What would you do?

Traumadoc

I was in the queue to pay the toll on the M1 heading South ('74, 911). A guy gets out of a blue van ( passenger side) runs up to me and asks me to pull over once we are through the Toll. I ask why and he says he wants to talk about ZV registrations.
I reply I would not and he seemed quite upset about this.

Am I being paranoid?

Gary ITR

Would have done the same as yourself tbh. What kind of idiot wants to stop for a chat on the M50 anyway? Who knows you may have been carjacked

andyj22

Weldone good choice i always always say go on your instinct you did.

Adam

Eric318

Yes, there is being nice and being silly. You did the right thing.

I had people stop me at cross roads just to have a chat when driving the Traction. Silly ands dangerous.

Dades

If the guy had been driving some sort of classic - maybe you could have stopped.

But I think you definitely did the smart thing.

corktina

did the van have a towbar I wonder?

cormee

You were right not to stop, no one in their right mind would expect someone to stop on a motorway to discuss car registrations!

I nearly came to blows with some idiot on the same motorway, on the exit ramp and despite my screaming at him to stop he insisted on 'cleaning' my windscreen with some filthy liquid inside a spray bottle. God only knows what it was. This was just after I had spent a few hours cleaning the car. :mad:

mustang68

Actually I would believe that he wanted to talk about zv plates, some people can go a little bit stupid when they see a classic, and *must* talk to you about your engine, what fuel you use, where you got it, or what reg you have.

I was driving (as in traveling at about 80k) on the m50 when a motorbike pulled up beside me and proceeded to ask me questions. :eek:

Also on the m50 people passing you by will be so enamored with your car that while passing you out, they will suddenly jam on the breaks and match your speed, while your coming up fast on someone wandering along the inside lane at 40k.

Once in the rain and the dark on winding country roads I had a car follow me for about 15k, every more obscure turn I took, he followed, until I got to the house I was staying, drove into the drive way, breathed a sigh of relief. He drove on....then turned back and came up the drive way, got out of his car walk up to me (rain, dark, me trying to look brave!), and said...................... "I'm not the police, would you be interested in selling your car". Needless to say I didn't.

AsphaltRisin'

Traumadoc wrote:

I was in the queue to pay the toll on the M1 heading South ('74, 911). A guy gets out of a blue van ( passenger side) runs up to me and asks me to pull over once we are through the Toll. I ask why and he says he wants to talk about ZV registrations.
I reply I would not and he seemed quite upset about this.

Am I being paranoid?

To be fair that's an odd thing for him to do. I wouldnt have talked to him either. If a person wants to talk to you about your car or anything else for that matter they should at least try to do it in a way that doesnt make them look like some kind of nut job or thief/vandal

Abelloid

I've had a guy chase me on a moped to ask about the car, but asking you to stop on a motorway to talk about reg. plates is just daft, I wouldn't stop.

Anan1

I think i'd stop, assuming I wasn't in a hurry. That said, I can fully understand why someone else wouldn't.

8~)

Next time you spot a blue van up ahead in a queue, run up to it and bang on the window and ask the occupants if they will pull up and discuss their van.

See how upset they get...!

2cv

8~) wrote:

Next time you spot a blue van up ahead in a queue, run up to it and bang on the window and ask the occupants if they will pull up and discuss their van.

See how upset they get...!

You'll probably get shot!!!
:-)

AsphaltRisin'

2cv wrote:

You'll probably get shot!!!
:-)

Ha ha ha or get a punch out the window... a polish lad i know was sitting in his friend's hilux one day and some lad ran up from a car behind and came to his window, poor polish lad thought yer man wanted to hijack them or rob him so he just punched the guy straight in the face before he could explain himself. Turns out he was a friend of the driver but my polish friend reckoned that since in poland he'd be very worried about someone approachin your car in that way he was better safe than sorry.... :eek:

2cv

AsphaltRisin' wrote:

my polish friend reckoned that since in poland he'd be very worried about someone approachin your car in that way he was better safe than sorry.... :eek:

Hehehehehehe


No comment!!!

Wishbone Ash

Regardless of his intentions, it would have been illegal anyway (any very dangerous).