geesmith wrote:
Not as exciting as the time we had a gun pulled on us on the M1 just after we'd joined it from the M25.......
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Reminds me of a time during my truck driving days, 20 odd years ago now
Had been in Europe for the week and was driving up the motorway back to Birmingham where I got the loads from. Fairly busy traffic, when suddenly three or four Police cars zoomed by all of us on the hard shoulder, pulled into the traffic, and set up a very slow rolling road block
Once they'd got this in place, the rear doors of all cars opened and Police marksmen hung out with what looked like automatic weapons trained on all the cars (and one lorry - me!) at the front! One of them made a hand signal to "stay back" which some old bloke misinterpreted as "come on". He went to try to pass them, and was cut off as he did so, with a copper leaping out and giving him a right old telling off
Two or three minutes later, three more Police cars, followed by an armoured articulated truck, followed by three more Police cars sped by on the hard shoulder. The original cars then whizzed off after them
Turned out later (after talking to other truckers) that this was a truck full of used banknotes on their way to be incinerated. Apparently happened weekly! Must have been a fortune worth to warrant all the protection!
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