Brunstrom is a twat

Just shows how wrong you can be!

 

The only time the experiment was performed the answer was "yes". Not
only that but when the experiment was reversed (from no speed limit to a
set limit) the data showed that the accident rate got worse.

Can you point to any data, rather than your finely honed gut-feeling?

 

Would you like to have a look at the recent gun death stats for the UK?
Up 35% despite pointless legislation.

And gun crime in the USA has declined by 27%.

Switzerland has very liberal gun laws compared to the UK - perfectly
legal to own fully automatic assault weapons - and yet it has a
significantly lower murder rate (1.2/100,000 vs 1.6/100,000 in England
and Wales, 2.16/100,000 in Scotland, 2.65/100,000 in NI).

 

Steady! You don't want to overload him.

What did make me laugh is that despite being dropped broadbrush hints
about how come I could waltz in and out of his Police HQ, he couldn't
work out who I am or how I managed to do it. Heh.

 

Yes and you've changed your tune. Earlier you stated you wouldn't break the
limit not that you would do so in a way you didn't think would get you
caught.

 

You would know, if you didn't stick your head in a paper bag.

 

Using a licensed firearm?

No.

So gun control hardly worked there, did it?

 

Indeed. It's also harder at 70mph than at 5mph. Following that logic we
should probably all just stay home. Of course more people would die because
household accident rates are much higher than road accident rates.

The truth is that a skilled, experienced driver will often be safer
travelling at 100mph than an unskilled, inexperienced driver at 50mph.

 

Amusing that he's now preaching that it's OK to break the law if the
chances of being caught are small.

Kevin Lunn obviously believes that it's OK to shoplift, steal from an
employer, and to ride an uninsured motorbike without MoT or even a
driving licence. All crimes with a low arrest rate.

Heck, he's no different from the bloke who rode around with a T-shirt
reading "Piss off and catch some real criminals".

 

Very good point. The speed limits in the last few years really have become a
joke. Round here most of the NSLs have changed to 40mph even though the
roads were perfectly safe. Can you imagine a traffic officer wanting to
enforce them?

 

Absolutely not.

There are many who are much more skilled[1][2] than I but I am of the
opinion that "an average" biker is significantly more skilled than "an
average" car driver. I certainly work a lot less hard when driving than
when riding. Riding engages me completely, driving is easy in
comparison.


[1] Of course now we lay ourselves open to a definition of what
constitutes the necessary skills.

[2] In certain specific areas

 

Try the stats for Canada. A far higher percentage of gun ownership,
yet a much smaller percentage of gun deaths.

 

<waves>
I do!

 

That would be A Good Thing.

But I'm not convinced speed limits make a blind bit of difference to
*inappropriate speed* and *dangerous driving* (at any speed) anyway.

 

The greater function of a funeral is to achieve closure for the
breaved relatives, to clear the air.

A Catholic Priest once told me that a good funeral brings everyone
together, once it's over with it's the occasion of a rare meeting
between members of the family who ordinarily wouldn't get to talk to
each other.

Whereas weddings OTOH are, as like as not, miserable affairs.

However, to find years afterwards that at the funeral you had the body
wasn't complete, and I don't mean core biopsy samples I mean whole
organs missing, re-opens the whole issue.

NB I do think that the most recent cases where surviving relatives are
complaining about biopsy samples etc is a complaint too far.

Or paraphrasing what Shakespeare said "They complain too much".

DG

 

Only if they were allowed to do that. With the current government's
obsession with stats they'd get rid of cameras, put in loads of TrafPol but
give them a target number of prosecutions. And speeding prosecutions are
easy compared to dangerous driving ones.

I think most people in these groups know what would work best and is
sensible but it's the likes of Uno that would get their way.

 

Uno-Hoo! (Uno-Hoo@NOSPAMbigfootdotcom) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

Fine. So you accept that this biker was committing other, more serious
offences than mere speeding.

So I presume you accept that Chief Cuntstubble Brainstawm is in the wrong
using this particular case as an example of the evils of SPEEDING - since
that offence is of minor importance to this particular case?

 

I don't dislike it, in the way that I don't dislike comb-overs on
middle-aged men. They are silly, and faintly amusing, and generally add to
the gaiety of nations.

But it does make you look a bit of a dick.

 

Typo corrected.

 

Never used by Chaucer (well, not in writing, anyways). The common term in
the 14C was "swyve".