Re: OT: Censuses

In article <gf6orr$sno$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Grimly Curmudgeon
says...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Speedgazebo <nickaird@xxxxxxxxx>
saying something like:

Several people I know also got stopped and were directed by a plod to
the side of the road and actually asked questions by a jobsworth in a
yellow jacket, do these jobbos have a right to this information or do
the rely on the officiuous way these things are conducted to get it?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3971799.ece

I see the cunts in favour of it seem to think it's 'only a few minutes'
- the tossers; it takes considerably longer than that by the time you've
waited in the queue.
I was fed up with being pulled in for those idiotically-organised
censuses and just refused to co-operate in the end.

I've done that, several times ... they used to operate a lot on the A21
from Kent into London a few years back. I would politely state I didn't
like being stopped for no reason, then wind the window back up and do
nothing. On one occasion the chap got very irate, but I just left him
there, fuming.

A simpler way would be to use some commonsense and only pull in a
vehicle when there's no queue - that way, they'd get a sample and very
few people would be inconvenienced. In fact, if it was done sensibly I
wouldn't have minded being one of those pulled in.

What gets me is that they don't seem to understand that stopping even a
small number of cars on certain busy routes causes utter mayhem,
especially as they do it a lot at rush hour.

I would also imagine it's a rather scattergun method of gaining such
information - in this day and age you'd think there would be a better
way of doing it - maybe through using ANPR readers at strategic points?
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