Name & Shame

TiNuts

Having recently read about so called "tattletale" sites where US drivers can name (the numberplate that is) and supposedly shame other drivers who they feel have behaved less than admirably out on the public highway I thought I'd have a search around for a homegrown equivalent.

Well, there are several:

http://www.ratethatdriver.co.uk/
http://www.myroadrage.co.uk
http://www.baddrivinguk.com
http://www.betterdrivingplease.com/

Apologies for any I've missed.

I particularly like the last one as it is possible to upload photos from my helmet cam of the various idiots I encounter on a daily basis.

Whether these listings do any good is, of course, debatable, but there is some sense of satisfaction to be gained by actually posting up the details of the ****ers who so often make our commutes a less than pleasurable experience.

Ah, if only there were more hours in the day!

mailmannz

Surprised this doesnt contravene someones privacy rights?

You know, we cant go around contravening someones privacy now can we? :roll:

Mailman

cougie

Cant really see the point. I doubt that the friends/parents/relatives of the bad driver would look at those sites and convince the crap driver to change their ways.

A far better way would be to arm bikes with missiles, and we can blow up errant cars.

When questioned - just say you are with the CIA and it was a terrorist suspect/stray wedding party. Sorted.

chuckcork

The Irish Police (An Garda Síochána) conduct checkpoint operations every so often, main aim I believe is to check the insurance details of drivers, their tax disk, is up to date. They'll even do it on busy roads in rush hour, at points where it isn't possible to double back and avoid them. You'll also see them walking down a street at time checking the tax disks of the cars parked there.

Would the Met or any other police force in the UK ever do such a thing, given the low priority give to traffic policing?

girv73

The PSNI do that from time to time too. We also get car tax checking cameras in static locations on main routes at rush hour and mounted on vans that patrol the city centre, but I think they're operated by the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (NI).

Wrath Rob

mailmannz wrote:

Surprised this doesnt contravene someones privacy rights?

You know, we cant go around contravening someones privacy now can we? :roll:

Mailman

As long as you took the photo on public land or were invited onto private property when you took the photo, you're not breaking any laws or infringing anyone's rights. Unless you take a picture of me or my car, in which case I'll come after you with a big, fat lawyer

squired

chuckcork wrote:

The Irish Police (An Garda Síochána) conduct checkpoint operations every so often, main aim I believe is to check the insurance details of drivers, their tax disk, is up to date. They'll even do it on busy roads in rush hour, at points where it isn't possible to double back and avoid them. You'll also see them walking down a street at time checking the tax disks of the cars parked there.

Would the Met or any other police force in the UK ever do such a thing, given the low priority give to traffic policing?

They mainly seem to monitor issues that will generate revenue. On one of the main roads in my local area they spent a month stopping drivers for speeding or using mobile phones whilst driving. According to local papers they'd caught and fined over 1,000 drivers in the first two weeks! Another crackdown was done a few months later on a different stretch of road. They apparently stopped 40 drivers during the 3 hour operation and two were done for suspected insurance offences.

biondino

STOP BREAKING THE LAW THEN YOU WON'T BE FINED FOR IT. Jeez.

biondino

Actually, no, don't stop breaking the law - budding Jeremy Clarksons should commit as many low-grade offenses as possible so police forces can make enough money to buy sexy CSI machines with which to catch rapists and murderers. Sounds ideal!

chuckcork

squired wrote:

chuckcork wrote:

The Irish Police (An Garda Síochána) conduct checkpoint operations every so often, main aim I believe is to check the insurance details of drivers, their tax disk, is up to date. They'll even do it on busy roads in rush hour, at points where it isn't possible to double back and avoid them. You'll also see them walking down a street at time checking the tax disks of the cars parked there.

Would the Met or any other police force in the UK ever do such a thing, given the low priority give to traffic policing?

They mainly seem to monitor issues that will generate revenue. On one of the main roads in my local area they spent a month stopping drivers for speeding or using mobile phones whilst driving. According to local papers they'd caught and fined over 1,000 drivers in the first two weeks! Another crackdown was done a few months later on a different stretch of road. They apparently stopped 40 drivers during the 3 hour operation and two were done for suspected insurance offences.

So what if they catch people doing the wrong thing, and they get hit by a fine.

To be blunt: WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST THEY DO OTHERWISE?

I get rather fed up with hearing winges about fines and points for BREAKING THE LAW and there should be another way to encourage motorists from not doing the wrong thing.

Would you prefer in a democratic society?

Firing squads?
Having your car confiscated and crushed?
Jail time?
Being forced to act as a rrse wiper for a few weeks at a home for those who've survived an accident but been physically and mentally destroyed otherwise?

What in your pathetic winging world do you suggest, when education has obviously failed as it obviously has in your case?

If you don't like it, don't do it!

chuckcork

biondino wrote:

Actually, no, don't stop breaking the law - budding Jeremy Clarksons should commit as many low-grade offenses as possible so police forces can make enough money to buy sexy CSI machines with which to catch rapists and murderers. Sounds ideal!

Second that.

Generate lots of revenue through fines, that way those of us who don't pay the fines because we're not so stupid to do such things can enjoy our lives paying lower taxes.

ansbaradigeidfran

Wrath Rob wrote:

mailmannz wrote:

Surprised this doesnt contravene someones privacy rights?

You know, we cant go around contravening someones privacy now can we? :roll:

Mailman

As long as you took the photo on public land or were invited onto private property when you took the photo, you're not breaking any laws or infringing anyone's rights. Unless you take a picture of me or my car, in which case I'll come after you with a big, fat lawyer

Pretty much. There isn't actually legal protection of privacy in the UK. See http://www.sirimo.co.uk/media/UKPhotographersRights.pdf for some of the nitty gritty.