Andrew Flintoff Spared Driving Ban

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/andrewflintoff/11062323/Andrew-Flintoff-spared-driving-ban-due-to-exceptional-hardship.html

Should this person been spared a driving ban on those particular points, after all he rich enough to pay for a driver to take him around in his Bentley?

[Frank97]

No!

[Bazile]

//..the cricketer, caught speeding four times in the last three years//

He has a track record - so clearly he hasn't learned , or thinks that the law shouldn't apply to him

[grumpy01]

Of course he should be banned.12 points is 12 points charity work or no charity work.

[Baldric]

Judge must be a Cricket Fan, Barmy Army member at a guess!

[Frank97]

As for it having an effect on his work, well doesn't that do the same to everyone who gets a ban and has a job driving?

[retrocop]

His driving licence can't be that valuable to him and his family if he can keep taking the p**s out of the law.
I am not disabled but have difficulty walking long distances so would suffer hardship without the independence of using my car as and when. I sponsor a guide dog but I would'nt get him come to my rescue if I was a continual offender and deserved to lose my licence.

[bazwillrun]

yet another example of how poor the judiciary are over here and how easily conned they are.....what if hed have hit somebody or worse, killed somebody...
would the pinko have let him off then, afraid to cause him any inconvenience.

With his money he could easily afford to pay be driven to his "extremely important" functions that take precedence over public safety

[youngmafbog]

He should get a lengthy ban, all that has happened here is he will now think is is well above the law.

Lets hope he does not kill anyone.

[sunny-dave]

I can't understand how he has got away with this? Is he gay ... ?

[Zacs-Master]

no. Muslim.

[Mamyalynne]

The Magistrates have a very odd view of the term 'extreme hardship', have they ever suffered such I wonder?

[Baldric]

Andrew Flintoff On becoming a gay icon (from The Guardian)

I have to watch my skin more and make sure that I look good and have had my hair done. I could easily lose my crown back to David Beckham if I'm not careful

[agchristie]

I am sure that pleading as he did is a very stringent test which he managed to satisfy.

Certainly left a lot of folk 'stumped'!

[Bazile]

//I can't understand how he has got away with this? Is he gay ... ?//

Well yes , i should think he is 'happy' he got off

[bazwillrun]

dont think hes a homosexual, i think hes a normal straight heterosexual man. :-;