Teh One Who Knocks
11-17-2020, 12:20 PM
By Michael Moran - The Daily Star
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The 21-year-old prankster's red Nissan Navara could be taken away from him if he misbehaves again
A bloke has been given a stern warning by police after driving through a residential area late at night shouting “wakey wakey” through a megaphone.
Hampshire Police said it received "many complaints" about the occupants of a red Nissan Navara shouting "at the top of their voices" in Gosport, near Portsmouth, between 1 and 2 am on a number of nights last week .
They added: “In the early hours of various mornings, the 21-year-old driver and his passengers were heard shouting ‘wakey wakey’ at the top of their voices, as well as many unnecessary things,” police said.
“While generally annoying residents who were trying to sleep," the police statement continued, "the male, from Fareham, was also seen turning off his lights and shouting, ‘You can’t call the police because you can’t see us’.
"How wrong he was.”
Police managed to track down the driver and have issued him with a section 59 warning.
The warning means that if he repeats his antisocial behaviour at any point in the next 12 months, his vehicle will be seized. The order would still apply if he used a different car for his late night wake-up calls.
Police have asked residents in the Brockhurst and Elson areas of Gosport to call them if the late-night prankster gets up to his old tricks again, quoting and quote incident number 44200439605, "so we can remove his vehicle from him” .
While there are no published rules on megaphone use for drivers, Rule 112 of the Highway Code makes it clear that it is is illegal to use a horn on a moving vehicle on a restricted road, which is to say any road that has street lights and a 30 mph limit, between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and 07:00 a.m.
https://i.imgur.com/QYD2CHl.jpg
The 21-year-old prankster's red Nissan Navara could be taken away from him if he misbehaves again
A bloke has been given a stern warning by police after driving through a residential area late at night shouting “wakey wakey” through a megaphone.
Hampshire Police said it received "many complaints" about the occupants of a red Nissan Navara shouting "at the top of their voices" in Gosport, near Portsmouth, between 1 and 2 am on a number of nights last week .
They added: “In the early hours of various mornings, the 21-year-old driver and his passengers were heard shouting ‘wakey wakey’ at the top of their voices, as well as many unnecessary things,” police said.
“While generally annoying residents who were trying to sleep," the police statement continued, "the male, from Fareham, was also seen turning off his lights and shouting, ‘You can’t call the police because you can’t see us’.
"How wrong he was.”
Police managed to track down the driver and have issued him with a section 59 warning.
The warning means that if he repeats his antisocial behaviour at any point in the next 12 months, his vehicle will be seized. The order would still apply if he used a different car for his late night wake-up calls.
Police have asked residents in the Brockhurst and Elson areas of Gosport to call them if the late-night prankster gets up to his old tricks again, quoting and quote incident number 44200439605, "so we can remove his vehicle from him” .
While there are no published rules on megaphone use for drivers, Rule 112 of the Highway Code makes it clear that it is is illegal to use a horn on a moving vehicle on a restricted road, which is to say any road that has street lights and a 30 mph limit, between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and 07:00 a.m.