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View Poll Results: Would you do what im doing?
Yes-Report them why should they get away with it. 34 94.44%
No- Let them drive around 100% illegal!! 2 5.56%
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Old 03-08-07, 09:00 AM   #61
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i have to echo what ED has said, the intollerance and ignorance shown on this forum at times is astounding, , not just this thread but many others with people bandying about innacurate statements as facts, then these becoming truth because there repeated often enough........starting a statement with "im not a racist , but" is more or less saying i am , but i dont want to appear to be, its not down to race. People say such things often because they feel that some smart *ss will always acuse them of it, but they geniunely know themselves its not down to race.

i know its just "the internet" and its not real, but the amount of crap that gets sprouted on here at times appals me, ,

theres probably not a single person on here who supports the reporting them route who doesnt on regular basis abuse speed limits or anti social noise with there bikes yet they selectively choose to "report" someone for a transgression that theyve deemed to be unacceptable.

yes illegals illegal and all that , but tons of vehicles on the road are illegal, are you going to start going round picking every vehicle and reporting them for unfounded suspicions, good luck - perhaps we had best disband the whole legal profession then. How do you think issues are investigated, do you leave everything up to someone else? I have reported two lorries that were emitting very black exhaust smoke, which I suspected wasn't appropriate. I didn't check what country they were from I wouldn't hestitate to report a drunk driver.

let me know when youre up my way and ill put my baffles in and make sure i display my tax disc properly, best not take any chances.....You could be right - 'cast the first stone' and all that

of course all this is just my humble opinion.............
Sounds to me as if you suffer from the same intolerance assuming that because someone says they are not a racist you assume them to be.

Agree with your 'crap' comment though, but wish I hadn't responded to this post Think you opened a can of worms here Neio!
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Old 03-08-07, 09:45 AM   #62
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i have to echo what ED has said, the intollerance and ignorance shown on this forum at times is astounding, , not just this thread but many others with people bandying about innacurate statements as facts, then these becoming truth because there repeated often enough........starting a statement with "im not a racist , but" is more or less saying i am , but i dont want to appear to be, its not down to race.

i know its just "the internet" and its not real, but the amount of crap that gets sprouted on here at times appals me, ,

theres probably not a single person on here who supports the reporting them route who doesnt on regular basis abuse speed limits or anti social noise with there bikes yet they selectively choose to "report" someone for a transgression that theyve deemed to be unacceptable.

yes illegals illegal and all that , but tons of vehicles on the road are illegal, are you going to start going round picking every vehicle and reporting them for unfounded suspicions, good luck

let me know when youre up my way and ill put my baffles in and make sure i display my tax disc properly, best not take any chances.....

of course all this is just my humble opinion.............
I don’t think that anything I have said on this thread is ignorant or intolerant at all. What is so wrong about wanting to report such blatant disregard for the rules and regulations enforced by law in this country?? Maybe you think that it is ok for someone to drive around illegal? Maybe if that is the case , would you agree that if they ca ndo it so can I or you, f**k it why don’t we just all cancel our insurance policies and go and get a foreign car, that way we don’t have to pay tax o ever get an MOT.

You say some people on here are in tolerant, well some ( thankfully a very small minority) must be mind numbingly simple if they think it is ok for people to have no respect for our law under the excuse “oh I did not know’ the law makes no exceptions for you understanding it or how its applied.

Would you turn a blind eye to someone down your road dealing drugs if they were polish, and maybe though it was ok in the UK?? With the excuse, oh I was not told it was against the law therefore it must be ok!

Extreme I know but the principle is the same.

I don’t consider myself intolerant or a racist I will openly grass on anyone who breaks the law so openly, knowingly or not! And yes if I saw you riding around with out a tax disc on I would report it, how do I know you actually have it under your seat?? For all I know you are not taxed, therefore not insured!! If you ride around with no tax on display can you reasonably expect not to be tugged at some point, yes I know it would be cleared up in 5 min, however it is actually an offence to ride drive without a valid tax disc on display. So I don’t see how you could complain if you got tugged.

Bottom line is I would report anyone for the offences originally listed, be them white black yellow etc etc. your colour or creed makes no difference to me.

