New Record for a UK Speeding Offence

[alibongo]

Hey sconey you should have made a citizens arrest ha ha ha ! no seriously I do believe a lot of them think they are above the law like that tw-t who "was just trying out his car" he got let off lightly as I recall instead of being made an example of! and the youth who robs the local shop of a few quid gets 3 years and the company finance director who rips off his co for 5mil will probabley  get a suspended sentence= double standards!!!!!!!!!!! You just have to shake yer head bud

[Leftie]

Although there are laws that govern us mere mortals, that includes the 'enforcing' agency. We are now planely seeing the emergency of two groups - them and us.

I see regularly cars parked on footways with a ticket and within 100ft a Police car on the footway and no ticket!. It is an offence.

'Yellow Lines'.  yes, they have been de-criminalised, they are a total waste of time in our village. It's now a council job, the 'boys in blue' won't touch them and they even obuse them.

My Great Aunt god rest her sole, in the late '50's was flagged down by a 'Bobby' and told to 'follow that car'. He got in and they did follow it.

After about 5 miles he shouted  'Stop here'. (the 'car' was now getting away rapidly). My aunt obeyed.

He got out and went into a house...........he also had the front door key. It was about lunch time BTW.

From now on, my cameras are fully charged up, I might start a regular blog for these characters and post to their HQ's.

[nopanic - neil]

perhaps he should have used these as an excuse. 

[Lorry]

I was tootling along last week in the barge on the A19 when a focus cop car went past at around 80- no blue lights on. I got about 800 yds behind and started to track them. The road was wet and traffic was fairly heavy. Within a mile we were doing 95+. An emergency perhaps? Nope. Our girls in blue pulled into McDonalds!

Isn't McDonalds full of criminals

Probably would have done the ton but had to finish the donut and phone call.  And I have it on good authority that they only use Blues and Twos for Starbucks and the chippie.

[alibongo]

I have often thought about putting a video camera in my truck and capturing some of those drongo's wafting around our roads and sending some footage to tv companys but no doubt they would not show it for fear of damaging the authority involved (or shaming them) I expect I would be breaking the law for taking one of my hands off the wheel!!!! hey thats another issue.....what about the next bit of upcomming legislation, no smoking while driving...........thats bound to be a good earner for government coffers along with "safety cameras" hah ! what will they come up with next, no farting at the wheel or eyeballing a nice pair of legs while you are stuck in another traffic jam! .......police state 

[Lazy B'stard]

Had a detective in at work yesterday- works on undercover survelance ops. He says that they regularly train drivers to drive at speeds in excess of 130 on public roads all the time. Its one thing doing those speeds to save a live but practicing???
 Have they not heard of track days?

[LangTall]

Problem is, on a track you don't have the traffic you have on a public road. No matter how good you can be on a track, driving in traffic on such speed is also something that has to be trained, and you can't simulate such a situation. But they won't let someone train on public road if he/she didn't had some proper tracktime yet.

[Snoring Rhino]

At the other end of the scale I just got a nasty letter quoteing "photographic evidence" of me doing 36 mph in a 30! Seems to me to be a bit unfair (although I am biased), the evidence is that I was not travelling excessivly fast and I would have got the same for 59 mph which is far to fast for the area. So it looks like I will be contributing to the Dorset Counties christmas fund.   

[Lorry]

I thought they had to provide evidence (i.e. a copy of the Gatso photo) with the speeding ticket.  I'd ask for a copy in case they've lost it, and ask for the calibration certificate.

Clarkson got off on a technicality

[alibongo]

At the other end of the scale I just got a nasty letter quoteing "photographic evidence" of me doing 36 mph in a 30! Seems to me to be a bit unfair (although I am biased), the evidence is that I was not travelling excessivly fast and I would have got the same for 59 mph which is far to fast for the area. So it looks like I will be contributing to the Dorset Counties christmas fund.   

Ian you have to keep a sharp look out for those camera vans (safety camera team) as they lurk all over the county ,new hidey hole westbound A31 just past the St Leonards hotel outside the kennels , time you realise what it is its too late dude.

[nopanic - neil]

I  and ask for the calibration certificate.

how do you ask for this, without p%ssing off the Police Orificer ?

[Lord Pig-Pen]

M27 Pompey (J12) to Cadnam (J1). This appears to be a plod driver training ground... watch out for the Black skoda ST?,S there are 3. Have  the reg no's but not gonna list that for obvious reasons.
Would any of you think it is sensible to practice rolling road blocks on a busy Mway that is accident prone in rush hour.....? Seen it and heard it on the radio several times. Daft!
Use of blue lights is also in question locally to me.....
they are only to be used in emergency situations... yes? or to warn other road users of the approach of an emergency vehicle.....
Why did plod flash all his blues on me, make me pull in to Minstead turning (other side of road) and then hammer off with no lights flashing.
Traffic cops used to be decent blokes and \I know of people who have dragged with them using their timing gear on quiet roads to get actual speed readings.
The bike cop that let my mate ride his Pig Pan (No pun intended)while he tested his hopped up 'blade near Dorchester says it all.

The Skoda Swine drivers look like Mel Gibson in Mad Max..(Spiky hair black clothes) Big vests and shades.

Be careful... you can see the lights in the grille and they all have 3 ariels. normal black skodas have just the one.

[Leftie]

they are only to be used in emergency situations... yes? or to warn other road users of the approach of an emergency vehicle.....

Also used to inform drivers of an impending danger. Normally though the rear flashing light bar (roof mounted) will indicate Red.

[smokie]

The Skoda Swine drivers look like Mel Gibson in Mad Max..(Spiky hair black clothes) Big vests and shades.

Don't sound like our  Robbo does it...

[rcutler]

M27 Pompey (J12) to Cadnam (J1). This appears to be a plod driver training ground... watch out for the Black skoda ST?,S there are 3. Have  the reg no's but not gonna list that for obvious reasons.
Would any of you think it is sensible to practice rolling road blocks on a busy Mway that is accident prone in rush hour.....? Seen it and heard it on the radio several times. Daft!
Use of blue lights is also in question locally to me.....
they are only to be used in emergency situations... yes? or to warn other road users of the approach of an emergency vehicle.....
Why did plod flash all his blues on me, make me pull in to Minstead turning (other side of road) and then hammer off with no lights flashing.
Traffic cops used to be decent blokes and \I know of people who have dragged with them using their timing gear on quiet roads to get actual speed readings.
The bike cop that let my mate ride his Pig Pan (No pun intended)while he tested his hopped up 'blade near Dorchester says it all.

The Skoda Swine drivers look like Mel Gibson in Mad Max..(Spiky hair black clothes) Big vests and shades.

Be careful... you can see the lights in the grille and they all have 3 ariels. normal black skodas have just the one.

The unmarked cars usually have roof bars across the car, these have the lights built in. Most people remove these along with the roofbox or bike rails.