middle-class anti-social behaviour
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From: boltar2003 on 9 Aug 2010 12:12 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:07:50 +0100 "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote: >Stop saying these things everyone - its depressing me - 130 here, 133 there, >90 on motorways... *until cameras*. You are all admitting that speed cameras >have slowed us all down - the 'safety' twats will be enjoying it. Only we >understand that this is not a safety issue - they don't get that! I've slowed down because going fast doesn't interest me any more. Growing old I suppose. Plus traffic is a lot heavier than it was when I was in my 20s anyway. B2003
From: The Peeler on 9 Aug 2010 12:12 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:45:12 +0100, Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:05:54 +0100, GT wrote: > >> Someone usually replies to point out >> that the limit *is* the recommended speed for the road given normal >> conditions > >given ideal conditions and circumstances and a suitable vehicle, surely? Surely the *maximum* speed (for people in a hurry to get to the pub) rather than the recommended one.
From: bod on 9 Aug 2010 12:18 boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:59:39 +0100 > bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >> Years back I did 133mph in my Opel Monza on the M4 coming back from >> London, this was around the Heston services section. I even overtook a >> police dog van and thought...whoops! I came off at Heston and >> disappeared into some side roads and parked up in a side road for about >> 20 minutes, in case they had radioed through to other traffic plod. > > Smart move :) These days though some ANPR camera in the van would just > send your number to plod HQ and you'd have someone knocking on the door > the next day anyway. > > B2003 > > Yes, possibly. Bod
From: AlanG on 9 Aug 2010 12:44 On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:38:24 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-ng08(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >"I'll do as I like and stuff everyone else" seems to be the gist of this >interview. I think she makes some valid points. > ><http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7933708/Julie-Spence-interview-Why-thin-blue-line-borders-on-anorexic.html> > >"Mrs Spence has been critical of Theresa May, the Home Secretary, for taking >an over-simplistic view of policing and being too quick to scrap "all things >Labour". She supported the now defunct policing pledge - a 10-point promise >guaranteeing issues such as response times - as long as it was not used as >another target to measure police against. " > > "Mrs Spence, 55, says another form of �anti-social behaviour� which causes the most complaints to police in Cambridgeshire is speeding in rural areas. �Speeding is middle-class anti-social behaviour. People think, 'we should be able to get away with it�. They wouldn�t tolerate law breaking by somebody else but they do it themselves without thinking. " Indeed. We regularly see examples of these whinging criminals posting here trying to justify their crimes
From: Phil Stovell on 9 Aug 2010 12:47
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:09:48 +0000, boltar2003 wrote: > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:59:39 +0100 > bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >>Years back I did 133mph in my Opel Monza on the M4 coming back from >>London, this was around the Heston services section. I even overtook a >>police dog van and thought...whoops! I came off at Heston and disappeared >>into some side roads and parked up in a side road for about 20 minutes, >>in case they had radioed through to other traffic plod. > > Smart move :) These days though some ANPR camera in the van would just > send your number to plod HQ and you'd have someone knocking on the door > the next day anyway. > > B2003 Oh go on, more willy waving p-uh-lease. |