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Speeding fine for imaginary speed?
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Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »He'd be straight in the 9s if he caught Christopher Rode on him mum.
Had to Google Christopher Rode.... aren't you nice.0 -
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Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »You do know that that camera was unused for a number of years and raised no money at all?
:rotfl:We've always been told cameras were not for raising money, thanks for confirming the lie.
The camera was, at the least, a deterrent to stop people speeding at an area where children could be running out of the school and potentially into the road, now there is no deterrent, people can speed from the lights (where the road to Great Park goes down), brake for the camera, and then speed again, potentially going over 40mph past the school.
The camera was moved from being a safety device to a revenue raiser.
Just for anyone else
The OLD location was approximately as below (by the bus stop, school to the left):
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3958832,-2.004517,3a,75y,86.8h,73.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sv1QjL_4N7mwrraTjrAPdag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The new one is about 150-200m down the road here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3960662,-1.9989718,3a,75y,103.98h,80.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skboNevCG4QtfObs85bDwow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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When is the law 'on-your-side' exactly? When you haven't committed a crime, but someone else has and you need the police to actually do their job. Ironically, the police should work without prejudice, so the fact I have a low opinion of them should not prevent them from doing their job.
That said, my experience of the right side of the law is, it doesn't work. You might as well sort it yourself.
It's to be hoped that you don't ever need serious help, like if your child was missing, or if your wife was raped, or your mother murdered.
You'd be pretty !!!!ed off if all the nice policemen decided they didn't want to help you because they'd arbitrarily decided you're a 'bad person' just like you have done with the entire Police service based on your limited experience.0 -
:rotfl:We've always been told cameras were not for raising money, thanks for confirming the lie.
The camera was, at the least, a deterrent to stop people speeding at an area where children could be running out of the school and potentially into the road, now there is no deterrent, people can speed from the lights (where the road to Great Park goes down), brake for the camera, and then speed again, potentially going over 40mph past the school.
The camera was moved from being a safety device to a revenue raiser.
You're banging on about revenue raising and using a force that turned off all its cameras as an example.0 -
BeenThroughItAll wrote: »It's to be hoped that you don't ever need serious help, like if your child was missing, or if your wife was raped, or your mother murdered.
You'd be pretty !!!!ed off if all the nice policemen decided they didn't want to help you because they'd arbitrarily decided you're a 'bad person' just like you have done with the entire Police service based on your limited experience.
Hold on matey! I PAY for the police service, and I pay a bloody lot for it in my estimation. Whatever I might think about the police, and however I might criticise them or not 'help' them, if I need help they better bloody provide it, because I pay their wages!0 -
Hold on matey! I PAY for the police service, and I pay a bloody lot for it in my estimation. Whatever I might think about the police, and however I might criticise them or not 'help' them, if I need help they better bloody provide it, because I pay their wages!
No you don't because by that arguenent they're self employed.0 -
Hold on matey! I PAY for the police service, and I pay a bloody lot for it in my estimation. Whatever I might think about the police, and however I might criticise them or not 'help' them, if I need help they better bloody provide it, because I pay their wages!
So I assume instead of whinging about it on a public forum indefinitely, at some point you'll prove how much better you can make things by becoming a Police Commissioner, or maybe Home Secretary? Why not go all out and try for PM?0 -
Constable, I'm sure you can quote the relevant law and all that, but the fact is, motoring offences are not criminal offences, hence you don't have to disclose them on a job application.
You should know this better than me, I'm not the copper, you are.....
All motoring offences are criminal. There is no other kind of offence in the UK. However, most minor ones are not RECORDABLE criminal offences, so you don't get a criminal record or have to disclose them in some circs.
However, you still go to criminal court with all the other alleged criminals like the rapists and drug dealers.0
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