police camera action last night ITV

[davido140]

I managed about 10 seconds of the programme until the narrator said....

"some people still think there is a difference between safe speeding and dangerous speeding"

and then it cut to some poor saps in a speed awareness course.

had to turn over then before I started shouting at the telly.

utter self rightious clap-trap.

[jezzaaa]

Ooo - was that Alistair Stewart, the man famous for berating drunk drivers ... before being caught himself?!

[TigerK]

I caught that bit too. It did make me wonder what the "instructor" would have been able to teach Lewis Hamilton about "observation, reacting to changing circumstances, and car control", if LH got marched in there for his first 34 in a 30.

I also noticed what looked like a high proportion of young female drivers in the course. Girl racers, or just too busy texting at the wheel?

[supermono]

What puzzles me is how everybody laughs at this nonsense on the telly yet it keeps going on for years! Surely the TV people must know it's nonsense too and as for that Stewart imbecile -- doesn't he realise he's making a laughing stock of himself?

I don't really mind if they want to show evidence of the police wasting their time and tax payer's money, and causing the general public peril by making them come to a halt on the super-dangerous hard shoulder, by why keep banging on about safety?

I remember watching some poor chap doing some speed or another in apparent bliss and safety, then being pulled up onto the hard shoulder only to have his door whipped clean off by a passing lorry! He could have been killed. It sure looked more dangerous than the bit where he was wafting along the road minding his own business. The presenter sort of laughed up his sleeve saying something about how that'll teach him for breaking The Law.

Oh and of course the fact that everyone involved in the production of the program is also a serial speeder.

Bloody hypocrites...

SM

[sjtscott]

jezzaaa said:

Ooo - was that Alistair Stewart, the man famous for berating drunk drivers ... before being caught himself?!

Not just the once either actually twice!
Full details here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Stewart
I found it even funnier that as I typed his name into my google search toolbar on firefox the top suggested search was 'alastair stewart drink driving'

[Lostusernamedamn]

supermono said:

What puzzles me is how everybody laughs at this nonsense on the telly yet it keeps going on for years! Surely the TV people must know it's nonsense too and as for that Stewart imbecile -- doesn't he realise he's making a laughing stock of himself? SM

Under communism the TV is mainly propaganda and of course seen as rubbish by the majority of the population, but government dogma ensures it's churned out year after year. Just like these police camera action programmes. Regarding that Stewart person, I guess as long as the money keeps rolling in for his nannying waffle, he's happy to make a fool of himself.

[Jasandjules]

FFS the Govt keep telling us they aren't destroying the country and they think people believe that, so what's a little speed kills amongst the Goebbel's propoganda machine that is Nu Laba.