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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!l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <936c6561-30cc-4ea1-a349-b6cf779f1f2e@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: OT: Banned driver gets off. Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 49 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245260673 18976 127.0.0.1 (17 Jun 2009 17:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3935 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:710391

On Jun 17, 5:07=A0pm, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > Readers might remember our local football club chairman getting banned fo= r > exceeding 12 points when caught speeding. His tale of hardship did not wa= sh > with the magistrates who said that he could afford a chauffeur to ferry h= im > around, but surprise surprise, he has wangled his way out of it by some > creative appealing.

The only thing wrong with that is that mere mortals don't get treated so leniently. 99% of the time, when someone is banned through totting up 3 or 4 speeding offences (which all drivers commit constantly), it's completely unjustified and their driving is nowhere near irresponsible or dangerous enough to warrant a ban of any length, let alone 6 months. So many people are losing their jobs and suffering huge amounts of hardship for *no good reason whatsoever*.

It's potty, and it's one of the most sadistic and despicable parts of the war on the motorist. That the car-haters can be so gleeful when a decent, generally law-abiding person has their life turned upside down completely needlessly by a stupid, pointless fucking ban just shows what nasty little bastards they are. If someone dares to drive a car, extremist anti-motorist crowd are concerned: the subtext is always "You knew this was a possibility if you drove, and if you wanted to avoid it then you shouldn't have driven at all" (and never mind if you've got no practical option but to drive...since when do the car- haters care about logic or being remotely reasonable or compassionate towards their fellow men?)
 * no* punishment is too severe or disproportionate as far as the

You can just see Spindrift down at the local magistrates' court, day in day out, whiling away the endless hours that he has thanks to his lack of employment, and having a good wank as yet another responsible motorist has their life ruined by yet another unnecessary ban. What a horrible person he must be, to take such pleasure from people's misery.

Being banned from driving used to be a real stigma: you had to have done something pretty dangerous and irresponsible, and the chances were that you deserved it. Now, it's just an occupational hazard of driving; a constant irritation (if you're lucky, it's no more than that) foisted upon us by utter fuckwits who have nothing better to do than think up ways of bullying people for choosing the only form of transport which is remotely sensible for them to use. I am FED UP with drivers being abused by the authorities and I am FED UP with this persecution being supported by car-hating fuckwits who are so cowardly that they don't even admit to having a problem with motorists.