I'm surprised this hasn't been commented on yet ...

There's a club? In Holland that specialises in picking locks, but I
can't find it at the mo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_bumping

 

Hello Champ.

I stand corrected it must have been early 90's the guy I spoke to went
to work abroad mid 90's.

Ben's right. It went on sale in England soon after it was talking to the
guy, must have been in the 90s.

Time flies when you are having fun I keep forgetting I've been retired
for 10 years and in Norfolk for most of them.

Alternatively I shan't believe what the head of East Kent and Dover,
Customs and Excise tells me in future.

Now I don't mind being corrected. I don't go off in a huff or change
others text or screw up the attributions to look good.

Life is simpler that way.

 

Do you meand "The open organisation of lock-pickers": http://www.toool.nl/

 

I did consider it, but it helped pass a few hours which would have been
rather sleepless anyway. The reason I'd been out and chatting to my pals
was nerves worrying about a meeting with my daughter's heart consultant
the following morning.

I guess I was feeling sympathetic to the rookie who had probably just
been through a lecture saying that it can take up to an hour for alcohol
to work it's way through your system.

Now that I'm reminded how exciting it was sitting in the back of the
Police car, I've just ordered an Alcosense Elite breathalyser.
http://www.alcosense.co.uk/alcosense-elite.html

Normally I avoid the Daily Telegraph like the plague but it was the
cheapest supplier at £49 delivered.
http://tinyurl.com/ykcagdb
https://shop.telegraph.co.uk/za-alco-elite/cat-fhc/hobbies/leisure/motoring/alcosense-elite/

 

That looks like the lot I was thinking of.

One of their members[1] was working with me[2] at ESTEC in Noordwijk.[3]



[1] He was a member of a club like that.
[2] Some time in the mid 80s for the date pendants out there.
[3] Where the lasses all appeared to be beautiful and blond, before the
beer goggles had any effect.

 

and most of the teams are from places like Drybrook Rugby Club or the
Dockers Club. Very few pubs.

 

Well, OK. "Choose to ignore them" then.

 

Hello Champ.

I stand corrected it must have been early 90's the guy I spoke to
went to work abroad mid 90's.

Ben's right. It went on sale in England soon after it was talking to
the guy, must have been in the 90s.[/QUOTE]

I was buying Drum hand rolling baccy in the early to mid 80s at a
normal shop in a Bedfordshire village.

 

As others have pointed out, there are some people who haven't had a
drink and would fail a zero-tolerance regime. Personally, I don't gaf if
everybody (of average build) on the road has 1.5 or 2 pints in them -
more than that I would start to get concerned.

 

The bastards!
Won't stop people doing it - ffs, they'd need a C&E officer in every
greenhouse. Uneforceable bullshit.

 

it was on sale in Colchester in 1981/2 when I was allegedly a student at
Wivenhoe Park

 

^^^^^^ Nice typo, steve!

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I was buying Drum hand rolling baccy in the early to mid 80s at a
normal shop in a Bedfordshire village.
[/QUOTE]

OK I stand corrected or I miss understood what he said or when.
More likely miss under stood what he said.

 

I find it hugely valuable. As a litmus test for idiots.

 

Utterly, utterly - and it devalues it.

Christ, you sound like a fifteen year old student.

 

Unfortunately, earning a living isn't.

Are you attempting to qualify for Team GB's Special Olympic squad?

 

It's 29mg - which allows for naturally produced alcohol. I have
represented a large number of D&A cases and TBH, you have eat a shit load
of Mothers Pride to fail the alcohol test.

Yes and also what is known as "for cause" testing. If there's an
incident, no matter how minor, the particpants will be D&A tested.

 

In comrade Brown's glorious Britain? You're having a laugh, sunshine.

Are you after a thick ear?

 

Yeah but by not even remotely acknowledging what is, after all, a perfectly
valid point which is widely realized you sound a little like a Soviet era
comrade.

Are we not meant to be living in an ever more enlightened and liberal era?
in which case we should expect successive governments to be unravelling and
reducing the burden of law, not increasing it.

The law, as you should realise, in many areas, has become so intricate and
unwieldy that it is inaccessible to the general population, parts of it are
workable only to the really rather well off, and the effect is negative
rather than positive.

Law, like taxes, should surely in essence be of the people and for the
people. Given the comparatively rather positive demeanour of people in the
UK one knows when a tax or law is judged about right because around 75% of
people will broadly agree with it. There is a fair bit of law and tax in
the UK that one might struggle to gather 25% for.

 

It's rather more about medication, mouthwash and having had beer 18 hours
ago. But yes, fine.

Then things are just as they should be. For pilots and train drivers. I
wonder if bus drivers are so governed, they should be.

But for drivers I think the current status quo is just fine. It needs no
change. Any problems are caused by people who ignored the current law and
will ignore any change. I do genuinely feel there is pressure from people
who are in essence Temperence Movement in one way or another, and as
illiberal it should be resisted. Recall this is suggested in an environment
where drivers do not even have to present an annual eye test to be
registered against the licence, so I suggest there is no logical and
rational desire for accident reduction. An annual eye test and mandated ABS
on new cars would, I suggest, have a far more beneficial effect. As would
recurring re-testing with hazard awareness checks.