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Old July 21st 04, 10:12 PM
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"Colonel Tupperware" > wrote in message
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> On 21 Jul 2004 15:50:19 GMT, (Ppelectron) wrote:
>
> >>
> >>He complained bitterly to the Plod who turned up, but they said he
> >>should have been going faster and not to get in the way of trucks in
> >>the future. Good advice I thought. 1 written off Pugrat (probably a
> >>bit smelly after that evening's 'entertainment'). I found a couple of
> >>scratches on the Merc's bumper.
> >>

> >
> >It makes me laugh that the police said he should have been going faster.

With a
> >70MPH motorway limit, hidden speed cameras and mobile units on bridges,

is it
> >any wonder that people drive badly? The days of being able to overtake

safely
> >by temporarily increasing speed to over 80 in order to pass lorries have

long
> >gone.

>
> The trucks are only doing a maximum of 56mph.
> Travelling at 66 mph will put you past a truck in 3.5 seconds. I am
> constantly amazed at the amount of car drivers who want to mix it with
> the trucks on motorways by driving between 50 and 60 mph. It is a very
> dangerous thing to do.
>
> As for the ones who cant even manage to keep a constant speed at 55,
> well, they almost deserve to get driven over.
>
> Many people drive badly because they are not continually tested.
> Many people drive badly because their cousin took the test for them.
>
> Most of the _really_ stupid things I see happening on the roads every
> day are due to car drivers of non-european extraction. For example,
> last Thursday a people carrier full of women on the way to the Mosque
> or a similar place was reversing up the A14 because they missed the
> split for Cambridge and were heading for the M11. Despite a cacophony
> of horns from other drivers, they carried on.
> BMWs being driven with dangerous abandon by young black males, large
> Mercs driven by beturbaned gents completely ignoring all road signs
> and signals. etc.
> Then there are the Eastern Europeans, a lot of whom work on East
> Angian farms and packing plants who have cars but no licences or
> insurance who tear about the fens.
>
> I'm not saying that the indigenous population are much better, they
> are not, it's just that the _really_ stupid things I see are usually
> done by the 'other lot'.
> The old cry used to be 'bloody woman driver', but that seems to be
> changing.
>
> --


YOu have the right to think what ever you think and express your feelings,
but I just want to know if you are a BNP voter, or maybe at least Ukip?
Seriously..

ss.


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