Tommy, PM me about it, Im intrigued about your case and I feel it is my duty to try and get as many people off speeding tickets as possible! Over the years Ive formulated a get out for almost every speeding ticket, or at least arguments that will tie them up in red tape for a good long while.
Raj - yeah this is the crucial thing, the majority of people are so scared of going to court and losing that they dont bother and take the fixed penalty. Which is why the thieving b******s have got away with it for so long. If everyone contested a speeding ticket the system would grind to a halt and people would sit up and take notice and wonder why it was that the courts were being mired in silly speeding tickets when rapists, murderers, thieves and thugs get out on bail. I suppose I got to a stage where it really just made me seethe, all these tickets being given out, not just to me but loads of people I know. Its just a cop-out in place of real traffic policing. Today I went up to Chelmsford to the shops. The whole town was at standstill because of the traffic jams and too many roundabouts being there. Not a single traffic cop around directing traffic. On the way home a psycho in an MR2 was cutting across lanes of a roundabout without any indication and making people swerve out of the way, drifted into my side and he didnt even notice until I beeped him. Then once on the dual carriageway , everyone was cruising at 80-90 with big gaps in between, no one hogging the fast lane, and without any warning he cut to the left of the car in front of him, onto the hard shoulder at 90 and then out again in front. And will he ever get caught for that kind of driving? You know he wont! There are no traffic police out there any more, looking for drunks, idiots, old farts who drive the wrong way down motorways, and joyriders. And why should they be out there doing their job when they can sit around at the station, raking in the profits, eating doughnuts and congratulating themselves on what a great job their cameras are doing.
As you can tell I feel pretty strongly about this highway robbery and I was quite prepared to take a bigger fine and more points just to have my say in court instead of knuckling under. More people should try it.
