[iandusud]

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19745188.company-boss-avoids-driving-ban-speeding-ford-mustang/

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[peted76]

That is the most ridiculous

That is the most ridiculous defence I’ve ever read.

It seems worse (if it can be) by the fact the ‘director’ drives a gas guzzling mustang which does 0-60 in 4.3seconds.. so he’s been caught speeding before, probably multiple times, in a really speedy car, and then says he gets travel sick if he’s not driving a car himself.. and that’s his argument.. sheer madness! 

[AlsoSomniloquism]

He can take medicine

He can take medicine (medicinal Brandy) because he isn’t a danger on the building site then. Just decides to be a danger on the roads instead. 

[chrisonabike]

hawkinspeter wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

I suggest you never read Private Eye. Or even look at the news…

George Carlin wrote:

Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist

True that. More realism, more optimism or both!

[wtjs]

Either large brown envelopes

Either large brown envelopes are being exchanged…

I’m pretty sure that Lancashire officers are operating a ‘cash for ignoring’ scheme in the failure to even acknowledge perfect video evidence of gross red light crashing offences. There are loads of them, nothing whatsoever has happened to any offenders, even the lorries, taxis, council highways vehicles and massive tipper trucks.

[Armchairanarchist]

Unless he has a pilots
Unless he has a pilots license and his own plane then he can’t go abroad on his holidays obviously.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

GPS speed monitored as well.

GPS speed monitored as well.

[HoarseMann]

Give me my licence or I’ll

Give me my licence or I’ll sack 320 people. Sounds more like blackmail than a mitigation! Maybe the could do him for that?

[hawkinspeter]

chrisonatrike wrote:

I suggest you never read Private Eye. Or even look at the news…

George Carlin wrote:

Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist

[hawkinspeter]

hirsute wrote:

Black Friday deals have gone I’m afraid.

Good – I tried to ignore Black Friday, but got suckered into buying a thru-axle from Wiggle (I’d managed to round the hex socket a bit on my previous one, replaced it with a 271mm one as I thought that was closer enough to the 270mm required, but then found that I couldn’t access my lowest gear).

[wycombewheeler]

EK Spinner wrote:

If we really must (big big If) keep letting these idiots back on the roads when they would normally be banned, perhaps the courts should be able putting further conditions on these special sentences, like maximum engine capacity/power. Or even that any further infractions will get double the normal sentence (including length of driving ban)

yes, if the courts insist on accepting these hardship pleas, then they need to have a fleet of court appointed cars, worst model available, minimal power, badged up on the side ” I should be disqualified from driving, so limited to this vehicle”

[Hirsute]

Black Friday deals have gone

Black Friday deals have gone I’m afraid.

[Hirsute]

Rebadge the site manager as a

Rebadge the site manager as a director.

I bet all the clients love to meet the site manager a director on site, in the pouring rain.

[hawkinspeter]

hirsute wrote:

Bit harsh. HP was clearly tongue in cheek or sarcasm or plain despair !

Do I get a discount for all three?

[Steve K]

wycombewheeler wrote:

so due the number os sites he needs to attend in a week it’s highly likely he will continue speeding to meet his schedule.

along with a string of ridiculous claims, clients who will not deal with directors only managers.

If a ban was an option either he wason his 4th (or greater) speeding offence, or he was significantly over the 70mph limit, (perhaps 100)

Why do they keep accepting that it is the courts responsibility to consider the consequences of a ban, when clearly the driver has had ample time to learn and amend their behaviour.

Possibly bizarrely, I’d have more sympathy the potential ban was for one very extreme case of speeding.  At least then, he could claim to have had no warning.  But if you have been done for speeding three times; and know that a fourth time would (should) mean a ban; and if driving is so vital to you; then there really is no excuse for not changing your behaviour.

[mdavidford]

Oldfatgit wrote:

Employ someone else and call them “Driver”.

Or just stand down as director and appoint someone else.

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