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<wwoowwoowwoowwooww>
<screech>
"Good evenin'
sir, would you mind turnin' off your
engine - Now, do you know what
speed you were doing just
there?"
"...erm, I'm not
sure"
"Twenty-eight miles
per hour sir - in a thirty miles per
hour zone. Perhaps you failed to
notice
the absence of other traffic? Or
the wide, straight road ahead of you?
Or the deceptive downhill
gradient?"
"...erm,
no"
"Well, I think you
desserve a couple of points on your
licence then"
"...erm, well,
thanks very much"
non-pork ham
http://ceyloneshop....php?products_id=107
Some beef ham, also seen turkey. [swamilad]
UK speed limit history
http://www.national...search/history.html
50mph on trunk roads since 1965 [swamilad, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
UK speed limit history
http://www.national...search/history.html
50mph on trunk roads since 1965 [Ling, Oct 05 2004]
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WIBNI. you should know better! |
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Wouldn't that be "points *off* your licence"? |
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keep up egbert, yes! where you been? absent note required! |
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<wwoowwoowwoowwooww> <screech> |
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'Can I help you, officer?" |
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"Nice wheelie back there ..." |
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"Well, I think you deserve some points on your lisence, then." |
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"...erm, I'm sure we've done this one before, but I can't find it." |
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Strangly enough they actually have this is Calgary, AB, Canada..... |
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You get bonuses for obeying School zones, cross walks , etc... |
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In Phoenix sometime in the early nineties, police were pulling over cars randomly. If all occupants of the vehicle in question were wearing seat belts correctly, they were awarded $10 or somesuch. |
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I was always terrified that this would happen to me--$10 is not worth the danger of attempting to stop on the side of a busy freeway! Thank you, but no. |
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Maybe if it were mailed, as photo radar tickets are... |
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what about points that roll-over from one year to the next and can be transferred to others? A sort of points bank.
<<say there aunty Betty, you wouldn't be using those 62000 points you've got there would you, I couldn't borrow a couple could I, you see I'm a bit short at the moment>>
They could be bequeathed to others in your will! |
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So the pigs were handing out pork products? Hmmm. . .Sorry to generalize. Not all cops are pigs. |
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Neither are all hams pork... |
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All ham not pork?! .....whut? |
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The week after getting a speeding fine while taking A40 out of London on a motorbike I tried to do the same journey without exceeding the speed limit. Short of having an accident, I have never felt so intimidated, crowded and downright scared by other traffic in my life. Maybe on some roads these should be called bravery points. |
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I'm still going to have to fishbone though, as this scheme would reinforce the smugness of those drivers who pay scant attention to other road users, but still believe that they are good drivers because they obey the speed limit. |
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Would the benefit of not committing a misdemeanour be proportional to its gravity? Eg. someone on 9 points gets stopped and it turns out they are completely sober. They get 12 positive (or negative) points and go 3 into the black, just for not being wasted. They are then free to drive around trousered and would escape a ban as the 12 points would only take them back up to 9. |
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No bone from me... but I'm with [st3f] on this one. There is nothing worse when one is in a hurry to get somewhere and impeded by someone else - obviously thinking that because they are driving slowly they are being 'correct'. Drivers are meant to be courteous to one another - and driving at 35mph in a 60mph road is down right rude. |
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But this idea would be points for people driving *correctly*.. not necessarily slowly. So the encouragement would be to drive at a speed that is safe and expediting travel. So - croissant after all! |
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Sorry this took me so long, guess I got busy around Halloween. |
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Dictionary.com says its not always a pig, just usually. |
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Ham: The thigh of the hind leg of certain animals, especially a hog. |
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I think it usually has something with the way the meat is cured. |
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//driving at 35mph in a 60mph road is down right rude// |
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Yes, but tailgating someone doing the posted limit is downright stupid. |
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Too right it is.
(I didn't mean to imply that aggressive driving is a good thing or that I would endorse tailgating for that matter) |
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In Singapore they had a similar thing for courteous drivers who signalled, gave way, obeyed the lanes, waved when given way - but they had cash prizes instead of top-up points. I was eagerly looking forward to the cops stopping me, but where's a traffic cop when you need one? |
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The speed limit is an arbitrary thing, anyway.
It was set about 40 years ago when people were driving cars like Morris minors.
Sometimes driving at the speed limit is a crazy thing to do, either it is too fast, or too slow for the conditions. It is rarely correct for the conditions.
When I was training for the motorcycle road test, my instructor advised me that the examiner would expect me to rigidly follow the speed limit (within +0 / -5mph). This shows you how crazy the whole thing is.
See link for UK history |
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