Olympic Torch Saffron Walden

[Donkey]

Caught up with the olympic torch over in Essex yesterday afternoon.

Took some pictures :D

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Cops were high-fiving people as they went past on bikes. And yes, British police vehicles are the best in the world!

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Of course the British summer blessed us really lovely weather :yawn:

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A bit late, but the torch came...

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The full set is available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathantobycooper/sets/72157630463379912/

[adamchubby]

Mitsubishi evo..... Lucky policeman that would be awesome!

[Donkey]

Mitsubishi evo..... Lucky policeman that would be awesome!
Essex police have a bunch of high performance cars including the Mitsibushi Evo which are modified for road use!

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They have a team of specialist police interceptors who go out in their Evos and chase bad guys (for a rather gross simplification), gotta be a fun job haha

[Plane And Simple]

Are you serious???! BMW Man, The police on ym area go around in Méganes and this, but cmon, an 5-series...

[Cognizant]

Very cool pictures Jon! :)

[DerBear]

Some really nice pictures there. I quite like them.

[Jupiter]

awesome! great pictures!

[SamB]

You got some really nice shoots here, shame about the weather though

[FullyAlive]

So jealous I was going to go see it in Walsall but I was in Nottingham that day :(

[Booker]

Great pictures, surely an event to document!