| Friday world wide challenge 11:39 - Feb 28 with 4594 views | bluelagos |
Wonder how many different countries we can cover where we have had interactions with the local plod.
1. On spot fine for illegal u turn. Nigeria
2. On spot fine for crossing on a red man. Czech Republic.
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| Friday world wide challenge on 11:40 - Feb 28 with 3568 views | Swansea_Blue |
We're not all serial criminals like you  |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 11:49 - Feb 28 with 3522 views | Guthrum |
Got narked at for driving too far across the inspection line on the border of California.
Also spoken to for not carrying my passport in the Czech Republic. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 11:56 - Feb 28 with 3512 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Friday world wide challenge on 11:49 - Feb 28 by Guthrum |
Got narked at for driving too far across the inspection line on the border of California.
Also spoken to for not carrying my passport in the Czech Republic. |
The Yanks are a pain in the butt. I got a right boll*cking crossing the border from Canada into America because we had a packed lunch. Cue complete search of the car as if we were smuggling drugs under the chassis. They wouldn't even let us eat the lunch there and then. | |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 12:01 - Feb 28 with 3505 views | BiGDonnie |
| Friday world wide challenge on 11:49 - Feb 28 by Guthrum |
Got narked at for driving too far across the inspection line on the border of California.
Also spoken to for not carrying my passport in the Czech Republic. |
I got done by about 20 Spanish policeman, walking back late at night in the middle of nowhere for not carrying my passport.
The fun part was they were all smoking hash, they let me go but wouldn't let me have a couple puffs. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 12:01 - Feb 28 with 3502 views | RobTheMonk |
We got ushered on by armed German police in Berlin about 7 years back after New Year. It was about 7 in the morning and some drunk guy was coming down an upward moving escalator, and basically ended up tripping into what I can only describe as a forever tumble (he wasn't hurt). We were laughing so hard that the plod came over. |  | | |
| Friday world wide challenge on 12:04 - Feb 28 with 3499 views | Steve_M |
First day in Cape Town in late 2009, each of us walking to a restaurant drinking beer. Just a polite warning from the police not to do so on the street. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 12:06 - Feb 28 with 3485 views | positivity |
| Friday world wide challenge on 12:04 - Feb 28 by Steve_M |
First day in Cape Town in late 2009, each of us walking to a restaurant drinking beer. Just a polite warning from the police not to do so on the street. |
driving in uk 20-odd years=one speeding fine
driving in new zealand 1 month=two speeding fines |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 12:08 - Feb 28 with 3474 views | eastangliaisblue |
Speeding fine in Romania.
Never did pay it. |  | | |
| Friday world wide challenge on 12:09 - Feb 28 with 3473 views | Meadowlark |
I was "detained" by the Dutch plod for a little while in Enschede when we played FC Twente in 1973.
"Too much Dutch beer? Yah!"
To be fair, I think they were just checking that I was OK, but my memory of the incident is a bit blurry. |  | | |
| Friday world wide challenge on 12:13 - Feb 28 with 3458 views | NthQldITFC |
In the forum index page, your first sentence is cut off thus:
'Wonder how many different countries we can cover where we have had int'
I was genuinely convinced that on opening the post, the next letters were going to be 'ercourse?'
Just goes to show one shouldn't jump to conclusions. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 12:17 - Feb 28 with 3448 views | allezlesbleus |
1) "Alledged" driving offences with South African police
2) Walking along a pavement early evening, in Belgrade, prior to the FC Sartid match, when from out of no-where 2 police cars drove up onto the pavement and several Serbian policemen piled out and demanded our passports. They immediately left all smiley and happy after we had presented them. Bizarre how they didn't just get a "bobby on the street" to ask us for our ID.
3) A rookie copper got stroppy with me many years ago in Ipswich, when I had climbed a tree in a drunken state, outside the former EADT offices. Rather than just giving me a ticking off, he went off on one in a power trip in his new uniform. I had only just returned from a weekend drinking session in Glasgow, so when he asked me for my details, I gave them to him, but in a strong Glaswegian accent...…..after I told him where I lived (which was in Ipswich), he replied "What, with an accent like that!" to which my mates rolled about on the floor in hysterics. Eventually, his superior officer arrived on the scene to see what the problem was. I explained in my normal accent that I had had a bit too much to drink and apologised for being a tw*t and climbing the tree and he let us on our way. The rookie copper was fuming that I had been such a tw*t with him, but totally sensible to his superior.
4) Ticking off from French police for having a bonfire in my garden.
