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OAP banned for warning of speed trap

what ever next, drving at the correct speed and avoidin fines and points.

i'd stand behind this guy every step of the way. lets face it speed camera or sign still had the same affect, slowed down traffic for safety

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dont supprise me one bit... It all comes down to making monies and not safty!..

and anyone who cares to disagree with this statement have a blinkered view...

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dont supprise me one bit... It all comes down to making monies and not safty!..

and anyone who cares to disagree with this statement have a blinkered view...

I agree, that’s just absolutely ridiculous. “Profit cameras ahead” is what he should have had on his sign. :saddam:

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Ridiculous :angry:

I remember one of the delivery lads telling me, how he'd flashed his lights to warn someone of a speed trap, turned out it was unmarked police car that did a quick U turn and done him ;) Even he saw the funny side of it :lol:

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I cant believe the guy got a driving ban when he was standing in the street with the sign!! :o

He wasn't even in a car for ***** sake!

That's like banning someone from driving for getting drunk, just because they have a licence, not because they have got into their car and driven it drunk! Guilty by association!

The law has gone potty!!

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Read this one in the paper today.

I don't know what's worse......The fact it happened in the first place, or the fact it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Did you see the one the other day about a woman with no licence, tax insurance etc who hit a pedestrian, killed them and fled the scene.

£84 fine.

The case in the court immediately before this was a driver who hit a tree(fully insured and legal). £388 fine.

It's all wrong.

Rich

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yeah - im paying out 800 for insurance - and loads for tax etc

And someone whos 18 here - driving a ****ty unroadworthy car - with no insurance - or tax - £90 fine and £60 fine for drink driving..

He was also banned

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What punnishment would they give him if he didn't have a licence?

Why pay for insurance? If I get a £90 fine every month I actually save cash .. take my licence, I don't care, I don't need it as I don't have insurance .. Road Tax ?? - Nah, wont bother, I can't get it as I don't have insurance ..

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Ahh, another quality piece of journalism....

Thats why lots of people dont have it Bibbs, more than people would realise... Cos the courts are so out of touch with reality mate, only seems like the decent people get the ******* treatment...

But, what do you experts on the law say as to WHEN the age of somebody dictates whether or not they should be dealt with???

As for that woman who drove off at the scene of fatal, she wouldnt have got a fine alone, not for a fatal accident??? Then again, you cant trust the journalism!

...I love NOT joining the bandwagon and daring to show my views!!!

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But, what do you experts on the law say as to WHEN the age of somebody dictates whether or not they should be dealt with???

As for that woman who drove off at the scene of fatal, she wouldnt have got a fine alone, not for a fatal accident??? Then again, you cant trust the journalism!

I presume you mean too young to be prosecuted.

Name and Shame them........then Bring back the Birch.......Live on the national lottery show.

A public flogging should boost the ratings eh?

Until the punishment fits the crime then there is really not much incentive for the scum to change their ways.

I agree that you can't trust the journalism, but stories of over leniency in the courts are rife, and getting more incredible. Had I read the hit and run one in the Sun..I may have discounted it as over-sensationalism, but it was in most of the papers last week (wednesday I think), BBC news 24, ceefax and Sky news picked up on it too.

Then again, all these sources told me I was in imminent danger from Saddam Hussein and I didn't believe them then. :blink:

Rich

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That really takes the :censor: :censor:

Rash

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actually those sources told you that iraq's neighbouring countries were in imminent danger from saddam hussein... which was a wonderful excuse to remove an evil tyrant & also a pretty good way of making sure saddam didn't trade weapons to his m8 osama!

but we won't go into that now :lol:

Titto is inclined to dismiss the hyped up press stories, being a member of the police force and all...

I however think it illustrates how pathetically leniant the courts are to people who are driving without a license (dangerous), without insurance (irresponsible - and the reason why our premiums are so stupidly high, and without road tax (which is the reason the government keeps adding tax to this, to make up the numbers!)...

Still, rather than target the offenders, let's punish the drivers who actually have a license, insurance & roadtax... because that's much easier!

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I think its just absurd...

Obviously making money is more important than saving lives - and this is the society we all live in - its disgusting.

Ok so they shouldnt have been speeding in the first place, but thats by the by, that poor bloke was just trying to slow them down to save peoples lives.

The government and police are always going on about how speed cameras and traps are only for safety reasons and not to make revenue - I think this just proves they are talking out of their ****s!

:censor: 's me off It really does!

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THATS !Removed! DISGRACEFUL

Any government will tell you safety cameras are there for safety purposes only, and they would rather have a camera that dosn't catch anyone cause people are sticking to the exact limit......B*llsh*t

If they were for that purpose then they wouldn't have police vans hiding behind blind bends out in the middle of nowhere, far from any accident blackspot just waiting to lighten your pockets. So police say they don't hide from motorists, and park in plain sight, then why the :censor: have they just got new cameras on tripods so they can hide over the road out of sight?

It would make people slow down just as much, if not more if they were actually in plain sight but then police wouldn't make as much money now would they {Most of which is wasted on giving benefits to scum who can't be ars*d to go out and get a job and not even on repairing and improving roads}.

I sound like im against cameras, i'm not i approve of them in places like outside schools and other areas where they are needed, just not where they are plainly another motorist tax. :censor: traffic cops should have something better to do than bother motorists constantly.

Steve

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Words fail me!

So why is what the OAP did any different to my Cyclops warning me that there is a speed trap ahead? Same effect.

It's not about safety it's about quotas and profit....in my humble opinion.

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How many police radar traps have you seen recently.I haven't seen one on a public road in ages and it is because they have replaced the majority with gatsos which after time everybody knows about anyway.It is voting time soon anyway!

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Yaris boy and all, i totally agree with you...

But dont get too wound up with articles etc, my sister is a journalist and she gets me wound up beyond belief! She will be the first to admit; you dont have to know anything about what your reporting, just to make it sound shocking and get the publics interest!

It does annoy me tho when things like this happen, cos it could have been dealt with in another way...but then again we dont know the whole facts. Not justifying it - no way, just trying to be impartial, which i think would help us all sometimes.

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Not having a go at you or anything titto :group-cuddles:

it's just hard to be impartial when you feel victimized :)

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i went to bradford the other day - i must have seen something like 10 cameras - on the straightest road ever. (there was 3 on my side and the other side had like 7 or 8!)

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And somewhere in Scotland they are doing trials on cameras fitted in the catseyes. Bet they aren't revenue earners (NOT). Big brother is watching YOU !!! :ffs: :ffs:

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