A van driver was stopped by police after transporting a ‘harmful load’ of giant metallic – that made his car as longer than a bus.
Police thought their ‘eyes have been deceiving them’ once they noticed the truck carrying the lengthy metallic body in Elland, close to Halifax, West Yorkshire, final evening.
Officers from West Yorkshire Police stopped the car after noticing its cargo made it ‘longer than as a bus’.
A spokesman for the pressure stated the motive force comically hooked up a ‘hi-vis’ jacket to the tip of the heavy load to warn different motorists about how far it prolonged.
West Yorkshire Cops thought their ‘eyes have been deceiving them’ once they noticed the truck carrying the lengthy metallic body in Elland, close to Halifax, West Yorkshire, final evening
The spokesman stated: ‘While patrolling Elland this night, PC Burn and PCSO Wardman sighted the under car and thought their eyes have been deceiving them.
‘Unsurprisingly the motive force was stopped and handled for having a harmful load.
‘If the load you wish to transport is twice so long as your van and perhaps even contact longer than a bus, it is maybe a sensible concept to discover a totally different means of transporting it.
‘The motive force discovered this lesson the exhausting means.’
Social media customers joked it seemed like the motive force was ‘making an attempt to steal a bridge’.
One wrote: ‘A bridge was stolen in Elland tonight. West Yorkshire Police – Calderdale Valleys are providing help to anybody making an attempt to cross the Calder.’
One other quipped: ‘I’ll give this man 9 out of 10 for making an attempt and I am truly going to offer him one out of 10 for placing the Hello Viz across the again so his complete rating is definitely 10 out of 10.’
Nevertheless one felt the motive force had been exhausting executed by the lengthy arm of the legislation, saying the van’s load wouldn’t be a hazard to different motorists.
They stated: ‘That is not harmful he is bought a hello viz hooked up, different street customers would see that from miles away, buses are longer and extra harmful they’re so excessive they might kill lowing flying birds and even drunk airplane pilots’
