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ok in the general chat the guys are talking about having the cops pull up at the wrong time when the car breaks down so ithought it would be a interesting topic to start.

well mine is was with a mate in an old HJ45 landbogger it was unrego and the batttery was flat, but we got it going and drove it to the servo t pump the tyres.

on the was home we went the back streets and he decided it would be a good idea to drive up a grass bank, he did so and as he rolled back he stalled it taking off( was getting third and first confused) anyway just as we get out and say, "gee it would be funny if the cops came around the corner" not even 10secs later a cop car come!!!!! we sh!t our selves.

all they did was tell us to get it off to the side and call for help and drove off!!!

few lucky it was night, now any one else??

bryan

hehe....

doing some fishies up a very wet gravel rd (read an inch or so of mud on top) hit a big pothole at speed, with the wheels turned and it busted a strut top (MY) and fell outta the strut tower enough to make horrible noises/drive very badly.

so pulled over to the side for a look see, confirmed the bad news and proceeded to jack the car up to reposition the strut and drive home very carefully.

whilst repositioning sam decided to drive through the mud on the side of the road and proceeded to get nicely bogged, so he was going backwards and forwards trying to drive outta this mud.

and low and behold who should rock up now.... oh yes, the cops

so now the story was i was just driving along the road, hit the pothole and the suspension broke, and sam parked next to me to keep off the road

they didnt believe a word of it, so i thought it was a good idea to point out the tyre marks going straight for about 50m, then hit a pothole, then pulled left to where i was, almost made a good story too untill they then askes about all the other tyre marks on the road swerving from side to side and going round in circles.

ended up with them just giving us a warning and told me to get a tow truck or something to pick the car up, so away they went, we finished up repositioning the strut, sam eventually drove himself out of the mud and we went home

the end.....

we were doing donuts on the local beach in daylight when the cops turned up and somehow managed to drive there commodore out on the beach

they pretty much told us to get off then told us they cant charge us with anything because the beach is not a road so no laws apply

so we go away scott free
would have been much funnier if they had of got bogged i would have laughed and kept driving

I know of a person who was in a no rego sti with no licence doing a photo shoot with plates of his other wrx and was accused of graffiti and sorts (photo shoot was in a condemned area with large amounts of graffiti) cops searched cars involved found nothing. Obviously bored and on a power trip gave them a hard time thinking they had the better of them :P only to drive off without checking licences or rego.

Gosh they are a bright bunch.

This happened years ago at the Mooloolaba spit. Went at a "fast rate" over some speed bumps in my 1600 Mark 2 Escort and broke the right rear leaf spring. The wheel was resting on the guard and the jolly hoppers turned up after we parked to investigate the damage.

The wheel arch was touching the tyre. Some "subtle" leaning in front of the wheel arch by my friend blocked their view. They pulled me up on a steering wheel that a had a small chunk taken out of it - and that was it.

That was a very slow trip home

Not really an opps, but a few mates and I were out mud bashing in our cars (my first subie, my mate in his KE38 corolla) and came across a car stashed in the bush (private land but not ours). Decided to do the right thing and called the cops. Cop came out and asked if his car would make it to the spot. Told him the KE38 had been doing it all day but he didn't want a bar of it. Jumped in with me in my subie, KE38 leading the way. Got to a snotty hill, bloke in KE38 a bit of a wheel, skipped up with his tail wagging, I followed with copper in the subie. Got the the top and copper turns to me and says '****, that bloke in the corolla can drive can't he' just as he scoots sidways between a tree and a fence, narrowly missing both. Made it to the stashed car. Copper hops out and says 'yeah, this one is stolen. Thanks lads but if you can take me back to my car now, i'll get the tow truck out here in a couple of days when its a bit drier'.

Didn't ask if we knew the land owner, or why we were out there.

I thought this was an oops but it took me while to work out it wasn't.

A year or so ago I had just shoved the EJ22 and blower into the old Wonder Brumby.
Caught black handed with the bonnet up @ the servo by the new (brand new) Sergeant.

Caught me a beauty too, leant right in adjusting my timing (one foot on the bull bar..deep in the back near the steering shaft).

"That looks clean"...(leading bloody question) he said.
"I spend alot of time on it, alot of it is freshly replaced, cough cough."

"Should go well"
Now I am worried.

I suggested it towed the boat without drama and was good offroad while trying to get the bonnet down ASAP!

The WB1 was rego'd as a number of EA81's but never got around to getting the '22 engineered.
Bit of a sphincter moment.

I was ASSUMING he had the same level of Subaru nous that the average Policeman had.
Duh, don't assume.

The new Sergeant has grabbed two parts off me since.
He has the bug, a white Gen 2 Liberty sedan with white mags, an RX I believe. Big exhaust.
In the past he has swapped out his EJ22 for a JDM replacement (and as such knew DAMN WELL what he was looking at..blower included).
He gave me the old '22 as a core for bits, thanks Adam.

Both local Cops love the WBII, I get hearty waves.

Rules of life I try to live by...don't tell fibs...try to be polite.
Gets you further down the track.
Especially with Policeman.

i went down to preston beach for a few nights with some mates to have a good time... that weekend a group of people in preston beach had deliberatley run over and killed many kangaroos in the national park in the area and i happened to be driving in the area at the time the police was there searching, he looked at my car and arrested me for killing 4 kangaroos and clubbing another, took my licence, took my car, took me to coppa station and charged me $1000 for something i didnt do.....took them to court got everything back and a formal apology from a now retired police officer who was having a bad day

so much for trying to have a good weekend away

dave

Hey Dave,
Believe it or not I saw that on the news down here; mongrel act it was, I am sorry you got caught up in that.
It made national news.
The Police must get the facts correct, before they go arresting folks.

All good in the end I hope (except for the roo's..they were tame I heard).

ive a couple subaru/cop stories to tell.

very recently on his way home - a friend in a rexie (straight thru zorst) decided to come my direction instead. took off a lil sideways from the lights only to see two bobbing flashlights come towards the roadout of nowhere- turns out to be 2 piggies. and they had a whole stash of like 20 cars in their little booking pen with a tow truck ready to go too because there was actually a skyline cruise on right there lol he got a rather large fine on hoon laws.

another story was when i got my first yellow sticker. was at leavers and car was blowin a little steam/smoke out the zorst so i pulled out of the caravan park with my mate in escort slow as, on the way to the mechanics to suss it out. i see two cops on bikes pull into the park. almost at the mechanics and they come back pull me over and yellow sticker straight up. said some bull**** about emissions hurting the environment - when i found later it was just steam. wouldnt believe i was on way to get it fixed- a bottle of seal up later and she was right as rain for the rest of the time i had her.

on the second canary with current wagon 3 weeks after getting illegal 3" lift kit in, at the pits i thought i was gonna have dramas with its height like at the last pits etc especially when the first thing the inspector cop says is "ah a jacked up subaru!" i was thinking the worst but then stangely no more mention was made of the kit. they were more perplexed with my flutter!