Been caught speeding - rubbish!

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Baph

Complaining? Complaining would be trying to squirm your way out of the ticket.

Nah, complaining is complaining, squirming out is squirmign out, not the same thing at all

I'm with the "if you speed, be prepared to get caught" crowd, because I speed all the time and I entirely expect to get caught Boils my blood when people start crying about "police state" "big brother", but glsuk's not done any of that.

Originally Posted by northwind

Boils my blood when people start crying about "police state" "big brother"

Why?

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Why?

Possibly because it's modern life in the UK.

If I don't like something, I try to do something about it. In the case of the "police state" and "big brother", maybe emmigration is an option. Anyone that wants any pointers can have my dad's number. He's shortly off to the US. (That'll be cheap holidays for me then)

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Why?

Here we go...................

Originally Posted by glsuk1970

Got zapped at 82mph on the M180 heading towards S****horpe

Am I alone in seeing the irony in the fact that you had to leave North Wales to get your first ticket?

[northwind]

We'ev had this conversation before Squirrel So to get it out of the way...

For exactly the reasons above- you don't get caught because of speed cameras, you get caught because you were speeding. Camera or officer, makes no difference, the offence is the same. Now, I'm not saying that speeding's the worst crime in the world, I just think the medium of being caught's irrelevant. Get caught be a speed camera and everyone's on your side, because we all hate speed cameras. Get caught by a warm policeman and you don't get the same reaction, even if you're doing the same speed on the same street. Nobody considers it unfair for shoplifters to get caught by video evidence

I'd sooner all the UK's speed limits get reviewed for the real world, that speed cameras if they exist at all be a part of an overlal road policing policy not the main body of it, that policing reflect the increase of "stealth crimes" like driving without insurance or unroadworthy vehicles, that more traffic cars be put back out there to catch illegal and dangerous drivers,all of that. I reckon they should stop fitting speed cameras until every major red light has a camera on it, because jumping reds is my most hated road habit. But the problem's that some police districts are run by halfwits, not speed cameras. They're just a box on a stick. And as long as people fixate on speed cameras, all that other stuff's going to remain the same. Brunstrom'd be a p***k if photography had been invented, the problem is the operator not the tool.

Now... Since the actual poster didn't do any of the stuff that annoys me, this is all getting a bit off topic

Originally Posted by glsuk1970

I drive around 40-50k miles per year and this is my first speeding offence since passing my test in 1988. Oh well

Ouch. What the hell do you do? Trucker? Freelance courier?

Originally Posted by Jabba

Am I alone in seeing the irony in the fact that you had to leave North Wales to get your first ticket?

Lucky though. They burn people at the stake for speeding in North Wales, don't they?

Originally Posted by northwind

some stuff.......

Now for the other side if the argument..............

Originally Posted by andyaikido

They burn people at the stake for speeding in North Wales, don't they?

Yep.........and witchcraft, larceny, arsony, sorcery, jiggery-pokery, hokey-cokey and generally being a bit naughty.