4m British drivers admit they'd pervert justice

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  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    And those bastions of truthfulness Jeffrey Archole and Johnathon "Pimp" Aitken.
  • Ravenbait
    Ravenbait Posts: 13,064
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by linfordlunchbox</i>
    Some call him the 'multiple man'
    <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I think you'll find that was just me, Linford, and only for the purposes of the Chronicles, because the brief was for a Cakestop/Marvel crossover.

    So, if for "some" you mean "one, and only in a work of reader-request-based fiction" then you're quite right.

    Sam

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  • Ravenbait
    Ravenbait Posts: 13,064
    I think we should let Paris Hilton out as well. While we're at it. Cos she's, like, popular.

    Sam

    <font size="1"><font color="teal">The cross product of Tank Girl and Ellen Ripley:</font id="teal">

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    http://ravenfamily.org
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    http://gentlemencyclists.org
    "Ya'd think we could just attracts ants, like normal people."
  • No - we should let her out because she cried a lot, and wouldn't touch a thing to eat. Poor dear.

    And remember what offence she was banged up for... that's right.
    The offence of believing that it is her inalienable right to drive the motor car whenever and whereever she likes, and damn any pesky laws which don't apply to her anyway. So there.
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    Has Paris Hilton been banged up the slammer?
  • Jaded
    Jaded Posts: 6,663
    If she has there's be a film of it somewhere on t'internet.

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  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by linfordlunchbox</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by PetrolHead</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I think you will find that they are marked down as 'inappropriate speed' for the conditions, not breaking the 'posted limit'. There is a very big difference between the two !
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    Couldn't agree more, shame that cameras don't detect the former.

    <b>Who is Tabernacle?</b>
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    Rothbooks incarnation from about 4 banned profiles ago - he loses his temper, gets offensive, they ban him, he re registers and kicks off again. Some call him the 'multiple man'


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    Others believe it's a form of reincarnation.
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    It's like that film with that woman, and <b>she</b> had a sort of burning flame that meant that when <b>she</b> stepped into the flame <b>she</b> became inviolate and regenerated so that <b>she</b> could never die.

    I think it was called "The Woman That Couldn't Die".
  • Jaded
    Jaded Posts: 6,663
    Yet again a thread is diverted neatly away from the topic, using the identity of a poster as a smokescreen.

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  • Ravenbait
    Ravenbait Posts: 13,064
    Personally I'd rather that than have yet another 60 page thread rehashing the same tired old ground, in which the speeding apologists accuse the rest of us of being stupid/thick/inane/narrow-minded and reel out the same tired old arguments that are no more valid now than they were 2 years ago. I'd rather not see folk I consider friends dragged into the mire of insult and emotionally-heated, puerile, playground fisticuffs that always results.

    Rothbook, do you mean "She-Ra, Princess of Power"?

    Sam

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    http://ravenfamily.org
    "You might remember that 'annoyed' is my natural state!"
    http://gentlemencyclists.org
    "Ya'd think we could just attracts ants, like normal people."
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    Nope. Bernard Cribbins was in it I think, but what do I know, I'm just a haggard rider.
  • CometGirl
    CometGirl Posts: 2,681
    <u>She</u> by H Rider Haggard.

    One of my favourites when I was a kid.
  • Ravenbait
    Ravenbait Posts: 13,064
    If you make me spit coffee on my keyboard like that again I shall come round and spank you.

    I only just bought it.

    Sam

    <font size="1"><font color="teal">The cross product of Tank Girl and Ellen Ripley:</font id="teal">

    http://ravenfamily.org
    <font color="purple">"<u>You</u> might remember that 'annoyed' is my natural state!"</font id="purple">

    http://gentlemencyclists.org/clubhouse
    <font color="purple">"Ya'd think we could just attract ants, like normal people."</font id="purple"></font id="size1">

    http://ravenfamily.org
    "You might remember that 'annoyed' is my natural state!"
    http://gentlemencyclists.org
    "Ya'd think we could just attracts ants, like normal people."
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Ravenbait</i>

    If you make me spit coffee on my keyboard like that again I shall come round and spank you.

    I only just bought it.

    Sam

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    It's purely psychological. If you concentrate on swallowing, you can do it. [:)]
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    Blimey! I can't go and get myself a coffee now, gonna have to think about Anne Widdecombe.
  • Anne Widdecombe <i>before</i> or <i>after</i> the blonde hairdo?
    Your remark can be taken both ways Rothbook.
    Just like Anne in your current coffebreak fantasy.
  • Ravenbait's right. Sod them. Sod the lot of them who make 5 posts to a cycling forum, not one mentioning bikes, and will compulsively argue through 60 pages.
    We can laugh at ourselves, and make play on words. Something that these humourless, atmosphere-hoover people cannot.
  • bad company
    bad company Posts: 2,293
    This thread does not surprise me at all. As I posted elsewhere I know lots of people who have swopped points to avoid bans. Usually wives taking husbands points but it does go both ways!!

    No doubt tabernacle\toomey\rothbrook thinks I should report them all!

