Caught speeding in Dunkerque, license taken away....
Discussion
Cliftonite said:
You'd think they'd put a diagram on the sign or something.
Oh!
Hilarious. My point is define "rain". One drop on one car? Ten drops? etcOh!
Sorry - I'm being slight provocative - talking with a gendarme, he shared that it is only very heavy rain where they stop people, not a few drops / drizzle, etc. The challenge of providing a 2 tier control system with a subjective condition.
bad company said:
Sushifiend said:
For dummies: Licence=noun. License=verb.
Count me in as a dummy then.Seriously, why does any of that pretentious s
t matter?I work for a large American enterprise software company and regularly have to deal with software licences. It annoyed me a little to begin with, but after having to deal with "licensing" for years I've given up worrying about it. I get more worked up when I see our scripts littered with messages written by indian developers. "Would" in place of "will" is particularly grating, and I can't keep a straight face when I see "Please do the needful".
With regard to getting 750 euro out at once, yes that was a pain in the arse. I had to go to 2 different banks, get 500 out on my HSBC debit card and then withdraw 250 on my Halifax Clarity credit card. Fortunately I phoned up the bank yesterday and they wavered any fees due to the emergency. Still about a 3% fee overall so about 20 euro in fees.
Vaud said:
Cliftonite said:
You'd think they'd put a diagram on the sign or something.
Oh!
Hilarious. My point is define "rain". One drop on one car? Ten drops? etcOh!
Sorry - I'm being slight provocative - talking with a gendarme, he shared that it is only very heavy rain where they stop people, not a few drops / drizzle, etc. The challenge of providing a 2 tier control system with a subjective condition.
MrBarry123 said:
Good effort OP - the irony of course being you probably missed your ferry?
Still, better to have tried and failed than never have tried at all.
Yep, had to re arrange to the 8 o'clock crossing costing another £80 for me and my mate (he had a trailer, I paid obviously).Still, better to have tried and failed than never have tried at all.
Didn't end up getting home while after 1:30am, started a new job the day after. Haven't mentioned it!
I've had a very similar experience. Overtook a lorry towards the end of an 823 mile drive to Argeles sur mer a few years ago at approx 130mph only to find the gendarmes driving along in front of it. I was pulled over, my licence was confiscated and I was told I couldn't drive in France for two months. My sister was in the passenger seat (fortunately) and completed the last 30mins of the journey.
I was travelling home alone so didn't have much choice but to drive the car so I stayed off the autoroutes and ended up having hands down the best drive of my life. It was an Alfa GTV 3.0 with a sporty exhaust, so although it wasn't the fastest car in the world I had a huge amount of fun blatting through sleepy villages in the north of France late at night on the way back to Dunkirk.
After getting back to the UK my licence never arrived and I actually forgot about it until I was rear ended, and needed to organise a hire car while the damage was repaired. I didn't have my licence to show the hire chap when he dropped the car off, so I had to talk to the DVLA with the hire company conferenced in - I then learned my licence had been sent back to the UK with a batch of British licences due for cancellation due to replacement with French ones! Fortunately this was all sorted out over the phone but to this day I'm convinced Les Gendarmes did it intentionally to teach me a lesson...
I was travelling home alone so didn't have much choice but to drive the car so I stayed off the autoroutes and ended up having hands down the best drive of my life. It was an Alfa GTV 3.0 with a sporty exhaust, so although it wasn't the fastest car in the world I had a huge amount of fun blatting through sleepy villages in the north of France late at night on the way back to Dunkirk.
After getting back to the UK my licence never arrived and I actually forgot about it until I was rear ended, and needed to organise a hire car while the damage was repaired. I didn't have my licence to show the hire chap when he dropped the car off, so I had to talk to the DVLA with the hire company conferenced in - I then learned my licence had been sent back to the UK with a batch of British licences due for cancellation due to replacement with French ones! Fortunately this was all sorted out over the phone but to this day I'm convinced Les Gendarmes did it intentionally to teach me a lesson...
berlintaxi said:
Chris944 said:
The OP's experience sounds totally st. Sympathies.
Seriously? OP drives like a tt. Sympathies.t thinking he is above the law because he is in a foreign country and gets caught and fined, why is he due any sympathy?Any true PH fan, who has petrol running through his veins, would sympathize.
Any true PH fan, upon looking at that stretch of open deserted road, would say in all honesty, "yeap, late for ferry, I'd have done 90".
Please stop being sanctimonious to anyone who asks for advice. Please don't offer retrospective advice.
The deed is done. The Op fessed up. All he wants to know is what will happen regarding his licence. (BTW 'licence' comes up as misspelt on the PH edit window, where as 'license' doesn't)
Breadvan72 said:
I give up, I really do.
There was a bit more to my quote than what you have shown, it was meant as a flippant remark and i would hope that the OP would know that.For clarity OP don't act on my cheeky post.
BV - with all sincerity I hoped my post in full was seen as a cheeky remark, I will try to use emotions in future or outline that the action recommended is not to be taken without consequences.
Hope my grovelling to you has worked and I am some what redeemed!!!
Jarcy said:
Sometimes I think I'd reading Mumsnet and not Pistonheads.
Any true PH fan, who has petrol running through his veins, would sympathize.
Any true PH fan, upon looking at that stretch of open deserted road, would say in all honesty, "yeap, late for ferry, I'd have done 90".
Please stop being sanctimonious to anyone who asks for advice. Please don't offer retrospective advice.
The deed is done. The Op fessed up. All he wants to know is what will happen regarding his licence. (BTW 'licence' comes up as misspelt on the PH edit window, where as 'license' doesn't)
How is it possible to not offer retrospective advice when (a) the OP has asked for such advice and (b) none of us possess a time machine?Any true PH fan, who has petrol running through his veins, would sympathize.
Any true PH fan, upon looking at that stretch of open deserted road, would say in all honesty, "yeap, late for ferry, I'd have done 90".
Please stop being sanctimonious to anyone who asks for advice. Please don't offer retrospective advice.
The deed is done. The Op fessed up. All he wants to know is what will happen regarding his licence. (BTW 'licence' comes up as misspelt on the PH edit window, where as 'license' doesn't)
P.S. that "Mumsnet" argument is getting a bit tired - if you measure your manhood by how badly you can drive on public roads, you obviously don't understand what being a man is about.
P.P.S. put not your faith in American spell-checkers, pay more attention at school.
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