{"id":95,"date":"2007-08-23T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-23T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:57:13","slug":"police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Police car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished a return trip to Brighton where I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/Lotus-Elise.jpg\" title=\"Lotus Elise\">Lotus Elise<\/a> being used as a Police car.  A friend of mine had one for a year and it was the most impractical car you could ever have, blindingly fast but very impractical.  It wouldn&#8217;t go over the smallest bump in the road without damaging the nose or grouding somewhere else &#8211; just forget trying to get over a speed hump.  It could carry a Tesco plastic bag as luggage but not a traffic cone.  And the rear seats &#8230;. what rear seats.<\/p>\n<p>So what possible role could an Elise play as Police car?  No good round the town picking up shoplifters and taking them back to the station.  No good as a patrol car where they carry accident signs etc.  No good over any sort of road surface unless it&#8217;s a race track.  No good as a motorcyle replacement because it&#8217;s too wide.  In all it&#8217;s about as much use as a chocolate teapot!<\/p>\n<p>PS I&#8217;ve just done a google on this I&#8217;ve found why they&#8217;ve got this car:-<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Paul Masterson said: &#8220;The idea is that drivers will come to us and have a chat.  We generally turn up at events where youngsters hang out. With this vehicle they actually come over and want to talk to us.  Then we introduce the road safety message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next they&#8217;ll be buying a <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/Neoplan-Starliner.jpg\" title=\"Neoplan Starliner\">Neoplan Starliner<\/a> so the bus drivers come over for a chat and a road safety message!<\/p>\n<p>There is more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/mostpopular.var.1541374.mostviewed.police_panda_is_140mph_lotus.php\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished a return trip to Brighton where I saw a Lotus Elise being used as a Police car. A friend of mine had one for a year and it was the most impractical car you could ever have, blindingly fast but very impractical. It wouldn&#8217;t go over the smallest bump in the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}