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From: boltar2003 on 10 Aug 2010 04:32 On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:47:42 +0100 Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> wrote: >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. You might wave your willy at police camera vans, but don't assume the rest of us do. B2003
From: JNugent on 10 Aug 2010 06:23 Chelsea Tractor Man wrote: > Brimstone 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. > including the motoring bits? > Mrs Spence, 55, says another form of �anti-social behaviour� which causes > the most complaints to police in Cambridgeshire is speeding in rural areas. I bet they actually mean overtaking (perfectly legal, but frequently seen as an insult to the manhood of the overtakee). Overtaking is visible and easily-defined. Speeding (if it simply means exceeding the arbitrary speed limit) is not so detectable as a fact. It is far less likely to be what is "causing complaints" for the simple reason that most people have no way of knowing - as distinct from assuming - that it is happening. > �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. *If* that's what it is. > �It all seems OK until something tragic happens, like a child dies because > of a road traffic accident.� Is this to do with rural roads (as suggested by the phraseology quoted) or towns/residential suburbs? The police officer seems confused as to which it might be.
From: JNugent on 10 Aug 2010 06:25 Ian Jackson wrote: > In the village where I live, there is a 30 limit. For a couple of > hundred yards, in the centre, past the shops, even 20 is too fast. I > usually drop to around 15. But it's surprising how many thrash through > at 50 or 60. Would a 20 limit really change their ways? A camera might. It sounds like the sort of place where one would actually be fully justified.
From: Brimstone on 10 Aug 2010 07:00 "JNugent" <jenningsltd(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:8ccnl7FlurU1(a)mid.individual.net... > Chelsea Tractor Man wrote: > >> Brimstone 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. > >> including the motoring bits? > >> Mrs Spence, 55, says another form of �anti-social behaviour� which causes >> the most complaints to police in Cambridgeshire is speeding in rural >> areas. > > I bet they actually mean overtaking (perfectly legal, but frequently seen > as an insult to the manhood of the overtakee). > > Overtaking is visible and easily-defined. > > Speeding (if it simply means exceeding the arbitrary speed limit) is not > so detectable as a fact. It is far less likely to be what is "causing > complaints" for the simple reason that most people have no way of > knowing - as distinct from assuming - that it is happening. > >> �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. > > *If* that's what it is. > >> �It all seems OK until something tragic happens, like a child dies >> because >> of a road traffic accident.� > > Is this to do with rural roads (as suggested by the phraseology quoted) or > towns/residential suburbs? > > The police officer seems confused as to which it might be. The police officer or the interviewer?
From: Brimstone on 10 Aug 2010 07:00
"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:11nma1s35mx1m$.wa5lai2f6rqg$.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:39:40 +0100, Brimstone wrote: > >>> then she is wrong to think working class people do not do that. >>> >> Indeed, but working class people tend to be more honest about their law >> breaking. > > Really? So you subscribe to these stereotypes. > I subscribe to the fact that most people are hypocrites. |