10 weeks in jail for 172 mph in a porsche!!!

[Strawman]

touching cloth said:

About 50 secs in or so is when the magic happens

erm the view through the windscreen becomes a bit wobbly

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derestrictor said:

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derestrictor said:

I wonder what time the army will take over? I wish they'd get a move on, this democracy lark is patently hopeless.

Get yourself over to Burma while there is still time.

Ooh, cryptic.

Ah, I see what you done there.

[Toltec]

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touching cloth said:

Found it hope the link works.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/video/121...

About 50 secs in or so is when the magic happens

Excellent. I notice that they have also figured out that if you point the camera out of the side window and not straight ahead it looks even faster.

and filmed several cars undertaking them.

He admitted to and was done for dangerous driving not speeding hence the 10 weeks afaik.

[Jasandjules]

Is the tide turning a fraction though?

I saw the copper outside the courtroom who stated that Speeding, Dangerous and Drink Driving are all very bad....... First time I think I've heard anyone Police like (at least, giving interviews for the reporters) actually mention other offences might be worse than speeding.

[baz1985]

damn it, it's going to have to be a committed effort to beat that lol!

[mat205125]

castrolcraig said:

less than those 2 bikers got when they got caught.

.... but a lot more than actors who are caught with pornographic pictures of children being abused on their laptops.

Great to see society is a safer place when the real dangers to the public get joke sentences, eh?

[fluffnik]

djohnson said:

However when I hear tales of 172 mph the first thing I think of is that it could have been my wife and child on the same bit of road with 100mph speed differential betweem the cars.

Tell her to drive faster.

[fluffnik]

Plotloss said:

How are we supposed to have respect for anyone involved in our justice system?

Don't respect them.

Replace them.

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BIANCO said:

This guy does sound like a bit of a knob taking the car without consent

Sneaking out in the company 911 turbo for a quick blat down the road. Can you honestly say you wouldn't be tempted? He worked for the company so would have been insured, they just wash their hands of him when he got caught. Which is fair enough I suppose.

I remember doing a similar thing in my Dads car when I was 17. Taking it down a duel carriage way to see what it was capable of. Not exactly the crime of the century but could have been a very similar result had I been caught.

Edited by 1 on Tuesday 25th September 00:30

[polus]

fluffnik said:

Plotloss said:

How are we supposed to have respect for anyone involved in our justice system?

Don't respect them.

Replace them.

Oh.... youre not joking.

[fluffnik]

polus said:

fluffnik said:

Plotloss said:

How are we supposed to have respect for anyone involved in our justice system?

Don't respect them.

Replace them.

Oh.... youre not joking.

Absolutely not, it's not slightly funny...

Our whole "justice" system is being systematically skewed away from defending the citizen's person and property from harm to the arbitrary and capricious exercise of State Power for no reason other than the aggrandisement of those who would wield it or profit from some flaky scheme to puff its power.

Yes, sack all the parasitic scum and those who think it is their office and its continuance which is important, not the service that it is charged to do.

Sack them all, replace a very few.

[Jonty99]

Lets face it, the next most punishable crime that can be committed in the UK after murder is speeding whilst insured and then stopping and admitting it.

He should have stolen a car, sped, not been insured, got drunk before hand, hit tons of other peoples cars and caused lots of damage and then legged it for a bit. Then when the coppers finally caught him, he would have had an overnights stay and a payrise.... or rather a doll rise.

[Jonty99]

I'm also not condoning doing a potentially fatal to others 172mph, but cant they punish other criminals in the same way... And if they moan about prison overcrowing and costs, shoot the murderers and peados and dont feed the other criminals.

[jagdpanther]

The usual tabloid suspects have printed articles today saying

"172mph on the road and ONLY 10 WEEKS IN JAIL"


The state of this countries judicial system is utterly deplorable if a man can get jail for speeding, but someone who openly admitted raping kids under the age of 18 months can be let off, because he claims to be a changed man?


Makes me fvcking sick to the back teeth



P!ss is well and truely boiled now

[Bing o]

jagdpanther said:

The usual tabloid suspects have printed articles today saying

"172mph on the road and ONLY 10 WEEKS IN JAIL"


The state of this countries judicial system is utterly deplorable if a man can get jail for speeding, but someone who openly admitted raping kids under the age of 18 months can be let off, because he claims to be a changed man?


Makes me fvcking sick to the back teeth



P!ss is well and truely boiled now

Well, "ten weeks in jail for dangerous driving" is a shit headline isn't it

[jagdpanther]

Bing o said:

jagdpanther said:

The usual tabloid suspects have printed articles today saying

"172mph on the road and ONLY 10 WEEKS IN JAIL"


The state of this countries judicial system is utterly deplorable if a man can get jail for speeding, but someone who openly admitted raping kids under the age of 18 months can be let off, because he claims to be a changed man?


Makes me fvcking sick to the back teeth



P!ss is well and truely boiled now

Well, "ten weeks in jail for dangerous driving" is a shit headline isn't it

Its a fvcking pathetic state of affairs where sensationalist rags like the Mirror and Sun will print bollox like that and contribute to making people like us the enemy of the people, but kiddie fiddlers and murderers get a small 2"x2" column and the politicians get even less...unless the papers are arse licking the new goverment again

[The Hypno-Toad]

Having read through all these posts and without wanting to get too preachy about it, I think we're all forgetting one thing.

It doesn't matter about the relationship that the sentence has to one given out to the peado (not that that isn't disgraceful.) nor does it matter about the phsyics of his breaking distances.

What matters is in a few years time when they start fitting compulsary speed limiters onto all our cars this fer will be the one of the examples they will use for justifying it.

I haven't got a problem with speeding but this isn't just that, this was driving like a total ded. He's pd off because his boss won't let him drive the nice car so he takes it anyway and drives like a ct. Sounds like he probably still lives at home with mummy.

My personal thought would be that when he leaves prison, we should all fall on him and give him a damn good drubbing. But hopefully that will have already occured in the showers.

Remember this bloke when all the funs been taken out of motoring.....

Edited by The Hypno-Toad on Tuesday 25th September 10:15

[JonRB]

hora said:

Should have been 6months in my opinion with the taking the vehicle without consent as well.

It's the TWOC that should be the headline, not the speeding. The speeding is surely the secondary offence, not the primary one. But "man gets sent to jail for stealing car" isn't eye-grabbing enough.

I'm sick of the media distorting the facts.

[Fat Audi 80]

hora said:

Jail time is also supposed to act as a deterent surely?

Serves him feckin right in my books. You hit 170mph you know theres a high chance in any car (remember hes not had any advanced training or hold super driving skills) ...in any car if your coming upto other potential drivers VERY quickly, lad checks mirror, moves over then suddenly this c0ck would fill his rear view mirror. Hes lucky he didnt hit anyone.

Should have been 6months in my opinion with the taking the vehicle without consent as well.

It is possible to do these speeds WITHOUT meeting another car...

[grahambell]

Rather ironic than on the same night the BBC show their 'driving along dual carriageway at 172mph' cobblers, Fifth Gear show VBH as a passenger in a police training car going along a dual carriageway at 130mph.

But apparently that's OK because they're police and pay attention to what's going on around them - whereas the rest of us obviously drive round with our ing eyes shut.