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"D'oh!" You're nicked...

Thames Valley traffic police have come up with an entertaining system to alert them to drivers disobeying the laws of the road. Their on-board computers have been re-programmed to play different phrases from films and TV shows depending on the crime, reports the Sun.

When they spot an uninsured driver, the automatic number plate readers shout Homer Simpson’s catchphrase “D’oh!”, and if the computer finds a stolen car, it declares “Here’s Johnny!”, copying Jack Nicholson in ‘The Shining’. If a car is linked to crime, it quotes Dan Ackroyd in Trading Places saying: “People like this are a menace to decent society.”

Thames Valley police (where somebody appears to have had some time on their hands) say it helps their reactions.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .