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ShockWaffle
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:50 am
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Inbred driver mows down cyclist and then boasts about it on Twitter. Is amazed to discover legal obligation to report her action in a more formal manner. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-25000788#accidentallyturningmyselfinbecauseimafool
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| Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:30 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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ShockWaffle
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:50 am
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Perhaps police interview suites should include a mobile phone to facilitate faster confessions.
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| Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:41 pm |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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Anyone who calls it road tax is wrong to start with, it's at best car tax (but applies to bikes and not to some cars), but VED is a silly thing to call it
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
Posts: 6355
Location: IoW
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You know it used to be officially called the Road Fund Licence. No longer, I admit, but the clue was in the name. Hence road tax.
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 6580
Location: Getting there
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I don't understand why people are treating this as new news. It was months ago and did the rounds then.
Has there been an update as I haven't seen anything new about it.
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| Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:02 pm |
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ShockWaffle
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:50 am
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That was when she got arrested, more recently she has been mildly fined.
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
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Location: Here, but not all there.
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This kills me. It stopped being called the Road Fund Licence in the 1930s. Amazing how a name sticks, isn't it? It seems the Vehicle Excise Duty was introduced in 1889… DVLA no longer refers to VED, simply calling it a Tax Disc on paperwork. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Location: IoW
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You know how I know it was called the Road Fund Licence? It used to say it on the application form from the post office, as recently as the 1990s. Maybe it wasn't the correct term, but no bugger told the PO it had changed for over 60 years?!
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm
Posts: 4955
Location: on the naughty step
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She's still not upset about hitting that cyclist. Only about the tweet. How can you purposefully hit someone with a several ton vehicle and laugh about it?
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| Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:52 am |
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BigRedX
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:33 am
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Should be banned from driving for life IMO.
Being allowed to drive on public roads is a privilege not a right. Anyone who hits a cyclist and boasts about it on social media is too stupid to be safely allowed behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I do support the idea of a lengthy ban for any sort of hit and run and automatic life ban if there is a fatality. It is not just cyclists that are hit. Pedestrians, motor cyclists are also hit. Though her sentence with the exception of a ban seems fair. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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