Fialure to observe a Stop line.
All very good humoured, les flics.
Kerching!
All very good humoured, les flics.
Kerching!
EUR 90 lighter in the wallet department.....
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Bugbear
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The actual procedure, I kid you not, is to stop, put at least one foot down and wait .......................4 seconds.
Count it out, its a ridiculous time to spend at a clear junction.
Watch out for the impatient 'numpties' behind you too.
Count it out, its a ridiculous time to spend at a clear junction.
Watch out for the impatient 'numpties' behind you too.
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Criminal!!!
Twice over.... One previous, me lud.... Injudicious use of the forward motion control on a Sunday morning.
It seems to be 90 Euro vino vouchers for most 'minor misdermeanors'..... Glad I had all my papers to hand, though he didn't ask to see my driving licence nor certificate of insurance. Like most French policemen he couldn't read English; for instance I had to point out my address on the V5.
No papers in France is second only to murder and three up the scale from buggery with undomesticated animals.
It seems to be 90 Euro vino vouchers for most 'minor misdermeanors'..... Glad I had all my papers to hand, though he didn't ask to see my driving licence nor certificate of insurance. Like most French policemen he couldn't read English; for instance I had to point out my address on the V5.
No papers in France is second only to murder and three up the scale from buggery with undomesticated animals.
Bugbear
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Sorry mate I wasn't doing a "teaching to suck eggs'" thing, just posting for anyone who may not be aware of this stop-sign stuff.
Sorry mate I wasn't doing a "teaching to suck eggs'" thing, just posting for anyone who may not be aware of this stop-sign stuff.
I thought the latter was de rigeur en France, or is that just buggering the dead ones?
It's probably the same (or even worse) all over Europe.
I got so used (and happy) to drive around with just my driving license that last time I went back home on the motorbike, I forgot the V5 safe in it's binder on a shelf at home. I realized it only on my way back to UK and I drove with the constant fear of being stopped even just for a standard paper control.
An Italian, on a German bike, British plate with no papers. That would have been painful.
LBL
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Fialure to observe a Stop line.
All very good humoured, les flics.
Kerching!
Same for me Richard
stopped at the till of a nice French restaurant on Saturday night
i too was 90 Euros lighter
Our Gee
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We too are just back from a couple of weeks in France doing a "house sit" for some friends. Couldn,t believe just how bad the standard of driving is now. Every time I "stopped" at the "Stop " sign at the bottom of the road I was expecting to get shunted up the rear. We where passed many times on blind bends with solid centre lines by everything from bikers to 40ft artics. No matter what pace we drove at (to the point of making my passengers uncomfortable) someone was right up my rear striving to overtake.The French are some of the most helpful, pleasant and courteous people but put them in a vehicle and they are bloody morons.
Or maybe you drive *really* slow.
Just out of interest whereabouts was did this misdemeanour occur Wapping? And where we're they hiding.
Our Gee
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Or maybe you drive *really* slow.
Well, not really, I do make progress depending on traffic and road conditions at the time. It was the blatant disregard for basic safety and common sense that I didn't like mainly as I said above , in overtake situations. I pointed out our observations to our friends on their return and they said, "well now you know why there is an abundance of roadside floral tributes and why the french manage to kill 50% more people on their roads than the Brits do" And that's with a similar population number and twice the land area and far better roads to play with. Apologies for drifting off the tread topic.
2 gendarmes on bikes parked up in the slip road to the local supermarché Saturday morning, standing behind a nice hedge with a perfect view of the crossroads 300m away, so two bites of the cherry for anyone comming their way , rode past them 6 times in the 4 1/2 hrs they were there ! They were totaly invisible from either junction, they left at lunchtime !!!!
Just out of interest whereabouts was did this misdemeanour occur Wapping? And where we're they hiding.
Exactly here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wie...=HXOwil46ypBo1vrJEZn6IQ&cbp=12,355.32,,0,8.07
Turning right at the junction of the D191 Av. de Beaupre with the D241 Av Ferber, in Marquise not far from Calais. It's in a small town.
I must have been through the junction 100 or more times. Scroll the view across to the left, you can see that it's a really open junction as you approach it from the direction of Wierre-Effroy.
You can look to your left, see that there is nothing coming and turn right. It's quite safe to do so. Plod hides about 100 meters down the road to your right, obscured by the bushes, near a very convenient parking bay. Right where the 4X4 is in this shot: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wie...R9sTxvY5UsP5bufxA&cbp=12,23.74,,0,-10.64&z=16 You can't see them because of the angle and all the danger comes from your left.... so you concentrate looking to the left, not unnaturally. Plod knows this, so it's like shooting fish in a barrel.... Kerching!
It's actually safer than stopping (unless something is coming, obviously) as it's easier to look left as you approach the junction. Rather than stopping, when the bike is then pointing right and you having to crane your neck leftwards.
PS Possibly the funniest thing is that I usually stop in Wierre-Effroy for a coffee. Had I done so plod would may have been gone by the time I got there. I didn't as we were in plenty of time, so I intended to stop instead at Cap Gris Nez just past Marquise.... Never change plans!!!
I should have added that it was a touch damp on Sunday in the Pas de Calais region, too.
Bright and sunny where plod were standing though. I suspect they might have been less zealous with the application of the Highway Cod (as he called it) had it been hammering down....
Bright and sunny where plod were standing though. I suspect they might have been less zealous with the application of the Highway Cod (as he called it) had it been hammering down....
I should have added that it was a touch damp on Sunday in the Pas de Calais region, too.
Bright and sunny where plod were standing though. I suspect they might have been less zealous with the application of the Highway Cod (as he called it) had it been hammering down....
Of course! A good copper, even a French one should never get wet - its the law!
I am heading into St Malo then off down to Massif Central across and back up via Belgium, inspired by your jaunt last year. The weather is looking 'iffy' throughout the whole of Europe, but fingers crossed that it might improve.
Enjoy your forthcoming trip, hope the weather holds for you as well....
Fialure to observe a Stop line.
All very good humoured, les flics.
Kerching!
The offence is not spotting les flics - I know they can be good at hiding and they do seem to have bionic vision. One spotted me putting my seat belt on as I was driving along a good 200 metres before I saw him.
They also believe that bikes should always be doing at least 100mph everywhere and if you're not they try to encourage you.
