A nice unfriendly policeman noticed the 4th pedal [park brake] in my car.
He says, "That's not factory!"......"i'm calling in the vehicle inspector!"
Now....i was happy to wear his abuse & degrogatory comments, i even turned a blind eye & resisted the temptation to slap him after his physical abuse, but if he wanted to call in the vehicle inspector [who was 300k's away] then there was nothing i could say that was going to change his mind.......so i remained silent.
He insisted that he was driving my car back to the station. So i was given the passengers seat. Still remaining silent.
Then there was a little hiccup.....he couldn't figure out how to release the handbrake.
More abuse, both verbal & physical........i remained silent.
We sat there in the car for over 1/2hr, burning out my clutch, until he finally figured out that the knob on the dash [which clearly had 'twist & pull' written on it] needed to be twisted & pulled! He was doing one, but not both.
Atleast he couldn't say my parkbrake was faulty!
Anyway......the vehicle inspector showed up about 4hrs later. The policeman was like a 5yo in a candy store. He took the inspector by the arm & walked him over to my car, proudly pointing to the 4th pedal & exclaming "Look at that!"
The inspectors reply......."What?....the parkbrake?"
It was about then i stopped remaining silent!