Speeding ticket help!

Joe_Horner

Came home this evening to an NIP for a speeding offence last Thursday. I saw the guy with the gun hiding behind a tree, but too late to react so had been expecting it.

I was over the speed limit, but my speed really was safe for the prevailing road, traffic and weather conditions. Yet I can't seem to raise the mandatory level of feeling unfairly penalised. I knew the limit, I exceeded it, I got caught.

Please, can any of you lot help by providing the appropriate level of "scamera / money-making exercise / catch real criminals*" outrage that I just can't seem to muster?








* As it happens, they are failing to catch the guy who smashed our shop window and made off with a few hundred quid of stock last week. So I'd maybe be more justified than most in the "catching real crims" bit

BeenThroughItAll

I too went through the same feelings of unoutragedness in July, when I was unfairly caught actually speeding in Scotland by some unfairly polite policeman and charged an unfairly entirely reasonable fine amount in line with the law which unfairly outlaws unacceptable breakage of the posted limit. Quite unfairly.

Joe_Horner

It looks like they might even exacerbate my feeling of unoutrage by offering me a speed awareness course, at less cost than the unfairly entirely reasonable fine, payable by installments if I need, and (within reason) at a time and location to suit me.

Fat_Walt

Joe_Horner wrote: »

It looks like they might even exacerbate my feeling of unoutrage by offering me a speed awareness course, at less cost than the unfairly entirely reasonable fine, payable by installments if I need, and (within reason) at a time and location to suit me.

The only way you'll get to pay in instalments is by going to court.

What's unfair about the fine?

Joe_Horner

Fat_Walt wrote: »

The only way you'll get to pay in instalments is by going to court.

What's unfair about the fine?

No, that's the point - you have to pay the FP in one go, but if you take the course then the course provider will accept installments for the (lower) fee as long as you finish paying at least 2 weeks before the course date.

And what's unfair about the fine is that it's unfairly reasonable (see BeenThroughItAll and my wording) - makes it unfairly difficult to feel fairly outraged when they're so reasonable about it

BeenThroughItAll

Joe_Horner wrote: »

No, that's the point - you have to pay the FP in one go, but if you take the course then the course provider will accept installments for the (lower) fee as long as you finish paying at least 2 weeks before the course date.

And what's unfair about the fine is that it's unfairly reasonable (see BeenThroughItAll and my wording) - makes it unfairly difficult to feel fairly outraged when they're so reasonable about it

Or so ununreasonable about it, as in my unfairly entirely fair case of being unfairly caught bang to rights.

Fat_Walt

Joe_Horner wrote: »

No, that's the point - you have to pay the FP in one go, but if you take the course then the course provider will accept installments for the (lower) fee as long as you finish paying at least 2 weeks before the course date.

And what's unfair about the fine is that it's unfairly reasonable (see BeenThroughItAll and my wording) - makes it unfairly difficult to feel fairly outraged when they're so reasonable about it

No doubt you were caught close to home. It doesn't surprise me if you were.

Joe_Horner

Not that close (about 35 miles away), but roads I'm very familiar with.

Robisere

Been a long, long time since I was caught and paid the price, but I still remember that horrible feeling. I also wonder where are all the cameras when the holiday traffic hammers through our winding village road and blows the 30 mph limit away. That's the real unfairness. The Highways and Road Safety Partnership put up the occasional sign with those dumb smiley/frowny faces, at which the lawbreakers also smile and plough through at well over the limit. When the season ends, it's much less dangerous crossing the road on the crown of a double bend to get to our one shop.

ElefantEd

I can't even get a speeding ticket to be unoutraged about; for some reason I'm constitutionally unable to drive too fast. How dare I deprive me of the satisfaction of not being outraged by an entirely reasonable fine for intentionally breaking a law I am perfectly well aware of? It really makes me not want to spit!

Richard53

Guys, I've had a couple of glasses of wine tonight, and my head is spinning from the double and treble negatives. Or unpositives. Please stop.

Oh, and bad luck Joe.