Speeding Tickets

[Grahameeboy]

Surprisingly enough I've had an 'engineer' (well he told me he was one) have a go at me on that point when I pinged him at 126kph
"I'm an engineer and I KNOW these things aren't that accurate, you're wasting my time because I am going to have to defend this, how do I know I wasn't actually only doing 125kph?"

Was well-heeled looking driving a near-new Mercedes SoftUrbanVehicle of some sort.

Never heard any more about it after he stormed off in a cloud of roadside dust'n'gravel.

and you didn't follow him and ping him for excessive acceleration Scummy....

[scumdog]

and you didn't follow him and ping him for excessive acceleration Scummy....

Nah, he was screwed anyway and I didn't want to give him any thoughts he had 'got to me', although he may have seen me laughing if he'd bothered to look in his mirror.

Besides, my latte was awaiting at work and cooling fast......

Priorities man, priorities.

[Grahameeboy]

Nah, he was screwed anyway and I didn't want to give him any thoughts he had 'got to me', although he may have seen me laughing if he'd bothered to look in his mirror.

Besides, my latte was awaiting at work and cooling fast......

Priorities man, priorities.

I thought you only had normal coffee down there

[scumdog]

I thought you only had normal coffee down there

Ahhh, welll, actually you're right - but we don't want the Jaffa dudes to think we don't have latte's

Besides, it sounded better to say a latte' was waiting than just a mere 'coffee'.

[Hawkeye]

And I fully sympathise with you (being from the UK with a mere 20 years open road experience and not even being allowed to prove I can handle a bike over 250cc for another 3 months!)

Same here McJim, 33 years behind the wheel (22 UK, 11 here) with no accidents. Yet, like you, I have to wait another 3 months before I then have to prove to someone , who was probably still in nappies when I first started driving, that I can recognise hazards on the side of the road. In the mean time, I cannot ride bigger than 250 and i'm not allowed out after 10pm.

[Deano]

No it's not. Why do people keep pompously trotting out that sanctimonious canard without the slightest shread of evidence or logic to back it up.

A driver's licence is a right, not a privilege. It is a right that has a qualification, and which can be suspended as a punishment.

But if I meet the qualification (age, pass test etc) it is my RIGHT to be issued with a licence. Noone can say "No, don't like the look of you, sorry, no licence for you". Meet the qualifications, and you have to right to drive.And noone, not police not government not even courts can deprive you of that right, unless you break the law.

Breach the law and that right may be suspended - just as my right to walk down the street may be suspended by putting me in prison , if I am naughty enough. I hope no-one is going to claim that the right to walk about is a privilege not a right. But so long as I remain qualified, and commit no offence against the law, and no-one, not even the Gov Gen can deprive me of that right.

A privilege is something allowed by grace and favour- which may be arbitrarily withdrawn or withheld. The right to operate a vehicle on the Queens highway is not such.

Well our interpretations are obviously different, but I don't think I sound like the pompous one.