[thechat] Traffic Light Cameras

[William Anderson]

Martin Burns wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> (guide for non-UKfies, if you're found guilty of a Road Traffic  
> Offense, your license gets endorsed with points. Get over the magic 12  
> points, and it's bye-bye license. Oh, and there's fines too, and some  
> offenses (eg speeding) have discretionary disqualification or even  
> prison. Nice.)

I nearly had 12 points within days of getting my first car, a month after 
passing my driving test (in the days when passing a UK driving test meant 
actually driving a car, as opposed to all the random theory stuff that's 
appeared in recent years).  We bought a car from a work colleague of my 
dad's, and it was brought round while my dad was at work, and i was off from 
college.  I decided to go for a wee spin in my new pride and joy (an X-plate 
Talbot Samba, if you must know!) and went for a polite tool around the part 
of Cumbernauld I stayed in at the time.  Got back home, thoroughly stoked, 
and all buzzed up and wanting to drive more :)

However, my dad got home from work, and asked what i thought of the car. 
"Goes great, but I think the brakes need some work."   He looked at me agape 
and said "if you'd been stopped by the police, you'd have had your licence 
taken away on the spot".  He'd checked the car out on his way over the road 
from his garage where he'd parked his own car, and noted every tyre on the 
thing was badly balding - a road offence and punishable by a three point 
fixed penalty *per tyre*.  I decided to wait until we'd organised 
replacement tyres before thinking about even sitting in the car :)

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