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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.astraweb.com!border1.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!spool10.prolocation.net!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e1b867f$0$2938$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Fines/points for littering drivers? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:25:50 +0100 References:  <981dhoF3lgU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <981dhoF3lgU1@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 79eb7a83.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=cCOjYCe_X9gD@=;2MRL^KmYjZGX^207Pk` Simon Mason wrote: >> Might make a few think before they lob their lit fag ends at you. >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2011/jul/11/motorists-litter-cash-fine-points > > Excellent - let's see unmarked cars with hi-def video, cruising round the > town centres and catching all those lazy reps, fat truckers and chavs. > Seeing a fag packet or a coke can tossed out of a vehicle window is > infuriating - the casual contempt for others deserves a fine.

But not points. And "travellers" who leave litter when they move on should be landed with a much larger, proportionate fine. But of course they're too scary and too difficult to deal with...much easier to target motorists who are committing slight infringements.