[jambutty]

How do you suggest the Police enforce the speed limits then?

It would take a greater brain than mine to solve that one Neil. Some people have argued in the past that if we had more traffic police on the roads it would deter most drivers and they would stick to the speed limits. And it does. It is like Blackpool illuminations when someone spots a police car some way in front. They can’t slow down fast enough. But what happens when a speed cop sees someone exceeding the speed limit? On come the blues and twos and he chases the guy and pulls him over. Then whilst he is busy writing out a ticket all the rest take the opportunity to put their collective feet down and are off into the distance.

But let me ask, how would you enforce the mugging law or the burglary law or any of the thousands of laws in existence? Surely the answer has to be to make the punishment harsh enough to deter people from breaking the laws in the first place. But that in itself is a can of worms I don’t care to open at this time.

I’m not against speed cameras Neil, in fact I’m all for them if they stop people from speeding.

What I am against is this law that forces people to give evidence under pain of punishment if they don’t.

For over 300 years it has been enshrined in our law that a person can only be convicted on the evidence produced. The way that certain evidence is gathered like phone taps is not acceptable evidence in a British Court. If the police cannot get the evidence they should not try and force people to give evidence to help their cause under pain of punishment if they don’t.

It was only yesterday on the news that it was alleged that even the police have used the “I don’t know who was driving” excuse to protect a fellow officer and the cases were dropped. If we are to have a law let it apply equally to all.

However also on the news yesterday was one chief constable who prosecuted himself for not revealing the name of a speeding police driver. It’s a crazy world!

I agree that the son and daughter need to tell the truth but in the real world when someone is accused of doing something what is the usual response? Not me?

Much obliged for the German camera info AccyJay – I only knew of their existence and not where they came from. If we had to have those types of camera what’s the chances of drivers shielding their face somehow. You could wear a full face crash helmet.
Magistrate – Why were you wearing a crash helmet whilst driving your car?
Prisoner – To protect my head in case of an accident your worship.
You can’t argue with that no matter what you might think. Don’t forget it is the body that is strapped in and the head is free to bang around at will.

Does the German camera flash a bright light to illuminate the car and driver? If it does it would need to be at head height to see the driver’s head and if it is at head height and it does flash the flash could blind the driver and cause an accident. If it is set at the same height as normal speed cameras driving with the sun visor down would prevent it from capturing your face.

Why don't motorbikes have front number plates?

Good question, they used to. Was it something to do with when hitting pedestrians they were getting badly injured on what to all intents and purposes is a knife over the front wheel?