Democracy in Action

[Tris]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7960699.stm

If he'd been on a bike he would be in jail by now!

[sarah]

Don't you mean justice??

[gruntygiggles]

Well........I agree had he been on a bike he probably would have had a harsher sentence, BUT.......a railway components salesman cannot do his job without a license as he would be driving up and down the country pitching to clients which he can no longer do.

I would imagine he's lost his job or been at the very least heavily demoted and he won't be able to get back out there earning what he's used to for a while!

[keithd]

crap video

[gruntygiggles]

couldn't even be ar$d to watch it! They're all the same awful quality showing the same kind of single cell organisms doing the same old ****!

[hob]

How did the Volkswagen Golf ED30 school an RS4?!

[SoulKiss]

You will note that he was smart enough to not accept the Dangerous Driving charge - which was then dropped.

Its Dangerous Driving that gets you sent to prison, and its interesting that this is the second case I know of where on refusal, the charge has been dropped.

Moral of the story, accept the speeding charge if they have the evidence, but contest any other charges.

So not an apple to apples comparison to the 2 bikers done - the 122mph on a Busa guy wasn't smart enough, and the 150mph mudguard tied on with a bootlace guy was caught being dangerous on film AND his bike wasn't roadworthy in dangerous ways.

[Luckypants]

What SK said..... BUT I see no mention of him being done for speeding? I suspect this charge could not have been proved as it would have been an estimate from the video. I would also suspect this was why the Dangerous Driving charge was dropped, there was no evidence of that from the video.*



* Did not watch the video.

[SoulKiss]

What SK said..... BUT I see no mention of him being done for speeding? I suspect this charge could not have been proved as it would have been an estimate from the video. I would also suspect this was why the Dangerous Driving charge was dropped, there was no evidence of that from the video.*



* Did not watch the video.

Quite correct - he pleaded guilty to racing on the public highway.

They do mention "up to 130mph" but seem more concrete on him doing 115mph.

Personally I would have asked them to prove that I was doing that speed, as video encoding can change framerate, hence playback speed, hell I might even claim that I edited the video to make it look faster...........

[Dave20046]

How the hell did he get prosecuted for that??? THere was no indication of the speed he was doing and all he was doing was going for an overtake but the car on the inside lane kept trying to undertake him.

[SoulKiss]

How the hell did he get prosecuted for that??? THere was no indication of the speed he was doing and all he was doing was going for an overtake but the car on the inside lane kept trying to undertake him.

I guess that the the text accompanying the YouTube video may have been incriminating, although again I would argue about it being exagerated to boost my ego and itbeing boastful.

I agree that you could have countered the racing charge with the undertaking defence, and mitigate it with "I now realise I should have backed off and let the idiot go"....

[Dave20046]

Indeed, he's thick enough to admit dangerous driving or whatever then he probably was infact dangerous to have on the roads.

[Sosha]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7960699.stm

If he'd been on a bike he would be in jail by now!

Only if he'd been enough of a muppet to admit to dangerous driving.

Edit: oops too late

Edit: And in other news...... http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm


Edit: Another Darwin award: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm

[Luckypants]

I call 'Hitler bike' on Sosha :D

[punyXpress]

Well........I agree had he been on a bike he probably would have had a harsher sentence, BUT.......a railway components salesman cannot do his job without a license as he would be driving up and down the country pitching to clients which he can no longer do.

I would imagine he's lost his job or been at the very least heavily demoted and he won't be able to get back out there earning what he's used to for a while!

Couldn't he just do what anyone else would have to....
... use the f...... train ?

[gruntygiggles]

Couldn't he just do what anyone else would have to....
... use the f...... train ?

Not when you have to visit 3 or 4 different clients every day, all 20-30 miles apart and needing 1-2 with each. Without a car, doing field sales is impossible!!!

[PsychoCannon]

I just love the irony in the news publishing the verdict

"to post the footage on the internet in order to publicise and glamorise his actions, was even more irresponsible".

then right below it is "HERES THE VIDEO!" :mrgreen::cheers:

[punyXpress]

[quote=SoulKiss;1835841]Quite correct - he pleaded guilty to racing on the public highway.

So he was uninsured as well ?

[thedonal]

Only if he'd been enough of a muppet to admit to dangerous driving.

Edit: oops too late

Edit: And in other news...... http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm



Classic! That gave me a right giggle.

[neilb]

And then sometimes the police just get it plain wrong... http://techdirt.com/articles/20090324/0800184228.shtml