It's a Fair Cop

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ukkid35

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6,138 posts

172 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I've only been done twice in xx years of driving. However I have been stopped so often that I used to collect 'Producers' and take a handful down to my local Police Station in one go.

My most prolific period was when I had a fairly wide car in Red, suggesting that the Snooker theory was not just an Urban myth. When it was stolen and I replaced it with a Silver Blue car of the same model, driven in the same way/pattern and I was rarely stopped.

The first time I was done for speeding I was on a motorway in mixed conditions, and I failed to spot the traffic cop behind me, ergo I was driving too quickly for the conditions.

I do not resent that prosecution, it was entirely fair and justified. I learnt my lesson. Back then being stopped for speeding was par for the course, but a dressing down was a very fair price for the transgression.

The only other time I've been done for speeding was when a fixed camera snapped me at 50, it was placed shortly after the limit was reduced to 40 from 50. This was a mile from where I live, so I am fully aware of the camera.
I must have been asleep, and therefore I deserved to be prosecuted.

I drive to the conditions of the road, I wish other people would as well.

We all know things have changed, but is it for the better? (Not a rhetorical question)

Edited by ukkid35 on Saturday 25th October 19:37

MGZTV8

591 posts

148 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Another Pistonheads driving god who drives "to the condition of the road"

You crack on love. Its your licence

smile

Things have changed though and not for the better.

littleredrooster

5,523 posts

195 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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ukkid35 said:
I've only been done twice in xx years of driving...
"xx years of driving" ? Why the secrecy?

I've been done twice in 39 years. There. That's how you do it.

Cool story, bro, BTW...

Mk3Spitfire

2,921 posts

127 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Well, I've been done xx times in xx years of driving. So about xx more than OP, but in xx years less than redrooster.

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Mk3Spitfire said:
Well, I've been done xx times in xx years of driving. So about xx more than OP, but in xx years less than redrooster.
Well that's xx more than or less than me so I'm impressed or disgusted. And I've only been driving for xx years.

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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I've been done once in 37 years, by the talivan, but I've been let off loads of times by the real deal, when they used to do that.

Things have changed though, the purists are winning big time, I never thought smoking would be banned, and I never thought exceeding the speed limit would become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.

I was wrong on the smoking , and I don't think we have much longer to go with speeding to be honest.

I still think it is about revenue raising though, speed limiters would be very easy to legislate for, even GPS ones now, and if it really made all the difference the anti's make out it does, then that is what would happen.

ukkid35

Original Poster:

6,138 posts

172 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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littleredrooster said:
"xx years of driving" ? Why the secrecy?

I've been done twice in 39 years. There. That's how you do it.

Cool story, bro, BTW...
Not secrecy as such, it was just scary realising that xx was 30!

voyds9

8,488 posts

282 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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MGZTV8 said:
Another Pistonheads driving god who drives "to the condition of the road"

You crack on love. Its your licence

smile

Things have changed though and not for the better.
70mph in foggy icy conditions is safe because the number on the lollipop says so.

littleredrooster

5,523 posts

195 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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ukkid35 said:
littleredrooster said:
"xx years of driving" ? Why the secrecy?

I've been done twice in 39 years. There. That's how you do it.

Cool story, bro, BTW...
Not secrecy as such, it was just scary realising that xx was 30!
...and it seems I miscounted the number of wrinkles. My 39 is actually 44. I'm turning bliddy senile.

Vipers

32,799 posts

227 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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voyds9 said:
MGZTV8 said:
Another Pistonheads driving god who drives "to the condition of the road"

You crack on love. Its your licence

smile

Things have changed though and not for the better.
70mph in foggy icy conditions is safe because the number on the lollipop says so.
And if the car in front is doing 70 in foggy conditions, providing he has his fogs on, it must be safe......



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anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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ukkid35 said:
I've only been done twice in xx years of driving. However I have been stopped so often that I used to collect 'Producers' and take a handful down to my local Police Station in one go.

My most prolific period was when I had a fairly wide car in Red, suggesting that the Snooker theory was not just an Urban myth. When it was stolen and I replaced it with a Silver Blue car of the same model, driven in the same way/pattern and I was rarely stopped.

The first time I was done for speeding I was on a motorway in mixed conditions, and I failed to spot the traffic cop behind me, ergo I was driving too quickly for the conditions.

I do not resent that prosecution, it was entirely fair and justified. I learnt my lesson. Back then being stopped for speeding was par for the course, but a dressing down was a very fair price for the transgression.

The only other time I've been done for speeding was when a fixed camera snapped me at 50, it was placed shortly after the limit was reduced from 40 to 50. This was a mile from where I live, so I am fully aware of the camera.
I must have been asleep, and therefore I deserved to be prosecuted.

I drive to the conditions of the road, I wish other people would as well.

We all know things have changed, but is it for the better? (Not a rhetorical question)
How do you reduce a limit from 40 to 50?

Also, how do you reconcile your 'driving to the conditions' assertion with your clear inability to see what's going on around you?



ukkid35

Original Poster:

6,138 posts

172 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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REALIST123 said:
How do you reduce a limit from 40 to 50?

Also, how do you reconcile your 'driving to the conditions' assertion with your clear inability to see what's going on around you?
First point fixed - thanks

Second point was the whole point of the post, learning from the mistakes I mentioned.

PHmember

2,487 posts

170 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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You should move to Australia. Australians couldn't give a XXXX.

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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PHmember said:
You should move to Australia. Australians couldn't give a XXXX.
You're joking I guess, they're even more anal than we are regarding speed limits.

4rephill

5,040 posts

177 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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Nigel Worc's said:
PHmember said:
You should move to Australia. Australians couldn't give a XXXX.
You're joking I guess, they're even more anal than we are regarding speed limits.
Have a look on youtube for "Castlemaine XXXX"

wink





Mk3Spitfire

2,921 posts

127 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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4rephill said:
Have a look on youtube for "Castlemaine XXXX"

wink
You don't see it much these days. Used to remember it being quite pleasant though.

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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Mk3Spitfire said:
4rephill said:
Have a look on youtube for "Castlemaine XXXX"

wink
You don't see it much these days. Used to remember it being quite pleasant though.
It was gnats piss even then, and the skippys I know have never heard of it.

ukkid35

Original Poster:

6,138 posts

172 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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Mk3Spitfire said:
You don't see it much these days. Used to remember it being quite pleasant though.
I remember driving past the Fourex brewery in Brisbane many years ago. The other thing I remember was that every road in Oz appeared to be strewn with empty stubbies along its entire length.