It's a Fair Cop

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ukkid35

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174 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I've only been done twice in xx years of driving. However I have been stopped so often that I used to collect 'Producers' and take a handful down to my local Police Station in one go.

My most prolific period was when I had a fairly wide car in Red, suggesting that the Snooker theory was not just an Urban myth. When it was stolen and I replaced it with a Silver Blue car of the same model, driven in the same way/pattern and I was rarely stopped.

The first time I was done for speeding I was on a motorway in mixed conditions, and I failed to spot the traffic cop behind me, ergo I was driving too quickly for the conditions.

I do not resent that prosecution, it was entirely fair and justified. I learnt my lesson. Back then being stopped for speeding was par for the course, but a dressing down was a very fair price for the transgression.

The only other time I've been done for speeding was when a fixed camera snapped me at 50, it was placed shortly after the limit was reduced to 40 from 50. This was a mile from where I live, so I am fully aware of the camera.
I must have been asleep, and therefore I deserved to be prosecuted.

I drive to the conditions of the road, I wish other people would as well.

We all know things have changed, but is it for the better? (Not a rhetorical question)

Edited by ukkid35 on Saturday 25th October 19:37

ukkid35

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Saturday 25th October 2014
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littleredrooster said:
"xx years of driving" ? Why the secrecy?

I've been done twice in 39 years. There. That's how you do it.

Cool story, bro, BTW...
Not secrecy as such, it was just scary realising that xx was 30!

ukkid35

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Saturday 25th October 2014
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REALIST123 said:
How do you reduce a limit from 40 to 50?

Also, how do you reconcile your 'driving to the conditions' assertion with your clear inability to see what's going on around you?
First point fixed - thanks

Second point was the whole point of the post, learning from the mistakes I mentioned.

ukkid35

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Sunday 26th October 2014
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Mk3Spitfire said:
You don't see it much these days. Used to remember it being quite pleasant though.
I remember driving past the Fourex brewery in Brisbane many years ago. The other thing I remember was that every road in Oz appeared to be strewn with empty stubbies along its entire length.