You know how some people just have the knack of getting away with it?
Well.....having booked my RST in for its MOT tomorrow morning, this afternoon I decided it would be a good idea to go fill the car up with fuel and check the tyre pressures at my local garage, to save bothering in the morning.
I have to admit I did think twice about doing so and I knew I ran the risk of getting stopped.
Acht its only a few miles to the petrol station, it will be cool, Right?!
So off I went, It was the first i'd driven the car on the road with Zetec Turbo engine installed and I have to say it feels great!
I arrive at the fuel station fill it up & sort the tyre preassures and off home I head.
So there I am heading home a total or maybe 10miles traveled and guess what I see?
You guessed it traffic cops in a fully marked up BM!
Im less that one minuite from home and just knew that they were going to follow.
So I take a bit of a detour and take the less obvious road(which happens to pass my brothers house) hoping they arent quick enough off the mark and assume i've taken the other (main) road WRONG!!!
They did follow and did stop me. CAPTURED!
So with their blue lights on I pull over, it happened to be right outside my brothers. After having checking my Tax, I'm then asked to take a seat in the back of their car, fortunatly I had my Driving Licence and Insurance docs in the car, so i grabbed them and produced them.
Knowing that I'd been pulled about the tax I decide that the best policy is to be honest with them. I explain the situation and acknowledge that I know im in the wrong
Looking at my driving licence the question is then asked "what are you doing here then?"
out blurbs "my brother lives here"
"You werent going to see your brother though were you" I think I was asked?..............told is maybe more accurate!
"um NO!" I replied
Some how I then manage (and I cant remember exactly how) to admit to trying to evade them by taking a non direct route home....oppps
To my surprise I am then thanked for my honesty and done with driving without displaying a current tax disk £60 fixed penalty.
Driving without a current MOT certificate £60 fixed penalty.
Whilst in the car I said to the copper, "to be honest I knew it was a chance I was taking, I saw you sitting there and guessed that with the technoligy you have I was going to get stopped"
The driver politely replied "I was the technoligy"
I guess an old RS Turbo must just have set off his radar, acht well!
Its a risk I knew I was taking, just shows you that in my case
"I wont just get away with it" lesson learned.
Thinking about it now, in a way im fortunate I could have had my car taken away, I guess being so close to home helped.