a) None of his business
b) Because the horn offence was easy to process and could be guaranteed to stick, whereas an abuse offence would have taken up rather a lot of police time, no doubt in court.
The police have long gone for getting you on easy offences when they want to slap your wrist.
Was it after 11pm?
I'm afraid that I do not go with the police brutality school. My experience of the police is that they are jolly good sorts.
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If they're obstructing a green light then it's very much his business. In any event, a polite explanation turneth away wrath.
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I'm afraid that I do not go with the police brutality school. My experience of the police is that they are jolly good sorts.
Of course there's good and bad in everything, but Cheshire residents will know that driver was lucky not to be dragged out of his car and beaten senseless.
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Maybe it was that idiot stupid donkey off the "Traffic Cops" TV show that was on last night, that was Cheshire Police.
"In a country where they are no longer allowed to catch criminals, they criminalise those they can catch."
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What a load of rubbish
The bloke probably leaned on his horn .00036 microseconds after it went green, wound down his window .00500 microseconds later and hurled a stream of abuse.
What he got was two coppers climbing out of the car who gave him a £30 fixed for being a pratt!
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According to the driver, he was not rude or abusive.After he sounded his horn and he looked at the rear view mirror of the car in front and he expected the driver to raise his hand in ackknowledgement that the lights were green.Instead HE got the abuse and a fine.
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"they are looking at girls going in to a pub."
How did the other driver know that ??
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In the interview the guy said he could see both the officers heads looking to their side where there was a pub and a load of girls.
At the end of the day,common sense should prevail.
If I am at the lights and they go green and I havn't noticed and the guy behind hoots his horn then i will put up my hand in apology and move on.
Unfortunately there are too many aggressive people driving on the roads today.How often does somebody cut in front of you,causing you to swerve or brake hard.If you hoot your horn you can garuantee that nine times out of ten the response will be abusive.
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If I am at the lights and they go green and I havn't noticed and the guy behind hoots his horn then i will put up my hand in apology and move on.
But what if the guy behing leans on his horn for ages, rather than giving a (relatively) polite toot?
We only have the guys word that that isn't what he did.
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But what if the guy behing leans on his horn for ages, rather than giving a (relatively) polite toot? We only have the guys word that that isn't what he did.
Also did he use any non highway code approved hand signals?
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whatever the length of the hoot,you dont expect anybody to get out and give abuse when they are in the wrong.Let alone a police officer.
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whatever the length of the hoot,you dont expect anybody to get out and give abuse when they are in the wrong.Let alone a police officer.
We've only got one persons word for it that that is what happened, and he's hardly un-biased.
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Well he would say that wouldnt he.
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According to the driver, he was not rude or abusive.After he sounded his horn and he looked at the rear view mirror of the car in front and he expected the driver to raise his hand in ackknowledgement that the lights were green.Instead HE got the abuse and a fine.
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...Right, that explains it then since I obviously keep arresting (and sending to Court) innocent people because (surprisingly) they all say that 'I didn't do it Guv, honest.' - so obviously this Driver too must be telling the truth, being a pillar of society and all.
Point is, he was msot probably too quick in blowing his horn, and when the Officers spoke to him, he must have failed the attitude test big time. Got what he deserved 100%. Imagine if that had been an elderly driver in front of a woman? Wouldn't they feel intimidated by this driver's actions?
But to turn it the other way, do you think this would have happened in the States or anywhere else in Europe? The Police would have arrested hthis guy, 'roughed him up a little' and let him languish in a cell over night. here he got a ticket - and people say the British Police are bad! I really do despair.
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Im not plain stupid, just a special kind of stoopid.
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Too quick blowing his horn?
Failed the attitude test?
Got what he deserved?
I cant believe a serving police officer would make remarks like that.Sounds like you have the same attitude as the cops in the story.
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>> I'm afraid that I do not go with the police brutality >> school. My experience of the police is that they are >> jolly good sorts. >> Of course there's good and bad in everything, but Cheshire residents will know that driver was lucky not to be dragged out of his car and beaten senseless.
Can you explain that? I'm a Cheshire resident, and I haven't the faintest idea what you're on about.
I have to say, I'm with Mark on this.
It does remind me of the Douglas Adams quote though:
Scientists have discovered the smallest unit of time known to man. They've called it the 'New York Second' and it's defined as the amount of time between the lights going green and the taxi behind you beeping it's horn.
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They've called it the 'New York Second'
I call it the manual gearbox second. Automatic drivers go on green, manual drivers start searching for gears. They?ll tell you a manual is more exciting to drive yet they?re always asleep when the lights go green.
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That's not a namual driver, that's a bad driver. I'm sure they'd be just as bad in an automatic.
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It's not even a manual driver.
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After working all night and just getting to sleep, I would happily fine my neighbour £30 every time they toot d toot d toot toot toot's their yound son stood on the lounge window sill every time they drive away.
Horns are for emergency warning.
Nothing else.
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Before you shoot them, have you tried talking ever so nicely to them. Go on, be brave.
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Oh, no, it's the Manila Second. Here the guy doesn't wait for the lights to go green, he is watching them change on the other side of the intersection, so he will start beeping while yours are still red. You're supposed to be moving already and at least 2/3rds of the way across the intersection by the time they go green.
Since cars coming through the intersection will have just crossed on their red light, thinking they've got a second before encountering anything coming through, the results can be interesting. Buses of course ignore any and all forms of traffic lights anyway.
You soon get the hang of it. Act like the rest do and you'll be fine. Drive like you were taught and you won't stand a chance.
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