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Motorists face two years behind bars if caught using a hand-held mobile phone, under tough new guidelines. Those caught texting, adjusting their sat-nav, or tinkering with their iPod could also face the same punishment.
Sky's Paul Brennan reports.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1304226,00.html
Good to see England's crime problems have all been sorted out then :)
Cardinal_Sin
02-06-08, 11:55 AM
Good to see England's crime problems have all been sorted out then :)
It will never happen -
At the beginning of the 20th Century you were jailed for being gay.
Then they legalised it
Then they brought the age down to 21
Now gays are asking for the legal age to be 16
I left the uk before they make it compulsary.
dvtimes
02-06-08, 11:58 AM
Carrying a knife can get you up to 5 years in jail.
Up to now no one (unless i am wrong) has got to prison for carring a knife.
There are lots of these laws that never seem to happen.
Its like the on the spot fines. No one has yet ever been served one.
It will never happen -
At the beginning of the 20th Century you were jailed for being gay.
Then they legalised it
Then they brought the age down to 21
Now gays are asking for the legal age to be 16
I left the uk before they make it compulsary.
:takethat:
dvtimes
02-06-08, 12:01 PM
You also have a problem in proving it.
Unlress you arrest somone and they say yes they did it, you have a problem proving it.
After all unless you have filmed somone, how do you prove it.
It will probably end up with fines anyway as another way to tax people.
NumptyNuts
02-06-08, 01:29 PM
so they should - thsi new rule about mobiles in cars seems to be having little effect, everyday I see people on the phone while driving including coppers!
12 month ban and your car taken off you and crushed should solve the problem, if you get in the car you should drive the thing not be chatting on your phone.
Mind you the number of people who pull over in stupid places blocking up roads so they can make calls is on the increase, since the laws were introduced it seems it is OK for people to stop anywhere if making a call.
Carrying a knife can get you up to 5 years in jail.
Up to now no one (unless i am wrong) has got to prison for carring a knife.
There are lots of these laws that never seem to happen.
Its like the on the spot fines. No one has yet ever been served one.
I know someone who got four months for carrying a knife, sentenced
Nov 2007.
NumptyNuts
02-06-08, 01:40 PM
I know someone who got four months for carrying a knife, sentenced
Nov 2007.
did he have previous? I take it was not a pocket swiss army knive or something
If you're too stupid to drive and talk to someone, you're too stupid to drive. Next thing you know it will be illegal to have more than about 9 pints and drive. Fucking madness.
did he have previous? I take it was not a pocket swiss army knive or something
Five inch pocket knife, no previous, only 18 and he didn't even take the
fuckin thing out of his pocket but he shouldn't have had it in his pocket
in the first place,the silly bastard.
NumptyNuts
02-06-08, 01:50 PM
thats a big blade
thats a big blade
Any blade is dangerous no matter how big and the silly little cunt
shouldn't have had it on him.
SICKBOY
02-06-08, 06:21 PM
People on the phone when driving is very bad, but my argument here in france is everyone smokes and drives thats just as bad.
xcite-tv
02-07-08, 11:03 AM
Motorists face two years behind bars if caught using a hand-held mobile phone, under tough new guidelines. Those caught texting, adjusting their sat-nav, or tinkering with their iPod could also face the same punishment.
Sky's Paul Brennan reports.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1304226,00.html
So using the factory fitted sat nav in our car could land me in jail....
What about the complex BMW I-drive system.... or the cd player?
what about that pesky control most cars have to change gear?
its all bollocks and they can shove it up their arses
adultbusiness
02-07-08, 11:21 AM
People on the phone when driving is very bad, but my argument here in france is everyone smokes and drives thats just as bad.
Where about in France are you?
I'm gonna stick me neck out here, call me a spaz if you want :noway2:
Personally I've always thought that having a conversation whilst driving is complete madness.
Govenments around the World in my view have got this horribly wrong, I dont think it's relevant whether you are physically holding a mobile or whether you are utilising an ear piece, it's the actual distraction of trying to split your brain between the conversation & driving a ton of metal that is the real danger, both use up brain power & require you to be alert, concentrate too much on the convo & in a split second you'll be up the arse of the car in front or worse, I don't accept the argument that people smoke or change gear etc both of these are second nature & repetative habits thus freeing up the brain to concentrate on the road, as I say it's the distraction of engaging the brain to think of the convo itself where the real danger lies.
As for not being able to prove that you were talking at the time of your accident, well, all the phone co's keep records of course & there is masses upon masses of CCTV's out there which are gonna catch you out *most* of the time especially if the accident is fatal & the Police / authorities really go to town & investigate fully.
My view is probably not popular but I really think that to talk & drive however you do it is bloody dangerous.
:twocents:
Forgot to add, next time you're in a car & the drivers phone goes (Be it by an actual phone or ear piece) watch what happens to their driving, from the moment they realise they've got a call the driving normally starts to get a whole lot worse, rapidly !
If you're too stupid to drive and talk to someone, you're too stupid to drive. Next thing you know it will be illegal to have more than about 9 pints and drive. Fucking madness.
:takethat:
DaddyHalbucks
02-07-08, 09:02 PM
Mobile phones are causing ALOT of accidents.
:(
Mobile phones are causing ALOT of accidents.
:(
I know.
I have just tripped over mine, fell and banged me fuckin head
on the coffee table!:noway2:
Willie_Ekkerslike
02-07-08, 09:17 PM
I hope the coffee table and the phone are OK!
I hope the coffee table and the phone are OK!
Yea! No chance of damaging my head though, it's thick as fuck!:P
Willie_Ekkerslike
02-07-08, 09:21 PM
Yea! No chance of damaging my head though, it's thick as fuck!:P
I'll leave that one open for the others :)
Yea! No chance of damaging my head though, it's thick as fuck!:P
:rolleye0012:
Mobile phones are causing ALOT of accidents.
:(
No they are not
Cardinal_Sin
02-07-08, 09:52 PM
Mobile phones are causing ALOT of accidents.
:(
Then fucking ban them from driving cars.
Then fucking ban them from driving cars.
LOL
smoothballs
02-07-08, 10:04 PM
would you get pulled over if you drove a novelty car shaped as a mobile phone? :)
globalguy
02-10-08, 02:25 AM
Am currently in LA where practically every other driver seems to be talking on their phone whilst driving.
Due to be outlawed in California later this year, apparantently.
I am not normally a fan of Governments interfering with our lives, but to me this particular law does make sense.
Yes the law in this Country has got its priorities right, my local paper http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Teenagers-who-killed-driver-left.3761269.jp two 15 year olds get youth custody one of them for just 12 months after killing a guy when they dropped a 44lb breeze block onto him from a bridge.... Fucked up or what...
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