Got done for 46 in a 40, what's your most pathetic?

[Gary C]

Heaveho said:

Sorry for the OT, got carried away having a blast down memory lane. The years I had with bikes were the best of my life.

Quite enjoyed that read

but that hair !

[Heaveho]

Gary C said:

Heaveho said:

Sorry for the OT, got carried away having a blast down memory lane. The years I had with bikes were the best of my life.

Quite enjoyed that read

but that hair !

Thanks. I can't apologise enough for the visual trauma that barnet represents! By way of consolation, I shaved the lot off about 5 years later and I no longer have the option of growing it back now, you'll be pleased to hear.

[Downward]

bad company said:

Slightly off topic but my non petrolhead friend who agrees wholeheartedly with the 20 limits all over London now has 6 points. All incurred over the past 6 months in 20 limits.

Apt username

[carlo996]

Boleros said:

It's quite an odd place, PH. We are all car enthusiasts and our experiences are wide and varied and yet when we tell a self-confessed tale of speeding, traffic violations or even just a general interest story there is always someone ready to attack, vilify or just be overly sanctimonious. The site no doubt attracts its fair share of bluffers and chancers but even so, the constant bickering is quite surprising. And boring, frankly.

Yep. I’d never have thought as a slightly unhinged 16-24 year old there would be a place like PH. fk me, jump on a bike, or in a car, enjoy, and chat to your mates in the pub about the near misses. Now the total wave of hangwringers is almost too much.

[littlebasher]

When my wife attended a SAC course 14 years ago for doing 34 in a 30, nobody believed that they didn't prosecute until 10% +2 mph.

I don't suppose they will now either !

[Heaveho]

carlo996 said:

Yep. I’d never have thought as a slightly unhinged 16-24 year old there would be a place like PH. fk me, jump on a bike, or in a car, enjoy, and chat to your mates in the pub about the near misses. Now the total wave of hangwringers is almost too much.

It seems to have done a complete U turn from "Speed matters" to "Won't someone think of the kittens" in a few short years. No sale. The terror some seem to imagine to be real in day to day life is bizarre. It seems like brainwashing really is a thing.

I imagine the vitriol in response to this post will be something to behold!

[Jimjimhim]

littlebasher said:

When my wife attended a SAC course 14 years ago for doing 34 in a 30, nobody believed that they didn't prosecute until 10% +2 mph.

I don't suppose they will now either !

I believe you because I did one!

[LunarOne]

Heaveho said:

It seems to have done a complete U turn from "Speed matters" to "Won't someone think of the kittens" in a few short years.

In the Middle Ages it was "Mead spatters". So it took a few hundred years to get to "speed matters".

No, I don't know what I'm on either...

[Heaveho]

LunarOne said:

In the Middle Ages it was "Mead spatters". So it took a few hundred years to get to "speed matters".

No, I don't know what I'm on either...

I think mead spatters still occur in Lindisfarne?

[stef1808]

Not for speeding but 3 points for changing my phone Spotify playlist in a traffic jam.

[MB140]

Boleros said:

33 in a 30 in Aldershot by MoD plod. Pissed off? You bet. Argued the toss but the adenoidal tt wasn’t having it. Long time ago mind.

Strange you should mention mod plod. about 15 years ago. 22 in a 20 at RAF waddington leaving base.

Sanctimonious jumped up little prick of an acting cpl who had probably been the RAF for 5 mins. Spent 10 minutes telling me how I would be banned from driving or storing my car on camp for 14 days as punishment. How it was undoubtedly going to affect my career as I wouldn’t be able to do my job for the next 2 weeks. (Power crazed Tosser type).

tt proceeds to take my car parking pass and FMT 600 (military driving licence) off me so I couldn’t get my car on camp. Had a right smile on his face. Told me to report to the cop shop in 15 days to retrieve them.

So I turned up at the cop shop 15 days later and same little tt is there to give be back my pass and FMT600. Looking all happy with himself.

As I was leaving (paperwork in had) he asked casually. Did it cause you much hassle, I bet you have learnt your lesson. I replied with the biggest smile. No mate not a bit. I’ve just got back from two weeks in Tunisia on holiday, I was literally driving to east midland airport when he stopped me. Oh the look on his face. It was priceless.

[Johnniem]

Got done for 23 in a 20. 4.30 am on Tower Bridge whilst on my way to Smithfield for the annual Christmas meat buying fest. Camera caught me and I opted for a speed awareness course. The 'lecturer' on the SAC opened up with 'so this is the Tower Bridge Speeding collective?!' All attendees were caught on Tower Bridge. Fundamentally wrong! Beware that most, if not all, bridges across the Thames have a 20mph limited (or so I am told - I haven't tried them out!).

JM

[MB140]

Patio said:

73 on the m1

Just as the gantry flicked on at 60

No point fighting so sucked it up and did the sac

I thought there was a 30 seconds grace period for just such a scenario. As the gantries change speed the cameras don’t work for a period of time.

Infact GMP, last but one paragraph. There is a 60s grace period not 30.

https://www.gmp.police.uk/cy-GB/SysSiteAssets/foi-...

[Boleros]

MB140 said:

Boleros said:

33 in a 30 in Aldershot by MoD plod. Pissed off? You bet. Argued the toss but the adenoidal tt wasn’t having it. Long time ago mind.

