Anyone taken the points over the £80 speed course? did you get the option of the course? did you ask the old bill why they are called safety cameras when they are not placed outside schools and old peoples homes...?
Points or speed course
13 posts · Started by Pig Benis · 30 Jun 2011
Post 2 by Superdan,
#2Think I got done yesterday on M180.
Its a sneaky one as you come round a corner, I know it usually there but as usual not paying much attention as driving bores me stupid.
Tried to hide my front reg with the car to my nearside not sure it worked though guess I will find out soon as I defo was speeding, (slap my wrist).
When I was driving along the m-way prior to this I was thinking why do we have a limit on the motorway, surely the Autobahns dont have that many more crashes.
What fecks me off about them is stats they use, if you broke your little finger, had a sore neck, or almost died all 3 are classed as a serious accidents which they use to justify speed camera palcement.
Also mopeds class as motorcyclist stats.
Infact stats are just bollocks
Its a sneaky one as you come round a corner, I know it usually there but as usual not paying much attention as driving bores me stupid.
Tried to hide my front reg with the car to my nearside not sure it worked though guess I will find out soon as I defo was speeding, (slap my wrist).
When I was driving along the m-way prior to this I was thinking why do we have a limit on the motorway, surely the Autobahns dont have that many more crashes.
What fecks me off about them is stats they use, if you broke your little finger, had a sore neck, or almost died all 3 are classed as a serious accidents which they use to justify speed camera palcement.
Also mopeds class as motorcyclist stats.
Infact stats are just bollocks
Post 3 by Pig Benis,
#3you can use your "get out of gaol free card mate" tell em you were chasing a known "fellan" . Just so happens you had to use your own vehicle because the tory government had laid off 200 panda cars from Humberside and Lincolnshire and now bobbies have to use their own wheels...actually that might not be a bad cost cutting exercise..what would you rather have...no pension or use your own car to chase perps!! ???
Post 4 by BASH69,
#4Just do the speed course mate, they only last 2 hours, act humble, tell em youve learnt ya lesson, pay ya £80 and walk away scott free
Post 5 by CEREC1,
#5I got caught doing 37 in a 30 in my van.My mistake i thought it was a 40 limit.
Anyway i did the speed awareness course cost me £75 and lasted 4hrs.The alternative was a £60 fine and 3 points.
I took my course 5pm to 9pm thinking i wouldnt lose any money at work.But it was very hard to keep awake and a couple of the other people actually fell asleep.
They do 3 courses aday each with over 22 people attending each time,Course prices vary from £75 to £95.
Not a bad little earner for the B......S
Anyway i did the speed awareness course cost me £75 and lasted 4hrs.The alternative was a £60 fine and 3 points.
I took my course 5pm to 9pm thinking i wouldnt lose any money at work.But it was very hard to keep awake and a couple of the other people actually fell asleep.
They do 3 courses aday each with over 22 people attending each time,Course prices vary from £75 to £95.
Not a bad little earner for the B......S
Post 6 by Stupid Luke,
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Post 7 by Superdan,
#7Do the course but read up on your highway code before you go - then be obnoxious. I did on mine.
The course is run by Driving instructors who basically rely on you being an experienced motorist who probably hasnt read the highway code since they passed their test. Therefore, any common sense statement that you may utter is bashed down with chapter and verse of Government publication statistics.
You cant fail these courses as long as you arrive on time. They plan to bombard preferably elderly motorist with compliance bollocks.
I had to do the 2 day accident one, after a coming together in a 10ft wide country lane between my blade and his Corsa. He had to do one too as it was a 50/50 settlement. I hadnt had an accident on a bike in 18 years prior and about 25 years in a car. I was browbeated by threat of prosecution by CPS if I didnt attend. So I planned to cause a bit of a scene.
First, they wanted me to go out on a driving assesment in a car. Nope says I, accident was on a bike so find me a bike instructor. They didnt like it as they want to double you up 2 to a car / instructor. Fine says I, I am willing to attend but you cant offer a suitable assessor. Eventually, they find a car instructor who does learner motorcyclist training so I rock up on the 05 Superduke:
Classroom:
Too much funny stuff went on to write it all but best bits as I recall. I walk in, in leathers, room full of sheepish older motorists average age 50+ a few younger and nervous ladies too. I grab a seat next to the only shaggable female (well you never know your luck) got talking and she knew Leon and Alex Camier and their dad Dave. All going good so far Then here comes our course leader who introduces himself as DAZ!!! FFS DAZ, how old is he, 12? No actually he is in his 30's, about 5ft 5 with a huge ponytail, goaty, ring through his eyebrow, BLACK fooking EYELINER, Multiple earings. He is dressed head to toe in black. Is he a goth? Is he a sad cunt? Is he Twisted Jester's mini me on his way to a funeral?
If you said b, sad cunt you were bang on. DAZ took himself way too seriously, he had a big dose of small man syndrome, no sense of irony, and couldnt define if your were laughing at him or with him. Going to be a good two days isnt it? I had everyone calling him Devil's disciple Daz by lunchtime.
So Daz starts trying to baffle each of us in turn with Highway code. For the most part he is succeeding, not me though I have National and International CPC and ran trucks for 20 years. Pretty soon I am shouting out other peoples answers to save them the embarrassment and arguing anything that could be defined a grey area.
Daz hates me I am tying the twat in knots. He gets off the Highway Code and goes on to mobile phone use in cars. He hates it, I disagree. ' Prove that I, a 40 year old class 1 driver, am any more unsafe driving a car and speaking on a hands free car phone than my dad, who is near 80, never had a test, cant see the end of the bonnet and has reflexes like a supertanker just driving a car? Daz cant, he hates me more. I like it here, going to be a fun two days.
