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thetapeworm said:
Given they ran away after being given the money and car full of dubious stuff back they may well have done exactly that, the "hearbreak duo" - utterly ridiculous pair that should have been charged with wasting police time as well as all the other stuff they've got away with.
Did they say there were 45,000 convictions for driving while banned or without a license last year? Presumably some of those are the same people over and over but that's insane.
Yep. Clearly the punishment isn’t putting people off. It really should be straight to jail for driving whilst banned with the sentence increasing dramatically for repeat offenders. The ST guy just couldn’t give a sDid they say there were 45,000 convictions for driving while banned or without a license last year? Presumably some of those are the same people over and over but that's insane.
t, just taking the kids to the fayre with a licensed driver sat next to him, shows how confident he was he wouldn’t be caught and if caught wouldn’t be seriously punished.djc206 said:
thetapeworm said:
Given they ran away after being given the money and car full of dubious stuff back they may well have done exactly that, the "hearbreak duo" - utterly ridiculous pair that should have been charged with wasting police time as well as all the other stuff they've got away with.
Did they say there were 45,000 convictions for driving while banned or without a license last year? Presumably some of those are the same people over and over but that's insane.
Yep. Clearly the punishment isn’t putting people off. It really should be straight to jail for driving whilst banned with the sentence increasing dramatically for repeat offenders. The ST guy just couldn’t give a sDid they say there were 45,000 convictions for driving while banned or without a license last year? Presumably some of those are the same people over and over but that's insane.
t, just taking the kids to the fayre with a licensed driver sat next to him, shows how confident he was he wouldn’t be caught and if caught wouldn’t be seriously punished.djc206 said:
Yep. Clearly the punishment isn’t putting people off. It really should be straight to jail for driving whilst banned with the sentence increasing dramatically for repeat offenders. The ST guy just couldn’t give a st, just taking the kids to the fayre with a licensed driver sat next to him, shows how confident he was he wouldn’t be caught and if caught wouldn’t be seriously punished.
I think the car had heavily tinted windows and the reason they got noticed was because the passenger had her window wound down smoking a fag!t, just taking the kids to the fayre with a licensed driver sat next to him, shows how confident he was he wouldn’t be caught and if caught wouldn’t be seriously punished.mgtony said:
djc206 said:
Yep. Clearly the punishment isn’t putting people off. It really should be straight to jail for driving whilst banned with the sentence increasing dramatically for repeat offenders. The ST guy just couldn’t give a st, just taking the kids to the fayre with a licensed driver sat next to him, shows how confident he was he wouldn’t be caught and if caught wouldn’t be seriously punished.
I think the car had heavily tinted windows and the reason they got noticed was because the passenger had her window wound down smoking a fag!t, just taking the kids to the fayre with a licensed driver sat next to him, shows how confident he was he wouldn’t be caught and if caught wouldn’t be seriously punished.Also loved the debadging on the front of that car to try to hide it was an ST, despite that colour only being available in the ST model.
Watching some of the programs the police seem rather quick to put handcuffs on people they stop, no lawyer but wonder how legal that is.
Also in some of the programs I wonders if the roads get shut off rather quickly for no reason, this is especially true of the program that follows the Highway Petrol (forget the name of it). Here https://www.channel5.com/show/police-night-shift-9... the sargent shuts off both sides off the motorway because off smoke???
Also in some of the programs I wonders if the roads get shut off rather quickly for no reason, this is especially true of the program that follows the Highway Petrol (forget the name of it). Here https://www.channel5.com/show/police-night-shift-9... the sargent shuts off both sides off the motorway because off smoke???
loskie said:
Were they the ones who didnt show for sentencing? if so they should just have shown them rather than blur out their faces.
Really the UK laws make reasonable enforcement a very difficult thing.
I agree, If found guilty their faces should be shown for all too see. Also, For those that don't show up for court etc. If their identity is not hidden it could be like Crimewatch as in "Have you seen this person?" type of thing.Really the UK laws make reasonable enforcement a very difficult thing.
andym1603 said:
loskie said:
Were they the ones who didnt show for sentencing? if so they should just have shown them rather than blur out their faces.
Really the UK laws make reasonable enforcement a very difficult thing.
I agree, If found guilty their faces should be shown for all too see. Also, For those that don't show up for court etc. If their identity is not hidden it could be like Crimewatch as in "Have you seen this person?" type of thing.Really the UK laws make reasonable enforcement a very difficult thing.
