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as much as i think it is a joke which it is
i suppose it can come under the driving with out due care and attention
ie , picking the hankie up or his hand is obstructing his view
if had hit a child while doing it ?
i belive there is such a fine line on this matter but it is a joke what is next
i suppose it can come under the driving with out due care and attention
ie , picking the hankie up or his hand is obstructing his view
if had hit a child while doing it ?
i belive there is such a fine line on this matter but it is a joke what is next
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still the same
even if in traffic with your mobile phone you can still be done for it
i agree it is a joke
even if in traffic with your mobile phone you can still be done for it
i agree it is a joke
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I thought I'd missed February and March for a minute a skipped straight to April first.
Lunacy. Absolute lunacy.
Lunacy. Absolute lunacy.
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I forgot how much I love that word. It doesn't get used nearly enough.
Cheers Ade
Cretinous is good as well, beaten by moronic and asinine though...........
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I forgot how much I love that word. It doesn't get used nearly enough.
Cheers Ade
- its definately one of those words I love when I hear it, but always forget about it when I need such a word to apply to the likes of the cretins that issued such a driving offence ticket.
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Are you allowed to sneeze while driving? You could be be driving with your eyes shut. You could even obscure the view if you had a particularly gooey sneeze.
I've seen plenty of police officers driving whilst they're using mobiles or drinking from a water bottle. It always brasses me off because I know if the roles were ever reversed then I'd be rightly nicked. Mind you, haven't seen anything to beat the white van man driving round a roundabout with a porcelain mug of tea in his hand.
I've seen plenty of police officers driving whilst they're using mobiles or drinking from a water bottle. It always brasses me off because I know if the roles were ever reversed then I'd be rightly nicked. Mind you, haven't seen anything to beat the white van man driving round a roundabout with a porcelain mug of tea in his hand.
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I watched a Thames Valley officer pull out of Cherwell Valley services on his phone with one hand, holding a pastry in his other, steering with his knee. No kidding.
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But then car drivers dont...
- Spend 3 miles overtaking another lorry
- Think that because you indicate and are 40 odd tons, you can just pull out causing me to brake
- Sit 2 feet off the vehicle in front
So what is the difference between being stopped in traffic with the handbrake on, having a good blow (pardon the expression!) and pulling over to the side of the road, putting the handbrake on and THEN having a good blow? Technically, you are still in charge of the vehicle, even though it isn't moving.
Are you supposed to park, get out, lock up and walk a minimum distance away from the vehicle before blowing your nose?
Are you supposed to park, get out, lock up and walk a minimum distance away from the vehicle before blowing your nose?
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- Thats 'cause the stoopid ****ing government restricted all LGV's ( HGV's)
to 56 MPH to bring them in line wit the EU and of course all the foreign ones over here are restricted ( not)
Yep some of those manoeuvres are a little dodgy I agree,
but if you lose any of that 56mph it takes ages to pick it up again
I suggest you give it a try sometime ( rather like driving a car at around 20mph in top gear only and see how you get along.
Conversely, when I was driving fuel tankers
you wouldn't believe some of the ****ing stunts that car drivers used to
get up to around me
26,000 litters of motor spirit igniting would create a slight hole somewhere!
- Not even the foreigners are that mad
it might look like 3 but in reality it would be a cars width
don't forget they can stop a hell of a lot quicker than cars!
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apparently the copper who did the deed has had his wrist slapped by the inspector for "giving us a bad name"
good for him!
"The cop who handed out the ticket was PC Stuart Gray - dubbed PC Shiny Buttons for his zealous approach to the job. He was exposed last year after he issued a £50 fixed penalty to a man who accidentally dropped a £10 note in the street."
"The incident happened just after PC Gray doled out a £50 fine for littering to unemployed Stewart Smith, who accidentally dropped a tenner out his pocket as he left a shop. Last night, a police source said: "Total nonsense like this is the very opposite of good policing. This officer is known as PC Shiny Buttons for his lack of a common sense approach to the job. "It is supposed to be about serving and protecting the public - not embarking on some petty power trip like this appears to be."
"Incidents like this do nothing towards good public relations or help to gain public respect for Police.All incidents like this do is to make the public think even more that the Police have nothing better to do and that they should be chasing 'real' criminals!!! If you look at it another way you are not in control of your car when you change gear, open a window, adjust the heater etc etc etc! "
good for him!
"The cop who handed out the ticket was PC Stuart Gray - dubbed PC Shiny Buttons for his zealous approach to the job. He was exposed last year after he issued a £50 fixed penalty to a man who accidentally dropped a £10 note in the street."
"The incident happened just after PC Gray doled out a £50 fine for littering to unemployed Stewart Smith, who accidentally dropped a tenner out his pocket as he left a shop. Last night, a police source said: "Total nonsense like this is the very opposite of good policing. This officer is known as PC Shiny Buttons for his lack of a common sense approach to the job. "It is supposed to be about serving and protecting the public - not embarking on some petty power trip like this appears to be."
"Incidents like this do nothing towards good public relations or help to gain public respect for Police.All incidents like this do is to make the public think even more that the Police have nothing better to do and that they should be chasing 'real' criminals!!! If you look at it another way you are not in control of your car when you change gear, open a window, adjust the heater etc etc etc! "
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da cobra speke da troof innit!
Hope it catches on. The common sense bit
I was once told by a constable to "get out of Fife & do not come back" I mean did he think I really wanted to be in Fife:nuts:
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But da Co-bra is no longer da Co-Bra ( or even Bra co )
He is Smoothedit (until DF's next whim
) Hope it catches on. The common sense bit
I was once told by a constable to "get out of Fife & do not come back" I mean did he think I really wanted to be in Fife:nuts:
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But da Co-bra is no longer da Co-Bra ( or even Bra co )
He is Smoothedit (until DF's next whim
I give up - can't keep up with these mods - think they own the place!:rules:
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Specially when they keep saying no name changes:shrug:
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Must admit the overtaking can get on my goat at times, particularly when there covering 3 lanes of 4, but having driven them in the past, and driving vans in my current job i can appriecate why it happens. As for the pulling out business, i personally cant say i have ever had to brake for a lorry, its not hard to predict when a lorry will want to move out, but i suppose again that comes from having experiance at drving heavy goods, and heavy vans.
Some are still at 55mph to are they not? which doesnt help matters either.
As for the ticket, well
even if he was driving it would still be surely having a bogey hanging from your noise is far more distracting when you driving.
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Yeah snap, not had to drive HGV's for about 12 years since finishing my appriinticeship biggest thing i get these days is a transit (although currently an Astravan) to carry my tools albeit very very very close to its weight limit.
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Newsflash: Snake quits Golf, takes up Snooker whilst he has a bad back.
The irritating art of lorry drivers overtaking each other at a crawling pace is best witnessed on dual carriageways such as the A14. And they do it uphill too. Why? :shrug:
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They probably do it just 'cause they canNewsflash: Snake quits Golf, takes up Snooker whilst he has a bad back.
The irritating art of lorry drivers overtaking each other at a crawling pace is best witnessed on dual carriageways such as the A14. And they do it uphill too. Why? :shrug:
I recon the A1 is their training ground
Thought the speed limit on wagons was 100 Kph (62 Mph)
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If blowing your nose whilst sat in traffic with the handbrake on is a problem howcome it is OK to stop at a road toll and stick your hand out of the window to give money to the attendant and receive change.
Because it doesn't involve an anal power mad copper :shrug:
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This was in a traffic jam and the handbrake was on.
I believe the issueing officer was the same guy that fined someone for littering when they dropped a ten pound note.
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Naw the copper was just being a Bogey man,
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