speeding

Hah haah! Look! I'm not the only one who did that!! ---I hope you're not making fun of me, Ofar

I've just taken delivery of a left hand drive car. Everything is opposite to what Im used to..the speedo is in km's too.... if I get caught doing 50 in a 40, will they let me off do you reckon? I dont like it, btw, its 'orrible

Blimey, Liana! You're starting to sound just like moi! 'Cept I don't drive...

I am you. Aren't I? Fecky, be a babes, and knit me a new car?

Not anymore Fecky, although I may well have had some coke on my moustache when picked up for DUI in California. It was a long time ago, you understand.

Don't you mean car-die?

What a wonderful thread! I got done in the very early days of cameras for going through a red light in Southampton - days later some high-up at the Crown Prosecution Service got done for kerb crawling in Kings Cross. I wrote to the court saying that if I'd stopped at the red light district I would have got done and now I was being prosecuted for not stopping. I pretended to be an old man who didn't know the difference. No go. Increase in fine. No sense of humour. Why don't you ask if you can go to dope school as speed doesn't agree with you? On second thoughts..

I shot President Reagan once, but luckily they blamed some other bloke for it. It would have been a real bummer going to the Shooting Presidents Workshop. I bet they have a party afterwards with water pistols.

This is wonderful news! I am scared stiff of speed cameras. It's not the fine that I mind so much, but the points. If I lose my license, I lose my job, and if I lose my job, we lose our house. I'd take a speed workshop anytime over the points. I once picked up a DUI in California, and my fine was reduced if I agreed to serve eight hours at traffic school. Two four-hour sessions. It was full of complete tossers! You know the kind, putting their fucking hands up in class and saying things like, "I'd like to relate something that happened when I was driving ....." As if anybody there could give a @!#$!

If they had a 'Shooting Presidents Workshop', it'd probably be full to bursting with hopeful punters.

Karl, I'm interested to know if you have a can of Coke stuck to your top lip at the time?

I got caught doing 70 in a 60 limit but I'd only just stopped doing 90.... never committed any crimes before(well only nicking lippy from Woolies when I was twleve) It was a terrible trauma getting in the back of the police car and I burst into floods of tears..didn't help one bit.

I never got pulled over for speeding, but once in high school I drove to the local church about 7pm on a Sunday, thinking there would be the usual group get together of the high school kids (inside, not in the parking lot!). Evidently, the regular meeting had been cancelled. Everything was dark. I waited a little while, then left. Just as I was driving away, a cop car spotted me and followed me with his light flashing (no siren) until I pulled over to the side of the road. This took a while, incredibly, as I wasn't sure what was up (duh). Granted, the light was flashing, but there was no siren. Maybe he wasn't serious, I thought. Anyway, I finally pulled over. I explained why I had been there by myself in the dark. He checked my license. Since I had not actually done anything, no speeding, no trespasing, no nothing except not pull over to the side of the road right away, there was a limit to what he could do legitimately. So he just harumphed and let me go. Now, there have been plenty of times I should have been pulled over, but the one time it actually happened, I had done nothing except show up to a Sunday school group that had been cancelled.

My mate Dave had to go to one of these group sessions for alcohol abuse, after got stopped for drink driving - actually he was on mushrooms and thought he was a space ship (not thought he was in one, thought he WAS one). At the end of the fourth and final session, the coordinator announced that there would be a party to celebrate and ushered these guys to a trestle table with Kaliber non-alchoholic lager. Needless to say, they left swiftly and went straight to the nearest pub.

In the words of THAT famous advert: Go on, go on, go on. :>) AJ

Think of the wonderful STORY in it Fish Live it Dahling, and write it. I spot a whitbread on the horizon........

I spot a Worthington disappearing over the horizon. Sorry, girls - bloke joke. What happens if you are late and have to break the speed limit in order to get there, fish?

so the northamptonshire police are now running speed workshops.........we are becoming a very tolerant society indeed

Dont Americans run these speed workshop thingy's? How telling......

A speed workshop ?? Sounds like the corny old alcoholic joke. "Do you have a problem with alcohol ?" "No, I just go to the pub and there it is". Why do you need a speed workshop ? You've already passd the exam. (At warp factor 10 by the sounds of it.)

If trashy novels are to believed, speed workshops (or driving school in the trashy American novels I read) are prime pulling grounds...

*perks up*

Fish - Snap! I got done for doing 37 in a 30 as well :) I also got a £60 fine and 3 points. The annoying thing is that those points have put my car insurance up by 10%... so you can pay a £60 fine and then more later in insurance or pay £60 for the course and let that be the end of it - I know which one I'd choose! On the flip side though, my friend got caught speeding by policemen during a 'clampdown period' (She was going 31 in a 30 - talk about petty!) and she had to sit through videos of people being cut out of car wrecks. So these courses aren't very pleasant. But I'd probably choose to do it anyway...

