Driver Gets Jail For Facebook Speeding Scam

[rewc]

Unbelievable that the driver thought he would get away with it.
http://news.sky.com/story/1034661/driver-gets-jail...

[carinaman]

Well I have seen some refer to it as 'Ar5e book'.

[carinaman]

He should have contacted his MP and asked if their spouse would take the points?

[Terminator X]

One of the merits of being married, wife can take the points!

TX.

[chr15b]

Muppets

[eldar]

He has ambitions to become a government minister.

[Devil2575]

What a penis.

[agtlaw]

carinaman said:

Well I have seen some refer to it as 'Ar5e book'.

Facemoron.

[matrignano]

5 months imprisonment??? Blimey

[catfood12]

carinaman said:

He should have contacted his MP and asked if their spouse would take the points?

Boom ! We have a winner !

[VERN UK]

agtlaw said:

Facemoron.

Facebonk......

[mrmr96]

matrignano said:

5 months imprisonment??? Blimey

Courts tend to take PCOJ pretty seriously, no matter what the original offence was.

[Somewhatfoolish]

problem is 95% of peopel don't realist this is PCOJ. They just see speeding tickets as akin to a parking fine. Which is not unreasonable actually, given how employers (fer example) take speeding offences.

It is time for one of the following to happen:

1. Speeding offences to automatically go to court, and usually given huge fines at a minimum, community service generally, and say prison for 20mph+ over the limit

2. The sensible solution - abolition of speed limits. I did 110mph in front of an unmarked police car today on a single carrigeway road narrower and with more hazards than most A class trunk roads in the UK. His response? To overtake me. That's cause I was on the Isle of Man (which is DEFINITELY not a place that is soft on criminals) on a derestricted road.

Otherwise PCOJ prosecutions for these things are just not fair on ordinary folk.

I have a feeling if you outlaw speed limits then average speeds will actually decrease. At the moment drivers do tend to treat the NSL as a bit of a target. Over here on the Isle of Man most drivers are DOG SLOW. Most interestingly, the dog slow drivers tend to drive fastest in the few bits that have an explicit 60mph limit.

Edited by Somewhatfoolish on Tuesday 8th January 01:22

[tbc]

carinaman said:

He should have contacted his MP and asked if their spouse would take the points?

whatever happened to that lib Dem ?


Did he get off?

[Somewhatfoolish]

tbc said:

whatever happened to that lib Dem ?


Did he get off?

Case is still on going. Good fun to watch. BTW as lib dem s (a tautology if ever there was one) Chris Huhne's not a bad bloke. His ex-wife is though. bh.

[tbc]

Somewhatfoolish said:

tbc said:

whatever happened to that lib Dem ?


Did he get off?

Case is still on going. Good fun to watch. BTW as lib dem s (a tautology if ever there was one) Chris Huhne's not a bad bloke. His ex-wife is though. bh.

did i mention the stood for "Really nice bloke"

[Somewhatfoolish]

tbc said:

did i mention the stood for "Really nice bloke"

Is that the cryllic alphabet?

[singlecoil]

Somewhatfoolish said:

2. The sensible solution - abolition of speed limits. I did 110mph in front of an unmarked police car today on a single carrigeway road narrower and with more hazards than most A class trunk roads in the UK.

And that's the sensible solution? To allow people like you to choose their own speed? Sooner put up with a blanket 60mph TBH.

[redback911]

singlecoil said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

2. The sensible solution - abolition of speed limits. I did 110mph in front of an unmarked police car today on a single carrigeway road narrower and with more hazards than most A class trunk roads in the UK.

And that's the sensible solution? To allow people like you to choose their own speed? Sooner put up with a blanket 60mph TBH.

Speed does not kill, lack of observation and poor driving, kills. Either way, you have your wish. It seems everywhere is becoming a 20/40/50 blanket, except on motorways which has stayed at 70.

[singlecoil]

redback911 said:

singlecoil said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

2. The sensible solution - abolition of speed limits. I did 110mph in front of an unmarked police car today on a single carrigeway road narrower and with more hazards than most A class trunk roads in the UK.

And that's the sensible solution? To allow people like you to choose their own speed? Sooner put up with a blanket 60mph TBH.

Speed does not kill, lack of observation and poor driving, kills. Either way, you have your wish. It seems everywhere is becoming a 20/40/50 blanket, except on motorways which has stayed at 70.

Who said it does? It's obvious that it does not, otherwise travelling by aircraft would be fatal. Neither does lack of observation or poor driving. What kills is collisions, especially high speed collisions. 110mph is a high speed, and a collision would likely lead to death.

It's not just poor driving and lack of observation (sorry about the tautology) that leads to collisions, it's stuff happening that one doesn't expect. At high speeds it takes a lot longer to slow down in response to unexpected events, and a lot more ground is covered in that period, and a lot more kinetic energy is involved should a collision still take place.