Road Wars

The One Where Dan Gets a bit Enthusiastic (6x17)

Uitzenddatum: Nov 18, 2008

Dan and Daz are in Reading on their way to a pub where a fight has broken out. Details are very sketchy, so they’re not sure what to expect – and find a woman with blood all over her face and a very, very active mouth. Donning gloves, Dan immediately requests an ambulance while he and Dan try very hard to work out how on earth she has got into such a mess. It turns out that her alleged attacker is still in the pub, and she wants him arrested for assault, so Daz heads inside. Meanwhile the paramedics arrive and attempt to deal with the woman, who is still describing what happened, accompanied by a range of descriptive gestures. Things get even more complicated when the victim’s parents turn up and want her taken away! Being overwrought and not a little well-lit, she then lashes out at one of the paramedics and has to be arrested and cuffed. Things don’t improve down at the nick, where the girl and her boyfriend spend the night in widely separated cells, before sobering up in the morning and dropping all the charges. Still in Reading, Dan and Daz are called to the scene of a robbery, with eight youths setting upon one, and start the hunt for possible suspects in an area to which they have fled and split up. Dan can hear people working their way through undergrowth, who have transferred to a railway track. He then hears footsteps crossing a bridge and heading towards another where some ARV officers are expected to be waiting. They are then startled by footsteps on a footbridge above them, and race over it, only to find that they’ve chased down the ARV officers. Oddly, there’s a couple of youths lurking in undergrowth on the wrong side of a fence who, on being bluffed that there are more officers coming up behind them, work their way through brambles and nettles to the fence only to claim, unprompted, to be absolutely innocent of anything. Much fun ensues as they help the lads scramble over the fence, before they’re arrested and take a nice stroll all the