Can we rename this forum?

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Sgt Bilko

1,929 posts

216 months

Monday 16th July 2007
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Flat in Fifth said:
Towie, re HATO threads, do you notice how these arrive in stits and far... oops Spoonerism fits and starts, nowt for weeks then like buses....
Only because those baiting HATO's can't think up original arguments to post. Nothing wrong with HATO's. I work with them all the time.

Edited by Sgt Bilko on Monday 16th July 21:10

Vaux

1,557 posts

217 months

Monday 16th July 2007
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Sgt Bilko said:
Only because those baiting HATO's can't think up original arguments to post.
Yes but....
Why do they have to look like Plod?
Policing on the cheap I think.



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Red Devil

13,081 posts

209 months

Tuesday 17th July 2007
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Well I'm grateful to the HATOs who escorted me (+ several hundred others) the 'wrong' way off the anti-clockwise M25 between Js 3 & 4 last Sunday afternoon.

The guy was getting a bit stressed out trying to marshal some pretty dumb*** drivers, but his female colleague in the other vehicle.......
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alphadog

2,049 posts

234 months

Tuesday 17th July 2007
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One useful thing of this forum is the counter-intelligence aspect. I know a heck of a lot about the camera lot thanks to the postings on here. Given Merde Hughes' stance on enforcing the limit, and reports already coming in of the ACPO guidelines not being adhered to (Kent) and hidden traps (Cumbria rolleyes, Essex), I feel it the best source of this sort of information.

I get frustrated when people complain about being done for 80-odd on the motorway, but then seem unwilling to do anything about the root cause, which is the dreadful speed limit on these roads! I don't get the 'It's the law, but it's OK to break' aspect - especially in these days of the scamera partnerships and cheap road safety.

Towie

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14,938 posts

240 months

Tuesday 17th July 2007
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Sgt Bilko said:
Flat in Fifth said:
Towie, re HATO threads, do you notice how these arrive in stits and far... oops Spoonerism fits and starts, nowt for weeks then like buses....
Only because those baiting HATO's can't think up original arguments to post. Nothing wrong with HATO's. I work with them all the time.

Edited by Sgt Bilko on Monday 16th July 21:10
show me the baiting!

Flat in Fifth

44,272 posts

252 months

Wednesday 18th July 2007
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Towie said:
Sgt Bilko said:
Flat in Fifth said:
Towie, re HATO threads, do you notice how these arrive in stits and far... oops Spoonerism fits and starts, nowt for weeks then like buses....
Only because those baiting HATO's can't think up original arguments to post. Nothing wrong with HATO's. I work with them all the time.
show me the baiting!
I'd agree Towie, the one individual who, I would say, really attempted to bait the HATOs is afaik no longer here, and I was one of the ones arguing against him/her.

There has however been a fair bit of baiting fom the dark side with at least three (iirc) claiming to be HATOs and then throwing their weight around on here. I believe the door slapped them on the ass on the way out.

Most of the points from this side seem to be whether the service is value for money. I don't consider that baiting, merely a point which has never been answered or justified from the other side.

So imo calling it baiting is a very childish way of attempting to belittle a question which they refuse to answer and just ignore whilst hoping it goes away.