Great Britain: New super-cameras will mean no hiding place for drivers who smoke, eat or use a phone

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 28, 2007 | RAY MASSEY

[GingisK]

I guess the Krauts won after all. Totalitarian regime.

[Dog Gone]

Smoking at the wheel was recently included in the Highway Code as something which courts can consider as a factor when police accuse drivers of failing to have proper control of their vehicle.

I'm guessing ashtrays are no longer optional equipment in British cars.

[Stoat]

What's to prevent malicious license plate obscurations?

I recall a story not long ago where a young British chap who had a particularly visceral dislike for the speedcams found a police van parked nearby and took a photo of it's plate and then enlarged it and printed it on his computer.  He then attached the paper photo of the police plate over the one on his car and drove full-throttle past a neighborhood speedcam dozens of times.  I don't recall the details of any prosecution he suffered, but the police received dozens of tickets for their own van but with a different car's photo associated with it.

I would imagine that if a person were to be caught in such a venture, heavy fines and possibly jail time would be on the table, as evidenced by ANYONE who attempts tax evasion here in the USA....regardless of how full the jails supposedly are, they will always find a cell for tax evaders. The Government takes it's cash stream very seriously....at least the 'incoming' part of it.

[Duchess47]

LOL I’m old and grey myself but I’ll stand with you.

[Kakaze]

Today Prime Minister Gordon Brown Officialy abandon the phrase "War on Terror" it offeneded some people in his country.

He negelected to tell the population that the replacement for the "war on terror", is the Frivolous Nanny State.

You see theres really no time to fight terrorist when your busy filming nose pickers and handing out fines.

[Duchess47]

Nevada is home to a lot of outlaws :) Most of them make good neighbors.

[JoeDetweiler]

The guy steering with his feet.........am I the only one who sees some sort of “monster” in the passenger seat?

[doc1019]

Yep, an a gazillion pound 18 wheeled vehicle burling down the highway at 65 MPH with the driver on a cell phone, should be excluded from the ban. ;-)

[CindyDawg]

What’s the matter with these people? I can see why these laws are necessary. Both are driving from the passenger side on the wrong side of the road!

[SGCOS]

...New super-cameras will mean no hiding place for drivers who smoke, eat or use a phone

..But those carrying bombs in backpacks or as strapons will be cut some slack, as that might offend the islam religion.

The UK has freeking lost it....

[Stoat]

What’s the matter with these people? I can see why these laws are necessary. Both are driving from the passenger side on the wrong side of the road!

LMAO!!

You've pinpointed the rationale for shutting down the entire UK highway system.  And anyone found eating Jellied Eels should be jailed for "cultural offenses" as well   :-).

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Nevada is home to a lot of outlaws :)

As Martha Stewart would say.

"That's a good thing."

[Vince Ferrer]

Orwell, or maybe just the Sanford Neighborhood Watch Alliance:

[Stoat]

But those carrying bombs in backpacks or as strapons

I'm not touching that one with a "ten-foot anything".......

(whistling nonchalantly)

 

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Lets do this before I need a walker.

[org.whodat]

LOL

Most of them probably could run a hundred miles an hour down the road , talk on a cb, talk on a cell phone and sing yankee doodle all at the same time. :^)

[Crim]

If you look carefully...he ISNT driving with his feet...he is driving with his right arm/hand resting on the window frame..and has one foot on the dash...his left one...

[Chickensoup]

I wouldnt live in the sewer that GB has become for a million dollars, or pounds or euros.

A pity, since it was my favorite country and it has fallen so far.

[doc1019]

But I wouldn’t want to be in front of that driver! LOL!

[lightman]

Talk and legistlation like that is what is pushing me farther from the GOP and closer to the Libertarians.

Ron Paul is sounding better and I can’t believe I’m actually posting that at FR!