All very tame. Just waiting to see the numerous posts on this from Lord Lucan...……. |  | | |
| Friday world wide challenge on 12:48 - Feb 28 with 3406 views | Swansea_Blue |
EdwardStone's army story reminded me of something I'd completely forgot. Not the plod, but army.
Doing my masters fieldwork in north India, happily wandering round a valley on my own mapping stuff. Next minute an army jeep pulls up in a cloud of dust and I'm bundled in the back at gunpoint. I'm taken into a local compound and eventually end up in the office of some high ranking military commander, whilst being flanked by two tooled-up soldiers. I'm quizzed about what I'm doing and then read the riot act that I should have let them know as the land I was on is restricted military zone (I had no idea, not shown on maps). We then have a cup of chai and natter about the cricket before him sending me off with an offer of the use of a jeep/driver if it would help speed up my work. | |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 12:54 - Feb 28 with 3395 views | Coastalblue |
Ticket for being parked backed into a parking space and also a fine for not paying tolls in the States.
I thought I was in for a serious shakedown in Cuba when half a dozen soldiers stopped us in the back end of nowhere, they just wanted to share a cigar and practise some English.
Oh, and not really international, but a Police escort off the island of Sark and I think I might still be banned from there. That was quite a night. [Post edited 28 Feb 2020 12:56]
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| Friday world wide challenge on 13:15 - Feb 28 with 3363 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Spain a couple of years ago, got a parking ticket in a little town called Vejer, literally jumped out of the car to pop into a shop. The policeman and his colleague spoke no English and my Spanish was limited to asking for a beer. A lot of gesticulating resulted in a friendly bar owner acting as an interpreter. 30 minutes later, they and i calmed down, 60 Euro fine reduced to 30 if we paid at a bank within 2 days.
Kos many years ago after a group of us had an altercation with some very drunk German fellows. A couple of them were nicked. We were just told in no uncertain terms to leave the area, which we duly did. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 13:18 - Feb 28 with 3358 views | BigManBlue |
1. Stern warning from Latvian coppers for riding my bike like a tw*t
2. Fine from Polish coppers for not having the right tram fare
I'm a right hard man me... |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 13:28 - Feb 28 with 3331 views | Pecker |
I was the first suspect in the JFK shooting. Luckily managed to pin it on some foreigner who didn't have a clue what was going on. |  | | |
| Friday world wide challenge on 14:29 - Feb 28 with 3286 views | NewcyBlue |
1.Got a telling off by Ukrainian police for dancing with some Ukrainian monsters women in a club. Was told to disappear very quickly.
2. Romanian police got very upset with me when they came to do some checks in port. I offered the use of the lift, got no response so marched them up 10 flights of stairs. I was banned from Romania for that. The next voyage they had forgotten me.
3. American police for “jaywalking”.
4. Panamanian police for walking around in port, I shouldn’t have been walking around. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 15:44 - Feb 28 with 3263 views | WeWereZombies |
1. Tunisia - bullying a policeman because the army wanted me to (see the 3 things no other TWTD's thread)
2. Netherlands - almost done for hitchhiking on a motorway slip road - pleaded that we could not see that it was a motorway and when he realised we were not Dutch I don't think he could be bothered with the paperwork.
3. Spain - not exactly an interaction but in the early 1960s as a seven year old witnessed the Guardia Civil beating a tramp in a doorway with their rifle butts.
4. South Africa - avoided the fine for parking in the opposite direction to the traffic flow because a cafe owner warned us about it before we were even through the door. However was told that my driving licence was not legal at a police spot check, had to explain to her that United Kingdom driving licences do not look like South African ones.
5. USA - not police but I was thrown off one of those little imitation trains at Disneyland that ferry you to the car park because I had jumped on it whilst it was moving.
6. Nicaragua - Altercation with a border guard because I tried to pay the exit fee with a less than perfect ten dollar bill. I got a bit too upset about this and incurred a fair degree of ill feeling from the five hundred or so people behind me in the queue. Took hours to get out of that one, worse border crossing ever.
7. Jordan - Upset a policeman on a dam simply by being a passenger in a taxi (see scariest person you have ever met thread), kept quiet and felt glad that we were allowed to carry on. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 15:51 - Feb 28 with 3258 views | NewcyBlue |
| Friday world wide challenge on 15:44 - Feb 28 by WeWereZombies |
1. Tunisia - bullying a policeman because the army wanted me to (see the 3 things no other TWTD's thread)
2. Netherlands - almost done for hitchhiking on a motorway slip road - pleaded that we could not see that it was a motorway and when he realised we were not Dutch I don't think he could be bothered with the paperwork.
3. Spain - not exactly an interaction but in the early 1960s as a seven year old witnessed the Guardia Civil beating a tramp in a doorway with their rifle butts.
