CJB wrote:
PaulF wrote:
But Not in or around Telford on the M54 by all accounts.
In and around Telford on the M54 you're often lucky to get above 56mph, most of it being 2-lane, I'm afraid
I know it's only 2 lane there: That's why the local Police drivers like to 'practice' on the unlit motorway in the dark when other people aren't around (considerate, eh?). Fancy what would happen if a patrol car hit a fox or a rabbit (or something bigger but nevertheless unseen in the dark) - unexpectedly - at that speed????
True, they don't drive that fast on the side roads and back streets around Telford. Only upto 88 (or was it 84?) MPH on roads mere mortals like the rest of us are prohibitted on pain of theft from exceeding just 30mph....
Still, policemen come with x-ray vision these days. All these drunks that the rest of us are expected to take responsibility for and S L O W down to a crawl (with the runner and red flag ready); well x-ray vision equiped coppers are a different bread from the rest of us.
They called it Pride Integrity & Guts when some low life called close friends in the service "PIGS", fortunately, they've all left so now I don't feel restrained... But I'm not going to inflate their egos by using such words which have such an excellent phrase thereto associated... No, I'd rather just call it the way it is: The police force are a fucking joke. Their automated equipment nicks a bloke taking his wife - in labour - to hospital at 11 mph over the top in a 50 and it takes weeks of wrangling before some brain somewhere in the upper echelons of the force thinks twice about the sixty quid and the damage the persecution will have wrought upon the force and drops it - then we get the automatic nicking - which goes all the way - of the poor bastard who's done his unknown fellow citizen the service of getting out of the way of his ambulance; technically breaking the law by driving over the stop line at a red light to get out of the way.
The fucking idiots in South Yorkshire just can't resist the "easy pickings" of the absolute offence of crossing the stop line on a red signal. The sucker was just another easy sixty quid. Let's not inflate their egos any more. They are a fucking joke for doing this...
Of course, colleagues in West Yorkshire know nothing about their islamic bombers destined for London - these people never used their own cars and so would not have appeared on film breaking any motoring laws... And so bombs go off: "We need communities to talk to us" says Chief Constable Ian Blair - what would he like heinous criminals who selfishly take their wives to hospital when giving birth or other 'kid-killers' to tell him when not 'running red lights' to get out of the way of Ambulances of all things???
All is rosy in the garden of Eden? Erm, we are suspicious of ?????
And of course, while these wonderful super-human beings are protecting people from speeding motorists anywhere between 5 and 10 mph over the top of the speed limit, whilst "severely punishing" these audacious people who willfully drive across a white line on the road surface in a reckless attempt to get out of the way of an ambulance with its sirens going, these very people allow an alleged bomber to just get on another train at Waterloo and simply leave the country - no questions asked, no passports checked !!!!!
Talking of not asking questions (not getting the right sort of information and feedback from the public they so strive to serve {can't think why}), they make a tiny incy-wincy mistake and tail the first brown skinned male who comes out of a block of flats - all the way to the nearest tube station. When they pull a gun on the poor fellow, and he does a silly thing (like thinking "fuck, these people have a gun, they might kill me"
for whatever other reason), so they chase him down and put EIGHT bullets in the back of his head when he's on the floor!!!!
See what happens when you don't drive a car where ANPR can shadow your every move around the country??? See what happens when your 3 and 4 mph excesses aren't 'safely' stored on film????? For cash, sorry, information purposes? See, see?!?! Bad guys just get on a train and leave the country without challenge, other people get shot loads of times and 'the enforcers' don't get at your hard earned cash!!!!!!
If it wasn't so sad, if people hadn't died in this, if other people's lives were not now at risk (I mean the poor bastards being conveyed in ambulances to hospital who will now be held up because some thieving bastard wanted to make his cash forcast that day and could not be dissuaded otherwise) you could not write a better sit-com than this, could you????
A joke. Just a sad joke.
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To be fair, those coppers on the ground, with the right drive and reasons for being there do a sterling job which we should all be grateful for. I feel desparately sorry for the good, ordinary decent coppers out there. But sympathy is a word found between shit and syphilus in a dictionary. If there isn't a radical rethink about how we are being policed soon, I genuinely fear our country will endure great turmoil.
Sorry for ranting, people - I just felt I had to say it.
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was due to give birth to their youngest. She was "high risk" patient because of - er - the past and Ted was a little concerned about having to make a mercy run and then having to explain himself to his local SpeedFinder General with whom he has some furball fights on here and old Wildy 
As it happened - I do believe he did make some - er - progress but without any problems. If he'd been unlucky - dare say he'd have fought it.
). Had knives and guns pulled on me and things chucked at from a great height. Oh - been kicked in the ghoulies a few times and had the funny walk and the high pitched voice as well. Fortunately I recovered and managed to have kids (not sure if that's "fortunate" as mine are even naughtier than Ted's "litter" 
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