Unmarked cop got me

[deanb]

Went to refuel in Stratford upon Avon this afternoon. In the space of a couple of hundred metres I had to avoid, or stop for 4 drivers who were not in control of their cars - 3 using hand held cellphones whilst negotiating a roundabout and one having a bottle of pop and a sandwich whilst driving through town.

Any career conscious law enforcement person could earn 2 promotions by tea time around here - if any one could be bothered to do it.

Laws which are not enforced effectively are purely an invitation for people to ignore the law.

You have to drive defensively just to get to the supermarket, swear to god that most people drive completely on autopilot with absolutely no awareness of what is going on around them.

 

[Myros]

when I was still teaching the noble art

I used to decribe it as driving "HUA". answers on a postage stamp please as to what I meant.
I think there is more poor driving today than ever there was. Not particularly objective I know, but I feel better qualified than most to comment, and it makes me shake my head and wonder most days.

 

[Alex M Grieve]

I used to describe it as driving "HUA". answers on a postage stamp please as to what I meant.

It was the brown collar gave it away ............

 

[Myros]

full marks Alex

I got the idea from Joseph Wambaugh in one of his gritty novels, and it stuck with me.
I had one on the way home. Just had to get past me, and nearly killed a cyclist in doing so. and then nearly collected another one two hundred yards further on. Blind-sided on the left courtesy of the cheap plastic sheeting covering the window aperture. and guess what, two seconds after he pulls up at the roundabout, so do I, and of course I have the better of him in pulling away.
What was it all about, Herbert? ( cue for a song I think)

 

[whitenemesis]

Where's St4? Not been around for a while, they banged him up??

 

[television]

Where's St4? Not been around for a while, they banged him up??

I think that he is in love

 

[turbopete]

I think that he is in love

another good man bites the dust then!

 

[television]

another good man bites the dust then!

Yes he was only speeding home to her in the first place

 

[coshell]

not sure if its the right place to mention it, but since buying the 500 sl, ive started to drive slower? i think its the knowledge that i can go fast if i want...so why prove it......and i get the enjoyment of driving the car....not speeding........or perhaps its that little needle that can go to 35 but seems stuck at a lot lower ( MPG)....lol

 

[television]

not sure if its the right place to mention it, but since buying the 500 sl, ive started to drive slower? i think its the knowledge that i can go fast if i want...so why prove it......and i get the enjoyment of driving the car....not speeding........or perhaps its that little needle that can go to 35 but seems stuck at a lot lower ( MPG)....lol

You are spot on there ,,and many of us drive that way, also if you go too fast,others cannot see what a fine car you have