'kn BBC

First its Radio 4 just before 6pm telling us the government is ".........
going to add an extra £5 to speeders and other *criminals* ......" Oh I do
so enjoy unhysterical, accurate impartial reporting ........... Yet for
some reason I still listen to those cnuts.


Now the BBC search engine seems to have gone tits up. Best value part of
the licence fee spend that was too.


--
Nidge
ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. Bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue.
BOTAFOT#63

'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
(Homer Simpson).

 

Radio 1 had some government type insisting that speeding is not a victimless
crime as people get injured by speeding drivers all the time.

Well people get hurt by cars doing 30 and below as well so its clear that
its the driving that makes you a criminal and not the speed.
--
Alex

YZF 600
SRX 400

"I laugh in the face of danger"

"Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk

 

My legs real ache after working on my car crouching down the weekend,
and I skinned my knuckles when the socket wrench slipped off the bolt
and I punched the tarmac. My car injured me when it wasn't moving.

Therefore it is the car that is the criminal, not the driving of the
car.




Phil.

 

Speeding *is* a victimless crime. Crashing into things because you are
going to fast is something else altogether.

 

Sir should have been watching Newsnight later on, where Paxo tore some
poor bint to shreds when she started talking to him in the most
patronising tone I've ever heard.

So that'll be her tv career down the pan.

 

Since people get thumped all the time by agressive types threatening them,
does that mean we'll now be done for assault when verbally threatening to
smack someone in the gob?

 

Its not all wasted :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3390605.stm

 

Surely you're much more likely to crash _after_ the food-free period?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, athomik

No, it'll just be the good old-fashioned "Threatening Behaviour" charge.

 

Baroness Scotland? She's a right mong, and no mistake

 

.... into pedestrians called Dan, in November.

 

ITYM patronising, condescending, bitch - if she is typical of the
"other-worldy" people setting and publicising Government policy, then I
really do want to emigrate.

 

In

its not a crime its an offence

 

In

all those wishing to emigrate please form an orderly queue )

 

A criminal[1] offence, not a civil offence.

[1] I use the word in the technical sense and not in a pejoritave fashion.

 

I've emailed Paxo asking him to make sure she's on again some time.

 

Wasted is relative.

 

In

its a "traffic offence" is'nt it?

 

On the news on the radio last night, the goverment spokesperson was
definitely referring to speeding as a 'criminal offence' which surprised
me.

 

And on Newsnight - the clueless wonder wheeled out by the Government was
definitely stating that people who commit crimes, (including speeding but
not parking), should compensate the victims of crime. I've got no problem
with this linkage, however, what is the purpose of a fine? Doesn't the
convicted criminal already pay his/her penalty to the state?

I also object to the additional fine levied on convicted speeders by the
insurance industry - I've already paid my dues for getting caught to the
courts; the fact that I've got 3 points on my licence doesn't affect my
claims record, yet my insurer penalises me the offence - In over 20 years of
driving a cage, I've never made a claim on my insurance, yet because of my
blemished driving record I'm charged more than someone with a clean licence
and protected no claims - is this fair??????