Interesting Police item today...

[TomWilko]

Driving back from work [well my dad was driving, i was a passenger today!] and we were driving through one of our local towns [Ilkeston for reference to Nottingham people!] and we were travelling down a long straight road...30MPH limit.

We crossed sort of a bridge structure and tucked away inside the bridge was a nice white van, obviously police and watching traffic. The way it was doing with this was like 2 satellites facing up and down the road that were about football sized on top of a tripod sttod away from the van itself with wires leading into the back.

Round the very next corner [a sweeping bend that u can not see round as u drive down the road] a Police roadblock was present and they were pulling in cars and doing what seemed like a search. [one family had all there belongings on the floor by the side of the car!!!]

My dad thought it was a speed trap, he was doing 35 following a car and the car he followed got pulled in but my dad was waved on by!

Whats the bet on what this was then?

[Skeps]

Maybe they had a tip off on a vehicle known to be full of drugs or something, and the car they pulled over matched the description?????????

[doctor_prox]

Did the vehicles that were pulled over have anything in common, colour, shape etc or do you think it was just random.

[Rave]

The satellite things were brain scanners, they were pulling anyone in who was comitting thought crime.

Rich :¬)

[Raz316]

I've been through something similar! I assumed it was some sort of speed trap where they stopped you further down the road. Im a bit suprised I wasn't stopped now, seeing as I drive a black lowered BMW, they are trying to get me for drug dealing but they havent been able to prove it yet

[DaBeeeenster]

They do that in Islington sometimes, but I'm pretty sure it's to try and stop people driving around with drugs/weapons whatever.

They always stop non-whites. It's really obivous and quite bad IMHO.

[Skii]

Possibly a census, they wer doing them round my way for ages - never stopped me though

[Tumble]

cos they could never catch ya, thats why isn't it?

[TomWilko]

Did the vehicles that were pulled over have anything in common, colour, shape etc or do you think it was just random.

One car i think was a Nissan Sunny and the other was a Alfa 156 jobby

They do that in Islington sometimes, but I'm pretty sure it's to try and stop people driving around with drugs/weapons whatever.

They always stop non-whites. It's really obivous and quite bad IMHO.

Funny that, the Alfa was a white businessman on his own but the family which had all their stuff over the pavement and were all at the side looked possibly Afro-Caribbean.