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Finally... This has to be the first time I have seen a complete ****tard get busted on the road. It wasn't by a cop though.

I was driving home with my gf and a housemate, when suddenly a van in the right hand lane going north over Gladesville bridge swerved through the solid lines and cut in straight front of me in the left lane. At first I just thought he was an arsehole/prick, but then he started drifting out of his lane repeatedly.

This continued for around a km up Victoria Rd (I dropped well back), when I then noticed a red ute with red lights on top in the lane to my left. It was a fire department ute. I'm not sure if he saw the first incident or not but it was obvious to everyone that this guy was off his face on something.

The ute then put his lights on and siren and flashed his lights. The guy in the van took another half minute or so to realise that he was being pulled over and finally pulled over. We didn't stick around to find out what happened then.

Now, I don't think that fire department cars can't book people, but after thinking about it I'm pretty sure he radio'd ahead for a cop and then when confirming that one was on its way he would just pull the guy up and detain him until the cop could come along and book him. Or if he couldn't detain him (legally or otherwise) then just follow him and keep radioing the cops with where they were at.

I hope the guy gets the book thrown at him!

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benm Grand Master

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Thats a first, never heard of that happening before.

Hopefully the cops didn't take as long to arrive at the scene as they did on Friday night when I witnessed a head-on accident at a local trouble-spot set of lights. basically a car turning right at a set of lights and didn't see the car coming the opposite direction (it was hidden behind a car that was turning right also in the opposite direction which was waiting for me to go around the corner) anyhow... I called the cops and told em about the headon (I was still driving) and then it took me 5mins to turn and go back and see if they were ok. I waited for 18+ mins and still no police arrived, luckily the accident didn't end up being serious but if it was the drivers both would have been dead.

JimX Grand Master

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It was actually shitting me off for awhile, because that stretch on Victoria Rd often has a booze bus on it on weekends. I was thinking how lucky that SOB was to not get done then and there, and even when I saw the fire dept ute I was cursing that it wasn't a cop car. Then he put his siren and lights on, which just made me smile.

Another lesson learned here is don't hoon around fire dept vehicles :cheers:

sewid Grand Master

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I think your assumption that he would've called for some police to attend the scene would be right. The fire brigade have no powers like this but if the van driver was drunk then a slight bluff on the part of the firey would have fooled him and maybe prevented some disaster.

A van almost ran me off the road as well on Sunday, I was along side him and his beaten up 1980s toyota van decided he wanted to be in my lane despite my horn and swerving and near locking up. Then he gives me the finger as if I was in the wrong. :D

The Mafia Grand Master

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well think about it this way.

Even if a Fireman pulled this guy over and detained him (and he wasn't legally allowed to do so) do you really think the cops are going to care?

The cops are going to thank the fireman and treat him with much respect because these guys are all on the same team. Cops, Fireman, Ambulance Officers etc.

So the cops wouldn't care at all.

Good on the fireman I say. That dude could have killed someone. Man, if there was a guy swerving all over the road in front of me, driving dangerously, looking very very drunk, I would have called the cops myself.

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must have been a weekend for it.

a little further down the road, city side of the ANZAC bridge, I came about 2 mm away from being sideswiped in my new baby. just goes to show you have to look after yourself out there cos heaps of people just don't watch what they're doing.

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