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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <54447d96-ec77-4d34-9a57-962de62a83f3@u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Motorists caught out in speeding crackdown Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:34:02 -0700 (PDT) References: <19ed78ec-0da0-412b-a553-f1bac3533b35@b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> Lines: 15 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242362042 15381 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2009 04:34:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 04:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2095 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701495

On May 14, 11:47=A0pm, Squashme  wrote: > "A total of 950 motorists have been caught breaking the speed limit in > South Yorkshire in a week - equivalent to more than 135 people per > day.

Someone without an axe to grind against motorists would likely realise that if so many motorists were breaking the speed limit, it was likely that they were doing it in safety. A car-hater, on the other hand, would prefer to make out that every single one of those 950 motorists (and many others) were driving irresponsibly and recklessly, the implication being that motorists are fundamentally irresponsible and wouldn't be driving at all if they weren't. Yet if so many people were caught breaking a non-motoring related law, the car-hater in question would change their tune: it's only motorists who are subjected to prejudice by these people.