Solution To The Speeding Problem

[joggerjayne]

All speeding offences should carry a mandatory minimum one year custodial sentence.

No discretion.

No slap on the wrist.

If you ignore the speed limit, one year in prison, and a three year driving ban when you are released.

[EDDIE51]

Interesting thread has given me a laugh, but just one point to raise
Why the hell do car manufacturers produce road cars that can do 180 to over 200 mph when there is no place in the world where you can safely do anywhere near that speed?
OK I did drive a Subaru Impreza and occasionally did over 100 mph ( I did do 115 once) but nowhere near 'supercar' performance.
Any other AB ers care to confess to how far over the speed limit they have strayed? , no names no pack drill !

[LazyGun]

I think jjs amendments follow natural observation. Stuff like that does happen. :)

I will carry a lampshade in the limousine from now on, jj - the thought of spending more than a few minutes in Burgess Hill is stupefying :)

[joggerjayne]

Baldric ...

It's all here ... see section 39 ...

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1272705-2.html

[joggerjayne]

"stupefying"

Whatever you may say about this thread, it is producing some excellent words.

myriad
stupefying

Loving it!

And such an appropriate word to describe the idea of two hours in Burgess Hill.

Do we need to tread carefully?

I don't think any ABers are known to live in Burgess Hill (phew!)

Away, now Eddie ... the trouble is, we would be verbally executed if we confessed to our speeding infringements on here.

Too late in your case, obviously, lol. But was it really only 115mph? I thought an Impresser would hardly be out of breath at that sort of speed.

AB tip of the day: if it was any faster, don't admit it, lol.

[Old_Geezer]

More draconian suggestions to get us to live in the type of tyranical hell that we used to pity those living in the east who had to live with ? I'll have to assume this is a wind up JJ. No one could reasonably want life to be controlled by the elite in preference to having the freedom to make one's life one's own.

[joggerjayne]

This is certainly not a wind up, OG.

The provision about driving to Gatwick with a lamp shade on your head is already enforced quite rigorously.

[woofgang]

JJ....go and sit down and take your pills like a good girl....

[joggerjayne]

ok

[Baldric]

JJ @ 1035
That's^^^^ a link to this thread, not really helpful

[joggerjayne]

Of course it's a link to this thread.

Incidentally, Take The Pill is a track from the latest Emilie Autumn cd, "Fight Like A Girl"

It's a concept album about a Victorian asylum, in which the inmates are forced to take medication against their will.

[DrFilth]

> Assuming that at 30mph you would stop just in time not to hit someone crossing the road, then at 35 mph you would still be going at 11mph when you hit the same spot. <

if you had been doing 80 you would have passed the spot and had no need to brake

[joggerjayne]

DrF ...

I was tempted to say that.

But I was too fraidy cat.

[belrec]

Dr F,

You are of course right, but then you may have a nasty mess on your wheels :-)

[brionon]

Unfortunately -Judges and Lawyers and Lawmakers are almost all drivers. So not much hope of long Driving bans.

[sandyRoe]

Could roads in urban areas not be designed to inhibit speeding?

[joggerjayne]

Like ... make them more bendy??

[sandyRoe]

Make them narrower and with many more sleeping policemen

[ludwig]

There's an episode of Star Trek where they arrive on a seemingly idyllic and utopian planet where everyone behaves impeccably.
It turns out that there's a mandatory death penalty without trial for any crime including things like littering and walking on the grass where you shouldn't.

It works well in keeping down the crime rate to virtually zero. We could try a system like that.

[DrFilth]

joggerjayne may i suggest you take a trip over to the isle of man and get out on the mountain road where there is no limit and so long as you are safe and not a danger to others they leave you alone.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ9cci73JRc

[joggerjayne]

Perhaps it could just apply to day trippers, ludwig.