No wonder they call them <removed>

[mudskipper]

Drink driving is wrong. I never drink at all if I'm driving home afterwards.

But I've driven when tired, I've driven when I've got a heavy cold, I've driven with a cricked neck, I've driven with a hangover and I suspect I have probably driven when still over the limit the morning after.

All of these are dangerous and cost lives. Only the last is measurable, and therefore easily punishable. Does the fact that the (inadvertently) over the limit driver has put himself in that situation make him more guilty than, for example, the mum on the school run who has had three hours sleep because of a teething baby, or the bloke with a streaming cold who has driven into work for an important meeting?

I'm not for one minute saying it's excusable, but is it any worse than driving when impaired for any other reason? How many of us can honestly say we've never driven when not 100% fit and alert?

I think the answer has got to be awareness campaigns. They've been successful in making most right thinking people realise that drink driving is wrong and stupid. Most people wouldn't get behind the wheel the morning after if they realised they were over the limit - education is the answer. I don't know how much I'd have to drink to be over the limit the next morning. Do you?

[vandiss]

It may sound crazy, but I've been told about people in Germany who've lost their driving licence, hopped over to Poland, sat a test there and are driving along the autobahn again before the pub opens.

Another mad Euro loophole if true!

[swamp]

It may sound crazy, but I've been told about people in Germany who've lost their driving licence, hopped over to Poland, sat a test there and are driving along the autobahn again before the pub opens.

Another mad Euro loophole if true!

All German sat navs point to Poland.

[RichardCranium]

All German sat navs point to Poland.

Certainly the ones in the tanks do...

[wurzel]

Ere, who doctored the title of me thread?? That was one of the milder things I call them. You should have heard what I called them the day I got rammed by a "member of the travelling community" in an uninsured, unregistered truck down some country lane because I wasn't quick enough to reverse and make way for him. Reported this to the police and they told me that the truck was a "pool vehicle", i.e. one that moves around the gipsy camps frequently so the plod can never get tabs on it. I was shaken up badly by the incident and bloody fuming when the plod on the phone told me it would be a complete waste of his and my time taking a statement. Or the time I was about the only person who went to the aid of some teenage girl whose car had been rammed by some joyriders & they were giving her the third degree not to call plod. So I did call plod and they said they wouldn't come unless somebody had been injured in the accident. Should have wacked one of the joyriders and called an ambulance, then they'd have had to have come regardless. Sorry, but there re times when I feel they're a bunch of lazy, good for nothing sh!ts. Not the greatest fan of the old bill at the moment, that's why I started the thread 'cos this thing that happened to my mate was on the back of the 2 incidents that I've just desribed above. I in no way condone drinking and driving. I was merely questioning their attitude, that's all.

[scotspine]

innit...

reading your language wurzel,

pikey
plod
f**g
Should have wacked
sh!ts

it's not exactly pleasant reading...it almost dismays me that i congratulated you the other day on your contract. this forum quite often reminds me of some of the bleaker moments of cc.net.

it wasn't me who edited your miserable title, but had i seen it first...

[wurzel]

innit...

reading your language wurzel,

pikey
plod
f**g
Should have wacked
sh!ts

it's not exactly pleasant reading...it almost dismays me that i congratulated you the other day on your contract. this forum quite often reminds me of some of the bleaker moments of cc.net.

it wasn't me who edited your miserable title, but had i seen it first...

I apologise. My feelings were strong & I only used the language for effect. Those naughty words weren't directed at any one particular individual - that would be bad.

[NickFitz]

Down at Stonehenge in the Eighties we used to get coppers of every shape and form giving us grief from time to time.

Until the courts warned them off, the Ministry of Defence Police often used to go around hassling or arresting people on non-Ministry land. They were known to us as "the Mod Plod"

[Churchill]

I think some of you lot should be prevented from posting whilst under the influence.

[RichardCranium]

Ministry of Defence Police often used to go around hassling or arresting people on non-Ministry land. They were known to us as "the Mod Plod"

They are referred to as the Mod Plod throughout the MoD too. Including by themselves.