White van man gets his come-uppance

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:54:08 GMT, "neil0502"
wrote:

Mike VM wrote (in small part -- liberal excision involved):

I took his number, got another witness and /grassed him up to the local
plod/ [emphasis added]

I really *do* have to visit the U.K. some time!

While I have absolutely no idea what that means, I'd really be tickled just
to hear it in person :-)

The origin of "grass" is not entirely clear. Most probably it's a
contraction of the Cockney rhyming slang "grasshopper" for "shopper",
meaning an informer, that is someone who makes visits to the "cop
shop". "To shop" someone also means "to inform" on them in British
slang.

The "plod" are the police. I think this derives from the character of
Mr. Plod the policeman in the Noddy stories by Enid Blyton.

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:58:27 GMT, The Oldfellow
wrote:

Smoking in bars in California is illegal.

It might be so in England before long. Ireland has done it and
Liverpool is now thinking about it.

On 23/10/04 7:53 pm, in article ,
"Dave Kahn" wrote:

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:54:08 GMT, "neil0502"
wrote:

Mike VM wrote (in small part -- liberal excision involved):

I took his number, got another witness and /grassed him up to the local
plod/ [emphasis added]

I really *do* have to visit the U.K. some time!

While I have absolutely no idea what that means, I'd really be tickled just
to hear it in person :-)

The origin of "grass" is not entirely clear.

Of course, one has to be careful about these things. There is a big
difference between smoking out a grass and smoking grass.

Now, one could get grassed up to the plod for flogging something that had
been half-inched, at which point it would be apposite to leg it when one is
approached by the old bill.

...d

(Mike VM) wrote in message . com...
About this time last year I was cycling along a road in White City,
when a white van, unable to wait a few seconds for me to pass by a
traffic island, veered across to the right hand side of the road,
hooted at some children legitimately crossing the road from the
island, causing them to leap back onto said island, and then drove by
on the wrong side of the road, ignoring the keep left sign.

I took his number, **got another witness** and grassed him up to the local
plod. The wheels of justice immediately sprang into action, and this
week he was fined £300, and got six points on his licence. (His
statement to the court showed he considered he had done nothing wrong,
and that the children were at fault for having the effrontery to cross
the road when he wanted to drive across it the wrong way).

Just thought you'd like to know that just occasionally some impatient
plonker who endangers other road users gets what's coming to him.

Don't get angry, get corroboration!

Gonzalez wrote:
Smoking in bars in California is illegal.

What about having sex in a bar?

I wonder which is more common.

I know someone who got barred from a pub in Edinburgh for having sex, I've
never seen anyone smoking in a bar in California.
Never been to California ;-)
--
Mark

1x1 wheel, 3x2 wheels & 1x3 wheels.

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:40:58 +0000 (UTC), "the.Mark"
wrote:


I know someone who got barred from a pub in Edinburgh for having sex

I hope they waited till he was finished.

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

David Martin wrote in
:

On 23/10/04 7:53 pm, in article
, "Dave Kahn"
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:54:08 GMT, "neil0502"
wrote:

Mike VM wrote (in small part -- liberal excision involved):

I took his number, got another witness and /grassed him up to the
local plod/ [emphasis added]

I really *do* have to visit the U.K. some time!

While I have absolutely no idea what that means, I'd really be tickled
just to hear it in person :-)

The origin of "grass" is not entirely clear.

Of course, one has to be careful about these things. There is a big
difference between smoking out a grass and smoking grass.

Now, one could get grassed up to the plod for flogging something that
had been half-inched, at which point it would be apposite to leg it when
one is approached by the old bill.

Wouldn't want to end up before the beak?

--
Chris

On 23/10/04 10:59 pm, in article ,
"Monkey Hanger" wrote:

David Martin wrote in
:

On 23/10/04 7:53 pm, in article
, "Dave Kahn"
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:54:08 GMT, "neil0502"
wrote:

Mike VM wrote (in small part -- liberal excision involved):

I took his number, got another witness and /grassed him up to the
local plod/ [emphasis added]

I really *do* have to visit the U.K. some time!

While I have absolutely no idea what that means, I'd really be tickled
just to hear it in person :-)

The origin of "grass" is not entirely clear.

Of course, one has to be careful about these things. There is a big
difference between smoking out a grass and smoking grass.

Now, one could get grassed up to the plod for flogging something that
had been half-inched, at which point it would be apposite to leg it when
one is approached by the old bill.

Wouldn't want to end up before the beak?

Why, What time does he get up?

boom, boom

...d

the.Mark opined the following...
I know someone who got barred from a pub in Edinburgh for having sex

Was he having sex in the pub, or did someone just get jealous 'cos they
weren't getting any?

Jon

Dave Kahn wrote:
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:40:58 +0000 (UTC), "the.Mark"
wrote:


I know someone who got barred from a pub in Edinburgh for
having sex

I hope they waited till he was finished.

It was a she. And no, I don't know if she had finished. It was a long long
time ago.
--
Mark

1x1 wheel, 3x2 wheels & 1x3 wheels.