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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!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news2.euro.net!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e286676$0$2932$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: RLJ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:48:34 +0100 References:  <65eb0aac-964c-4c7a-b428-9327c127ba71@dp9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>    <4e1f4224$0$2536$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <624712c0-1a07-4836-8b0a-0c2d67bb42a1@fv14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9893dkFk6mU1@mid.individual.net> <18ou175kand98fc4b4dq3mjecgb7sfeg9m@4ax.com>  <4e2219d5$0$2485$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <871uxkagf9.fsf@engine2.aziraphale.homeip.net>  Lines: 32 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:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: e19a065e.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=C>=28BRRK=m=5nNoc]7 On Jul 20, 8:41 pm, Mark Williams  wrote: >> Nuxx Bar  writes: >>> On 15/07/2011 11:15, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>>> I can confidently say that more than 90% of drivers will exceed the >>>> speed limit down this road. >> >> It's the same with the flashing 30mph signs near our local primary >> school. >> >>> In that case the speed limit is too low, >> >> A bit like the traffic light in the OP's video was `too red' :-S. >> >> -- >> Mark > > I seem to remember a case many years ago where a traffic light's red > glass had faded so that it was a sort of orange colour and thus no > longer a legal red light. I do know that drivers got away with > speeding in a 30mph limit once as the 30mph sign had the wrong fonted > "30" on it.

So it wasn't a real 30mph limit and it wasn't "speeding".

If you're going to say "The law is the law" then that has to cut both ways. If a driver deserves 3 points for driving at 71mph on a deserted motorway because "Common sense doesn't come into it, he was breaking the law and that's that", then when a "30" is in the wrong font, that means that "Common sense doesn't come into it, he *wasn't* breaking the law and that's that".