98 yr old duke crashes range rover

[bongtom]

227bhp said:

I don't think this is really newsworthy.

Are you the news police?

There’s an article about it and this. So yes, newsworthy.

[Halb]

Randy Winkman said:

Karma? I think she helped do us all a favour.

[otolith]

Person caught speeding gets a fine and ban. Person who causes a major RTA get NFA. Karma?

[richie99]

otolith said:

Person caught speeding gets a fine and ban. Person who causes a major RTA get NFA. Karma?

Speeding is evil. Worse than pretty much anything else. Easy to follow once you accept that.

[Zetec-S]

otolith said:

Person caught speeding gets a fine and ban who ran to the press spouting holier than thou crap gets caught speeding and failing to identify gets fined and banned. Person who causes a major relatively minor RTA get NFA. Karma?

FTFY

[227bhp]

bongtom said:

227bhp said:

I don't think this is really newsworthy.

Are you the news police?

There’s an article about it and this. So yes, newsworthy.

I'm a person on a forum with an opinion, that's what forums are for.

You must lead a very dull life if you think it remotely interesting that the passenger of a car which was in another accident has just got a driving ban.

[Mort7]

Zetec-S said:

otolith said:

Person caught speeding gets a fine and ban who ran to the press spouting holier than thou crap gets caught speeding and failing to identify gets fined and banned. Person who causes a major relatively minor RTA get NFA. Karma?

FTFY

Thank you. Exactly what I meant.

[Rewe]

227bhp said:

bongtom said:

227bhp said:

I don't think this is really newsworthy.

Are you the news police?

There’s an article about it and this. So yes, newsworthy.

I'm a person on a forum with an opinion, that's what forums are for.

You must lead a very dull life if you think it remotely interesting that the passenger of a car which was in another accident has just got a driving ban.

Judgemental much?


Reasons why it is newsworthy:

Senior royal in crash. Interesting.

Questions raised about royal privilege. Interesting.

Debates about age related driving competence. Interesting.

Contrast between dignified silence of other driver vs public complaints of passenger. Interesting.

Despite playing the victim card at the time, the passenger was actually playing fast and loose with the law herself. Interesting.

None of which is as interesting as trying to work out if you can see the irony of posting in a thread you think is irrelevant!

[otolith]

Mort7 said:

Zetec-S said:

otolith said:

Person caught speeding gets a fine and ban who ran to the press spouting holier than thou crap gets caught speeding and failing to identify gets fined and banned. Person who causes a major relatively minor RTA get NFA. Karma?

FTFY

Thank you. Exactly what I meant.

I am sure that if someone who clearly should have already handed in their licence wrote off your car with your baby in it and put you and your passenger in hospital by pulling out in front of you, you'd consider them above reproach on the grounds that you've had a speeding ticket.

[Shakermaker]

otolith said:

I am sure that if someone who clearly should have already handed in their licence wrote off your car with your baby in it and put you and your passenger in hospital by pulling out in front of you, you'd consider them above reproach on the grounds that you've had a speeding ticket.

He was dealt with the same way that most old people who crash are dealt with? It was no further legal action, but he is no longer on the road. Which as we established a few pages ago, was the most likely outcome of any investigation, prosecution etc to come up with, but at much less cost to the taxpayer to do so.

she was happy enough once she received a personalised apology from him, her arm is no doubt better now, the baby wasn't harmed and he doesn't drive anymore so won't be doing anymore moves like that.

[otolith]

Shakermaker said:

otolith said:

I am sure that if someone who clearly should have already handed in their licence wrote off your car with your baby in it and put you and your passenger in hospital by pulling out in front of you, you'd consider them above reproach on the grounds that you've had a speeding ticket.

