Unmarked police cars, strangest you've seen?

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 31st May 2009, 07:39 PM

Not so silly, but the Mounted Police pulling a car over for DUI and too many passengers. Kings X, Sydney.

**clean32** · 31st May 2009, 08:20 PM

V8 powerd Mk4 Zepha 1982 southen motorway auckland.

Cessna 180, 1987 Desert road.
HQ holden 1987 Just after The lewis pass hits the main road 1987 cops were all in Fords.
sigma 1.6 auto 1987 Desert road ( again ) i was doing 150klm good knows what he was doing to catch up.

no more for a long time after that, no licence eather.

in the 80s NZ speed limit was cut to 80klm on the open road. the cops were trimed back as well so thay started to get quite inventive.

**Newbs-IIA** · 31st May 2009, 09:21 PM

Ferney Grove police station has it's carpark facing the road so you can see all the detective and under cover cars parked there. They have at least 2 sport utes (like xr6/ss), a couple aurions and camrys, commodores and falcons - and these are just the undercover/detective cars

**Outlaw** · 31st May 2009, 09:48 PM

I've spotted on the GC / brissy... a black H2, a blue BMW M3 (yep M3), black chrysler 300C wagon, yellow dodge nitro, couple toyota aurion's, toyota sahara and i was pulled up a few months ago for a licence check by a faded, dented grey mid-80 falcon

**yyeessno** · 31st May 2009, 10:34 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by stig0000

an new WRX droped on its guts on 20"s an blacked out , big milo tin exhuast that was loud as, temped a guy in a SS to race at the lights, the SS toke off an then the WRX pulled behind him an pulled him over,

Does anyone else see that as entrapment. Im just not sure if that is right. they should be targeting the organised street racing not some guy in an SS

Boxy

That exact same thing happened to one of my mates over in perth. He is a pizza driver with an old BMW 3 series and got tempted at the lights. It was the wrong thing on his behalf to go for the challenge, but in my mind it's not cricket.

Rangier Rover · 31st May 2009, 10:40 PM

Often see a SS holden ute on F3 Newcasle Sydney. Back in the 80s a VW Kombi in Forster NSW

Tony

Tombie · 31st May 2009, 11:41 PM

Local guy down here was overtaken and then slowed and pulled over by a HSV...

Said it came out of nowhere, he was doing 180km/h and the thing bulletted past, pulled in front, swithed lights on and slowed down...

Certainly wasnt slow!!

I've also seen a couple of WRX's, a Typhoon, and 4-5 HSVs...

**haggisbasher** · 1st June 2009, 07:57 AM

Back in the home land, Tayside police has a Volvo 850r, fully marked.....

this thing could shift. Was used on the A9 and motorway systems in the central belt. haad a mate who was ex- special branch and he said that it could do 60mph in first so they could catch up with the speedsters. Top was around the 200mph mark.

**seano87** · 1st June 2009, 09:03 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by stig0000

an new WRX droped on its guts on 20"s an blacked out , big milo tin exhuast that was loud as, temped a guy in a SS to race at the lights, the SS toke off an then the WRX pulled behind him an pulled him over,

Does anyone else see that as entrapment. Im just not sure if that is right. they should be targeting the organised street racing not some guy in an SS

Boxy

Originally Posted by yyeessno

That exact same thing happened to one of my mates over in perth. He is a pizza driver with an old BMW 3 series and got tempted at the lights. It was the wrong thing on his behalf to go for the challenge, but in my mind it's not cricket.

Yeah, I'd be calling that entrapment. You would have fair grounds to be fighting that one. But...

Whilst I don't think its right the Police would do such a thing, you shouldn't be speeding anyway - they didn't force anyone to go above the speed limit, each driver makes their own choices.

**Barefoot Dave** · 1st June 2009, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by Outlaw

I've spotted on the GC / brissy... a black H2, a blue BMW M3 (yep M3).....

I'll bet this one accounts for porsche and skyline drivers 'proving' their mettle.

Well, I'll be stuffed by the inventiveness of the various Traffic branches! Goes to show that it just isn't worth having a go.
To be brutally honest, I am more supportive of this style of policing than a $#%&** speed camera!!
Getting pulled over immediately jolts most people and the surrounding drivers by orders of magnitude.
The adds that ran in Qld ~10 years ago upon the widespread introduction of cameras went something like this:
Driver speeding and being reckless, results in a fatal crash (not accident, no such thing!).
Period of time later the driver is pictured with a destroyed life, guilt over killing, etc. receives his little piccy in the mail dated The Morning Of The Crash. It all comes flooding back, Cue: stern message.

Am I the only one who sees this as an admission that cameras only minimally affect the road toll?
Case in point.
Around the same time I received my own piccy (and a summons in 3 days time) in the post from Tassie, 2 months after returning from there. If I was a 'Speedster', what could I have done in the interveening time? How many accidents could I have caused?

For the cost of 1 camera and supporting system, we could have 3-4 more crews lurking out there to nip things in the bud.
Bring it on, I say!

/end rant
Dave.
PS .My infringement was cleared, the zone had been upgraded and records didn't reflect this. Halo intact

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