3 Genuine and funny stories

[Lee]

My Sister came to see me at the weekend and we were having a catch up and a laff about some things that have happened. The following 3 true stories always make me smile, i hope they can bring a smile to your faces too:

FIRST is a true story about a mom and a wrong car, but i swear it is so ridiculous, its unbelievable. However, I can vouch for its authenticity as i know the mom involved.

Happened in Solihull in the West Midlands. Mom parks in car park behind the high street and goes shopping. After hours of shopping (had gone dark) she returned to her car, packed her shopping away into the boot and drove off. On the way home she had an accident and damaged a number of cars (bumps and bruises only for people). Police arrived and were taking her details and realised that the owner of the car was not the same as the details she was providing. Obviously a little dazed the Mom couldn't understand what on earth they were on about.

It transpired that the Renault Clio she was driving was not her car, although hers looked identical, hers was actually still in the car park. The Moms keys had somehow managed to open up the wrong car (perhaps on same frequency is only thing that could be reasoned upon) and this was a freak occurrence. However, it transpired later on at the police station (overlooked initially) that it was even stranger than first thought, as the car she had driven off was in fact LEFT HAND DRIVE.


SECOND is a little story back from when i was about 10/11 years old and is about my sister. We left home to go on a family holiday to the coast and proceeeded to the motorway island, as we took our exit a hitchhiker was holding up a sign saying "M6 North". My sister sees this guy and says:

"awww poor man, what a boring job, does he have to stand there all day cos the sign has fell down?"


THIRD is concerning my Dad. He was charged twice (separate offences 15 days apart), one for driving too slow and one for driving too fast. Driving too fast was doing 34 in a 30 and driving too slow was 48 in a 60.

On the "too slow" charge he was on a dual carriageway with no other cars in sight (he guarantees this 100%), he noticed that a police car was behind him with its blue lights on, however he thought this was because he was towing something and not to pull him over (in 30 years of driving he has never been stopped by the Police). The Police called for backup as they presumed he was not going to stop and maybe drunk etc.

As he neared an island at the end of the carriageway, he was forced to brake sharply as 2 traffic cars stopped in front of him. He was asked to get out of the car, as he did (he would be very flustered with this, oh the embarassment etc.) he stumbled and this only added to them thinking he had been drinking. After 2 breath tests and walking in a straight line it was agreed that he had not been drinking.

When asked:

OFFICER: "why are you driving so slowly on a busy carriageway"
DAD: He replied "busy? i havn't seen another car for 3 miles"
OFFICER: "Why didn't you stop, when we put our lights on"
DAD: "I thought you was towing something"

And the best one which makes me laff writing about it, you have to know my dad to really appreciate it:

OFFICER: "Why are you only driving at 48mph in a 60mph zone?"
DAD: "I'm not in a hurry"

In the end he was charged with driving too slowly and fined £30, no penalty points. He said that the token gesture fine was more to justify them having involved 3 squad cars than for any offence he had committed.

Final insult happened about 6 months later, when they added speed cameras and bought the speed limit down to 50mph.

[Sark79]

 

[mikkyT]

On the "too slow" charge he was on a dual carriageway with no other cars in sight (he guarantees this 100%), he noticed that a police car was behind him with its blue lights on, however he thought this was because he was towing something and not to pull him over (in 30 years of driving he has never been stopped by the Police). The Police called for backup as they presumed he was not going to stop and maybe drunk etc.

Funny story But as to never being pulled over, thats just luck. The police can pull you over without reason and if you see blue lights flashing, stop! He might have a minimal excuse because a siren was not used to attract attention, but they could have done him with failure to stop if they had been arseholes. A common occurance/

[Lee]

Funny story But as to never being pulled over, thats just luck. The police can pull you over without reason and if you see blue lights flashing, stop! He might have a minimal excuse because a siren was not used to attract attention, but they could have done him with failure to stop if they had been arseholes. A common occurance/

Totally agree Mikky, it wasn't a dig at the Police. His thinking is, im doing 50mph on an empty road, why on earth would a police car want to stop me (he was 62 years old). It just didn't click in his mind as it doesn't with older guys sometimes. He gets blonder by the day.

It was more a sequence of events than anything as my Dad has never had a crash in a car, never had any penalty points, never been stopped etc. IN FACT HE MUST BE SAGA's IDEAL CUSTOMER.

He also had 5 years of being called "handbrake hackett" after parking his 2 week old astra at the top of a hill to make a phone call. On coming out of the phone box, the car had disappeared and was soon to be found at the bottom of the hill, the handbrake had given way.

[mikkyT]

ahahhaha! I always had visions of that happening every time I parked on a hill lol. Never did though