So I put blue flashing lights on my bike & rode through the town centre.

[Vapin' Joe]

There's nothing that pi$$e$ coppers off more than some twat pretending to be one of them. Mr Kipling may find himself assuming the position in order to facilitate an intimate body search at some point in the future.

 

[MisterStan]

Mr Kipling may find himself assuming the position in order to facilitate an intimate body search at some point in the future.

One can only hope.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

[QUOTE="Mr_Kipling, post: 3229157, member: 38059"For the record, I was not trying to impersonate any emergency service.

Er... yes you were.[/QUOTE]
Was I? I did not have any sign saying ambulance ect.... I did not claim to be anyone other than a guy on a bike with white and blue lights.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

There's nothing that pi$$e$ coppers off more than some twat pretending to be one of them. Mr Kipling may find himself assuming the position in order to facilitate an intimate body search at some point in the future.

Who said anything about pretending to be a cop? Police are not the olny ones who use blue lights in the UK.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Was I? I did not have any sign saying ambulance ect.... I did not claim to be anyone other than a guy on a bike with white and blue lights.

It would be an interesting, if futile, argument to watch. You were riding about in the dark with flashing blue lights on your bike. That's what the police (and, agreed, other emergency services (although I'm yet to see a fire bike) do). People expect that you are an official because that's what you are pretending to be. You'd be nicked for it and probably end up in court. Much the same as you only need to wave a gun shaped object around to be done for gun crime 'I never said it was a real gun' isn't a valid argument.

Equally, much like TV is the only thing correctly depicted on TV programs, the judicial system gets really upset about people pretending to have their authority. Some might say disproportionately so. So you would be lucky to get a 'don't do it again sonny'.

A spiffing wheeze, and one struck off the bucket list. But I wouldn't let yourself get addicted to it.

 

[classic33]

Actually those blue flashing lights were sold in Argos as “cycle lights” about three years ago, and you can still get them here

http://www.myled.com/p1528-rear-tai...m1CYa1PON-IrWiGQCWuGmn9dDAFM0TqDTUS2RwaAjEw8P

ASDA have had them on sale more recently.

 

[classic33]

It would be an interesting, if futile, argument to watch. You were riding about in the dark with flashing blue lights on your bike. That's what the police (and, agreed, other emergency services (although I'm yet to see a fire bike) do). People expect that you are an official because that's what you are pretending to be. You'd be nicked for it and probably end up in court. Much the same as you only need to wave a gun shaped object around to be done for gun crime 'I never said it was a real gun' isn't a valid argument.

Equally, much like TV is the only thing correctly depicted on TV programs, the judicial system gets really upset about people pretending to have their authority. Some might say disproportionately so. So you would be lucky to get a 'don't do it again sonny'.

A spiffing wheeze, and one struck off the bucket list. But I wouldn't let yourself get addicted to it.

http://www.southwales-fire.gov.uk/English/yoursafety/arson/Pages/BikePatrols.aspx

 

[ufkacbln]

Er... yes you were.

Was I? I did not have any sign saying ambulance ect.... I did not claim to be anyone other than a guy on a bike with white and blue lights.[/QUOTE]


... and to the average Joe Public seeing a bicycle with flashing blue lights what are they going to think?

a. It is a Police or emergency vehicle
b. It is simply a cyclist having a bit of fun?

It would be very difficult to prove that this was simply an accidental similarity

 

[wiggydiggy]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9GZVHd1qs

All my life I wanted to have blue lights on my bike through traffic. I'm 33 and the other week I though to myself 'why not just do it', so I did. I got some blue lights from amazon, put them on my bike, put my GoPro on there too and had a great time through a town centre at night. The Law here is a grey area to the best of my understanding even if I got/get caught, it was well worth it, even if I have to pat the max £1000 fine. For the record, I was not trying to impersonate any emergency service. Any light on your bike at night is better then no light!

Ah good I think the other idiots were getting lonely on my ignore list.

Loser.

 

[RhythMick]

Why did you not include what you were shouting "whoop whoop its da sound of da Police" "whooo whooo ner ner nere wooo wooo" "evening all" "Book him Danno"

Bit early for second childhood?

For the record, it's never too late or early for second or subsequent childhoods...

 

[mustang1]

Anyone remember this horn?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/kmr4b2k

 

[andrewpreston]

Each to their own but I'd rather spend £1000 on a decent bike than playing coppers. Years ago,when Joseph was a carpenter and I was a copper, a colleague reported a security man for misuse of a amber beacon because he was seen as trying to impersonate an emergency vehicle.

 

[The Jogger]

Look like you were going quite quick for an oldie.......

 

[pplpilot]

A grade A Twat.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

A grade A Twat.

Thank You.