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[tstr14]

You all never heard of "second chance"?
You people are tough, no love here.

Do you know what the guy's record looks like? Maybe he had been cited for this before or just got a warning. Maybe he's had several driving offenses. Or maybe his attitude when the officer stopped help earn him the fine.

Here in the US, officers and road workers have been injured or killed frequently along side express ways. It's possible the officer saved this guy from that fate. Or the chance of getting another ticket might persuade this guy from doing this in the future, thus also possibly saving his life. Pretty sure that would be worth 100 pounds.

 

[Max Headroom]

You all never heard of "second chance"?
You people are tough, no love here.

You don't know if its the first time he has done it, you don't know if he has been warned several times before and he has ignored the warning so can i remind you of my earlier post where i said -

i imagine the officer is sick of seeing mangled bodies in car smashes on the hard shoulder which are common here, its an emergency lane not a car park.

You don't get a second chance when an 40 ton truck wipes your illegally parked car and you out then takes out more traffic and innocent people when it veers back onto the motorway, if you think that's tough maybe you need to consider how you would feel about this idiot if your family were wiped out because of his selfish and stupid behaviour!

 

[Cymruflyer]

He/she didn't have to give a ticket, a warning and "move along" would have been sufficient.
Cop being a jerk no doubt.

Utter rubbish. We see this all the time in America, for example driving and texting or using your phone with your hand. They passed a law over a year ago in all of Ohio that no longer can you hold your phone while driving and although it was frowned upon, it is now the law, that you can NOT text while driving.

A warning period ensued for law breakers, then, a while back, a fine came into effect of $125 for the first offense, rising after that for each subsequent offense. What a laugh, people are still texting and holding their phones, everywhere you look, while driving their cars.

And people are still being injured and killed because of these law breakers. In the UK it is a thousand pound fine About $1,270. In Europe it is a fine of 1,200 Euros. You hardly ever see anyone texting or holding their phone while driving, anymore. They should do the same in the USA. Hit everyone they catch, very hard the very first time they break that law.

Plus have more officers, if budget allowed, patrolling and pulling over offenders and fining them. THEN you'd see an immediate drop in offenders, it has worked in Europe and the UK. These idiots who do this all the time, driving while distracted. I even see it as I wait for a light in the morning and people are driving through a school zone, above the limit and looking at their phone, not out the front window.

Yes police are strict in the UK and in Europe but for a very good reason, to keep other road users safer. And I am all for that, because twice I've had an oncoming driver nearly hit me head on because they were looking down at their phone. I've also had many drift into my lane because they were texting and not paying attention.

British police are also very kind and do issue warnings but it depends on the offense. However, being an A$$hole and parking on the motorway emergency lane to fly your drone or take a photo is dangerously reckless and these people deserve every penny they are fined and do not deserve any warning.

Warn someone and they think they can get away with it next time too. Hot them hard the first time and they will quickly wake up and think twice about the next time.

 

[mavic3usa]

Utter rubbish. We see this all the time in America, for example driving and texting or using your phone with your hand. They passed a law over a year ago in all of Ohio that no longer can you hold your phone while driving and although it was frowned upon, it is now the law, that you can NOT text while driving.

A warning period ensued for law breakers, then, a while back, a fine came into effect of $125 for the first offense, rising after that for each subsequent offense. What a laugh, people are still texting and holding their phones, everywhere you look, while driving their cars.

And people are still being injured and killed because of these law breakers. In the UK it is a thousand pound fine About $1,270. In Europe it is a fine of 1,200 Euros. You hardly ever see anyone texting or holding their phone while driving, anymore. They should do the same in the USA. Hit everyone they catch, very hard the very first time they break that law.

Plus have more officers, if budget allowed, patrolling and pulling over offenders and fining them. THEN you'd see an immediate drop in offenders, it has worked in Europe and the UK. These idiots who do this all the time, driving while distracted. I even see it as I wait for a light in the morning and people are driving through a school zone, above the limit and looking at their phone, not out the front window.

Yes police are strict in the UK and in Europe but for a very good reason, to keep other road users safer. And I am all for that, because twice I've had an oncoming driver nearly hit me head on because they were looking down at their phone. I've also had many drift into my lane because they were texting and not paying attention.

British police are also very kind and do issue warnings but it depends on the offense. However, being an A$$hole and parking on the motorway emergency lane to fly your drone or take a photo is dangerously reckless and these people deserve every penny they are fined and do not deserve any warning.

Warn someone and they think they can get away with it next time too. Hot them hard the first time and they will quickly wake up and think twice about the next time.

May I suggest jail time, that'll teach em! Police should have confiscated that drone.....and next time, take his car!

 

[Max Headroom]

Our prisons are full to bursting so i doubt that would work however confiscating the drone even for a short time may work.

 

[Rchawks]

Went on a trip to meet some friends for a one night visit and stay at a B+B in a very large city. Where we stayed was a very heavy traffic area and my friend had a drone he brought to fly as did I. We chose not to fly as the distraction of taking off or landing might have been a distraction for the drivers feeding into the main street and I didn't want any part of that risk. There were no parks just city block after city block. People are distracted enough with the cellphones while driving the last thing you want is a driver looking up instead of forward because of your flight. Not knowing the city made traveling to an unknown spot undesirable.