Re: Chapman: His Agenda Exposed

JNugent <JN@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nuxx Bar wrote:

N...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Roger Merriman) wrote:

[ ... ]

na speed camera's are no trouble what so ever.
speed cameras are:
large and painted yellow (though a speed limit to the back wouldn't go a
miss)

[ ... ]

police cars/speed vans are more tricky but even so, with my fairly brisk
driving my licence is clean, and allways has been.

Good luck in keeping it that way, because you will need luck. ...

All I'm saying is don't get complacent. I've seen many, many forum
posts which said something along the lines of "My licence has always
been clean but I've just received a NIP for doing 35mph in a speed
limit which used to be NSL" (no doubt they're the kind of posts that
the motorist-haters wank off over). Yeah, I'm sure they were driving
really dangerously.

There is a regular poster over on uk.r.d who used repeatedly boast of
his clean licence*, his IAM pass and his safety record and of how anyone
getting caught by a camera was unobservant, needed their eyes tested,
shouldn't be on the road, etc, etc, [cont. p.65].

Then he got caught by a Gatso leaving a small town at dead of night -
the camera being placed a very short distance from the end of the 30
limit, just before the derestriction sign.

All of a sudden, he turned from Mr Cloth Cap to Mr Angry and Persecuted.

He failed to understand - and he got complacent (to the extent that
complacent was not his default state).


so he put his foot down leaving a town at night, persubably some where
he didn't know and caught a camera, thats hardly bright?

i don't know about you but if driving late in areas i don't know well
i'm really not likely to be breaking the speed limits.


[* I too have a clean licence - had it for decades, in fact. But I
appreciate that a moment's inattention can soon change that.]

oh i'm aware one could miss a camera but thus far i have never been
done, not cameras, nor vans or police waiting just off fast roads at
night.

roger
--
www.rogermerriman.com
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