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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <53e4060f-6ef1-4587-b5b4-bd6b82f464c5@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Speeding Fines Up By 400 Per Cent Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 06:18:15 -0700 (PDT) References: <979ff286-12ac-4e1d-9516-b18ca0133114@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>  <9uli941a05981ls7npqlpo0trs3kl5mjbo@4ax.com> <82c78c25-24f7-422b-bce1-54674e565933@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>    <6fvqinFd747bU6@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 39 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.129.172 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218115095 14907 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2008 13:18:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.129.172; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3212 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:661583

On Aug 7, 10:11=A0am, Ace  wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:31:34 +0100, "Dave Larrington" > > > >  wrote: > >Innews:epal945s4juj3eq5l9pik5a2donrlc4kir@4ax.com, > >Ace  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 21:01:14 +0000 (UTC), Tim Woodall > >>  wrote: > > >>> Motorways, everybody knows doing 100mph will get you a ban. That's > >>> 43%. > > >> No it won't. Getting caught doind over 100mph will probably do so, but > >> that's not the same thing at all. > > >Unless, of course one is a cabinet minister[1], member of the Royal Fami= ly > >or other weel-known public figure, in which case you'll probably be deem= ed > >to have been doing 99 mph and let off with three points and a "How Dare = They > >Punish $SLEB" editorial in a tabloid newspaper. > > >1 - if Harriet fucking Harman was *really* doing 99 mph when she got nic= ked > >in 2003, I shall have my shoes for supper. > > To be fair, many traffic plod are perfectly reasonable and will often > go for 99mph anyway, even if you've been doing a little bit over it, > as long as you were doing it safely and you don't get arsy about it. > Certainly hapenned to a few motorcyclists I know.

You'll be getting an Official Warning from Crapman/Spindrift as well. It's *never* possible to exceed the speed limit in safety, you know. Nothing but a hysterical, ludicrous overreaction will do when it comes to someone exceeding the Sacred Number on the Stick. You know the rules. This is an anti-motorist newsgroup after all.