Booked for using mobile while stationery

d123

DoaM wrote: »

But how would he have gotten into the car without the keys? (Without breaking and entering, for which he could be arrested anyway).

Unlock the car, give the keys to a mate (even better if he also has a car in the car park and is also bedding down to sober up and you take his keys) and then lock yourself in the car. Each sleeps in their car with the other cars keys, and in the morning swap the keys back.

Or unlock the car, go back into the pub and hand the keys over to the staff, go back to the car and sleep.

I'm sure there are plenty of viable theories if you think long enough about it .

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

d123 wrote: »

Unlock the car, give the keys to a mate (even better if he also has a car in the car park and is also bedding down to sober up and you take his keys) and then lock yourself in the car. Each sleeps in their car with the other cars keys, and in the morning swap the keys back.

Or unlock the car, go back into the pub and hand the keys over to the staff, go back to the car and sleep.

I'm sure there are plenty of viable theories if you think long enough about it .

Every method so far has relied on the motorist using the keys to get in the car, so cannot be done if the police are around. They would need a sober friend to put them in the car, work out how to switch off the movement sensor alarm and then lock them in.

Might just be easier to get a taxi home with your sober mate.

=rizla=

DUTR wrote: »

On the radio at the moment they are rattling on about mobile phone use in petrol station forecourts, indeed we have never seen a forecourt go up in a plume from mobile use, or read stories of the metering in the dispenser being out for the same reasons, however I'm not even sure why they are wasting time debating the topic, the call can wait until after the forcourt visit surely?

Unless you go to a shell petrol station that is, they are going to let you pay for fuel via a phone app.

pendragon_arther

IanMSpencer wrote: »

Every method so far has relied on the motorist using the keys to get in the car, so cannot be done if the police are around. They would need a sober friend to put them in the car, work out how to switch off the movement sensor alarm and then lock them in.

Might just be easier to get a taxi home with your sober mate.

So in your little scenario the police are lurking behind a hedge just waiting to pounce on whoever turns up to enter the car and have been waiting on surveillance for three hours...

funkycoldribena

When I had my car in the garage the mechanic called me over to listen to a noise from the engine. As we were standing looking into the engine I had no idea he was driving...

funkycoldribena

Voltaire7 wrote: »

The more idiots like your 'mate', the less the rest of us have to pay.

Well done to your 'mate'!

What a sad world when people actually think this.

d123

IanMSpencer wrote: »

Every method so far has relied on the motorist using the keys to get in the car, so cannot be done if the police are around. They would need a sober friend to put them in the car, work out how to switch off the movement sensor alarm and then lock them in.

Might just be easier to get a taxi home with your sober mate.

No, my scenario relates to a driver with a reasonably modern car with a remote fob. The driver could use the fob and open the car from the door to the pub, then go inside and drop the keys off before approaching the car.

Spicy_McHaggis

d123 wrote: »

No, my scenario relates to a driver with a reasonably modern car with a remote fob. The driver could use the fob and open the car from the door to the pub, then go inside and drop the keys off before approaching the car.

What has all this sleeping in a car when drunk got to do with using a mobile phone?

d123

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

What has all this sleeping in a car when drunk got to do with using a mobile phone?

Nothing, that conversation seems to have fizzled out and the conversation moved on, as it often does .

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

d123 wrote: »

No, my scenario relates to a driver with a reasonably modern car with a remote fob. The driver could use the fob and open the car from the door to the pub, then go inside and drop the keys off before approaching the car.

Still demonstrating he is (actively) in charge of the vehicle at the time he used the key. You can be standing some way from the car, and be done if you have the keys.

I would assume that the offence was originally brought in to avoid people claiming that they were not going to drive the car if they hadn't actually been seen driving, so it is quite a widely drawn offence. Sod's Law suggests that the policeman just happens by as you press the key, it being chucking out time and they are on their busy time - how do they then know what your intentions are, they've just seen a drunk man unlock a car that they are heading towards.