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mybrainhurts said:
RTC
Oh, how I hate PC.......errr, PC
It's an RTA, unless it's deliberate, and there aren't many of those....
Goons in Blue who manage the police service should be chained to a large weight and dropped into the South Atlantic from a great height.....
Our Accident Investigation Unit is now a Collision Investigation Unit after the management had their say ...... but the officers who are 'Accident Investigators' still wanted to be known as such and managed to retain their title .......
So we now have Accident Investigators's in the Collision Investigation Unit
john57 said:
guizer said:
RTC
Oh, how I hate PC.......errr, PC
It's an RTA, unless it's deliberate, and there aren't many of those....
Goons in Blue who manage the police service should be chained to a large weight and dropped into the South Atlantic from a great height.....
Our Accident Investigation Unit is now a Collision Investigation Unit after the management had their say ...... but the officers who are 'Accident Investigators' still wanted to be known as such and managed to retain their title .......
So we now have Accident Investigators's in the Collision Investigation Unit
Ahh yes, AI's in the CIU. Same here.
In Poole a lady motorist was parked quite safely but had left the engine running whilst making a call. She had a child or baby in a travelling seat. She was given a very strong bollocking by a reportedly very stroppy police woman who actually accussed her of being a bad mother before giving her the fixed penalty. This of course reduced the woman to tears. The womans husband complained and there was an article in the local paper. The Penalty notice was withdrawn with the police making a wish washy statement about the policewoman being over enthusiastic.
Most of us realise that the police have a difficult time and I would not want to clear the streets of Bournemouth on a Saturday night. I am sure they meet all sorts of scrouts in there job but there is no reason for them to assume we all are. We on the other hand rarely have anything to do with the police but when we do it is invariably to do with traffic and that is where we form our opinions about the Police.
Most of us realise that the police have a difficult time and I would not want to clear the streets of Bournemouth on a Saturday night. I am sure they meet all sorts of scrouts in there job but there is no reason for them to assume we all are. We on the other hand rarely have anything to do with the police but when we do it is invariably to do with traffic and that is where we form our opinions about the Police.
MR2Mike said:Don't be silly. The law as it stands means that you can be nicked for using a mobile phone in a queue of traffic that hasn't moved for ages, and isn't going to move for ages - one BiB has stopped traffic to help a recovery team clear the road say, while another taps on your window. Exactly how is that self-important?
Why does anyone need to use a mobile phone whilst driving anyway?
Since although you're in neutral and the handbrake's on you are committing an offence by not switching off the ignition and getting out of the vehicle to use a hand held. Nor is it remotely any more dangerous than changing the cassette you're listening to to while way the time spent in that trafic jam. Or even getting out of the car to use the phone as the law requires, at which point you might find a white line biker parking their front wheel in your middle wicket.
silverback mike said:
mybrainhurts said:
guizer said:
RTC
Oh, how I hate PC.......errr, PC
It's an RTA, unless it's deliberate, and there aren't many of those....
Goons in Blue who manage the police service should be chained to a large weight and dropped into the South Atlantic from a great height.....
Our Accident Investigation Unit is now a Collision Investigation Unit after the management had their say ...... but the officers who are 'Accident Investigators' still wanted to be known as such and managed to retain their title .......
So we now have Accident Investigators's in the Collision Investigation Unit
Ahh yes, AI's in the CIU. Same here.
I hear these managers have just dubbed themselves the...
Collisions Unit National Trends Squad......
rewc said:
In Poole a lady motorist was parked quite safely but had left the engine running whilst making a call. She had a child or baby in a travelling seat. She was given a very strong bollocking by a reportedly very stroppy police woman who actually accussed her of being a bad mother before giving her the fixed penalty. This of course reduced the woman to tears. The womans husband complained and there was an article in the local paper. The Penalty notice was withdrawn with the police making a wish washy statement about the policewoman being over enthusiastic.
Most of us realise that the police have a difficult time and I would not want to clear the streets of Bournemouth on a Saturday night. I am sure they meet all sorts of scrouts in there job but there is no reason for them to assume we all are. We on the other hand rarely have anything to do with the police but when we do it is invariably to do with traffic and that is where we form our opinions about the Police.
If that had been my Mrs and kiddie the WPC would have been rendered completely unable to sit for at least a month. This sort of behaviour is disgusting and needs to be met with loss of pension and employment at the first offence. I was out and about today, a man was on a main road waving a gun and a mjor RTA happened. Where were BIB? Manning a speed trap on a Dual C?
Time to take away their technology and sack the management.On the other hand, I have quite a few friends who think that exceeding a speed limit is always dangerous. "Oh it's never safe. You’ll get banned for that."
They've never noticed that I'll be driving them down from Loch Fyne at up to 110 mph, all very calm and smooth though. That sort of speed seems to feel right to them. "Why are we slowing down?" "There's a sheep on the road." "Oh, so there is. Well spotted!"
