which of these crimes have you committed?

[EternalOptimist]

only 2 for me.




lucky it's misdemeanors carried out in the last five years

[vetran]

I have a problem with the poll as a lot of the "crimes" aren't crimes or are only crimes now.

For example if the pavement has got white lines making part of it a cycle path then you aren't breaking any law, and talking on a mobile phone never use to be illegal.

Sue

if its marked as a cycle lane its no longer exclusively a pavement, I agree no you aren't.


Talking on the mobile phone, smoking, eating, drinking and your passenger performing fellatio on the driver have always been part of 'having full control of the vehicle'. It was only recently ~ 2005 they made an explicit offence of the mobile phone to make it easy to issue fixed penalties.

[VectraMan]

It's not against the law to eat or drink while driving, in the sense that no law explicitly forbids it. However, you can be done for dangerous driving, or driving without due care and attention, and so on. As to whether the mere fact of having been eating or drinking would be enough to secure a conviction, in the absence of any additional evidence such as a lollipop lady you've run over as you swig on your Scotch or video of you weaving all over the road as you blow on your Ginsters pastie, is one for the courts.

I remember once driving down a motorway sliproad whilst scoffing a cornish pastie, and was shocked to see a police patrol car on the motorway. He'd obviously seen what I was doing because he pulled alongside and had a good look, but by then I'd dropped said pastie in my crotch, and was doing my best to look innocent.

I didn't notice the "within 5 years" bit. That reduces my total quite a lot.

[OwlHoot]

I didn't notice the "within 5 years" bit. That reduces my total quite a lot.

Oh, _years_! I thought he said days

[mudskipper]

I managed 4 between office and home.