Be Careful

[JustMark]

This article proves that the police are so desperate for easy convictions they are even prepared to pick on pensioners.

From what I gather, they couldn't nick him for drink driving so they must have got creative to work out an excuse to search his car without giving a grounds for suspicion.

Just to be on the safe side, I have removed anything remotely sharp from my car. Trouble is, I can't start it now. The key is capable of giving someone a nasty scratch so I've left that in the house. I'm a part time freelance journo, but I've decided not to carry a pen in the car as well. That could hurt someone and I don't want a record if some numpty in blue decides he wants an easy nick for carrying something pointy. I used to carry some fishing tackle in the car all the time too. But, using this idiotic logic, unless I am on a specific fishing trip, I can be prosecuted for having sharp hooks and a filletting knife in a tackle box, in the boot for the odd occasion I get an hour or so by the sea or a lake/river on my travels

I know not all officers are like this, but while the management is prepared to let the idiots that are get away with it because they are so desperate for 'stats' it's just gonna get worse

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/ne...l/article.html

[tjnorton]

Why am i not surprised perhaps he is in the notorious OAP gang

was there any need for it? I think not

tj

[philipn]

oh poor chap if im ever down that way im gonna have to tell the missus to get out an walk shes got a blooby sharp tounge

[Banana Steve]

I was about to write a huge reply about the injustices of this country, then thought about it and decided that maybe if he hadn't been drinking in the first place he wouldn't have been stopped, to be taken to the police station ment he failed on the first test at the roadside, and drinking and driving in my mind is worse than carrying a knife as he could off hit someone and killed them, so maybe being done for the knife serves him right.

[scottish_and_mental]

Most pensioners drive like they're pissed anyway lol

[Drew]

Speaking as a pensioner, I have been driving for just over 50 years and have a 100% record. Not even a ticking off.

I've been stopped many a time for one reason or another, but never for a driving offence.

[barbelblanker]

I have been accused of having a sharp and sarcastic sense of humour. That's me b@ggered then.
Personally I find the highest percentage of sh@t drivers are in German cars. Not saying they are all bad, just watch the outside lane (and the one you are in obviously) approaching any kind of congestion. Which cars are tailgating their way in to the car in front or approaching at light speed only to look totally suprised ? Audi pass 'is driving test ?

[jools]

something ive never thought about hubby and i both carry a knife hilst fishing i go diving too and have a big knife strapped to me leg i obviously have to carry them in the vehicle could i be liable too i guess so....

[JustMark]

As I have had it explained to me, if you can give a valid reason for posession ie you need it for work and are either on the way to work or coming home, or in the case of a filletting knife you are going fishing or returning home you should be OK.

No-one argues that knife crime is serious, and that the law was tightened up to combat it.

However, as with so many of the 4500+ new laws passed in recent years, common sense has been left behind. Add that to desperate chief constables having targets, certain officers would rather take 'free' convictions from law abiding members of the public instead of targetting those the new laws were designed to persecute.

That's why you get grannies being issued with £80 on the spot fines and instant criminal records when a grandchild drops a crisp packet on the floor unseen by them, but readily pounced upon by some pretend police officer with a hat with a blue band on it. Or,my favourite from recent months. The motorist fined for blowing his noe while waiting at traffic lights.

[excarper]

Pensioners are great drivers. My next door neighbour is 86 and never had an accident , but admits he has seen thousands just behind him in his rear view mirror! Normally just after he turns onto a main road.