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But I listen to the radio. Things make me laugh.. make me curse.. make me sing along . without compromising COAST values.


I think that driver should take this to court. The fool has to prove the laughing and what made him laugh and in what way this made the driving "below the standard" as described in the CW tragedy as reported by IG in cycling.

Given a dead body does not mean dangerous in the CW report - nor killing a pensioner when "indulging in a jolly on the pretext of testing some speed toy on a nice twisty" - then by those cases alone - the alleged giggler would be giggling to victory.

Then they wonder why folk despair of some officers. Charitable version - officer over reacted.

Uncharitable version .. jobsworthy fool in a uniform.

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Was the officer a proper policeman ie from Merseyside Police or was he from the so called Tunnell Police who have no more powers than a PCSO . So can we just clarify that before we start to go off on one about police this and police that. Oh,and there vehicles look the same as real police stripes blue lights,siren etc.
Stephen

Superintendent Kevin Hagger of the Mersey Tunnels Police said:'There is no record of the incident in the system so it seems the gentleman was just spoken to by the officer and the matter not taken any further.'

So why would a tunnell policeman ask what colour his hair was, his ethnic background etc and a producer too ?
Sounds like something out of Monty python sketch to me.

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nigel_bytes

I don't think I can claim I remained true to the COAST principles the first time I heard 'Ask Elvis' on Steve Wright on Radio 2. Elvis was explaining the difference between, a 'itty bitty', an 'iota' and a smithereen'. I was in lane 3 doing 70mph and laughed so much I wasn't as in control I perhaps I should have been.

Barkstar

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Anybody watch James May and TV's Oz Clarke with the satnav set to Romanian?

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Under the Governments new legislation on ethnic recording the police have to ask everyone what there colour is by asking them to describe there ethnicity from a chart even though it is obvious or not.
Stephen

http://www.merseytunnels.co.uk/nossl/html/byelaws.pdf

Under Section 105 of the County of Merseyside Act 1980 as amended by the
1985 Local Government Act (Section 105 (i)):


1. The Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority may appoint any of
their Officers or Servants to act as a LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER for the
policing of the Tunnels, approach roads and any marshalling area.


2. Every Officer or Servant so appointed as a Law Enforcement Officer
under this section, shall on appointment, be attested as a Constable by
making a declaration before a Justice of the Peace, that he will duly
execute the office of Constable.

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nigel_bytes

Just before I set off for my weekly journey tomorrow, can we clear up whether I risk getting booked for singing along to my favourite tunes in the car?

If I do then I'm so screwed!

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Regulation without education merely creates more criminals.

Minifun double plus ungood!

I remember some years ago at my local on new years eve when the "Fun Police" paid a visit to ensure that nobody was tapping their fingers or in any other way moving rythmically in time with the music from the juke box!

Wot! Like they didnt have anything better to do on New Years eve!

I also seem to remember a report on an incident that took place at an anuual family bash of a non-mainstream political party ( ) last year that actually turned out to be so trouble free that, desperate to have at least SOME excuse to mount a raid to impress their political masters, the police were forced to investigate alergations that the heinous offence of having your hand up a sock puppet without a license had been comitted!

You really could not make it up!! )

Trouble is, once you have made the step of learning to hate some police (which is quite a big step for a "Middle class Professional" type person) it is only a much smaller step to end up hating all of them!

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What a complete and utter bell end. I sincerely hope that this is a one-off.

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