some traffic lights. Some dilly-dallier was in front of me at the lights, seemed to have less of a clue than me and was just crawling forwards at 2mph. Turned out he was doing a u-turn on a "NO U-TURN" junction.
So, to signify that he was a silly man for wasting valuable seconds of my time I gave a quick toot on the horn. In the excitement (I was bemused at the colourful language coming out of my friend's mouth, beside me) I didn't notice it was a rather funny-shaped junction and ended up taking a rather scenic route.
The police car behind me happened to notice this erratic fashion, and since they were now in front of me (it was an "interesting" route I took round the junction) they pulled over, let me past and then followed me for the next mile. Presumably my manoeuvre had the hallmarks of a drunk driver/joy-rider, and they were checking that it was just a slip-up, to see if I would bolt or what have you. Good thing too, and I had nothing to fear if they had stopped me (other than a telling-off for not getting the junction right).
What I am wondering, and perhaps Thermo can shed some light on this: are they trained to drive at a fixed distance behind a suspect car? Only the police car stayed a fixed distance behind me no matter what speed I drove. I even tried driving quite slowly (20mph in a 40mph limit) and there he was, a clear 50 yards behind me with no intention of gaining on me.
I was driving in Luton yesterday afternoon. An unfamiliar town to me, so I had the GPS going to direct me to a party. It told me to turn right at some traffic lights. Some dilly-dallier was in front of me at the lights, seemed to have less of a clue than me and was just crawling forwards at 2mph. Turned out he was doing a u-turn on a "NO U-TURN" junction.
So, to signify that he was a silly man for wasting valuable seconds of my time I gave a quick toot on the horn. In the excitement (I was bemused at the colourful language coming out of my friend's mouth, beside me) I didn't notice it was a rather funny-shaped junction and ended up taking a rather scenic route.
The police car behind me happened to notice this erratic fashion, and since they were now in front of me (it was an "interesting" route I took round the junction) they pulled over, let me past and then followed me for the next mile.
Presumably my manoeuvre had the hallmarks of a drunk driver/joy-rider, and they were checking that it was just a slip-up, to see if I would bolt or what have you. Good thing too, and I had nothing to fear if they had stopped me (other than a telling-off for not getting the junction right).What I am wondering, and perhaps Thermo can shed some light on this: are they trained to drive at a fixed distance behind a suspect car? Only the police car stayed a fixed distance behind me no matter what speed I drove. I even tried driving quite slowly (20mph in a 40mph limit) and there he was, a clear 50 yards behind me with no intention of gaining on me.
