Some days your the pigeon...
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...and on monday 21st january I was definitely the statue. (this is a long one I'm afraid)
On the preceeding sunday, whilst doing some online banking, I noticed RyanAir had debited £72 from my account. Having never dealt with RyanAir before I was somewhat bemused by this so cancelled my cards post haste and rung up the bank to see what was going on. They told me I needed to visit my local branch and fill out a dispute form. Arse! This meant taking a few hours off work monday morning and driving into Norwich.
Still, for £72 I thought it must be worth it. So I trundled into Norwich in the rush hour, went to the bank, filled a form and headed off for work.
As I was heading out of Norwich on the Thorpe End road, rattling along at 40 mph I noticed a police bike parked in a layby so backed off and slowly bought my speed down to 30 mph. The copper had a camera mounted on the back of the bike but didn't pull me over so I assumed all was well. Got to work in one piece, content that my momentary speeding had, infact, not killed anyone (oh thank god, luck was on my side!)
Anyway, just over a week later the bank tell me they sorted things with RyanAir and I have my £72 back in my account. Bingo. Unfortunately the next day I got the letter from the Norfolk
stabulary. Arse. The bike had caught me doing 37mph. I now face the standard £60 and 3 brownie points.
So to summarise, I lost £72 through no fault of my own and the process of recovering it cost me £35 in time off work, £5 in fuel, £1 to park and £60 in speeding fines. I think I may be in line for some compensation.
And the moral of this story? 'Speed kills'
Thanks for reading!
On the preceeding sunday, whilst doing some online banking, I noticed RyanAir had debited £72 from my account. Having never dealt with RyanAir before I was somewhat bemused by this so cancelled my cards post haste and rung up the bank to see what was going on. They told me I needed to visit my local branch and fill out a dispute form. Arse! This meant taking a few hours off work monday morning and driving into Norwich.
Still, for £72 I thought it must be worth it. So I trundled into Norwich in the rush hour, went to the bank, filled a form and headed off for work.
As I was heading out of Norwich on the Thorpe End road, rattling along at 40 mph I noticed a police bike parked in a layby so backed off and slowly bought my speed down to 30 mph. The copper had a camera mounted on the back of the bike but didn't pull me over so I assumed all was well. Got to work in one piece, content that my momentary speeding had, infact, not killed anyone (oh thank god, luck was on my side!)
Anyway, just over a week later the bank tell me they sorted things with RyanAir and I have my £72 back in my account. Bingo. Unfortunately the next day I got the letter from the Norfolk
stabulary. Arse. The bike had caught me doing 37mph. I now face the standard £60 and 3 brownie points. So to summarise, I lost £72 through no fault of my own and the process of recovering it cost me £35 in time off work, £5 in fuel, £1 to park and £60 in speeding fines. I think I may be in line for some compensation.
And the moral of this story? 'Speed kills'
Thanks for reading!
EEK! Some bad luck there, Bernie!
How come the bank couldn't sort out the dispute over the phone? Why should they make you drag your ass all the way into Norwich, just to fill in a piece of paper
A now the speeding charge - bollox! Remember doing 37 in 30 is cardinal sin. Think of all the poor souls you could have killed and mamed whilst trundelling along at a safe speed! Don't you just love this country?
Were was this copper by the way? I'll make a mental note of the location!!!!
And any lessons to be learnt here? If Ryan Air choose to steal money from you, for God's sake, let them!
Darren
How come the bank couldn't sort out the dispute over the phone? Why should they make you drag your ass all the way into Norwich, just to fill in a piece of paper
A now the speeding charge - bollox! Remember doing 37 in 30 is cardinal sin. Think of all the poor souls you could have killed and mamed whilst trundelling along at a safe speed! Don't you just love this country?
Were was this copper by the way? I'll make a mental note of the location!!!!
And any lessons to be learnt here? If Ryan Air choose to steal money from you, for God's sake, let them!
Darren
Current 'society' seems to make life as difficult as possible for the individual, to the extent that you can spend all day climbing over artificial hurdles and achieve precisely nothing apart from stress and expense.
I didn't know Plod had cameras on bikes though... must be much smaller than the Gatso. Sneakyers. I hope he felt big and brave.
I didn't know Plod had cameras on bikes though... must be much smaller than the Gatso. Sneaky
ers. I hope he felt big and brave. 5mudge said:
I always thought that if were caught by a hand held speed gun they had to pull you over there and then to show you, otherwise they have no evidence!?
I thought this too, until my brother was caught was few years ago. He was got by the hand-held hair dryer by an undercover operation, and a policeman came knocking on the door a few days later.
Darren
Sorry bout the slow reply, to add insult to injury my phoneline went down for 2 weeks (!!!) the day after I started this thread.
I was caught heading out of norwich on the plumstead road, after the 5 way roundabout on the bit that goes downhill then past some alotments on the left. the camera was in the layby just after the allotments.
Simpo- The cameras they use aren't much bigger than a normal SLR. They have them mounted on a stalk from the rear pannier. They stand behind the bike looking through the camera, probably making gun shot noises everytime they pull the trigger.
Smudge- I was also under the belief that they had to pull you over but, like darren has said apparently not!
Ho hum, my license has only been clean for 5 months but then again everyone has 3 points these days. Apart from Darren, who has about 45
I was caught heading out of norwich on the plumstead road, after the 5 way roundabout on the bit that goes downhill then past some alotments on the left. the camera was in the layby just after the allotments.
Simpo- The cameras they use aren't much bigger than a normal SLR. They have them mounted on a stalk from the rear pannier. They stand behind the bike looking through the camera, probably making gun shot noises everytime they pull the trigger.
Smudge- I was also under the belief that they had to pull you over but, like darren has said apparently not!
Ho hum, my license has only been clean for 5 months but then again everyone has 3 points these days. Apart from Darren, who has about 45
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