True excuses from the last year
www.safespeedforlife.com/readnews.asp?id=25
1 I had passed out after seeing flashing lights, which I believed to be UFOs in the distance. The flash of the camera brought me round from my trance.
2 I was in the airport?s flight path and I believe the camera was triggered by a jet overhead, not my car
3 I had a severe bout of diarrhoea and had to speed to a public toilet
4 There was a strong wind behind my car which pushed me over the limit
5 My friend had just chopped his fingers off and I was rushing the fingers to hospital
6 The vibrations from the surfboard I had on the roof rack set off the camera
7 I had to rush my dying hamster to the vets
8 A violent sneeze caused a chain reaction where my foot pushed down harder on the accelerator
9 There was a suspected case of foot and mouth and I had to rush to see the cow concerned
10 The only way I could demonstrate my faulty clutch was to accelerate madly.
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3 I had a severe bout of diarrhoea and had to speed to a public toilet
Alex Ferguson used this one and got off.
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Presumably backed up the physical evidence created when he saw the blue lights in his mirror?
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5 My friend had just chopped his fingers off and I was rushing the fingers to hospital
This could actually be true; if so, I'd let him off.
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Well when I sliced the side of one of my fingers off with a hedge trimmer some years ago my late wife was so traumatised by all the blood she couldn't drive at all. Had to find my own way to the nearby A&E - fortunately we had an auto at the time :)
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Many years ago, a large mirror broke while I was putting it up (bedroom ceiling mirrors are difficult on your own!)
It gashed my head and I bled like the proverbial pig, I was new to the area and wasn't sure where the nearest A&E was so was fortunate to spot a panda car whilst en-route, having flagged it down the poor WPC nearly fainted at the sight of me and immediately escorted me on blues and two's to the hospital.
I felt more sorry for her, a few stitches and I was away, car seat was another matter. Pale grey velour and blood don't mix.
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in the spirit of Hospital A&E: and has a car link.
Waiting at A&E for a friend to have something removed from his eye, my attention was drawn to a car skidding to a halt outside. Man leaps out of car and runs into A&E holding up his arm, wherefrom blood was pumping out at a prodigeous rate. He rushes up to the desk and stops, a growing pool of claret round his feet, face visibly going white.
The receptionist looks him up and down, idly pulls the computer keyboard nearer to her, presses a key and says "Name?"
When we left I looked at the car and indeed the inside was a mess. I pointed this out to the Parking attendant, but he still carried on writing the ticket.................
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My favourite was the one by a certain Andrew Windsor who was caught speeding when he was late for a round of golf. IIRC he got off too.
Did this set a precedent that we could all use?
All we would have to do would be to keep a set of clubes in the boot.
Keep upright
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6 The vibrations from the surfboard I had on the roof rack set off the camera
Presumably not Good Vibrations? [/BeachBoys]
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It would have been Surfing USA surely?
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Adam
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Arthur Scargil has a good defence. I had cruise control set in the NUM company Jaguar. Therefore I could not have been speeding
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I've previously used the excuse that I was paying more attention to my surroundings, rather than my speedo - before greed cameras became common place.
Friend of mine once used the excuse that he was was in a hurry to get to the 24 hour garage before it closed!! - and got away with it.
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