Strange you should mention mod plod. about 15 years ago. 22 in a 20 at RAF waddington leaving base.

Sanctimonious jumped up little prick of an acting cpl who had probably been the RAF for 5 mins. Spent 10 minutes telling me how I would be banned from driving or storing my car on camp for 14 days as punishment. How it was undoubtedly going to affect my career as I wouldn’t be able to do my job for the next 2 weeks. (Power crazed Tosser type).

tt proceeds to take my car parking pass and FMT 600 (military driving licence) off me so I couldn’t get my car on camp. Had a right smile on his face. Told me to report to the cop shop in 15 days to retrieve them.

So I turned up at the cop shop 15 days later and same little tt is there to give be back my pass and FMT600. Looking all happy with himself.

As I was leaving (paperwork in had) he asked casually. Did it cause you much hassle, I bet you have learnt your lesson. I replied with the biggest smile. No mate not a bit. I’ve just got back from two weeks in Tunisia on holiday, I was literally driving to east midland airport when he stopped me. Oh the look on his face. It was priceless.

RAF plod are the worst, only bested by Regimental Police. The sort of idiots that would hide behind signs and literally jump out and catch you going 1mph over the camp limit of 15mph. How they didn't get filled in on a regular basis is beyond me.

RAF plod are clueless in general, they genuinely appear to have no idea how badly they come across and how universally derided they are. I thought the monkeys had it bad.

[carlo996]

Boleros said:

RAF plod are the worst, only bested by Regimental Police. The sort of idiots that would hide behind signs and literally jump out and catch you going 1mph over the camp limit of 15mph. How they didn't get filled in on a regular basis is beyond me.

RAF plod are clueless in general, they genuinely appear to have no idea how badly they come across and how universally derided they are. I thought the monkeys had it bad.

I didn't think they had any powers off of the base, We grew up with them as Strike Command isn't far away and we had a mix of friends on the camps. The local copper was a bit of knob, but they really were another level. Used to ignore them tbh.

[bad company]

Ex RAF Policeman here. I didn’t have a great record from my 4 years service. No arrests, no charges and certainly no speeding tickets issued. Most of the guys were great but a few power struck A R Soles.

[Boleros]

Ouch, I'm about to get a shoeing...!

carlo996 said:

I didn't think they had any powers off of the base, We grew up with them as Strike Command isn't far away and we had a mix of friends on the camps. The local copper was a bit of knob, but they really were another level. Used to ignore them tbh.

They don't have any powers off base unless there's some weird and wonderful arrangement with local cops. RMP will patrol with civ police in garrison towns (or used to anyway) to pick up drunken punchy squaddies but even then I think their powers were limited to mil pers only. Show of force and all that.

Edited by Boleros on Thursday 4th July 15:57

[Stoofa]

littlebasher said:

When my wife attended a SAC course 14 years ago for doing 34 in a 30, nobody believed that they didn't prosecute until 10% +2 mph.

I don't suppose they will now either !

I've not read the entire thread, but I'm gonna guess there are a number of posts from people who have been "done" for less than the 10%+2 mph.
If someone hasn't been done themselves, then they "know someone down the pub" who has.

The issue - literally 95% of the population walk around with a camera in their pocket yet here we are, it's happened to so many people, yet nobody has seen fit to just take a picture to prove it.
When it's a live event, it only takes a few questions before the 33 in a 30 becomes a 35, the 45 in a 40 becomes a 46. It wasn't a car that was being driven, but a van......
On Pepipoo when it existed as it was, there certainly used to be an ongoing "Prove you've had a ticket for less than 10%+2 and we'll donate to a charity of your choice" with a number of people pledged - but that wasn't ever claimed.

I'm more inclined to believe one from 10+ years ago, but anything from more recent times it 100% either "mates lying down the pub" or the actual speed lowered for the bravado.

[trails]

Stoofa said:

I've not read the entire thread, but I'm gonna guess there are a number of posts from people who have been "done" for less than the 10%+2 mph.
If someone hasn't been done themselves, then they "know someone down the pub" who has.

The issue - literally 95% of the population walk around with a camera in their pocket yet here we are, it's happened to so many people, yet nobody has seen fit to just take a picture to prove it.
When it's a live event, it only takes a few questions before the 33 in a 30 becomes a 35, the 45 in a 40 becomes a 46. It wasn't a car that was being driven, but a van......
On Pepipoo when it existed as it was, there certainly used to be an ongoing "Prove you've had a ticket for less than 10%+2 and we'll donate to a charity of your choice" with a number of people pledged - but that wasn't ever claimed.

I'm more inclined to believe one from 10+ years ago, but anything from more recent times it 100% either "mates lying down the pub" or the actual speed lowered for the bravado.

My 78 in a 70 was around three years ago...funnily enough I didn't think to keep proof to show a bloke on the internet that didn't believe it was possible.

edit to add this thread; where you have already be proven to be wrong.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Edited by trails on Thursday 4th July 17:49

[bad company]

Boleros said:

They don't have any powers off base unless there's some weird and wonderful arrangement with local cops. RMP will patrol with civ police in garrison towns (or used to anyway) to pick up drunken punchy squaddies but even then I think their powers were limited to mil pers only. Show of force and all that.

Edited by Boleros on Thursday 4th July 15:57

That’s wrong. We had powers of arrest over military personnel anywhere.