Do the course. Those points will kill you over time, though I am astonished that the penalty is only 10%. In America it would probably be 25-30%. Some increase might be justified, but they use it as a means of paying for the lower rates given to everyone else as a competitive edge vs other insurers. There is also a 30% "surcharge" if you are a single male under age 30. That was a long time ago for me, but I vividly remember that my insurance was due for renewal two days before my 30th birthday. I was told that if I renewed before my 30th birthday, my premiums would be 30% higher than if I waited two days. Furthermore, if I did not wait, those premiums would remain higher for the rest of my life, provided I stayed with that same company. Changing insurers is not as simple as it sounds, at least it wasn't back then. I waited the two days. Another time all the insurance companies in Connecticut were systematically raising rates by 10-15% every six months for everyone. They claimed it was due to inflation. Inflation was running about 4% per year at that time. Not very credible,eh?

thanks all for helpful advice ... (emily in partic. ... hahahaha) ... primate i had not even thought about the insurance side of things ... hmmm ... the course itinerary assures me i will not have to watch videos about nasty speeding related crashes ... i WILL go on it ... it is a story waiting to happen ... i am quite delighted imagining the other course participants ... i also want to find out if anyone else has hallucinated sets of speeding cameras like i did a couple of weeks ago ... i could swear i saw them on the A428 but when i came back several hours later they were Not There .... weird ... on a related matter ... i got a parking ticket in northampton (also £60!) but so far have not been offered a Parking Workshop ...

I did 57 in a 50 zone last April, and sent off cheque to police. I got a receipt by return, then cheque bounced (ho ho) They asked for another, which I never sent, as I had receipt anyway...never heard anymore. I never told the insurers either...never even THOUGHT about it......

so i send a rubber cheque for Speed Workshop ...

I realise this may not be the right thread for this, but your talk about car crashes and stuff reminded me about something I saw on the internet recently. I don't know if any of you saw it, but it was a selection of photograph's taken at the site of a RTA on some motorway somewhere in England. Basically, it was two people who had been doing over 100mph and had crashed into the central barrier. The car which was a ferrari was smashed to smitherines and the two occupants were obviously dead. What I

Sorry, don't know what happened then.... anyway, the pictures where so graphic I felt sick. I work on a trauma unit in a hosptial, and I have never seen anything so gross. The guys head had come off, and his intestines were hanging out onto the road. My boyfriend had initially told me it was just a picture of the car in bits, which is why I looked at the site. Needless to say we had quite a big row over it. I couldn't believe he would look at stuff like that! He said that he often got emails from people within his work of other equally gross things and he has got used to it. I can't ever imagine getting used to looking at photo's like that. Apparantly, there was a huge link on one his "Sport Car" web sites, which directed users directly to these photo's. There is also a site called nasty.com(or something like that) showing horrid pictures. I think these are submitted by the unfortunate people themselves though. Do the rest of you think that such photo's should be put on the internet, or is it just me moaning? Fish I appologise for wrecking your thread. I AM sorry to hear about your speeding fine though!!!

Nah, its www.rotten.com and its gross.

no worries linsi! thread hijack is perfectly normal ... ivory x x x

You guys have to go to to a lecture for speeding? I know I'm never moving to the UK!

I did hear about a bloke who was sent is £60.00 fine for speeding.....he sent back to the Police a photograph of his £60.00 cheque.... and the Police in this case proved they had a sense of humour.....they sent him a photograph of a pair of handcuffs and duly received the money by return of post...... I'm still waiting for a fine after I got flashed by one of those speed cameras about 2 months ago...I'm hoping that they had run out of fi, or something...or I may have to go on one of those courses as well... tell me how it goes Fish...

martin ... i should think you have got away with it if you haven't had it by now ... which is a shame because you too could have had the pleasure of a Speed Workshop ... i know you must be jealous ...

I am jealous Fish, you will be going on the course with all those boy-racers types with souped cars, massive stereos, etc.......they don't stand a chance!! they should make for great material though.....(momentarily thinks might be good thing to spend £60 on....) I was quite pleased that my 15 year old Fiesta could actually break a speed limit...I was going to frame up the summons and hang it on the dashboard as a gift for Diego (It's a Spanish Fiesta!!)

No Mr Fish, Do not go on the speed work shop.Speed is a terrible drug and if you have never tried it you do not need to experiment now.I think it is unethical for the police to offer this to you as a punishment for your crime.

Aren't workshops supposed to make you better at something? Speeding?

MISTER?????

Keep taking the pills, Fish...

lol@Andrea!