zilspeed
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 posted on 3/4/05 at 04:57 PM |
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Organised Runs - beware
It seems that the public don't like swarms of noisy little cars driving around and having fun.
I don't know the exact details, but the guys in this pic have just had their day cut short by the roadblock which had been set up specifically
for them this afternoon.
This all happened in that well known hotbed of crime.
Rural Aberdeenshire...
Be careful - and don't gather in large groups. There are people that would rather you would please stop having fun.
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clbarclay
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 05:04 PM |
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NIMBY's
Is there any worse form of life.
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Northy
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 05:14 PM |
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Knob jockeys
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing! 
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Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
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JoelP
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 07:31 PM |
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disgraceful...
surely there is no legal basis for this? i would recommend someone finding the details of the rally, the road they were stopped on, and the address of
the regional police HQ. Then maybe we can all stand up and complain.
bloody pisstakers
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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Triggsy
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 08:03 PM |
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Have a look here
http://boardroom.wscc.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=a2216613bda54f362097c05fed00c8e2;act=ST;f=1;t=25269;hl=convoy
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athoirs
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 08:56 PM |
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I'm from Aberdeen, lookslike deeside.. very nice bit of road but is well used by the bike boys and cars so well known to the boys in blue..
There are LOTS of open hardly used roads up there.. not like you poor southerners..
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Simon
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 09:02 PM |
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That's a bit of a shame.
They want to come and watch the Pioneer Run (London - Brighton Veteran Bikes).
Reckon on a hundred and fifty competitors, and several thousand loonies going through some of the small villages - where quite a few brainless morons
park on both sides of road, turning an A road to single track.
We had the Paddock Wood 1/2 Marathon today and it took me 30 mins to get less then 600 yards (via a 5 mile route)
One PC suggested I park and walk - yeah I'm doing my patio and have 1/2 dozen slabs in the boot.
I'll suggest they run the event from midnight on next year.
ATB
Simon
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 09:57 PM |
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The CJ act
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Under the C J act, the authorities have the power to declare any gathering of 6 or more people as illegal, if they should so desire, and can then
start making arrests.
And I thought I left C**** laws like that behind in Aparthied South Africa.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 3/4/05 at 10:39 PM |
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i think i was told recently by my wife that as part of her uni studies the existence of a law was discussed forbidding summat like 3 or more vehicles
in convoy. This was supposedly brought in to deal with new age travellers.........
looking from the other side, do convoys of locosts and lotus drive down country roads at legal speeds, or are they perhaps overcooking it a bit thro
villages every sunday morning........
I cant see any other reason why police would make that kinda effort......
atb
steve
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carnut
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 07:56 AM |
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Im sure they could find something better to do. Like catching real
criminals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 08:32 AM |
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Maybe this is what pi$$es them off...
 
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carnut
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 12:05 PM |
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thats cool.
Is it a real pic of a photoshop job?
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JoelP
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 02:33 PM |
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real
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 04:06 PM |
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on the way to stoneliegh last year IIRC
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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Danozeman
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 04:30 PM |
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Hehe that pic's good.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
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Simon
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 07:14 PM |
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If they are all travelling at the legal limit, there isn't a judge in the country who wouldn't tell the BIB where to go.
ATB
Simon
PS Great pic
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 09:59 PM |
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not sure about that.
there is deffo a law about vehicles travelling in convoy......
atb
steve
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12a RX-7
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| posted on 5/4/05 at 04:04 PM |
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its somewhere in the road traffic laws that you can't have an organised route to be used by more than 12 cars without permission from the
governement, police etc.
Thats why local motorclubs are limited to 12 cars on 12 car rallies.
[Edited on 5/4/05 by 12a RX-7]
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clbarclay
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| posted on 5/4/05 at 04:28 PM |
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You only need 3 cars, one in each lane, to stop other cars breaking the speed limit.
Can you be arrested for being one of 13 or more seperate individuals that all happen to be driving the same car allong the same road at the same time,
even if its just a fluke coincidence.
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Jonr
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 02:23 PM |
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"Wasnt there, but it was the Scottish Elises having a sunday run.
Apparantly there were 3 public complaints and that was enough for a roadblock, they then fully scrutinised every car, and then issued producers to
them all, and also gave tickets for illegal number plates and poxy stuff like that.
Some very unhappy chaps, apparantly they were held there for hours"
from a mate at work who has an Elise and luckily didn't go.
See the black fence on the left? Balmoral Castle is the other side, so maybe a royal complaint? Lovely road though, have passed the queen tootling
along in a range rover once, though still to see Charlie in an Aston.
BTW should you wish to drop him a line the man is...
Chief Constable Colin McKerracher
Grampian Police Headquarters
Queen Street
Aberdeen AB10 1ZA
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 03:22 PM |
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Yep but hardly rural there are villages every 5 or six miles along the way here with limits of 40mph and 50 mph very common. A line of cars like this
traveling at the limit could never be overtaken by someone wishing to break the law by speeding. Perhaps some of the royals needed to be somewhere
fast ehand all us plebs and serfs were holding them up. I hope the local underworld ain't seen this as they all be out robbing this weekend
while the bib are back on shift doing shed loads of paper work on last weeks road block.
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 03:35 PM |
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this country sucks
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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clbarclay
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 06:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jonr
Some very unhappy chaps, apparantly they were held there for hours"
The first thing police learn when there is a rally etc. going on is to talk to the driver for half an hour. Which nastily puts them right out of the
competion (or at lest any chance doing well in the event).
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 08:12 PM |
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its going to be good to see the london brighton run all lined up i a layby in the pissing rain getting soaked to the skin while PC plod does the
nastyi doooon't think. But hey if no ones speeding whats the difference?
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carnut
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| posted on 7/4/05 at 08:36 PM |
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Why do they pester the real enthusiasts when they could catch a load of right tossers (probably mostly criminals too) bygoing to about any town centre
(Dartford is a good example) after dark where all the tw*ts in Nova's/Corsa's or similar race around making a row and generaly act like
wankers with their sh*t music and strobes under their cars!
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