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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police Driving & Riding - Ever complained? Results? |
| mikes1988 |
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 13:23
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I complained about a police car driving around with front fogs on when it was a perfectly clear night...
Duty Sergeant's reply was I don't know why he's got them on, it's really clear outside tonight... I'll put a notice up in the staff room to remind them. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Stop and Search Powers Illegal |
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 15:12
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| Hehe, well to be honest, I think my bag might have caused an issue, with all the charger wires and electronics... It does seem like the metal detectors in the airport are 'button operated'... I.e. when the guards see someone they don't like the look of they press a button, setting the alarm off... T... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Stop and Search Powers Illegal |
| mikes1988 |
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 01:16
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| Just heard on the news there that if the government lose their appeal that the Home Office will amend the law... I've never been searched under the anti terrorism law, but I did get a full bag search at airport security when I was last going to London... I found it quite invasive, and I don't know w... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Count Down Traffic Light |
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:49
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| I noticed this in Canada. Although the timers were actually for the pedestrians, they still gave you the time until amber... Thought it was a neat 'by-product' of the crossings... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Stop and Search Powers Illegal |
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:55
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| The government's powers under the Terrorism Act to stop and search people without grounds for suspicion are illegal, a European court has ruled. The European Court of Human Rights was giving its ruling in a case involving two people stopped near an arms fair in London in 2003. It said the pair's ri... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: turning right at lights |
| mikes1988 |
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 16:28
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Replies: 36
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| I'm with Claire on this one, (sorry if anyone else said the same) you'd be better holding back until you see that you can clear the junction, or at least move to a position where you won't be blocking the pedestrian crossing or other vehicles. As long as you've passed the line before the lights chan... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Walkie Talkies - road legal? |
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 00:20
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| I wouldn't use it when driving through the city either, doing tight turns and stuff like that tends to mean no radio. I don't like using it on the motorway, higher speeds, really don't need/want to distract my attention as I'd most likely have less time to react to a hazard... I have been in the car... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Walkie Talkies - road legal? |
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 00:52
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| I'm an Amateur radio operator... Used to use the fist mic (hand held) quite a bit in the evenings, while travelling home from the GF's house and stuff. Haven't used one in ages though. Wouldn't dream of using it in traffic, and I wouldn't use it on the motorway, or any fastish road (journey from her... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: what do you drive? |
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:18
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| I've driven the following cars... A purple/bright blue Ka 1.3, 2001. It had about 50k on the clock and was still going fine. A black Ka, think it was about 2007, left it with about 35k on the clock... And currently drive a 1.6 SportKa SE, again around the 40k mark... Do you get the feeling I'm fond ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Belfast Telegraph-20mph speed limit proposed |
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 00:40
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Fake £20 notes caution... |
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 15:31
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| I work in the cash office in a shop and while the vast majority of fakes are quite obviously fake, the odd few are very very good, often undetectable with the counterfeit pen, uv light, or by looking at the other security features... It's a bit more complicated over here because we have 3 different ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Paypal |
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 23:29
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| Me too, I sent a support message but I haven't heard anything back yet. I might try calling them tomorrow, did you get any joy out of them? |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: alledged 110 in 70 2 options please help summons 19 mar |
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 01:03
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Replies: 3
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| All the best in court and let us know how you get on! |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: alledged 110 in 70 2 options please help summons 19 mar |
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 01:06
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| Firstly welcome to the site, and I think your best bet would be to get over to Pepipoo as chances are they will be able to give much better advice than most people here (I guess so anyway, they specialise in this). In my opinion you can't really contest the fact you were speeding, even if they only ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do you press the button to APPLY the handbrake? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 00:17
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Replies: 43
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| Minding my own business waiting for the lights to change when I hear a loud bang down to my left, and my car (02 plate VX Omega...) starts rolling towards the car in front of me. Jump on the footbrake just in time to avoid a coming together of bumpers, reach down to check the handbrake lever and fi... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Car insurance for teenagers? |
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 16:41
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Replies: 13
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| Its a sod to park as it is wide and you cant see the corners. It is nippy and grippy. I'll give you that one! Bay parking is grand, but parallel parking with no space is... Awkward shall we say :) Some places were quoting me 6500+ for my first years insurance. The thing that really annoys me is tha... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Car insurance for teenagers? |
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 17:50
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| My first year insurance was £2600, fully comp in my own name, last year was £1600 and this year it's down to £1100, should hopefully be under the £1k mark this year :) I drive a 1.3l Ford Ka, they aren't the cheapest cars to insure which I find quite funny, I'll probably get the piss taken here but ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Teenage communication skills... |
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 17:45
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 It's my wee brother! That's brilliant  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Jump starting a diesel |
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 16:23
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| Bump started a Transit minibus once... HARRRRD work. If you're jump starting with jump leads I would keep the astra engine running while you have it connected, just watch when you go to start the engine as an alternator has a lower internal resistance than a battery, so you end up with the alternato... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Quick insurance question |
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 13:40
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Replies: 5
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| (snip) although in my experience they normally say "any vehicle not owned by you, with the owner's permission, yadda yadda". I have that bit too, this is just under the description of the vehicle. It says any one vehicle owned by the policy holder, leased to the policy holder under a leas... |
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