Mobby
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Registered: 31st Dec 07
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Got a section 59 on friday and on saturday we were pulled over and they took the car off me 
Why the fack do they need to take our cars off us, he also said that next time it is taken i will not be given it back! i mean who are they to just take it off you completely, what badgers. surley they should have points etc put on you licence instead of taking alot of money off you and it stays with the driver and car!
Some times the rozzers are just plain wankers.
Rant over.
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alan-g-w
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Registered: 9th Nov 07
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What's a section 59?
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
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whaaaaat were you doing?
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
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so you got section 59'd on friday, but the pulled you over to take the car off you on saturday?
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
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Is this where you come back and say you werent doing anything wrong? They wouldnt take it for nothing.
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Adam_B
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quote: Originally posted by alan-g-w
What's a section 59?
Vehicles used in manner causing alarm, distress or annoyance .(1)
Where a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle is being used on any occasion in a manner which— .
(a)
contravenes section 3 or 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) (careless and inconsiderate driving and prohibition of off-road driving), and .
(b)
is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public, .
he shall have the powers set out in subsection (3).
(2)
A constable in uniform shall also have the powers set out in subsection (3) where he has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle has been used on any occasion in a manner falling within subsection (1). .
(3)
Those powers are— .
(a)
power, if the motor vehicle is moving, to order the person driving it to stop the vehicle; .
(b)
power to seize and remove the motor vehicle; .
(c)
power, for the purposes of exercising a power falling within paragraph (a) or (b), to enter any premises on which he has reasonable grounds for believing the motor vehicle to be; .
(d)
power to use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of any power conferred by any of paragraphs to (a) to (c). .
(4)
A constable shall not seize a motor vehicle in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section unless— .
(a)
he has warned the person appearing to him to be the person whose use falls within subsection (1) that he will seize it, if that use continues or is repeated; and .
(b)
it appears to him that the use has continued or been repeated after the the warning. .
(5)
Subsection (4) does not require a warning to be given by a constable on any occasion on which he would otherwise have the power to seize a motor vehicle under this section if— .
(a)
the circumstances make it impracticable for him to give the warning; .
(b)
the constable has already on that occasion given a warning under that subsection in respect of any use of that motor vehicle or of another motor vehicle by that person or any other person; .
(c)
the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that such a warning has been given on that occasion otherwise than by him; or .
(d)
the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that the person whose use of that motor vehicle on that occasion would justify the seizure is a person to whom a warning under that subsection has been given (whether or not by that constable or in respect the same vehicle or the same or a similar use) on a previous occasion in the previous twelve months. .
(6)
A person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (3)(a) is guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. .
(7)
Subsection (3)(c) does not authorise entry into a private dwelling house. .
(8)
The powers conferred on a constable by this section shall be exercisable only at a time when regulations under section 60 are in force. .
(9)
In this section— .
“driving” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52);
“motor vehicle” means any mechanically propelled vehicle, whether or not it is intended or adapted for use on roads; and
“private dwelling house” does not include any garage or other structure occupied with the dwelling house, or any land appurtenant to the dwelling house.
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Ellis
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Registered: 11th Sep 07
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Aaaah they're a needless wait of time, I had one many moons ago for 'excessive acceleration' - amounted to nothing.
If you re-offend then perhaps things may become difficult.
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alan-g-w
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Cheers Adam. Right Mobby, spill the beans.
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
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yup spill, im all years
[Edited on 06-07-2009 by gez c16b]
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Mobby
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Registered: 31st Dec 07
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Iv got a 1.8 corsa, its very hard to be a angel on the road
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Dont be stupid and it wont get taken off you.
They arent just pulling random people over and taking cars off them.
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Ben J
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quote: Originally posted by mobby
Iv got a 1.8 corsa, its very hard to be a angel on the road
So you were being a cock then.
And you probably deserved it?
And wtf does engine size have to do with it. Just because its got a 1.8 doesn't mean you have to drive it like a nob?
[Edited on 06-07-2009 by Ben J]
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mwg
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So really they aren't wankers then? As you were obviously doing something wrong
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Ellis
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Driving stupidly in the wrong place basically mobby?
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Dan295
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quote: Originally posted by mobby
Iv got a 1.8 corsa, its very hard to be a angel on the road
yet people with M5's manage? hmm tricky one
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Adam_B
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Pete_vxl
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quote: Originally posted by mobby
Iv got a 1.8 corsa

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Mobby
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Registered: 31st Dec 07
Location: Leicestershire
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i performed a slight wheel spin while turning around, that is all!
But they shouldnt be able to keep your cars just for one complaint!
Is this the thread where everyone acts like tehy do the speed limit and drive sinsible everywhere, we dont do this to cars to drive slow
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Think you've just been Mobby'd.
TBH no one is saying they dont drive over the limit or sensibly everywhere...but then again we arent the ones at risk of having our cars impounded.
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
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Pulled.
A.
Mobby.
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Dan295
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Registered: 9th Oct 06
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i dont understand why you made this thread tbh?,
either you want to brag about having your car taken away from you or your looking for advice on how to contest the offence? im thinking its the latter
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
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they took your car off you for a slight wheel spin... bit OTT
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Mobby
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Registered: 31st Dec 07
Location: Leicestershire
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Just a rant tbh, them taking it away and you having to buy it back is understandable but taking it away to be sold / crushed is wrong. im on my last chance so i cant really drive the way i used to.
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
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depends if it was a slight wheel spin or a BWAAA-AAA-AAA spin out of a chocker makkies car park
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Mobby
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quote: Originally posted by AlunJ
they took your car off you for a slight wheel spin... bit OTT
Honestly thats what it was, they said if a member oif the public phone in to comlain then id would be taken off me, with no proof or nothing. i mean they could lie FFS
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