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!Can't see whats so bad about shaving, provided you aren't using a mirror to block your view.
No worse than picking your nose, changing gear (manual box), winding the window down (non-electric), talking on a radio (plod), running fingers through hair (city boy), smoking while driving, the list goes on.
A little balance is needed, things are getting a bit out of hand, I mean, people getting booked for eating a kit-kat or drinking water when stationary at traffic lights. Ok surfing the net is way out of order (unless the guy was testing some new voice recognition/ text to speech interface, in which case how the hell does that differ from talking to a passenger?), but 'leccy shaving? How much attention does that divert from the driving task? Next to bugger all.
Lighten up JR, the police are way OTT on this sort of thing.
No worse than picking your nose, changing gear (manual box), winding the window down (non-electric), talking on a radio (plod), running fingers through hair (city boy), smoking while driving, the list goes on.
A little balance is needed, things are getting a bit out of hand, I mean, people getting booked for eating a kit-kat or drinking water when stationary at traffic lights. Ok surfing the net is way out of order (unless the guy was testing some new voice recognition/ text to speech interface, in which case how the hell does that differ from talking to a passenger?), but 'leccy shaving? How much attention does that divert from the driving task? Next to bugger all.
Lighten up JR, the police are way OTT on this sort of thing.
Was behind a woman today on a very busy town street. At every opportunity she was trying to make up. I then noticed a 'Car for Sale' note in the side and rear windows with a mobile number to contact her. So I called her to ask when she was going to turn off so that those behind could make some decent progress! She took the next turn.
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A colleague of mine recently potted someone for shaving (leckie shaver) whilst doing 75 mph on the motorway. My colleague was actually off duty on his way home when the nutter passed him.
What a marvelous contribution your colleague made to our society that day.
I mean hell I can't get my Grandmother into a residential home, the standard of health care is crap. The kids coming out of school can't read. My local coucillor is up on sex related charges. We all have to pay more tax for less services. The parasite head of state has just nicked £20M off the revenue and street crime is rife.
But never mind hey? your mate nicked a guy for shaving at 5mph over the limit.
After all this vicious undesirable nutcase was probably on his way to or from work, the bastard how dare he be a motorist and a shaver and a worker and a tax payer. Ah well perhaps soon we will all stop driving and then after a short break the economy will go to shit and we won't be able to afford a police force.
Nothing personal John I just had a bad day (was passenger in a Polo for 5 hours and a
diesel at that) 
Well I don't know about everyone else, but I don't reckon that I could shave without a mirror, and I don't think I could shave my neck without putting my head right back. So given that, I wouldn't feel I was in complete control of my car if I ever attempted to shave whilst driving. But since I have never attempted it (nor will I ever) then I guess I can't really comment.
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quote:Its a good story, but I can't find any mention of it on Auto Express, Ananova or via a Google search. Do you have a URL for it?
In Auto Express news snippets bit.
A guy is stopped near Rotterdam doing 87mph whilst surfing the net. He'd hooked his laptop to his mobile.
I tried to find one but to no avail.
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Nothing personal John I just had a bad day (was passenger in a Polo for 5 hours and a
You have my sympathy. Be consoled that you're having a better day that the poor guy who stopped up the entire one-way system in Leatherhead today by having a heart attack at the wheel and going straight on at the Waterway Road traffic lights (left turn only)into a brick wall. Last seen heading rapidly in the direction of Epsom General with the blues and twos on.
Just to correct a few misconceptions, My colleague did not pot him for he speed, that was just there to illustrate the fact that he was not poodling along in the 1st lane. Niether did he pull him, with the exception of a drunk driver or stolen car neither me or him or for that matter few other cops would bother. He simply checked it out when he was next on duty went round and reported him. What that has to do with the state of the NHS is beyond me. Just because a person has a job it does not entitle them to choose which rules they comply with. The actual offence he was reported for was not having propper control of the vehicle, the same one we use for people on a mobile whilst driving. Cynical/arogant mode off hope you have a good weekend, I'm just starting nights
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