What's the point of this punishment?

[Mill Wheel]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sisters-witho...

The Mirror said:

Two sisters without driving licences who sparked a 90mph police chase asked cops for a CIGARETTE when they were finally halted.

Amy and Laura Humpage also swapped seats before officers caught up with them, drove on the wrong side of the road, ran three red lights and demolished a 2ft brick wall.

The sisters shook off two police cars before a third caught up with them as they crashed the car in Selston Road, Aston, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

Police had earlier flagged down the BMW near the sisters' home in Sumburgh Croft, Castle Vale.

Mental health issues? I doubt they were new to driving, so how many more like these are on our roads?
Anyone here know of a driver without a license? I have reported two in my 39 years of driving - one in Blackpool where it is common, and one in Windermere.
But they seem to get away with it until a chance encounter with police, rather than a speed camera!
As we move towards no tax discs and remote enforcement, isn't this sort of thing going to become more common?
The RAC Foundation seem to think so!

[sidekickdmr]

Think you may have pasted the wrong thing as your title ;-)

[MacW]

A cigarette?

Surely not!

Birmingham truly is the den of depravity and lawlessness my parents warned me about!

In fact the journalist was so incensed he managed to type CIGAREETE later in the article. A perfectly understandable error considering the outrageous circumstances he was reporting on.

[soad]

Class acts...

[FlashmanChop]

Clearly both got the mental

id happily smash either, or both.

[Durzel]

sidekickdmr said:

Think you may have pasted the wrong thing as your title ;-)

Should count himself lucky it wasn't PornHub!

[Pixelpeep7r]

tabloid said:

Amy, 25, admitted careless driving, failing to provide a specimen and having no licence. She was given a two-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £250.

Both sisters were banned from driving.

Why why fkING why do the courts insist on doing this?

What is the fking point of banning someone who clearly does not care about what she is or isn't allowed to do.

She didn't have a fking licence in the first place so she's hardly gonna care that you've told her she can't drive for twelve months, SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN fkING DRIVING IN THE FIRST PLACE.

2 months suspended sentence?! the slut should have been given more than that as a proper custodial for that much of a blatant disregard for the law.

How on earth is that punishment going to 'make people think twice' about making off from police, not having insurance, not having a licence and all the other st she did.

SENSE OF fkING CONSEQUENCE IS WHAT WE NEED.

Idiot imbred s.

[Pixelpeep7r]

Durzel said:

sidekickdmr said:

Think you may have pasted the wrong thing as your title ;-)

Should count himself lucky it wasn't PornHub!

didn't you see the song title?

'how long'

[Pip1968]

Pixelpeep7r said:

Why why fkING why do the courts insist on doing this?

What is the fking point of banning someone who clearly does not care about what she is or isn't allowed to do.

She didn't have a fking licence in the first place so she's hardly gonna care that you've told her she can't drive for twelve months, SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN fkING DRIVING IN THE FIRST PLACE.

2 months suspended sentence?! the slut should have been given more than that as a proper custodial for that much of a blatant disregard for the law.

How on earth is that punishment going to 'make people think twice' about making off from police, not having insurance, not having a licence and all the other st she did.

SENSE OF fkING CONSEQUENCE IS WHAT WE NEED.

Idiot imbred s.

Ha, ha, ha. Say it the way it is On a serious note it is a bit of a joke. They would have better of confiscating her LV luggage ....

They should have crushed the car.

Pip

[trickywoo]

Humpage

[CTE]

It is their arrogance and complete disrespect for anyone or anything that really winds me up...and thousands like them...for them there are no consequences to bother about, whence this behaviour will continue.

[Jamesgt]

trickywoo said:

Humpage

That's the kind of punishment that needs dishing out!

[750turbo]

You fker Mill Wheel - That bloody song is going to bug me all evening

Awww someone sorted the title...

Anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBHNV935Zw

Edited by 750turbo on Tuesday 21st October 19:22

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CTE said:

It is their arrogance and complete disrespect for anyone or anything that really winds me up...and thousands like them...for them there are no consequences to bother about, whence this behaviour will continue.

I agree with you and I have said all along ,this will not stop the buggers reoffending until the worse happens and they hurt themselves or other road users.
It's horrid to say this but they both need a shock/accident too realise what they're doing ,just hope no one else is involved but a hedge/tree.

[soad]

FlashmanChop said:

Clearly both got the mental

id happily smash either, or both.

There's always one!

Rather you than me, chap.

[Mill Wheel]

Pixelpeep7r said:

Durzel said:

sidekickdmr said:

Think you may have pasted the wrong thing as your title ;-)

Should count himself lucky it wasn't PornHub!

didn't you see the song title?

'how long'

Ahh... at least it wasn't lost on SOMEBODY!!

I very much doubt they had started this behaviour in the same week, yet will have managed to get away with it!!

[55palfers]

...but woe betide any of us who are sober and have VED, insurance and a proper driving licence if we stray into a bus lane for 50 yards.

[TooMany2cvs]

Pixelpeep7r said:

Why why fkING why do the courts insist on doing this?

Because there's this inconvenient thing called the "law" that prevents them from just making up sentences as they go along.

Pixelpeep7r said:

What is the fking point of banning someone who clearly does not care about what she is or isn't allowed to do.

She didn't have a fking licence in the first place so she's hardly gonna care that you've told her she can't drive for twelve months, SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN fkING DRIVING IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Four main reasons.
1. Because she cannot be jailed for driving without a licence. She CAN, otoh, be jailed for driving whilst banned.
2. Because if she wasn't banned, she could apply for a licence tomorrow.
3. Because if she does sees the error of her ways and decides to go legal (once the ban's over), she's going to have to declare a ban to her insurers for years to come. She may also have to take an extended test.
4. Because if she does get stopped again, and the DVLA search comes back "BAN" rather than "Who?", she's not going to bull her way into a producer with "Oh, must be a computer error, there was a muck-up when I changed my name/address".

Pixelpeep7r said:

imbred

Much as I hate to interrupt a rant like that (3/10, btw), the word is "Inbred".

[B'stard Child]

There's no place for common sense Posts like that on PH 2M2CV's

[Aretnap]

Pixelpeep7r said:

tabloid said:

Amy, 25, admitted careless driving, failing to provide a specimen and having no licence. She was given a two-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £250.

Both sisters were banned from driving.

Why why fkING why do the courts insist on doing this?

What is the fking point of banning someone who clearly does not care about what she is or isn't allowed to do.

So would you be happier if they hadn't been banned then? Remember the ban will always be in addition to some other punishment - whether that other punishment is adequate is a separate question.

As above there are a number of differences between having no licence and being banned. The main ones are (a) someone with no licence can get one (a provisional one, at least) any time they like by sending a form to the DVLA, unlike someone who is banned and (b) you can't go to prison for driving with no licence, but you can for driving while banned.