RE: Speeding fines refunded

[plug]

smeggy said:

plug said: I got a letter through the post the other day about refunding my fine, it was the first I had heard of it, as I didn't appose thi nip. Wow. Must admit I’m very surprised, happily so. I know the partnerships have manoeuvred their way into keeping the cash on previous occasions. Will you be seeking compensation for resulting higher insurance premiums? Do let us know how it goes

Told the insurance co at the time of renewel and I was told that having 3 points on my licence for speeding dosent make any differance to my preimium.

[cjbolter]

Hi fellow "Petrol Heads", although my last post was as I said a little 'off topic', thanks for the response.
The "traffic census" was actually , ( as I waited 42 minutes to find out ), due to the fact that a local prostitute had been found dead at the side of the road at that point two weeks previously, and the BiB wanted to know whether regular users of the road had seen anything "suspicious". This of course underlines my earlier observation ; that I would have been stopping those who immediately retreated on seeing the BiB !!!!.

VBR CJ

ps who was it who said "I have much more important things to do than sit in a queue for 42 minutes", need I say more ??. I bet he uses his mobile phone on the train so he can tell someone ( it doesn't matter who ) that he is on the train !!.

[Richard C]

cjbolter said:

ps who was it who said "I have much more important things to do than sit in a queue for 42 minutes", need I say more ??. I bet he uses his mobile phone on the train so he can tell someone ( it doesn't matter who ) that he is on the train !!.

If you look on the previous page, you will find it was me cjbolter. Your suggestion about the mobile phone is way off. I rarely use a mobile phone or a train. However your comments tell us a great deal about your own attitude to law and law enforcement.

>> Edited by Richard C on Wednesday 27th July 08:56

>> Edited by Richard C on Wednesday 27th July 08:56

[turbobungle]

cjbolter said:

I'd heard this idea mooted on several sites, but at the risk of stating the obvious this would only help in cases where the camera gets you from behind !!!!. SPECS cameras ( and some others ) get you from the front !!. I must admit that I am a bit puzzled by this one, don't you know what limit is in action ??. What speed are you driving at or near ??, and why ??, if you dont know the limit in force. We can't legitimately complain about speed cameras if we admit we are so un observant or blase that we dont know the limit !!. Sorry, but the argument against the plethora of "scameras" must remain logical.

I agree with your comment about knowing the speed limit on the road you are driving to a degree, but, a road local to me (on which i got nicked by a scamera van hidden behind a bush) has SIX speed limit changes (anywhere between 30 and 60) within 2.5 miles with no apparent change in surroundings! I could spend my whole time with one eye on the signs and one on the speedo but i'd have none left for looking at the road or for scamera vans and someone would end up dead!

[Pigeon]

cjbolter said:

ps who was it who said "I have much more important things to do than sit in a queue for 42 minutes", need I say more ??. I bet he uses his mobile phone on the train so he can tell someone ( it doesn't matter who ) that he is on the train !!.

It wasn't me, but it might have been. I would find it more important to enjoy myself exploring the back roads to find a way round the queue than to be pissed off for 42 minutes with an aching clutch leg.

On the train I might use my mobile phone to tell someone waiting to pick me up from the station that the train was late. Otherwise it'd most likely be switched off. I don't mind other people using them on trains, but I find my own as annoying as useful.