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Another copper avoids speeding cvonviction
BillieTheBot
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Still, at least his chow mein stayed hot!
What's the betting I'd have got a huge fine and ban for doing that?
What's the betting I'd have got a huge fine and ban for doing that?
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But maybe it's all a cunning plot to cut crime and increase police numbers. Maybe they're doing this so boy racers and joy riders across the land realise that the one way to be able to race your car at any speed you want and get away with it is to join the Police Force. :rolleyes:
I'm not saying that what happened was right, but let's be reasonable!
I'm thinking a huge fine would be several hundred and a ban would mean losing your license....
That's about as harsh as it gets tbh!
Most police forces adhere to the unwritten rule of 10% + 2mph before fines are issued. So for a 30mph limit most cameras will only trigger at 36mph or higher.
I think because they put on a uniform and where they go to do their job is one people associate with nasty overpowerful government or something, then people automatically attatch a stigma to them, but find a PC and talk to them and you'll probably find they're just a normal person. Some wankers, some really nice. Sorry, that's my 2p (or more, cos I ranted on a bit lol)
If coppers got done for speeding and simply took it in the chin and got the same punishment everyone else gets perhaps the public would not complain so much...
I don't know - it would depend on the circumstances.
His defence was that he started going to an accident, but then heard two other cars had been directed. The magistrates believed his defence.
What's your alternative - police not allowed a defence, automatic fines and/or jail?
He went to get a chinese whilst he was on duty?
The revolutionary concept that when police break the law they receive the same treatment as the rest of us and the law is applied in the same way.
No civilian would get away with speeding under unproven/dubious as fuck excuses. No civilian would get away with doing an incredible 160mph on a motorway and being cleared on the excuse that he was "a really good driver".
Fact.
Sirens are not always used (especially on clear roads and in the evenings). He never claimed to have been called, but did claim he was responding voluntarily in case help was needed, but when he heard two others cars were responding decided he wasn't needed.
I'm holding to that. You're not. He went to Magistrates court and they accepted his explanation, so he was found not guilty. I ask again, what is your alternative?
I think the key word there is civilian. No civilian would be allowed to carry a loaded weapon outside Westminster either. The uniformed services aren't civilians, though, are they?
You are also referring to another case as well, where he wasn't cleared because he was "a really good driver" but because the court accepted his defence that he needed to keep his skills honed by driver in a non-dangerous way on public roads.
Super Heroes ! !
Or is in the DNA ?
Well, firstly magistrates would believe the police if they told them the moon was made of nobcheese.
So my solution would be to sack the incompetent amateurs and get proper people in to do the job:D
No, which is why this copper was allowed to speed in an "emergency", and I am not, even if its the same "emergency".
Have you tried to eat a cold chinese? It's horrid :yuck:
An overhaul of the system. So we can perhaps have coppers who don't come up with intelligence-insulting 'excuses' for their actions and accept the consequences of their wrongdoings. And if they did, a system whereby the judiciary treats coppers the same as everyone else.
Because at the moment some judges are clearly not doing that.
Every single other type of driver, from test pilots to security & advanced drivers, and even other coppers can manage very well in circuits and tracks. The excuse was the single biggest load of bollocks in the history of mankind. And the Court did hear there was no problem about him going at such speeds because he was a very good driver.
For fuck's sake, how much bullshit are you prepared to put up with?
Which brings up the question of perjury too...
IF it's true it doesn't seem unreasonable.
Anyone remember "Operation Napkin" ?
That's a bit shocking I'd say.. I always thought there was a 10% + 3 mph buffer. I assume it was a speed camera?
A 3 MPH difference isn't that distinctive on an analogue speed dial on most cars
Although kinda depends on the road, like my own own would be a 30 mph road but I doubt I'd ever do more then 18 MPH in it .. can't imagine much else worse then running over one of the neighbours kids.
I've carried a GPS as a passenger in a lot of cars and noticed in almost all cases whatever speed the speedo says the GPS tends to indicate the actual speed is slower - usually by 10% (i.e. if speedo says 70 mph - GPS tends to say 63 mph) - not sure which is the more accurate way to measure speed, but the GPS system is many $ Billions.
I'm eating one now (serves me right for not coming straight home after being out to watch Bond
I dunno - to be fair I quiet enjoy your posts :thumb:
Does it - so every time someone is found inncoent we should then try and get them for lying.
Fuck, I'm not not the liberal on here and the views of some people about having to prove innocence terrify me
And you don't get to eat while you're at work?? I definitely wouldn't want to apply where you work. :chin:
I was once buying myself ice cream when two ambulances parked there and some fit blokes popped out to buy some too.
I honestly don't know what to make of this situation. I kinda feel I have more serious things to worry about.