Road wars on Sky One

[tomtvr]

Anyone else watch this?

Week after week i am staggered at how lenient the punishments are!

Community service for stealing a car and being chased on the wrong side of the road causing mayhem.

£1000 fine for no tax, insurance, licence and trying to escape the police at 100mph on the hard shoulder!

Why do i even bother buying insurance - the fines are much cheaper!

[vonhosen]

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison ?

Edited by vonhosen on Monday 11th September 23:34

[Kinky]

Not that it helps, but the Road Wars series (on Sky) is about 3 years old - maybe more.

I wish they'd do a new series - I still watch the repeats for the upteenth time!

K

[Parrot of Doom]

I watch this programme to, I always enjoy seeing Pat and Carl Pat is the one with the tache I think, hes the sort of copper who you don't feck around with

As for the punishments, what may seem like a small fine to some can be a massive fine for others.

[tomtvr]

It just encourages them to break the law more!

Flogging for no insurance i say

[GKP]

If they have no money for fines they should do community service.

[trevorh]

I know it may be the way the programme is edited, but a lot of the older cars they stop seem to be inhabited by congenital liars/cretins. Why deny who you are when the same copper nicked you a little while back? Or come up with the completely unoriginal 'Oh, I've just bought the car' when questioned re lack of tax disc/insurance? I suspect the BiB get really fed up with dealing with the same old crowd.

[james_j]

Now you see (if you haven't figured it out yet) why the revenue camera industry concentrates its earning focus on the licenced, safe, bona fide driver. It's easier.

[cliffe_mafia]

The best bit was the Asian lad's dad - "F**k him.... send him for prison"

I agree that the punishments do seem absurd - is someone driving with no tax/insurance/licence really going to be inconvenienced when they get a ban?

[PetrolTed]

Pat 'n' Carl - top entertainment.

It's the bans people get when they have no licence that seem such nonsense to me.

[Plotloss]

PetrolTed said:

It's the bans people get when they have no licence that seem such nonsense to me.

jackdee

Coming out joyriding tonight?

Nah, lost me licence.

/jackdee

[vonhosen]

PetrolTed said:

Pat 'n' Carl - top entertainment.

It's the bans people get when they have no licence that seem such nonsense to me.

The ban serves a purpose.
Drive with no licence, you can't be sent to prison.
Drive when banned, you can be sent to prison.

[deltafox]

vonhosen said:

PetrolTed said:

Pat 'n' Carl - top entertainment.

It's the bans people get when they have no licence that seem such nonsense to me.

The ban serves a purpose.
Drive with no licence, you can't be sent to prison.
Drive when banned, you can be sent to prison.

Erm that dosent work Vonny me old boy....see here:

vonhosen said:

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison

[TonyHetherington]

I saw the program, really enjoy the traffic cop/road wars etc. type series. It frustrates me so much the cost and lengths that we go to to be legal and the penalties for not being so are so flipping minor!

I would imagine on the road that it is just frustration after frustration for the officers themselves? an officer, a car, 8 hours, for a £1000 fine?!

[jas xjr]

i usually watch it late at night,but who writes those scripts?

[vonhosen]

deltafox said:

Erm that dosent work Vonny me old boy....see here:

vonhosen said:

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison

It does though because courts view disqualified driving as contempt of their order not to drive.
You've been given chances & the ultimate sanction awaits down the line. I've seen plenty of people get imprisoned for disqualified driving. Great way of getting burglars banged up & off the streets.

[deltafox]

vonhosen said:

deltafox said:

Erm that dosent work Vonny me old boy....see here:

vonhosen said:

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison

It does though because courts view disqualified driving as contempt of their order not to drive.
You've been given chances & the ultimate sanction awaits down the line. I've seen plenty of people get imprisoned for disqualified driving. Great way of getting burglars banged up & off the streets.

But you said it was too expensive to put em there and there were no places.......

[vonhosen]

deltafox said:

vonhosen said:

deltafox said:

Erm that dosent work Vonny me old boy....see here:

vonhosen said:

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison

It does though because courts view disqualified driving as contempt of their order not to drive.
You've been given chances & the ultimate sanction awaits down the line. I've seen plenty of people get imprisoned for disqualified driving. Great way of getting burglars banged up & off the streets.

But you said it was too expensive to put em there and there were no places.......

They can't put you in for no insurance or no licence. But where you defy a court, blatantly perjure yourself to a court or try & have the justice system over by perverting the course of justice, then you may just find yourself sharing a cell.

[xanderjones]

vonhosen said:

deltafox said:

vonhosen said:

deltafox said:

Erm that dosent work Vonny me old boy....see here:

vonhosen said:

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison

It does though because courts view disqualified driving as contempt of their order not to drive.
You've been given chances & the ultimate sanction awaits down the line. I've seen plenty of people get imprisoned for disqualified driving. Great way of getting burglars banged up & off the streets.

But you said it was too expensive to put em there and there were no places.......

They can't put you in for no insurance or no licence. But where you defy a court, blatantly perjure yourself to a court or try & have the justice system over by perverting the course of justice, then you may just find yourself sharing a cell.

errmmm, hate to diasagree, but....

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotl

www.sunriseradio.fm/news.php?news_id=349

www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=457&articleid=1522763

www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.573402.0.0.php

[vonhosen]

xanderjones said:

vonhosen said:

deltafox said:

vonhosen said:

deltafox said:

Erm that dosent work Vonny me old boy....see here:

vonhosen said:

Because the people concerned have no money & it costs too much (no places) to send them to prison

It does though because courts view disqualified driving as contempt of their order not to drive.
You've been given chances & the ultimate sanction awaits down the line. I've seen plenty of people get imprisoned for disqualified driving. Great way of getting burglars banged up & off the streets.

But you said it was too expensive to put em there and there were no places.......

They can't put you in for no insurance or no licence. But where you defy a court, blatantly perjure yourself to a court or try & have the justice system over by perverting the course of justice, then you may just find yourself sharing a cell.

errmmm, hate to diasagree, but....

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotl

www.sunriseradio.fm/news.php?news_id=349

www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=457&articleid=1522763

www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.573402.0.0.php

Nearly 12,000 were sentenced to immeadiate custodial sentences in Englad & Wales during 2004 for disqualified driving, compared to 2,322 for excess alco.