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Just read about a Road Traffic Law, That If you Circle a roundabout more than THREE Times you can be arrested. What Is the reason behind it and the possible action taken against you?

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RoADA Member -GOLD 2008
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

You have to be kidding... Oh wait a minute, could it be 'dizzy in charge'?

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Paul Smith
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Depends if your car has electronic ignition though..............

ahem

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Simon

Sounds like loitering to me. If a bunch of idiots did it in protest to something you'd want them pulled offf the raoundabout.

hmm- I do it if i'm not sure which exit to take. Even way back in the 60's , at college in Inverness(longlands near Tech college was our fav), me and a mate used to play sily sods after midnight by multi-circling ( never any traffic around )- never got pulled though . Police saw us and went other way.(probably thinking daft b****)

I was under the impression you can be done on a motorbike if you go round more than once.....might be wrong there though

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"Are you sh**ing me?"
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."

Only if you don't get your knee down by the third attempt...

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Pecunia Prius Equitas et Salus

That's the girls in the Maltesers adverts in trouble!

Oops, I think I broke that law (if it exists) once while circling above the Dorset Way waiting for a friend who's motorbike had broken down AGAIN.

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Andrew.

Thats me busted then lol

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"Are you sh**ing me?"
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."

You're a braver man than me to do that on the roundabouts of Swindon!

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

Yeah, but I can't get my knee down by the third attempt.

Did get my knee down on a motorcrosser the other week though - closely followed by my elbow then my head. Cracked rib

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"Are you sh**ing me?"
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."

Sh*t!

You OK!?

(crosser tyres not quite the same as the tyres on the TL huh?)

I've never even tried to get a knee down - I recon the zorsts on the XS would hit down first!

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

Yeah - it was at the NEC show - yamaha motorcross schools had a try out set up out the back in the woods. My mate was insistent we have a go, so I said "OK, but I will fall off".....

So I had a go, and did fall off. Most insulting thing was I was only doing about 5mph when I fell off and cracked my rib. Bloody good fun though!

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"Are you sh**ing me?"
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."

It was In the Sunday People last weekend with alot of other So called Laws which people have forgotten or don't know

People (Have to scroll down, about the 10th One )

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RoADA Member -GOLD 2008
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

I can see the point in this law. with a sufficiently small roundabout, or with a few mates to help you out, you could quite easilly mount a denial-of-service attack on the road network by doing this.

Bonus points if you do it in drift cars ala the thread from a few days ago.



Out of interest, would causing such a denial of service attack using carefully chosen cars and routes be a legitimate form of protest against, say, congestion charges or malicious road planning (Kengestion)