I really don’t see why some people think that just because I an others on here would report wrong doing committed by a non brit it makes them racist, what is so wrong about wanting your country to be a good place to be and all who live here to abide by our way of living and accept our values and traditions, again if that makes me a racist in some of your eyes so be it I am then!!

for me its a personal pride thing, a stand agains everything that i see as wrong in the UK and most people are too lazy to complain about, give me one, just one reason how any one on here can justify whay they are doing and 'cos they dont know 'is not a reason

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Old 03-08-07, 11:46 AM   #63
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I can tolerate the cars that may or may not be taxed/insured but this is insufferable!!!
  1. I live in Britain where the national language is ENGLISH
  2. If we're going to follow this type of anal politically correct miss-guided logic then I'm starting a sign making company cos' there's going to be a massive demand for ALL the multitude of other languages out there
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Old 03-08-07, 12:00 PM   #64
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I can tolerate the cars that may or may not be taxed/insured but this is insufferable!!!
So instead, you want HGV drivers who can't read the road signs driving around lost and distracted? This is just common sense tbh, and Ed pointed out the reasoning behind it. Confusing drivers causes accidents, simple as, I'd sooner have a few polish road signs where they're helpful than an HGV parked on my bike.
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Old 03-08-07, 12:14 PM   #65
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I can see both sides to this particulay point, yes it helps the driver understand what is being asked of him ( other than following traffic and the obvious blocked road ahead/contraflow etc)

However do other countries put up road work signs in English?? hmmm! the UK is the capital of the soft let not say/do anything incase it upsets them, ohh you cant do that pink and fluffy PC n*b brigade, FFS when will it all end. Civil war i say, lets just have a big ruck and see who is standing!
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Old 03-08-07, 12:16 PM   #66
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Reminds me of a friend whose parents were polish. They would use the language to publicly talk about others etc. Well one day Ella and her mother had gone back to Poland to visit family and mum forgot herself and started to talk about the fat woman on the train. Yes you guessed it, in Polish in Poland. Apparently she got a reminder across the face not to publicly slag people off.
I get that from my missiz. She is Polish, and i can always tell when i'm in trouble because she insults me to her mates in Polish - I'm a fast learner though, she best watch out . I already know the important phrases (eg how to order beer ).

Don't really wanna get involved in the argument, but in my experience, all the Polish people I know do have insurance, but I do accept the point about tax. I guess if they run the car 99% of the time i the UK, they should pay UK tax. I know one lad with an R1 who took it back to Poland and registered it there to avoid the speed camera fines, but it is fully taxed / insured etc to ride in the UK. Uninsured drivers are just pr$%ks regardless of nationality.
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Old 03-08-07, 12:40 PM   #67
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Not sure if this goes off thread slightly, apologies if it does.

I recently carried out a stop check on a Polish male, and my control room operator asked me if my radio was secure, there was a marker on the PNC to locate/trace this male and pass on details to INTERPOL.

I did this and was contacted back by them, they were in the process of having a Polish arrest warrant for the male sent over and translated.

He is wanted in his homeland for SEVERAL drink-drive charges, SEVERAL drive while disqualified charges and a couple of fail to stop at scene of accidents.

Methinks that he will fall into the category of habitual drink-drivers who just don't get it, all I can say is I hope that this guys next accident doesn't involve anyone on this site.

To report or not report them is a matter of conshuns (don't ask me to spell it !!!!!!!), for the original poster, bearing in mind they are almost neighbours, but if taken in the context of my guy above, what price do you put on a life taken by an untaxed, un-insured, un-safe vehicle driven by an un-licensed driver.
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Old 03-08-07, 12:56 PM   #68
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Drink rehabilitation schemes? You mean our tax is going to pay to get them off alcohol abuse??? Uh? What? Am I dreaming? I don't like it....I want to wake up now!

Oops! was that racist?
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Old 03-08-07, 01:03 PM   #69
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what price do you put on a life taken by an untaxed, un-insured, un-safe vehicle driven by an un-licensed driver
Puts me off driving....its bad enough avoiding idiots without bringing retarded alcoholics into the mix!!
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You say some people on here are in tolerant, well some ( thankfully a very small minority) must be mind numbingly simple if they think it is ok for people to have no respect for our law under the excuse “oh I did not know’ the law makes no exceptions for you understanding it or how its applied.
You can't respect a law you don't know about

Nobody's saying that ignorance makes it OK to break the law- what Ed said is that it should be taken into account, and as anyone with an understanding of the law or how its applied knows, it is. Intent is always a consideration in any criminal or civil trial.
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