Roadblock set up to catch motorists smoking in company cars

[camshafted]

Absolutely ridiculous - and a warning to anyone out their guilty of this pathetic crime.

Essex Police have been setting up road blocks to catch motorists who have been smoking in their company cars. And then they've been dishing out fines.

Cliche alert: It's Britain gone mad! Seriously, while there are *actual* crimes happening, plod are trying to do motorists for committing pretty victimless acts.

http://swns.com/road-blocks-set-up-to-catch-motori...

[Gun]

So are they just pulling over anyone they see smoking in a car?

[carreauchompeur]

Utterly pathetic, so much so that I would wager the story is inaccurate. And isn't there some sort of exemption whereby if only one person uses car they can smoke?

[V88Dicky]

Obviously. Not.

[Zod]

V88Dicky said:

Obviously. Not.

It takes a long time to dismantle an infrastructure as large as that constructed by Labour, particularly when any agency you abolish leads to cries of "x thousnad jobs destroyed in Tory cuts" cries from Labour.

[camshafted]

"Utterly pathetic, so much so that I would wager the story is inaccurate. And isn't there some sort of exemption whereby if only one person uses car they can smoke?"

Not sure - surely it's all classified as "smoking in the work place", therefore it must be pretty hard to prove you're innocent

[Corsair7]

camshafted said:

Absolutely ridiculous - and a warning to anyone out their guilty of this pathetic crime.

Essex Police have been setting up road blocks to catch motorists who have been smoking in their company cars. And then they've been dishing out fines.

Cliche alert: It's Britain gone mad! Seriously, while there are *actual* crimes happening, plod are trying to do motorists for committing pretty victimless acts.

http://swns.com/road-blocks-set-up-to-catch-motori...

Suspect story was put up one month early....? Should have been April 1st, someones just made a cockup

[carreauchompeur]

There definitely was some sort of loophole. Well, the obvious one is to have a convertible as a company car, you could waft past them with a cigar and a V-sign....

[Jw Vw]

The nanny state is getting even worse!

[Amused2death]

I wonder if what actually happened is they were checking commercial signwritten vehicles, but decided to call them "Company cars" to make it sound more fascist than it actually was.

I used to drive for a scaffolders, and the smoking ban never stopped the smokers from smoking in the cabs on the way to and from site.

[YesItsARover]

Amused2death said:

I used to drive for a scaffolders, and the smoking ban never stopped the smokers from smoking in the cabs on the way to and from site.

It never stopped me from smoking on the many long travels I have had in company vehicles. Carry Febreeze or similar, clean vehicle regularly. However, if carrying self-loading freight then I wouldn't smoke, unless they did.

I feel that I would be at more of a health risk from a passengers haliotosis then a subsequent passenger would be from days old smoke residue.

[Bowler]

If this story is true, this is what happens when we allow the benefit scroungers to vote in their best mates....

Having said that, a mate of mine was fined for smoking whilst driving in his works van.

[RemainAllHoof]

carreauchompeur said:

There definitely was some sort of loophole. Well, the obvious one is to have a convertible as a company car, you could waft past them with a cigar and a V-sign....

Or drive with your door open.

[carreauchompeur]

RemainAllHoof said:

Or drive with your door open.

I believe the phrase is "counter-productive".

[RemainAllHoof]

carreauchompeur said:

RemainAllHoof said:

Or drive with your door open.

I believe the phrase is "counter-productive".

Depends on which side of the car the policeman is standing.







Edit: obviously, I don't condone running over policemen with your cars and in fact support the actions of the Met police during the student riots, before any snooping journalists write a story about PHers planning to injure police officers.

Edited by RemainAllHoof on Thursday 3rd March 12:03

[andye30m3]

So the police head start dishing out loads of fines for minor things in the same week that there's an announcement that wage cuts may be necessary in the force.

[carreauchompeur]

andye30m3 said:

So the police head start dishing out loads of fines for minor things in the same week that there's an announcement that wage cuts may be necessary in the force.

Yawn

[Tea Pot One]

carreauchompeur said:

andye30m3 said:

So the police head start dishing out loads of fines for minor things in the same week that there's an announcement that wage cuts may be necessary in the force.

Yawn

Yawn x2