How to prove your wife is speeding!

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by BluePete

I'm a perfect driver.

I must be, I'm a traffic cop and we're perfect aren't we?

Well even if you do have "a moment" you now all have the famous "I was getting accustomed to my new car, M'Lud" line to use as a good defence

Originally Posted by BluePete

Mrs BP, now she's a liability behind the wheel, does her make-up, speeds, phones, the lot. I'll give her a ticket one day, after all, a tick's a tick!

Pete

Harsh...but fair

brilliantly thought!

Hey Ralph, Just out of interest, have you and your missus got points on your licenses?
If so, who has the most out of the two of you?

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by BluePete

I'm a perfect driver.

I must be, I'm a traffic cop and we're perfect aren't we?

Mrs BP, now she's a liability behind the wheel, does her make-up, speeds, phones, the lot. I'll give her a ticket one day, after all, a tick's a tick!

Pete

And your status in the BP household reverts to that of a tick on the scrotum of a warthog?

Originally Posted by specialone

Hey Ralph, Just out of interest, have you and your missus got points on your licenses?
If so, who has the most out of the two of you?

I went from a clean license to 3 points in court today after being clean for a month ;-( The judge intimated that he had also been "caught out" by the rediculous speed limit, so he said he was being lenient with me (60 in a 40, but it used to be a 70 limit, and if common sense was applied it still would be). My wife license is currently clean, but she only does about 6-8k miles a year, compared to my 30-35k per year. The last time she was caught it was a bright yellow Gatso, but that was more than 4 years ago so has expired.

I have had three points on my license almost consistantly throughout my driving career, I get caught every 4-5 years, but I just take it as going with the territory when your doing serious mileage, I've been up to 50k miles some years.

With the amount of scameras strategically placed in places where the majority of ordinary drivers find themselves speeding (75% of all vehicles sppeding according to the stats for the 40mph limit that I was caught on) anyone can get caught for speeding these days (waits for the smart ar$e comments), and when you do high mileage your x number of times more likely to get cuaght out. All of my sepeding tickets have been when I least thought I was at risk of getting a ticket, wasn't particularly making swift progress.

I suspect my number of tickets per 10 years ratio will drop off significantly after this one simply because I'm getting older, I now have a child in the car, and I just tend to bimble along in the car nowadays.

EDIT: EXCUSE THE TYPING PLEASE IM ON A PDA

[yorkie_chris]

Out of curiosity, for 60 in a 40, why was that a court job?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Out of curiosity, for 60 in a 40, why was that a court job?

He couldnt work that out either, neither could the judge, although he did say that he would normally dish out 4-6 points and £100+ fine for that speed in court, but it does fall outwith the guidelines for not offering a fixed penalty. -ralph- didnt get the option of a fp, the first letter was "go to court, go directly to court"

He is however likely to be back in the dock soon for his light fingeredness

I just show my mum the trip computer, shows average speed and max speed

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

60 in a 40, but it used to be a 70 limit, and if common sense was applied it still would be.

Now if you're going to go around applying common sense to things, you're not going to attempt a 90 minute journey in 40 minutes are you?

On someone elses bike.

In the rain.

Good fun though.

Anyway, glad to hear the Beak was lenient. 3 points is almost as good as clean from an insurance point of view, so I'd say that was a result.

PS - Never, ever, touch my cruise control!

Sometimes being a woman has it's advantage...

I got stopped in the BMW going home for a visit...sitting at roughly 80mph...

PC Plod - "that was a bit fast"
Me - "yeah, my boyfriend has set the cruise control though, and i have no idea how to work it, I cant seem to get it to slow down, it seems to sit at 80, I'm sorry...I dont usually get to drive his BMW..."
PC plod talks me through turning off cruise control and sends me on my way.