I got woken up by the Feds today!

db

#chaplife
i was lying in bed this morning, having just been woken up by my clock/radio, and was gently dozing while thinking of ways i could get away with murdering scott mills when i heard a knock at the door.. my door rarely gets knocked on, especially at 07:20 in the morning, so as you can imagine i was up like a shot, wondering who it might be..

i opened the door, only to find a copper in full police regalia stood on my doorstep..

"dirty?" he said.. now, i was always taught that in these sorts of situations never admit who you are, as you have no idea what they are there for or what you are admitting to.. so i simply responded, "sorry?"

"dirty bobby?" he asked.. clearly, my aforementioned training went out the window, as i firmly and positively answered "yes," and just in case this wasn't enough, for some reason i cemented it with a more definite "yes, that's me".. well done, idiot..

"i have a warrant for your arrest."

brilliant.. 7 o'clock in the ruddy morning and someone is trying to arrest me on my own doorstep..

alas, it's nowhere near as dramatic as it sounds.. last april, i came home to stafford to celebrate my birthday.. i came out of BBC's house on the morning of my birthday, to find a ticket slapped on my windscreen as i was apparently infringing the new "No Waiting" zone that had castletown residents up in arms last year.. obviously, being my birthday, and considering the state of my head as a result of the previous night's shenanigans, my reaction was "bitch, please :roll: " and i never thought about it again..

clearly i had no intention of paying it.. clearly the babylon had other ideas lol.. my car is still registered to an address i haven't lived in in years (yeah, i'm lazy), so all the court summonses and warnings of arrest had been going to that address, unbeknownst to me.. which is how we arrive at this morning, with PC Plod stood at my door trying to bang me up in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison..

how would i possibly avoid this punishment? quite easily, it turns out.. he gave me a lift to the nearest cash point, i paid him £45, and that was the end of it lol..

:cops:
 

Andreas Rex

Banned for smiling
By jove...what an episode! What would have happened if you hadn't had any money to pay him?? Straight to the slammer?? :eek:
 

cookie_monster

Well-Known Forumite
dirtybobby said:
how would i possibly avoid this punishment? quite easily, it turns out.. he gave me a lift to the nearest cash point, i paid him £45, and that was the end of it lol..

:cops:
so why didnt you just pay the ticket in the first place thus avoiding all this palaver?

waste of your time, bobbies time, courts time and think of your carbon footprint for all those undelivered letters etc!

:cops:


x
 

FooFighter

Well-Known Forumite
Andreas Rex said:
By jove...what an episode! What would have happened if you hadn't had any money to pay him?? Straight to the slammer?? :eek:
If he hadn't paid up, I'd have got dirtybobby soap on a rope as a birthday present.

oh and advised not to go into the greenhouse
 

Andreas Rex

Banned for smiling
I think the moral of the story is always make sure you have at least £45 in yer pocket or the bank, or you're buggered!
 

Sofa

I'm a Staffooooooordian
That sounds nearly as horrific as waking up and hearing yourself on the radio.
 

db

#chaplife
cookie_monster said:
so why didnt you just pay the ticket in the first place thus avoiding all this palaver?
a) i got the ticket on my birthday, so wasn't inclined to care
b) it was in stafford, and my car was registered in a different county, at an address i hadn't lived at in years.. i figured it would take the feds forever to track me down so might as well ignore it..
c) i figured even if they did track me down, the worst that would happen is they would just ask me for the fine, so why bother rushing myself?

it was hardly a palaver! the guy gave me a lift to a cash machine, and i handed over the same amount i would have owed had i have paid up front.. in fact, paying when i should have been would have been way more effort, because i would have had to actively approach them rather than the other way round!

cookie_monster said:
waste of your time, bobbies time, courts time and think of your carbon footprint for all those undelivered letters etc.
yeah, liam was collecting the letters for me.. the pile is about 5ft deep so far i think lol..

come on cookie, when have you ever known me to care about a "carbon footprint" lol..
 
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