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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!z19g2000vbz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <559862d0-0249-40c1-a458-b99394405b53@z19g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: More Flagrant Abuse of Motorists Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 65 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: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242895292 2280 127.0.0.1 (21 May 2009 08:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 08:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z19g2000vbz.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: 4048 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:702881

Once again, a motorist is abused by the authorities. And once again, the trolls will accept it, and probably have a wank over it as well. Both the authorities and the trolls believe that while the motorist wasn't guilty of what he was accused of, he deserved everything he got simply because he was driving at all. But neither the authorities nor the trolls will have the guts to admit to thinking that. Pathetic, lying scum in both cases.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5355439/Driver-arrested-over-MOT-certificates-shade-of-green.html

Driver arrested over MOT certificate's shade of green

An innocent motorist was arrested, fingerprinted and held in a police cell for three hours because his MOT certificate was the "wrong" shade of green.

Michael Cook, 49, had turned up at a busy Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency centre to renew the tax disk for his car.

He had to queue while holding the required documents including his two- week-old MOT certificate and the one issued to him the previous year.

But a short time after handing them over to a cashier, a policeman arrived and Mr Cook was asked to join him in a side room.

Mr Cook, a self-employed roofer, was informed that staff at the centre in Gosforth, Newcastle, believed his new MOT certificate to be fake because it was a lighter colour than the old one.

He was taken to a nearby police station where he had to give a DNA swab, was fingerprinted and photographed, then placed in a cell.

Mr Cook, a father of two, from South Shields, said: "I was stunned and could not believe what was happening. It was so embarrassing.

"I know the police were only doing their jobs and they were very civil, but it was an awful thing to happen.

"I had to be interviewed and they were asking all sorts of questions about where I had the MOT done, I was there for quite a few hours until they proved it was a genuine certificate."

He returned to the centre later the same afternoon and was finally issued with a new tax disk.

Mr Cook added: "It was a different person serving me this time, but nothing much was said. I think I at least deserve a proper apology for what they put me through."

A DVLA spokesman said they sympathised with Mr Cook, understood his dissatisfaction and would be contacting him to apologise further.

He said: "In a situation where there is a potentially fraudulent document presented, it is our procedure to contact the police.

"Should it became apparent that the document is valid, the Agency will apologise to the customer."

A Northumbria Police spokesman confirmed they were called to the centre at Eagle Star House, Gosforth, at noon on May 5 over concerns about a document being used by a customer.

He said: "Enquiries were conducted and it was found the document was legitimate. No crime has been committed and no further action has been taken."