Dilema - WOuld you have called the Police ?

[Il Duce]

I would much rather the police were left alone to get on with more serious issues. I also don't like busy bodies who think their some kind of citizen morals enforcement agency. Just f*** off and get on with your own life.

 

[bhaexpress]

I would much rather the police were left alone to get on with more serious issues. I also don't like busy bodies who think their some kind of citizen morals enforcement agency. Just f*** off and get on with your own life.

Even though it's both illegal and dangerous ?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I would much rather the police were left alone to get on with more serious issues. I also don't like busy bodies who think their some kind of citizen morals enforcement agency. Just f*** off and get on with your own life.

Is drinking/drugs and driving OK then?

 

[Silvanus]

When the penalties for this offence are mandatory jail then people might take notice, there will still be idiots breaking the law but a month inside with increasing spells for each further offence then the message just may hit home.

This should also apply to drunken/drugged drivers.

Where can we put them though? Prisons are overflowing

Yesterday on the way home down the 27 some dickhead was also in the fast lane going slow , when he eventually pulled over i noticed he was on his phone , so I swerved in front of him , jabbed my breaks .....that shit him up and made me feel better , dont call the police....get even instead

Another good way to get at the areseholes who drive right up your backside at speed when you're stuck in traffic say on a motorway and can't do anything about it.

Gently touch your brake pedal to get your brake lights to come on (but with your left foot), and at the same time, accelerate enough to keep the gap. Makes the f***ers jump sometimes .

Both seem like good ideas.

 

[tedebear]

People caught on the phone (without handsfree) in the car - should have their car taken away from them....keep their sodding phone and they'll soon work out whats more important to them...

 

[scooter1]

People caught on the phone (without handsfree) in the car - should have their car taken away from them....keep their sodding phone and they'll soon work out whats more important to them...

A 7 day sin bin type thing. It'd cost a fortune to administer, but could be a sound idea. Of course, the cops would actually have to start stopping people in the first instance

 

[tedebear]

A 7 day sin bin type thing. It'd cost a fortune to administer, but could be a sound idea. Of course, the cops would actually have to start stopping people in the first instance

If the general public stopped making the cops fill in a piece of paper, or attend a tribunal every time one of them so much as touched a member of the public, then the cops would have more time to actually police things..

 

[tip top]

Yesterday on the way home down the 27 some dickhead was also in the fast lane going slow , when he eventually pulled over i noticed he was on his phone , so I swerved in front of him , jabbed my breaks .....that shit him up and made me feel better , dont call the police....get even instead

makes you more dangerous than him

 

[glasfryn]

yes I would if the driving where that dangerous,but it might be a bit of a pointless exercise as the woodentops in Brighton might have more important things to do ......like.....................................................................................................................

 

[tip top]

Another good way to get at the areseholes who drive right up your backside at speed when you're stuck in traffic say on a motorway and can't do anything about it.

Gently touch your brake pedal to get your brake lights to come on (but with your left foot), and at the same time, accelerate enough to keep the gap. Makes the f***ers jump sometimes .

so putting your brakelights on, for no reason, on an already busy motorway is a responsible way to drive.

Idiot

 

[Collar Feeler]

Completely pointless in reporting it as it won't be graded as an immediate response and you won't get a police car racing out to pull the driver over. Even if you did get an immediate response I wouldn't risk using blue lights and sirens to get to your location, since i couldn't justify the risk to myself or other drivers for such a minir offence such as this. Even if after all that you did manage to get police to attend and they caught up with the driver, he would have to still be on the phone to get a ticket, your evidence alone wouldn't be enough to ticket him.

So a waste of time. Would you contact the police to report similar offences? Going through a red light, down a one way street etc??

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Dabbing your brakes to deliberately frighten the driver behind is pretty daft to be honest. Tempting at times, but not really all that clever when you think about it.

If you really feel you must, then rather than actually braking and risking your own safety, just turn your fog lights on. It will have the same effect.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

The police just don't have time. After all, they are much too bust arresting the 2 girls who flashed at the CCTV cameras in Worthing. (Today's Argus)

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I asked for pictures, but to no avail.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Another good way to get at the areseholes who drive right up your backside at speed when you're stuck in traffic say on a motorway and can't do anything about it.

Gently touch your brake pedal to get your brake lights to come on (but with your left foot), and at the same time, accelerate enough to keep the gap. Makes the f***ers jump sometimes .

