Duke of Gloucester

Zog The Undeniable

Oh dear, oh dear. Anyone a member of the IAM? He isn't, not anymore.
He must be a complete idiot to get caught for speeding *four times* in
three years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/...ire/4120545.stm

Peter B

"Zog The Undeniable" <hrothgar19@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:41cb0a88.0@entanet...
> Oh dear, oh dear. Anyone a member of the IAM? He isn't, not anymore.
> He must be a complete idiot to get caught for speeding *four times* in
> three years.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/...ire/4120545.stm

Yeah, you're dead right. Surely part of advanced driving is advanced
observation, somewhat at odds with getting nicked 4 times in 3 years.

Pete

Andy Dingley

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:19:41 +0000, Zog The Undeniable
<hrothgar19@yahoo.com> wrote:

>He must be a complete idiot to get caught for speeding *four times* in
>three years.

Or live in North Wales !

James Annan

Andy Dingley wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:19:41 +0000, Zog The Undeniable
> <hrothgar19@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>He must be a complete idiot to get caught for speeding *four times* in
>>three years.
>
>
> Or live in North Wales !

Oh, I think that's a bit harsh. I know a couple of pretty normal people
who live in North Wales. At one time, I had thoughts of living there...

James
--
If I have seen further than others, it is
by treading on the toes of giants.
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Andy Dingley

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:38:49 +0900, James Annan
<still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I know a couple of pretty normal people
>who live in North Wales.

So do I. Not many of them still have unstained licences though. North
Wales police have a rather bizarre policy where they're prioritising
speeding offences over everything else.

LSMike

I'd say that's commendable.

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:28:27 +0000, Andy Dingley
<dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
<hgvms09jnif07lref8fomk0iqmrlb330ek@4ax.com>:

>>I know a couple of pretty normal people
>>who live in North Wales.

>So do I. Not many of them still have unstained licences though. North
>Wales police have a rather bizarre policy where they're prioritising
>speeding offences over everything else.

Prioritising drink-driving led to a massive decline in offences and -
partly by placing the drink-drivers in a minority - also resulted in
its becoming socially unacceptable. I long for the day that speeding
follows the same path.

Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales

Simon Brooke

in message <hgvms09jnif07lref8fomk0iqmrlb330ek@4ax.com>, Andy Dingley
('dingbat@codesmiths.com') wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:38:49 +0900, James Annan
> <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I know a couple of pretty normal people
>>who live in North Wales.
>
> So do I. Not many of them still have unstained licences though. North
> Wales police have a rather bizarre policy where they're prioritising
> speeding offences over everything else.

Name one other sort of crime which kills even one tenth as many people
in a year. Then think about police priorities.

Hint: all other crime put together doesn't kill one tenth as many people
in a year.

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Friends don't send friends HTML formatted emails.

PeteC

Zog The Undeniable wrote:
> Oh dear, oh dear. Anyone a member of the IAM? He isn't, not anymore.
> He must be a complete idiot to get caught for speeding *four times* in
> three years.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/...ire/4120545.stm

I'm a member. I've just emailed the IAM saying that either he goes or I do -
he's singlehandedly destroyed the reputation of the IAM.

In the real world, of course, he'll get a slap on the wrist by the IAM and
told not to do it again - so I doubt I'll be a member for much longer!

Pete.

A.C.P.Crawshaw

Andy Dingley wrote:
>
> So do I. Not many of them still have unstained licences though. North
> Wales police have a rather bizarre policy where they're prioritising
> speeding offences over everything else.

I live in North Wales and don't find it at all hard to avoid penalty
points. All you have to do is observe the speed limits.

Alan

Tony Raven

PeteC wrote:

>
>
> I'm a member. I've just emailed the IAM saying that either he goes or I do -
> he's singlehandedly destroyed the reputation of the IAM.
>

Interesting that they seemingly ignored the three previous offences
leading up to this high profile disclosure. So I don't think he did it
single handedly - he had a number of colluders helping him IMO.

Tony

Tony Raven

A.C.P.Crawshaw wrote:
>
> All you have to do is observe the speed limits.
>

Lots of people observe a speed limit but then carry on driving at
whatever speed they think they can get away with ;-)

Tony

Fred

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <uce@ftc.gov> wrote in message
news:jjons0520c4cvuhg1rmglr4ajfnbkg60hl@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:28:27 +0000, Andy Dingley
> <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
> <hgvms09jnif07lref8fomk0iqmrlb330ek@4ax.com>:
>
> >>I know a couple of pretty normal people
> >>who live in North Wales.
>
> >So do I. Not many of them still have unstained licences though. North
> >Wales police have a rather bizarre policy where they're prioritising
> >speeding offences over everything else.
>
> Prioritising drink-driving led to a massive decline in offences and -
> partly by placing the drink-drivers in a minority - also resulted in
> its becoming socially unacceptable. I long for the day that speeding
> follows the same path.
>
> Guy
> --

I long for sensible speed limits not set by geriatric self motivated
councillors. Only then will I respect some speed limits.

Patrick Herring

Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:

| PeteC wrote:
|
| > I'm a member. I've just emailed the IAM saying that either he goes or I do -
| > he's singlehandedly destroyed the reputation of the IAM.
|
| Interesting that they seemingly ignored the three previous offences
| leading up to this high profile disclosure. So I don't think he did it
| single handedly - he had a number of colluders helping him IMO.

But I read

bbc An Institute spokesman said they would be "taking advice" about
bbc his position.

as "we're hoping he'll fall on his sword any moment now".

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph.html