He was dealt with the same way that most old people who crash are dealt with? It was no further legal action, but he is no longer on the road. Which as we established a few pages ago, was the most likely outcome of any investigation, prosecution etc to come up with, but at much less cost to the taxpayer to do so.

she was happy enough once she received a personalised apology from him, her arm is no doubt better now, the baby wasn't harmed and he doesn't drive anymore so won't be doing anymore moves like that.

Yes, the point is she was probably entitled to feel a bit aggrieved at the time, whether she'd got a pending speeding ticket or not.

[Shakermaker]

otolith said:

Yes, the point is she was probably entitled to feel a bit aggrieved at the time, whether she'd got a pending speeding ticket or not.

Yes, I understand.

Karma isn't really the word for what has happened here.

[talksthetorque]

Shakermaker said:

otolith said:

I am sure that if someone who clearly should have already handed in their licence wrote off your car with your baby in it and put you and your passenger in hospital by pulling out in front of you, you'd consider them above reproach on the grounds that you've had a speeding ticket.

He was dealt with the same way that most old people who crash are dealt with? It was no further legal action, but he is no longer on the road. Which as we established a few pages ago, was the most likely outcome of any investigation, prosecution etc to come up with, but at much less cost to the taxpayer to do so.

she was happy enough once she received a personalised apology from him, her arm is no doubt better now, the baby wasn't harmed and he doesn't drive anymore so won't be doing anymore moves like that.

Which would actually cost more though.
Flunkies having a 4 hour meeting ( probably with biscuits) to word the letter, then typing it out on paper made from llama foreskins, and signed by HRH with a dodo feather quill and ink made from Easter Island Bat Guarno.
Or a court case?

Sounds like she wanted Phil to hold his hands up for his offence, but when it came to her ( or someone she knoew was driving the car) it's another matter.

[Mort7]

otolith said:

Mort7 said:

Zetec-S said:

otolith said:

Person caught speeding gets a fine and ban who ran to the press spouting holier than thou crap gets caught speeding and failing to identify gets fined and banned. Person who causes a major relatively minor RTA get NFA. Karma?

FTFY

Thank you. Exactly what I meant.

I am sure that if someone who clearly should have already handed in their licence wrote off your car with your baby in it and put you and your passenger in hospital by pulling out in front of you, you'd consider them above reproach on the grounds that you've had a speeding ticket.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? I'll explain anyway:-

It was not her car. She was a passenger. It was not her baby. It was the driver's.

The owner/driver/parent kept a dignified silence, and allowed the insurance companies to sort things out. The passenger, however, made a huge fuss, went to the newspapers, went on TV, demanded an apology from the DofE, demanded that he be prosecuted / lose his licence, and generally played the victim card for all it was worth.

Had she not done that, then the story which I linked to would not have been featured in a national newspaper as it would not have been newsworthy. The karma that I refer to is that her attempts to pillory the DofE via the media have led directly to her being pilloried by the media herself.

Karma (car-ma) is a word meaning the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. According to the theory of Karma, what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions.

My use of the word in my intended context is therefore entirely correct. Please take the trouble to read and interpret what I have written, rather than making up your own version.

[otolith]

Mort7 said:

My use of the word in my intended context is therefore entirely correct. Please take the trouble to read and interpret what I have written, rather than making up your own version.

You wrote one word next to a URL.

Reading and interpreting I'm OK with.

Mind reading is a little harder.

[Mort7]

It was obvious to me. I'll try to make things simpler for you in future.

Edited to add: the DofE has handed in his licence, and she has had her come-uppance. Works for me.

Edited by Mort7 on Wednesday 29th May 18:25

[anonymous-user]

More importantly, when the Phil the Greek finally snuffs it, will there be a public holiday?

If so can I nominate a Friday?

[talksthetorque]

yonex said:

More importantly, when the Phil the Greek finally snuffs it, will there be a public holiday?

If so can I nominate a Friday?

You want a Thursday, then nobody can be arsed to work on the Friday so you effectively get a BOGOF.
One good habit we didn't acquire during our tenure in the EU