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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4db64a40-1822-4a0e-9d65-46288378512e@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Archbishop's PA branded a fare dodger for 20p bus fare slip-up Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:14:35 -0700 (PDT) References: <37538c39-d40b-4004-8345-8d9765284806@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <92rs441336j1960cf5npodd5cdd19oq70f@4ax.com> Lines: 31 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.217.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213103675 607 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2008 13:14:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.217.66; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2667 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:652526

On Jun 10, 1:02=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:54:23 -0700 (PDT), Nuxx Bar > >  wrote: > >Just wondering if the trolls still think that "the law is the law" > >should eclipse common sense when the accused is a public transport > >user, rather than an evil motorist. > > >http://tinylink.com/?n837Wd49Vf > > 70p instead of 90p. =A0It sounds the equivalent of driving at 90mph > instead of 70mph. > > I wonder how many drivers at 90mph in a 70 zone face a =A31000 fine and > a criminal conviction which means something to employers. > > It sounds like the law for speeding motorists needs to be tightened > up, with a fixed penalty of =A31,000.

All about numbers with you trolls isn't it? Amazing how simplistic you are. I suppose you also think the punishment should be the same for someone who's 90/70 times the legal drink-drive limit? What if a completely arbitrary limit for something was written into law...would you support an equal punishment for exceeding that by the same margin? Can't you see how ridiculous you're being?

Someone tries to argue that the current obsession with speeding is justified, and inevitably they start coming out with utter rubbish like Tom Crispin's spiel above. It's just one consequence of taking an illogical position on something. Sad really.