My friends use hand-held mobiles while driving. They know that this is against the law, but they still do it. Exceeding a speed limit is against the law too, and somehow, for them, that's a far more important law. I don't get it. (Some of them are girls.)
"Who's going to notice? We're not exceeding the speed limit."
So, I say, if anyone notices me exceeding the speed limit then that’s a fair cop. No one will notice (except in New South Wales, an unfortunate incident).
You've never noticed me exceeding the speed limit, I continue, yet I always notice when you're on the phone.
It's a weird argument.
They've never noticed that I'll be driving them down from Loch Fyne at up to 110 mph, all very calm and smooth though. That sort of speed seems to feel right to them. "Why are we slowing down?" "There's a sheep on the road." "Oh, so there is. Well spotted!"
My friends use hand-held mobiles while driving. They know that this is against the law, but they still do it. Exceeding a speed limit is against the law too, and somehow, for them, that's a far more important law. I don't get it. (Some of them are girls.)
"Who's going to notice? We're not exceeding the speed limit."
So, I say, if anyone notices me exceeding the speed limit then that’s a fair cop. No one will notice (except in New South Wales, an unfortunate incident).
You've never noticed me exceeding the speed limit, I continue, yet I always notice when you're on the phone.
It's a weird argument.
MR2Mike said:
MR2Mike said:
Chrispy Porker said:
Why does anyone need to use a mobile phone whilst driving anyway?
Inflated sense of their own self importance mainly.
Or they just needed to make a phonecall maybe?!
And whats wrong with stopping in a safe place to make said phone call?
And whats wrong with making a call on a legal hands free kit? And whats wrong with talking to a passenger? And whats wrong with changing the CD in a stereo? And whats wrong with lighting up a fag?
Chrispy Porker said:
Why does anyone need to use a mobile phone whilst driving anyway?
To be honest, because you can't "push on" any more, for fear of getting hung, I'll give somebody a call just to relieve the boredom. I'm on hands-free, it's legal, so why not? Keeps me awake, which has to be safer.
Remove all the scameras, allow me to drive my car properly (where conditions allow) and I'll turn the phone off.
silverback mike said:
Whilst out driving last night, we were negotiating a roundabout, and i was on my phone at the time.
Sods law!!! a cop car joined the roundabout from the next exit, My wife Diane said...he is flashing his lights, so i think we should pull over don't you?
So we did, We just sat in the car and waited for him to come to us.
I knew why he had stopped us...Yes it was the using of the Phone whilst driving.
He appeared at my window, and you should have seen his face, when he realised that we were driving my wifes left hand drive Smart car,and i was the passenger,
He exclaimed a big Aghhhhhhhhhh, when he saw the error of his ways, and laughed his head off, and so did we.
But the Barsteward had to have the last word...Get that brake light fixed asap
Don't ya just love it when you get one up on em, coz this Braintree copper looked about 14 years old, smarmy little Sit!!!!! made our day
Dave
Well done, yes very very well done.Glad it made your day.
I would have enjoyed having a laugh with the copper. Not at him - with him. Sounds as though he had a sense of humour - and he was right about the brake light.
Sean
gh0st said:
And whats wrong with making a call on a legal hands free kit?
Nothing, providing the driver has the ability to drive safely whilst being distracted by a conversation. However I was talking about people driving around with a phone clamped to their head.
gh0st said:
And whats wrong with talking to a passenger?
Nothing at all. It's been proven that talking to a person directly is far less distracting than a phone where the other party cannot see what you are doing.
gh0st said:
And whats wrong with changing the CD in a stereo?
It's dangerous. You have to take your eyes off the road to put a CD into a head unit.
gh0st said:
And whats wrong with lighting up a fag?
Everything. Quite apart from the disgusting behvaiour of filthy smokers treating the whole world as their ashtray, lighting a fag requires far more attention than e.g. changing a CD simply because the consequences of getting it wrong are that much worse.
Hughesie2 said:
And whats wrong with talking to a passenger?
I think its been described before that a passenger adapts the conversation to the driving, I.E if the traffic starts backing up the passenger pauses to let you deal with the situation at hand....
I adapt myself - if something happens unexpectadly I will stop talking and deal with it! Its the drivers responsibility to deal with that and I can. I just dont like this whole "if you use the phone while driving you are a c
t" thing that a lot of people have - mostly after the law was brought in MR2Mike said:
gh0st said:
And whats wrong with lighting up a fag?
Everything. Quite apart from the disgusting behvaiour of filthy smokers treating the whole world as their ashtray, lighting a fag requires far more attention than e.g. changing a CD simply because the consequences of getting it wrong are that much worse.
Ah now that is interesting - I would like to point out that I do not smoke anymore and when I did it was never in the car - BUT I am tolorant of smokers who can light a cigarette and drive like I am tolorant of those who can speak on a phone and drive.
I am vastly intolorant of people who cannot use a phone and drive as if they cannot handle it they should not do it but on the same merit - there is nothing wrong with someone doing it who can...
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