Magistrates Blog

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Perhaps a few visits by members here would clear up this guys misconceptions


http://thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com/2005/01/traffic-offenders-part-1.html

[Plotloss]

'We still kill 10 people every day on our roads'

Well 10 KSI's to be specific and whilst that goes on 20 have died from MRSA

But whats being done about that?

Nothing because it would be a cost...

[BliarOut]

I'm gonna stand up for this guy, some of his bloggs are priceless!

The blog said:

Legal Code (1) I have touched on the law's propensity to jargon. Much more important is code, in which practitioners know exactly what is meant, while the poor sods in the dock and the public gallery haven't a clue what's going on. Here's a taster: there will be more later. "M'learned Friend" = The incompetent fool standing next to me. "If Your Worship Pleases" = I am a proper barrister and I don't want you to confuse me with those oiks over there who should be back in their office writing wills or whatever it is they do. "As you and your colleagues will of course be aware, Sir" = You silly old fools wouldn't know a legal argument if it crawled up your arse, so here's the law rendered fit for Daily Mail readers. "My instructions are, Sir" = I hope you realise that I don't believe this crap either. "It is my hope that the Crown might feel able to take a certain course of action" = Are you going to drop it, or do I have to go through the process of getting it thrown out? If I do, I'm going to rub your nose in it. "I am of course, mindful of the pressures on Court time" = I am seeing that delicious little Cambridge graduate who has applied for a pupillage at 6.30 in a pub in Chancery Lane. I want out of here, and I want it in the next five minutes. "We are anxious to conclude matters today, Sir. My client is privately funding this case" = it was all that my clerk could do to screw five hundred quid out of this tosser. Please don't make me come back for a second day, because I think he has run out of money. "I am grateful Sir" = I am not grateful. I am furious. "I am grateful for the guidance from the learned clerk" = Bitch

[StressedDave]

Plotloss said:

'We still kill 10 people every day on our roads' Well 10 KSI's to be specific and whilst that goes on 20 have died from MRSA But whats being done about that? Nothing because it would be a cost...

3508 killed in 2003 equates to just under 10 per day. 37215 KSI is 100 per day. Perhaps m'learned friend would care to re-examine his calculator

[Plotloss]

I thought it was roughly 3600 KSI's rather than 3600 deaths...??

Point about MRSA still stands though...

[Mr E]

PMSL at the legal definitions.

[nonegreen]

Plotloss said:

I thought it was roughly 3600 KSI's rather than 3600 deaths...?? Point about MRSA still stands though...

I think its 50000 die from MRSA which is nearly 150 per day IIRC

10 per day die from road use

3 per day from speed hump induced emergency service failure

2 per week from being at work (Working kills?)

2 a week from speeding

20 a day from accidents in the home IIRC

Speeding really should be right at the bottom of the list. I think there is actually more chance of being murdered than dieing because of speed. Well there would be if I thought I could get away with it.

[StressedDave]

The figures I found put it way lower than that - there were 5309 MRSA deaths in 2002, so it's less than 20 per day. And some of the huge increase in numbers is due to the medical fraternity getting better at diagnosing it as a cause. Well, that's nice to know

The problem is that the government had a pledge to reduce road fatalities by a silly percentage and can't imagine any other way than by making everybody drive at the speed limit...as if driving at the speed limit miraculously causes fewer accidents.