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Originally Posted by Damien
I think that the object of the poster was to put the tory leaders on the pigs rather than jews. There doesnt seem to be any attempt to attack them for being jews, after all they wouldnt do something as it would obviously backfire.
Moving on...you had a convicted murder pulling down your fence  |
Yes I did. When he wa 15 he didn't like the look of someone so beat them to death.
The police took about an hour to arrive.
Shortly after that incident a new beat bobby was called in (thanks to the actions of one of the attending officers and some of my family members) and sorted the area out but by then I'd had 27 outstanding and uninvestigated cases (you're supposed to get gold status after 3!) and I just wanted to get out of the area.
Now if there had been a well known and accessable commissioner, I could have written to him about the issues and got something done sooner.
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Originally Posted by Mal
So there's absolutely no accidents on the any motorway then? No pileups caused by drivers not being able to slow in time to avoid a crash?
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I know it's a different subject to a police comissioner, but in that example, was the accident caused by excessive speed or lack of concentration and driving too close?
If you believe it was due to excessive speed, then extending that logic there should be no similar accidents with vehicles driving under the speed limit.
However we know speed is something like 8th in the top ten factors causing accidents, with being too close, lack of concentration, and driving while tired above it.
Speed cameras won't catch anyone driving erraticaly or dangerously, or while tired, or tailgaiting.
Police in a patrol car can.
Now if a commissioner said that part of his manifesto was to get more police onto the motorways to tackle dangerous driving, I'd vote for him (as long as his other policies were sensible too of course)
As for the claim (made by others) that people who are against speed cameras are against ones in towns, that's bovine excriment.
I don't know anyone who objects to speed cameras that are correctly placed, such as by schools (which in my opinion should have a speed limit of 20mph) and high accident areas like a straight bit of road with a crossing at the end where some lunatic drivers may speed along far too dangerously and risk hitting someone on the crossing.
I'm also pro red light jumping cameras as these
can capture dangerous drivers.