Road Wars

The One With the £80 Penny (6x16)

Uitzenddatum: Nov 11, 2008

Waller and Kev are in Bracknell, on their way to assist with breaking up a whopper fight as there’s no one else available. When they arrive, there’s only a guy with a mop and bucket, who redirects them, and they find a lone officer attempting to break up an ongoing argument. They’ve all been drinking, which has clearly exacerbated matters, and one of them is happy to fight with anyone going – though they’re happy to let him on his way if he just shuts up. Though he won’t, and is at risk of being nicked. Indeed, he is so mouthy that Waller has the pepper spray ready in case the almost inevitable arrest turns nasty. It doesn’t however, but the bloke still won’t shut up and happily insults everyone around him. Things aren’t improved when the arrestee’s brother refuses to submit to a drugs search and is also put in the van, thus transferring the noise from the streets to the nick. Kev and Waller are now out and about near Windsor and get behind someone whose driving is rather erratic. Being the time of night that it is, it’s likely that she’s had a few too many – but she takes an astonishingly long time to stop as she seems intent on getting her car into her drive, and they end up stopping her mere metres from her house. She takes a few attempts at the breathalyser before finally getting the idea and providing a positive sample, and is arrested. She is insistent on getting her car into her drive, but they won’t allow her to do it as she’s now officially unfit, so Kev kindly does the honours. Once back at the nick, however, she’s discovered to be double the limit and will have to spend the rest of the night in a cell. Simon and Conrad are on patrol in Slough and spot a guy driving while on his mobile. Being otherwise occupied, he is not paying much attention to the road and cuts someone up on a roundabout, and is still on the phone as Simon pulls him. The driver is quite convinced that he hasn’t done anything dangerous while on the p