Sorry, not sure where this thread fits, so here will have to do.
I've just gone through my first police "Report a bad driver" experience (poor bugger who gets to process my report, I have a tendency to be VERY thorough when describing stuff like this), as a result of some tosser doing his damndest to kill me on the way home tonight.
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Now normally I can overlook a bit of cager idiocy (you haveta, pretty much, and we can all have a lapse of judgement), but this guy was determined and repeated, so I called *555 as soon as. They told me about the "Report a bad driver" form on the police website, but advised me given the level of crap driving I was describing to consider making my way down to the local Chateau du Copper and laying charges. Which, after some deep calimng breathing and wit-gathering, I duly did - predictably to be told by the very helpful real person behind the counter that, sans hard evidence, it was unlikely to result in anything happening other than a lot of wasted time.
If of course, my new and very close friend Mr Ivor SmallPenis had actually clipped me during one of his magical overtaking or tailgating maneuvers (and sufficient bits of me were able to be scraped off the tarmac to actually remember his license plate, or if there were witnesses), then of course charges would happily be laid (but, funnily enough, I'd prefer not to take that path).
So, here's the question for the experts - what would count as adequate evidence? I've seen people here talk about helmet- or handlebar- cams, but I assume they're a) big money, b) limited storage, c) questionably weatherproof, and d) maybe not even admissible in court. It'd be nice to have something that would record the last n seconds of whatever I was looking at, and let me preserve sections as required, but that sounds like more moola than I am likely to extend to in the short term. (Gotta save for that S50)
Does anyone have any advice, or should I just cool off and take a harden up pill?
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