4. South Africa - avoided the fine for parking in the opposite direction to the traffic flow because a cafe owner warned us about it before we were even through the door. However was told that my driving licence was not legal at a police spot check, had to explain to her that United Kingdom driving licences do not look like South African ones.
5. USA - not police but I was thrown off one of those little imitation trains at Disneyland that ferry you to the car park because I had jumped on it whilst it was moving.
6. Nicaragua - Altercation with a border guard because I tried to pay the exit fee with a less than perfect ten dollar bill. I got a bit too upset about this and incurred a fair degree of ill feeling from the five hundred or so people behind me in the queue. Took hours to get out of that one, worse border crossing ever.
7. Jordan - Upset a policeman on a dam simply by being a passenger in a taxi (see scariest person you have ever met thread), kept quiet and felt glad that we were allowed to carry on. |
I upset a border guard in Ghana by not being able to give an address in Ghana where I had been staying.
I did point out that I had just got off a ship, he suggested I give him an address or I wouldn’t make my flight and would be in jail until I could.
I wrote down “32 Main Street, Team” and that was good enough for him. | |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 15:55 - Feb 28 with 3255 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Friday world wide challenge on 12:17 - Feb 28 by allezlesbleus |
1) "Alledged" driving offences with South African police
2) Walking along a pavement early evening, in Belgrade, prior to the FC Sartid match, when from out of no-where 2 police cars drove up onto the pavement and several Serbian policemen piled out and demanded our passports. They immediately left all smiley and happy after we had presented them. Bizarre how they didn't just get a "bobby on the street" to ask us for our ID.
3) A rookie copper got stroppy with me many years ago in Ipswich, when I had climbed a tree in a drunken state, outside the former EADT offices. Rather than just giving me a ticking off, he went off on one in a power trip in his new uniform. I had only just returned from a weekend drinking session in Glasgow, so when he asked me for my details, I gave them to him, but in a strong Glaswegian accent...…..after I told him where I lived (which was in Ipswich), he replied "What, with an accent like that!" to which my mates rolled about on the floor in hysterics. Eventually, his superior officer arrived on the scene to see what the problem was. I explained in my normal accent that I had had a bit too much to drink and apologised for being a tw*t and climbing the tree and he let us on our way. The rookie copper was fuming that I had been such a tw*t with him, but totally sensible to his superior.
4) Ticking off from French police for having a bonfire in my garden.
All very tame. Just waiting to see the numerous posts on this from Lord Lucan...……. |
Oi
Not that many I don't think to be honest. Are we talking charges or just being spoke to? |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 16:01 - Feb 28 with 3244 views | Sikamikanico |
After clearing customs in Cuba there were military personal checking your declaration forms as you left.
We were nearly refused entry as we had declared my wife's prescription drugs (as the form said to). They stood their saying "Drugs! Drugs!"
It took 10 minutes of broken Spanish and an officer being summoned before we were allowed in.
I assume people who regularly go there never declare prescription medication | | | |
| Friday world wide challenge on 17:31 - Feb 28 with 3211 views | bluelagos |
| Friday world wide challenge on 15:55 - Feb 28 by Lord_Lucan |
Oi
Not that many I don't think to be honest. Are we talking charges or just being spoke to? |
Anything from being pulled for speeding to being arrested, charged and convicted for say pitch encroachment :-) | |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 17:35 - Feb 28 with 3201 views | Mullet |
In Vancouver "What do you mean I can't cross here?"
"I'll have to give you a ticket that's jaywalking"
Off I walked. No ticket. One very confused policelady.
Searched our van at Croatia's border for "crack! heroin! cocaine!" so the big bloke with a machine gun and passable English kept shouting. My mate tried to joke around with him which was funny to watch.
Still not sure if they were police or military as they basically dress/are armed the same in the Balkans it seems.
Nearly got run over by a Turkish copper on his chopper. Apparently that was my fault for being around the corner on a cobbled street.
One I'm not proud of. My mate backed the same van from Croatia into a parked car in some rural town in Germany. Smashed the headlight. He had a panic attack, so we ended up sticking 50 euros under the wiper and drove off as no one was around. 10 mins down the road the police were cruising past and missed us as I saw them from a distance and pulled into a lane, before going off the main road until in the clear. |  |
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| Friday world wide challenge on 17:42 - Feb 28 with 3185 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Friday world wide challenge on 17:31 - Feb 28 by bluelagos |
Anything from being pulled for speeding to being arrested, charged and convicted for say pitch encroachment :-) |
What about having a stern talking to or being tear gassed as a group? | |
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