Guess this one's not going to be a fixed penalty?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6962448.stm

Bloody hell. 172mph on the A420. *How*?

JB

 

"Driven like it was stolen," he gingerly opines.

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On the dual-carriageway bits presumably. I've got respectably near
those speeds on my old Fireblade on the A420.

Phil

 

"The idea that someone was driving at that speed is shocking and
horrific", specially since my CBR600RR only does 160mph :-( .

 

Easy, wound on from the Kingston Bagpuize roundabout in either direction;
North or South, gives plenty of time before the first roadside polaroids.
He'd have probably got it a bit quicker if he'd managed to reach the
downhill dual carriageway into Oxford [1].

[1] - GPS indicated 153 in my Cooper S tyvm hofficer (Very early one Sunday
morning).

 

there but for the grace of god and all that bollocks

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Twas on the local news tonight - he didn't look like a pikey car thief.

iirc when he was done and the story was in the local news, I'm sure they
said he worked for the car hire firm that owned the car.

Could be wrong though.

 

That's the tale I've seen elsewhere, borrowed on his lunch-hour...

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That's your chance of being allowed through the pearly gates shot ...

 

Given that I don't believe in either an immortal soul or heaven-going
it wasn't going to happen anyway

Phil