OT Sort of, it is about speeding

That's so last year. I prefer to go with the "budget suspension can be
seriously limiting" approach to life.

 

He could've been staring a ban in the face and a ban could've rendered him
destitute.[1]

[1] Or not.


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Speed limiting is a bad law? I really don't think I'd want any ****
hammering through our part of town at stupid speeds, given the way that
driving standards have gone over the years.

I hate speed limits but 30's are usually pretty sensibly placed.


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Bad man

 

Magistrates tend to be either rich cunts with **** all better to do than
stick it to the great unwashed, or piss-poor (10 bob millionaire) cunts who
feel the need to wield power in some form or another that their real life
neglected to grant them.

It can be a tricky business dealing with magistrates.

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I have the perfect job for you.


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You two faced ****. If I could be bothered googling it would come up with
numerous posts of yours about how times were better in your yoof and roads
had no limit.

I suggest (seriously) that people need to prove they are properly competent
before that get to drive/ride. Prove it again every few years. Submit to an
annual eye and hazard perception test. Then make all limits advisory.

Then you just need Due Care, Careless and Reckless.

 

Talking of rough justice, this made me smile.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8546528.stm

I wonder what Wing he will be consigned to. We can but hope....

 

Different reasoning though. In that scenario the presumption is that
they both went equipped, even if only one of them was carrying, and
both were prepared to use said equipement. Who actually pulled the
trigger then becomes a moot point.

Having said that, I think the parites concerned in this case deserve
everything they got - stupid cunts. If the photo didn't identify them
why didn't they just give the name of a foreign 'visitor' to whom
they'd lent the car that day?

 

He was already on something like eight points. He'd forgotten to renew
his insurance and was stopped in his ShiteOldGranada and the cover had
expired the previous day.

He'd been given a five-day producer.

He knew "somebody" who could get blank cover notes (presumably from
burgling an insurance office). I think he paid about £200 for it, and
this was well over 25 years ago.

So he needed the cover note filled in, and he could hand this in with
his licence and MoT (which the Granada had).

But (and the old bastards like Auvache may remember this) the cover
notes had to be typed in *perfectly*. Any error, and the broker scrapped
it and started again. And he knew I had a typewriter and could type.
This was before home PCs really existed - more like the Sinclair ZX81
era. It was a rare skill then, at least among blokes.

The fake cover note was knocked up on the then Chateau's kitchen table,
*very* carefully because he only had the one blank, and it was duly
presented and he avoided a ban.

*Waves*at HG in the unlikely event that he's reading this.

 

I would have thought that lying would invite even harsher penalties.
AIUI, the only realistic way to swing the "we forget who was at the
wheel" thing is to present evidence that effort has been made to
identify the driver. IIRC, one guy went so far as to make a subject
access request for video footage from the petrol station he used around
the time of the offence and that was viewed as a reasonable effort to
identify the driver.

Or it might be bollocks and I just made that up.

 

<rye smile>

 

I doubt it, ask me the next day maybe. Weeks later not a chance.

In recent times I've only to my knowledge been photographed in France
breaking the limit and that doesn't count.

 

I just think that's wrong, IMO it's up to the Police to prove the
driver. if you wrongly admit an offence then in theory you've
committed an even more serious crime.

 

He can take a bit of chaff I'm sure.

 

I don't see you denying it.

 

If the cops saw you, you weren't discreet!

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Thanks for sharing.

Not really, they've been creeping out to cover more and more of the roads
network. Between here and Bristol is all 30/40 nowadays, used to be
national limit for a fair proportion. Much of the same in the Gloucester
direction too. And I overtook twice in the car last night, and got flashed
both times.

 

So what would you do?

 

As a start I'd ask to see the photo to see if there was a clue[1] and
if not get a lawyer before making any further communications.

[1] Father of friend of mine did this and it was, unfortunately, him
that was obviously in the driver's seat