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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!r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <46a301e7-6544-4fd8-b5ee-6cfa5da4b099@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: OT: Speed Camera guy gets banned. Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:32:02 -0700 (PDT) References:    <7899ec46-80e6-4646-9d84-4cc496e7dc96@o30g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <168e54c8-2939-4881-b66b-b6406dcd3fdc@q2g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> Lines: 45 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.208.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241724722 23797 127.0.0.1 (7 May 2009 19:32:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 19:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.208.50; 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: 3349 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:700137

On May 7, 8:01=A0pm, Mas...@BP.com wrote: > On 7 May, 18:58, Nuxx Bar  wrote: > > > On May 7, 6:53=A0am, Doug  wrote: > > > > On 6 May, 20:33, Marc  wrote:> Simon = Mason wrote: > > > > > Speed camera boss banned for doing 103 mph. > > > > > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8035511.stm > > > No. =A0All it illustrates is that this utter wanker likes cameras for > > all the wrong reasons, and knows really that speeding per se is not > > dangerous, and that cameras don't save lives. =A0 > > That is why he said: > > "In my role, I am all too aware of the consequences of speeding." > > =A0"I accept the decision of the court. I recognise that speeding is not > acceptable and regret what I did,=94 he said outside court. =93My speed > was excessive and I=92ve made a full apology.=94

What, you *really* think he meant that and he wasn't just saying it because he was trying to save face? He's hardly going to say "I thought my driving was safe, just like the driving of most people who are caught speeding, and I know that cameras don't make things any safer, but they do make me a lot of cash", is he? That would make people hate him even more than they do already.

Anyone who honestly thought that speeding was dangerous or unacceptable wouldn't go over 100mph. It was a deliberate decision to go at that speed, because he knew damn well that it was safe.

> Mind you, his sob story was a laugh. > > "The executive argued that driving was essential for his job, which > involves more than 30,000 miles on the road every year. He claimed > that he would be forced to hire two private chauffeurs at a personal > cost of about =A330,000, which might leave him unable to keep his three > children in private school." > > TOUGH SHIT PAL.

I'm with you there.