    When will the penny drop that there are simply too many revenue cameras and they <b>are not</b> placed for safety reasons.

    I AM THE STIG - HONEST
    I AM THE STIG - HONEST
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by bad company</i>

    Usually wives taking husbands points but it does go both ways!!

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    It does indeed.[;)]
  • Cunobelin
    Cunobelin Posts: 11,792
    Ravenbait has the answer..........

    Instead of fines or points give them a jolly good spanking!

    How very British!

    Almost be worh speeding for!



    <b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
    He that buys flesh buys many bones.
    He that buys eggs buys many shells,
    But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.</b></i>
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    <b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
    He that buys flesh buys many bones.
    He that buys eggs buys many shells,
    But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.</b></i>
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  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    Charisma vacuums.

    Like Will Self's quip about John Major, if he took acid he'd hallucinate grey.

    Anti-speed camera bods should join Toothless Eric and John "No Nickname" Xenophobe down the kaff muttering about unfair life is and how things were different before all these new-fangled changes and furrrners.

    The Krays only ever harmed their own kind, you know, nailed me to a floor once, cruel but fair, loved their mum, and there was a lot less violence during the war.
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    I sent an email from work asking if Anne Widdecombe takes it both ways and she hasn't replied, hang on, there's someone at the door.
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by rothbook</i>

    The Krays only ever harmed their own kind, you know, nailed me to a floor once, cruel but fair, loved their mum, and there was a lot less violence during the war.
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    A lot less violence during the war.
    Genius. Can I use this one?

    (For the humour impaired, there is usually rather a lot of violence during a war. That's rather the point of it.)
  • _Bonj_
    _Bonj_ Posts: 39
    Basically there's little point arguing with these people. They've decided that they believe the manufactured evidence and massaged statistics that 'prove' that lower speed = safer in ANY circumstances, and they use this as their basis for refusing to even consider any arguments that speed cameras might not be all they're cracked up to be, yet they continue to insist on ramming the point home with stupid threads condemning anyone that does 31mph (or 21mph now) as 'speedophiles' and no better than murderers.

    It's a bit of an exaggeration to call swapping points 'perverting the course of justice'. A bit like taking home the little sachets of soap in hotel rooms being described as 'grand larsony'.
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    Larceny. Stealing is theft. Points swapping is perverting justice, just like you perverted that cute long-eyelashed goat you unfeeling bstard.

    Point Swapping.

    Warnings have been issued by AA Business Services (AABS) to drivers who have been points swapping to avoid high insurance premiums or worse prosecution for speeding and possible loss of a licence. This practice is becoming more widespread with disturbing stories of employers putting pressure on employees to "carry the can" for their driving offences in exchange for a cash bonus or even just to keep their jobs.

    More common is the swapping between husband and wife or boyfriend to girlfriend explaining that the other was driving the car at the time of the offence when a speeding ticket arrives. However, some authorities now have cameras that can take a crystal clear picture from 2 miles away and if it is obvious that the driver is lying to avoid the prosecution he or she could end up in prison as a result of "perverting the course of justice".

    http://www.dealerdeals.co.uk/PointSwapping.html
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    In January, a father was jailed for four months for perverting the course of justice after claiming that a French friend had been responsible for a speeding offence committed by his daughter. David Simmonite, 60, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, had hoped to spare his daughter, Stephanie, from receiving three points after she was flashed at 87mph on the A1 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

    Police checked with the Frenchman and found that he was at home being treated for a kidney complaint at the time.

    The Home Office said a person who accepted points on behalf of someone else would be charged with perjury, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment.

    http://www.radar-detectors.co.uk/news_m ... eeding.asp
  • linfordlunchbox
    linfordlunchbox Posts: 4,834
    So Tabernacle, are you ?

    A) Anti Car

    B) Anti Driver

    C) Anti Idiot Driver


    "I\'d clean my car with a baby elephant - if I had a baby elephant !"
  • pzycoman
    pzycoman Posts: 285
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Cunobelin</i>

    Ravenbait has the answer..........

    Instead of fines or points give them a jolly good spanking!

    How very British!

    Almost be worh speeding for!
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    If I speed, can I get spanked by her? [:I][;)]
    Professional Kitten Huffer
  • rothbook
    rothbook Posts: 943
    My flippin ex had loads of Victorian porn and it was all "Oooh, master, no no" Slap!

    Boring.

    If I was a young sir cruelly using the rosy-cheeked country girl
    spanking would be way down the list.
  • Ravenbait
    Ravenbait Posts: 13,064
    I'll bear that in mind.

    Sam

    <font size="1"><font color="teal">The cross product of Tank Girl and Ellen Ripley:</font id="teal">

    http://ravenfamily.org
    <font color="purple">"<u>You</u> might remember that 'annoyed' is my natural state!"</font id="purple">

    http://gentlemencyclists.org/clubhouse
    <font color="purple">"Ya'd think we could just attract ants, like normal people."</font id="purple"></font id="size1">

    http://ravenfamily.org
    "You might remember that 'annoyed' is my natural state!"
    http://gentlemencyclists.org
    "Ya'd think we could just attracts ants, like normal people."