That's what this adds up to ...

[news.bbc.co.uk]

I know that road, its gentle bends and downhill gradient from just south of West Linton to Dolphinton and I used to ride a motorbike (badly) too. I also know that because of the frequent and unpredictable way that mud trailing tractors join from the various farm entrances along the way, you'd need nerves of steel to wind up past 100 mph let alone get to 166. I can't help wonder though if imprisonment is a waste of public money as surely there're cheaper ways to deal with suicidal, potentially deadly speeding other than incarceration. Marked and unmarked police car drivers on emergency calls to doughnut shops seem to get away with this sort of thing all the time without spending time behind bars.

By coincidence I had seen this story yesterday: [news.bbc.co.uk]

The first link posted with the biker at 166mph!! shows that folk are reckless and thrill seeking and not fussy where they get the speed kick from. I am a biker and I know how easy it is to exceed the speed limit without even trying. However 166mph is absolutely insane on any public road. It was correct to lock him up. However the courts should toughen up on other offences too not just motoring ones.

The second link about speeding coppers shows they are only human and hold the speed limits of the land in the same contempt that most of the rest of the driving population. However really how daft must they be to get caught speeding! Surely they must have a good knowledge of where the speed traps are going to be?

you dont have to be bright to be a copper and that's proof

Not what you know, so much as who you know. - Sorry to say the force is infamous for looking after its own.

During a Road Safety Campaign, a senior Fife Constabulary officer asked "what do we have to do to persuade drivers to observe speed limits?" - My unplanned resonse was to suggest "first get your officers to observe the limits!"

Too many officers seem to think that a set of yellow/blue transfers immediately make a car safer at speed. - Yellow/blue transfers make your car able to take any bend, at any speed, wet or dry....and stop instantly when required.

I don't know why Red-Bull-F1 waste their time developing race cars, when a set of yellow/blue transfers on a Vauxhall Astra, and a Chequered skipped hat for Mark Webber... are all they need to win the F1 world champ.

geeo Wrote:
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> you dont have to be bright to be a copper and that's proof


Phew, thank goodness for that.