We go for lunch. Daz tells on me to the other driving instructors, they hate me too. I see them giving me evils and plan to be worse in the pm.
pm, I try to get Daz on mobile phones again. He tries to avoid this by revealing his real pet hate, and at the same time his jugular, drivers who smoke in cars. He hates drivers who smoke in cars. He whinges on about it for ages and I let him speak. Throughout, he looks at me nervously, waiting for me to shoot him down in flames as I have done all morning. Instead I let him speak, maybe nod a bit of encouragement and out comes this torrent of hate for smoking motorists. When he finishes I say ' Daz I dont smoke but I will defend anyones right to smoke in their own car, just like I wouldnt stick an earing through my eyebrow and walk around like Maryln midget manson but I defend your right to do so'. Daz crumpled, it was pityful to watch him limp back to the bullshit syllabus and the protection fo the highway code for the rest of the day.
The riding assessment was funny too, the prick turned up on his CB500 training school bike and introduced himself thus; 'Well, if I had known you were a proper biker I would have brought my Harley'. This spastic is going to be my next victim thinks I.
The course is run by Driving instructors who basically rely on you being an experienced motorist who probably hasnt read the highway code since they passed their test. Therefore, any common sense statement that you may utter is bashed down with chapter and verse of Government publication statistics.
You cant fail these courses as long as you arrive on time. They plan to bombard preferably elderly motorist with compliance bollocks.
I had to do the 2 day accident one, after a coming together in a 10ft wide country lane between my blade and his Corsa. He had to do one too as it was a 50/50 settlement. I hadnt had an accident on a bike in 18 years prior and about 25 years in a car. I was browbeated by threat of prosecution by CPS if I didnt attend. So I planned to cause a bit of a scene.
First, they wanted me to go out on a driving assesment in a car. Nope says I, accident was on a bike so find me a bike instructor. They didnt like it as they want to double you up 2 to a car / instructor. Fine says I, I am willing to attend but you cant offer a suitable assessor. Eventually, they find a car instructor who does learner motorcyclist training so I rock up on the 05 Superduke:
Classroom:
Too much funny stuff went on to write it all but best bits as I recall. I walk in, in leathers, room full of sheepish older motorists average age 50+ a few younger and nervous ladies too. I grab a seat next to the only shaggable female (well you never know your luck) got talking and she knew Leon and Alex Camier and their dad Dave. All going good so far Then here comes our course leader who introduces himself as DAZ!!! FFS DAZ, how old is he, 12? No actually he is in his 30's, about 5ft 5 with a huge ponytail, goaty, ring through his eyebrow, BLACK fooking EYELINER, Multiple earings. He is dressed head to toe in black. Is he a goth? Is he a sad cunt? Is he Twisted Jester's mini me on his way to a funeral?
If you said b, sad cunt you were bang on. DAZ took himself way too seriously, he had a big dose of small man syndrome, no sense of irony, and couldnt define if your were laughing at him or with him. Going to be a good two days isnt it? I had everyone calling him Devil's disciple Daz by lunchtime.
So Daz starts trying to baffle each of us in turn with Highway code. For the most part he is succeeding, not me though I have National and International CPC and ran trucks for 20 years. Pretty soon I am shouting out other peoples answers to save them the embarrassment and arguing anything that could be defined a grey area.
Daz hates me I am tying the twat in knots. He gets off the Highway Code and goes on to mobile phone use in cars. He hates it, I disagree. ' Prove that I, a 40 year old class 1 driver, am any more unsafe driving a car and speaking on a hands free car phone than my dad, who is near 80, never had a test, cant see the end of the bonnet and has reflexes like a supertanker just driving a car? Daz cant, he hates me more. I like it here, going to be a fun two days.
We go for lunch. Daz tells on me to the other driving instructors, they hate me too. I see them giving me evils and plan to be worse in the pm.
pm, I try to get Daz on mobile phones again. He tries to avoid this by revealing his real pet hate, and at the same time his jugular, drivers who smoke in cars. He hates drivers who smoke in cars. He whinges on about it for ages and I let him speak. Throughout, he looks at me nervously, waiting for me to shoot him down in flames as I have done all morning. Instead I let him speak, maybe nod a bit of encouragement and out comes this torrent of hate for smoking motorists. When he finishes I say ' Daz I dont smoke but I will defend anyones right to smoke in their own car, just like I wouldnt stick an earing through my eyebrow and walk around like Maryln midget manson but I defend your right to do so'. Daz crumpled, it was pityful to watch him limp back to the bullshit syllabus and the protection fo the highway code for the rest of the day.
The riding assessment was funny too, the prick turned up on his CB500 training school bike and introduced himself thus; 'Well, if I had known you were a proper biker I would have brought my Harley'. This spastic is going to be my next victim thinks I.
Post 8 by CEREC1,
#8Post 9 by Stupid Luke,
#9And just how much are we taxpayers paying for public sector wasters like this with final salary pension schemes???
I spent all of yesterday listening the Diversity and Ethnicity lectures, manual handling proceedures and equal opportunities because an NHS trust says we must.
God how much money is spent making jobs for gits who can't do a proper useful days work.
I spent all of yesterday listening the Diversity and Ethnicity lectures, manual handling proceedures and equal opportunities because an NHS trust says we must.
God how much money is spent making jobs for gits who can't do a proper useful days work.
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Post 11 by CEREC1,
#11Dont get me started on the unemployed, sorry...unemployable either, FFS, migrant criminals, or the justice system.
Always been fairly easy going but last couple of years really getting pi$$ed off, with UK living.
Shoulda taken that job offer in Oz in 2006
Always been fairly easy going but last couple of years really getting pi$$ed off, with UK living.
Shoulda taken that job offer in Oz in 2006
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