Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 07:28 PM |
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Originally posted by Wheels244
Has everyone defending this sentence never been over the speed limit ? If you say yes, I don't believe you.
Was he guilty - Yes
Should he be punished - Definately
Should he go to prison for 1 year - don't be so bl**dy stupid !!
The police officer was doing was doing 139mph NOT the rider - totally legitimate for the police to do so, but the FACTS should be reported not
headline grabbing figures.
Ok first off I have done 128mph on the motorway, and it would have been faster but that was as fast as the car would go 
In my defence however the motorway was deserted and I saw one wagon for the entire stretch.
If you're gonna get prison for driving like a tit then we'd better clear an area the size of scotland to house all the new prisoners..
Finally facts don't sell newspapers, BS does
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scootz
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 07:41 PM |
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Pretty sure that pic with the 'merged' VW and RVF400 was a 'manually put together' job at a Swedish Road Safety Exhibition.
Having said that, I've seen similar 'real' accidents and one or 2 worse!
Strange things accidents... you can walk up to a scene of Armageddon and find that all occupants are completely unharmed. Next day, a fairly
innoculous bump and there's a dead person(s) somewhere nearby.
Remember a Vauxhall that hit a tree at speed and split in half 'length-ways'. i.e. the opposite of the Audi earlier in the thread.
Unfortunately, the halfway split was not exactly spot on... there was a leaning more towards the drivers side. That was a particularly long and
unpleasant night. Not much fun searching for and scraping up bodyparts over a 100 metre stretch of vergeside under floodlights. Pretty sure we
didn't find them all but did the best we could (and 8 years later no-ones turned anything else up).
Anyway... onto happier things - Top Gears on!
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Peteff
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 08:19 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Wheels244
Was he guilty - Yes
Should he be punished - Definately
Should he go to prison for 1 year - don't be so bl**dy stupid !!
Sorry mate you answer is inherently flawed by this. If you use a spell checker it
will tell you the word should be defiantly. This is also wrong 
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Stott
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 08:37 PM |
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ridiculous punishment IMHO, hardly any traffic about or junctions, clearly the guy can ride, wht's the big deal?
If he'd have hit and killed someone he'd probably have got community service, a 6 month ban and a £50 fine and everyone would be on here
whining about how leniant his sentance was
EVERYONE speeds, or they're a liar, and most of us motorsport ethusiasts have been the wrong side of 170mph on the public highways (driver or
passenger) and all it takes is one cop with a camera following you down that deserted A road at 4am and your in clink serving double the time that
some crack head who just stabbed a gran is?!?!?!?!?!?!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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aerosam
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 09:08 PM |
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Say what you like about the rights and wrongs of the biker or the cop.
There can be NO EXCUSE for doing those sorts of speeds on a public highway at ANY time.
If you want to drive a car, ride a bike, hang on to a rocket propelled donkey or get a piggyback from Usain Bolt at those speeds then go ahead and do
it. But please use some common sense and do it where you aren't going to endanger other people's lives. Use a racetrack.
It's all well and good saying that empty roads are ok to speed on - you cant EVER be certain of what's around the bend on public roads, or
what other road users are going to do.
It's just common sense.
Had enough of this dictatorship known as LCB. Gone elsewhere, not coming back. Kiss my ass ChrisW.
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