Have indulged meself in this activity too. Mobile phone use while driving is dangerous, trust me, I spend a lot of time on the road and have seen numerous (endless) instances of the examples described above. These idiots have not decreased in numbers one jot since the law change. Why, I hear you ask yerself? Cos the Poolice are uninterested in clamping down on these vacuous, self-important fools who think their endless and inane drivel warrants the risk of life-loss...

"Yeah, I was like 'whatever girlfriend' and he was like ' you is a cow. You's tellin' me that if Trace was sexed up an you was a man you werren't to gettin' jiggy wit it, you hypocratic low down dawg"

(or)

"I, like, turned round to him and goes 'are you tellin' me I'm fat...I'm defnittly not goin to I-beetha with you now you bastard. That Gary off ov Celebrity Big Sister is twice the man you iz."

 

[Captain Haddock]

Er, what?! Come again?



It's easy to say it's minor now, not so easy when it causes an accident.
I don't know about the statistics regarding radio use, etc. but the difference, as I see it, is that using a mobile phone requires constant attention, whereas pissing about with the radio is a momentary thing. I certainly don't believe that it isn't dangerous.

At the moment people seem to put it in the same category as downloading illegal music when it comes, i.e. it doesn't matter. I'm not sure that those people that have been affected by it would agree.

Wasn't there a case of a woman who killed a child and they traced her mobile phone records to discover she'd made several calls and texted several messages within a five minute period immediatelt prior to the accident?

Some say it's like fiddlin' with the radio...I spend an awful lot of time and can say with confidence that mobile phone use is almost always much MORE dangerous than pressin' one or two buttons. These goons look away from the road, drive far too slow and off centre, over-react to small hazards ahead and constantly position themselves wrongly at junctions / roundabouts etc.

It's been highlighted in recent research that mobile phones leave the user 3 times more likely to cause an accident....I will busy-body these morons to as much trouble as their fatuous hides can tolerate and then double their rations!

 

[Captain Haddock]

I think half the time the polizi cant be bothered with the paperwork .. apologies if the following is fixtures but the following true story always makes me laugh...

A guy dials 999 and asks for the Police ... when he's connected he explains that two blokes are breaking into his shed. The reply was "we havent got anybody available at the moment we'll send somebody round when we can". Five minutes later the guy rings back and says "Dont worry sending anybody round Ive shot them both"...

A very very short while later an armed response unit and several police cars turn up and arrest the burglars..

I thought you'd shot them said one of the policemen.... I thought you didnt have anybody available was the reply .....

Heard this before an it's a classic. I'd try the same stunt if faced with 'lack o' resources' like that fella...they'd probably suspect a 'repeat offence' but would turn up armed and clueless nonetheless, I'll wager.

 

[Bry Nylon]

The trouble is, I am not sure the police can convict if there is no evidence. Now if they could get phone records and prove that the driver was mobile at the time, then possibly a conviction would follow. However, I can't see how that is done. Funny that the police get condemned for chasing after the motorist, but then condemned for not cracking down on mobile phone drivers. If there is no proof, then there is surely little that they can actually do. Maybe a warning that they have been spotted?

You seem to see a lot of them about. For some reason they tend to be the bigger saloons/4x4s. Perhaps the perpetrators can afford them as they are always working, hence being on the phone!

It really is a case of "I'm not going to kill anyone" "It won't happen to me".

I should have reported a jogger for dangerous jogging the other day. Two sets of lights running off different sequences and he happily cleared the first one, before running straight out in front of me. Managed to swerve and miss him. I would be the one in trouble and have to live with the pain if I had killed him.

If somebody is unfortunate enough to be involved in a crash resulting in serious injury or a fatalty the police WILL check with all drivers mobile phone operators. If a person is found to have been talking or texting immediately prior to the incident (quite a common cause at serious RTCs these days) a charge of Dangerous Driving is on the cards, which as I understand it, is a criminal offence and can result in a prsion sentence. (The coppers on the board will know better than me).

We attended a fatal road traffic collison Sunday lunchtime, when a jogger was struck by a 24 year old driver and killed. She was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, and bailed until sometime in October.

 

[Yorkie]

If somebody is unfortunate enough to be involved in a crash resulting in serious injury or a fatalty the police WILL check with all drivers mobile phone operators. If a person is found to have been talking or texting immediately prior to the incident (quite a common cause at serious RTCs these days) a charge of Dangerous Driving is on the cards, which as I understand it, is a criminal offence and can result in a prsion sentence. (The coppers on the board will know better than me).

Not a copper, but yes, you're right.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Ah yes. I read about that on the BEEB website. 60 year old? RIP Jogger.

Another jogger was killed in Hants. Don't let it put you off jogging.