Driver fined £30 for reading paper

[Exige77]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yo...

Why was he fined only £30 ?

I thought minimum fine was £100 ?

[anonymous-user]

Bear in mind that 30 quid in northern money is equivalent to about 1000 quid in the civilized world.

I am surprised to learn that Chubby Brown can read.

[hornetrider]

Breadvan72 said:

I am surprised to learn that Chubby Brown can read.

He was on Page 3. You can't see his other hand either.

[anonymous-user]

To be fair, it might have been a chip wrapper.

[ging84]

presumably this £30 is means tested and he still uses jimmy carr's old accountant

what would his other hand be doing looking at page 3?
guessing you've not heard they cleaned up the sun

[supertouring]

It was a local fine for local people.

[tenpenceshort]

He nearly crashed into me on the A19 a few years back. He joined on a slip road and didn't check his mirrors before darting straight into lane 2, where I was. We both stopped at the next services for fuel and he apologised. He was in a Lexus SUV that day. In Northern money he must have put in about £3000 worth if unleaded.

[anonymous-user]

I trust that the fact that he was only fined £30 implies that he is to earning much from his crude 'comedy' these days.....

[Eclassy]

The report says he was arrested. Can anyone shed any light on why he would have been?

[anonymous-user]

Crimes against comedy?

can anyone think of any reason NOT to arrest Roy Chubby Brown?

[R_U_LOCAL]

supertouring said:

It was a local fine for local people.

You rang?

[Aretnap]

Eclassy said:

The report says he was arrested. Can anyone shed any light on why he would have been?

Failed the attitude test? He makes a "funny" comment, policeman says "right, so you're a comedian are you" and it goes downhill from there.

Or maybe it's just a journalist who doesn't know the difference between being stopped and being arrested.

[gforceg]

If it was a WPC I can well imagine how he got nicked.

[Eclassy]

Aretnap said:

Or maybe it's just a journalist who doesn't know the difference between being stopped and being arrested.

Maybe this

[Aretnap]

Exige77 said:

I thought minimum fine was £100 ?

The fixed penalty is £100, but if dealt with by a court there's no minimum.

Guidelines do suggest for the lowest band of careless driving the starting point is a fine of half his weekly income. If his income is very low or he's receiving state benefits (maybe there's not much of a market for crap comedy these days) his income will be assumed to be £110/week. Half if that is £55, reduction of a third for a guilty plea gives £36.67, rounded down to £30.

[supertouring]

Aretnap said:

Exige77 said:

I thought minimum fine was £100 ?

The fixed penalty is £100, but if dealt with by a court there's no minimum.

Guidelines do suggest for the lowest band of careless driving the starting point is a fine of half his weekly income. If his income is very low or he's receiving state benefits (maybe there's not much of a market for crap comedy these days) his income will be assumed to be £110/week. Half if that is £55, reduction of a third for a guilty plea gives £36.67, rounded down to £30.

That is the finest bit of "here is a number, now how did we get to it" maths I have ever seen.

[Corpulent Tosser]

Fined £30
Costs £40
Victim Surcharge £20

WTF is a victim surcharge ? Who was the victim ?

[anonymous-user]

Anyone unfortunate enough to hear his material is a victim.

[ShawCrossShark]

Seen Chubby many times as he used to appear at a club I worked in (and they shut the bar when he was on so that people wouldn't get up during the act)

Met him after shows and he is very much a different person off stage - makes a point of saying that Chubby is an act

And judging by what I heard when I worked there, he won't be short of a few quid so think that means testing is an unlikely answer

Stupid thing to do and he appears to accept that, but the fine does seem exceptionally low!

[supertouring]

R_U_LOCAL said:

supertouring said:

It was a local fine for local people.

You rang?

It was an attempt at humour based on his real name.

So, as you were.