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Embarrassment as a form of punishment?

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  • November 8, 2012 at 6:02 pm #17231
    Gkam84

    Do you think this is a good thing and could we use it in the UK for minor incidents, such as jumping red lights where nothing else came of it.

    I’m not suggesting it for any RTA’s, but stupid little things, like the red lights, driving in bus lanes, parking in cycle lanes…..etc

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20252212

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  • November 14, 2012 at 5:10 pm #705981
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    keef66

    One of my son’s friends was
    One of my son’s friends was killed by an overtaking car when he got off the school bus and ran across the road. Making it illegal to pass when they are picking up or dropping off sounds sensible to me

    November 11, 2012 at 7:31 pm #705979
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    Kapelmuur

    One time when I was working
    One time when I was working as a lollypop man a car made an identical manoeuvre to pass a line of stationery traffic.

    I took the registration number and witness details, but the police did not take any action.

    November 10, 2012 at 1:11 am #705977
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    giff77

    At bikeboy76 – tis very
    At bikeboy76 – tis very illegal to overtake a school bus in the States once it has stopped to pick up or drop off youngsters. Also many of the schools have reduced speed limits on the roads that they are built on. The police dept for the county i lived in when I worked in the USA had a very low tolerance for speeding vehicles outside schools and you would frequently see a patrol car parked on the road by the local high school.

    Edit: if you look carefully at the footage you will see the red stop sign extended. This tells approaching traffic as well as those behind not to pass. I am assuming the excuse was going to be that she passed the bus by using the sidewalk and was not on the side where the school kids would have been.

    November 9, 2012 at 11:34 pm #705975
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    Leviathan

    What I don’t understand about
    What I don’t understand about that video is why she didn’t just drive past the bus? She would be on the opposite side of the road.
    Or is it illegal to pass a parked bus in the US, in which case a parked bus stops all traffic until it leaves, which doesn’t seem right anyway. Hmm, any americans out there?

    November 9, 2012 at 11:26 am #705973
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    Yorkshie Whippet

    It would be taken to the
    It would be taken to the Human Rights Court and deemed illegal after £millions of tax payers money. The “offenders” would then need compensation and counselling……

    November 8, 2012 at 10:58 pm #705971
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    Gkam84

    Good idea, but instead of
    Good idea, but instead of paying a court fine to the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service)

    They should get the imposed points on their license.

    Then a fine imposed and given to a registered charity dealing with consequences of RTA’s and the families left behind, then a court order for the offender to volunteer with just such a charity for X amount of hours community service.

    Making them “think again” is much more of a deterrent than just points and a fine.

    Put that together with their face on a poster as suggested by A V Lowe…..

    See, group thinking can solve everything, now off to solve how I can move to another planet 👿

    November 8, 2012 at 10:43 pm #705969
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    A V Lowe

    This is very similar to the
    This is very similar to the railway and bus ticket fraud posters.

    Perhaps a poster site close by (but not a distraction) to the site in question, sponsored perhaps by the advertising industry. An offender would be shown with the message “I ran a red light at (the next junction) and it cost me 3 points and a £60 fine”

    “I was doing 48 mph here” (eg 30 mph limit) “It cost me 6 points and an £80 fine” “(and my car insurance went up £300)”

    The sentence would include paying for the poster, and the period for which the poster would be displayed. For a really bad site the posters might feature multiple photographs.

    November 8, 2012 at 8:53 pm #705967
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    Gkam84

    Ah, but what do you
    Ah, but what do you coordinate it with? You clothing? Your bike? Your team colours?……

    November 8, 2012 at 8:07 pm #705965
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    Raleigh

    Erm.
    “Only an idiot fails to
    Erm.

    “Only an idiot fails to colour coordinate his bartape.”

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