Presumably they'll be on the local "news / appeals" or "do you recognise" page of the force in question or is that only for people they don't have the full details of already?
https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/camera-alerts
https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals
That's made up for last week's episode being dull as dishwater. The highlight for me has to be the son 'fainting' at the end, featuring his father's (terrible) overacting as he reacts instantly. The Focus ST has to be one of the weirder clones given the visible VINs were swapped... and the tyre pressure sticker wasn't. Although the episode never went into it, the fact the Titanium X was a diesel probably should've caused alarm bells to start ringing. Come to think of it, the extra gauges on the dash were a tell too, weren't they?
Levin said:
That's made up for last week's episode being dull as dishwater. The highlight for me has to be the son 'fainting' at the end, featuring his father's (terrible) overacting as he reacts instantly. The Focus ST has to be one of the weirder clones given the visible VINs were swapped... and the tyre pressure sticker wasn't. Although the episode never went into it, the fact the Titanium X was a diesel probably should've caused alarm bells to start ringing. Come to think of it, the extra gauges on the dash were a tell too, weren't they?
TBF there's plenty of ST lookalikes out therehttps://www.jamessimpson.co.uk/ford-focus-st-looka...
JimbobVFR said:
TBF there's plenty of ST lookalikes out there
I thought back to my very early cars when they were showing the seats as some sort of indicator that it was definitely an ST. When I was swapping Magnum interiors into my Firenza to get rid of the vinyl seats, I'd have made a point of swapping all the interior so it matched, including the instrument panel. I did wonder about the petrol / diesel thing, though.Levin said:
That's made up for last week's episode being dull as dishwater. The highlight for me has to be the son 'fainting' at the end, featuring his father's (terrible) overacting as he reacts instantly. The Focus ST has to be one of the weirder clones given the visible VINs were swapped... and the tyre pressure sticker wasn't. Although the episode never went into it, the fact the Titanium X was a diesel probably should've caused alarm bells to start ringing. Come to think of it, the extra gauges on the dash were a tell too, weren't they?
As I said in my previous post the fact it was in Tangerine Scream shouted ST to me, seems madness to me to clone it as a diesel even more so one that was 5 years newer.WPA said:
As I said in my previous post the fact it was in Tangerine Scream shouted ST to me, seems madness to me to clone it as a diesel even more so one that was 5 years newer.
Agreed. My eyebrow kept twitching as the officer repeatedly called it 'yellow', but it got me thinking. The pre-facelift did come in yellow. I don't know if the facelift did but it's still one of the stranger clones.https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401125...
I’m not up to speed on modern BMW’s, but the 2 Oscar nominees, car, looked fairly new and a bit meaty, if somewhat ridiculously lowered and on over size wheels, 5 series?
All the addressed packages, still boxed, can they have really been legitimate. If they didn’t show up for court, how can the goods have been returned?
All the addressed packages, still boxed, can they have really been legitimate. If they didn’t show up for court, how can the goods have been returned?
daqinggregg said:
I’m not up to speed on modern BMW’s, but the 2 Oscar nominees, car, looked fairly new and a bit meaty, if somewhat ridiculously lowered and on over size wheels, 5 series?
F30 3-Series M-Sport. Pre-LCI so 2012-2015. It's not so easy to tell which engine, but a 320d is plausible and a 330d isn't impossible. The plate was blurred but at certain times it looked almost like a 62 reg. The earliest F30s I've ever seen are on 12 plates, though there could have been a few early registered cars on 61 plates (like how the earliest of the E90 generation came on 54 plates).WPA said:
Levin said:
That's made up for last week's episode being dull as dishwater. The highlight for me has to be the son 'fainting' at the end, featuring his father's (terrible) overacting as he reacts instantly. The Focus ST has to be one of the weirder clones given the visible VINs were swapped... and the tyre pressure sticker wasn't. Although the episode never went into it, the fact the Titanium X was a diesel probably should've caused alarm bells to start ringing. Come to think of it, the extra gauges on the dash were a tell too, weren't they?
As I said in my previous post the fact it was in Tangerine Scream shouted ST to me, seems madness to me to clone it as a diesel even more so one that was 5 years newer.Just a different version of those that for instance buy a Nil tax rate 1.0 Focus, then proceed to turn it into a full ST / RS replica with the bodykit, engine, suspension, brakes, etc, but leave it down as a 1.0 on the V5 to keep the nil tax rate.
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