Alternatively he could always mind his own beeswax
True, we could all do that.
But then the person I reported to the police driving down the A55 at 90+ one evening, weaving all over the place, would have gotten away with being as high as a kite on drink and drugs, and possibly killed someone later in his journey.
As it was, he was pulled over within 4 or 5 miles of me getting on the mobile to NWP. They called me back within an hour to say thanks.
Same for the 'suspicious' characters I saw while out shooting one day. They were wandering around the house and buildings on the other side of the valley, and loading stuff into the back of a van. I knew the people who lived there, and could quite clearly see through the binoculars that the pair I was watching were not them. So I called NWP again, including the report of them smashing a window to get into the house. Ten minutes later, plod in a helo overhead. Though they tried making a run for it, I'd phoned the farmer whose land I was shooting on, and he'd blocked the half-mile driveway with a tractor.
They never even knew there'd been an eyewitness to the whole thing, watching from 400 metres away and giving a running commentary on the phone to the police control room. Which was then played back in court.
Doing nothing might be the easy thing. Not 'interfering', or 'being a busybody'. "Minding my own business"
What if the woman in this case has 4 bald tyres, one morning it's wet and she's running late, and she ploughs off the road and takes out a bunch of other kids walking to school ? Then, what would be the RIGHT thing to have done ?
We can't know. But the MOT is there for road safety. We all see the cases of people with bald tyres, broken suspension, etc. that are only picked up by an MOT (or a police stop, as in a post on here last week with 3 bald tyres) because people don't maintain their cars.
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