Schaudenfrauder

[Oneeyedvic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/803 5511.stm

The boss of a speed camera firm has been banned from driving for six months after admitting speeding at more than 100mph on a 70mph road in Suffolk.

Tom Riall, 49, is a chief executive of Serco, which has provided more than 5,000 speed cameras in the UK.

He appeared at Sudbury Magistrates' Court and pleaded guilty to driving at 102.9mph on the A14 on 4 January, 2009.

[sp1814]

Ouch!

Every once in a while a story comes along to make one smile...Britain getting the 2012 Olympics, Kylie getting the all clear after cancer treatment...and now this.

Incidentally, did you have to look up the spelling of 'schaudenfrauder'?

Be honest.

[paraffin]

Schadenfreude = To derive pleasure from the misfortune of others.

[Oneeyedvic]

Promise that I didn't look it up - and much to my amazement the spell checker didn't underline it!

[wishy123]

Lucky git can probably afford a chauffeur anyway

[BertiWooster]

I wonder if the actual camera that snapped him ,was one , manufactured by his company , which seems likely .

If so - talk about being bitten on your bum , by your own dog .

[lankeela]

70 on dual carriageways too. Made me smile when he said he thought he was only doing 90 as if that was ok.
Don't suppose he could claim the camera was faulty either.

[wishy123]

PS National speed limit is 70 on dual carriageways

[kempie]

Serco is the exclusive UK agent for Gatsometer BV and are government approved to supply, repair, install, maintain and calibrate "Gatso" Speed and Red Light cameras. Riall is not the first executive of Serco to have been caught speeding; Chairman Kevin Beeston admitted to such in 2004...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profi les/kevin-beeston-caught-on-camera--but-sercos -chief-isnt-about-to-take-his-foot-off-the-acc elerator-551354.html

[dr b]

A Schaudenfrauder only pretends to derive pleasure from the misfortune of others.

[jno]

lol, Herr Doktor B

[sp1814]

Note to Alanis Morrisette...this is the true meaning of 'Ironic'.

[New Judge]

Speeding seems to be endemic among Serco executives.

Mr Riall�s offence was his third in less than three years. He was actually disqualified from driving under the �totting up� rule (12 points in three years). He had seven points awarded from two earlier offences and received six for this latest episode.

He attempted to persuade the magistrates that �exceptional hardship� would ensue if he was banned. His argument ran along the lines that his children would suffer hardship because his savings, which he had accumulated to pay for their school fees, would now have to be used to pay drivers to take him to meetings.

Their Worships were not impressed.

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