Rock star got over 7000 Euro ticket for speeding

[MaFiaBoY]

Reminds me a random quot on jens' homepage : "Remembre, drive defensifely. And of course the best efense is a good offense." :p

[Jaakko]

In the case of driving, offensive style isn't safe unless you have enough steel around you. I just don't think I could get my hands on one of these old T-72's we have in this country. Better to play GTA instead... Hmm, isn't San Andreas out for PC soon?

[MaFiaBoY]

The new GTAs are lame. GTA 2 on PC, now THAT was fun :p

[Holy Light]

That's a bullshit ticket!

[Fireblade]

Here in UK, if you get too many speeding tickets or other offences, you have some points put onto your licence, which last for a certain tme, depending on how severe it is.

If you get 12 at any one time, you lose your license for some time, again depending on the severity of your offence. The mildest offence gives 3 points for 2 years.

It does not matter how rich or poor you are, the same points are on the licence, and the same number gets you a ban if you repeat offend.

Fines don't stop ppl driving, after all we can't beam to work with help from Scotty. But, getting some points on your licence does/should make ppl more careful, no matter our income.

Apart from anything else, there are many rich people that don't speed, or have any less care than poor ones, simply because they want the road to be a safe place too. I don't think it's fair to demonise them and suggest they are less responsible drivers.

(offtopic : why is someone a bitch? because she is female? I think it sucks that there are like 100000 insults (all prostitution-based) that have been applied to women only since the start of time, and there is no male counterpart.) Surely men can be arrogant drivers too.

[CottonCandy]

OFFTOPIC: I agree with you Fireblade. Bitch is a double insult because that is a term given to female dogs.

[Beast_Pete]

off: it's pretty stupid, that women are called bitch, if people want to insult them (and even women call other women bitch). It's a job, a job as for example: shopkeeper, stonemasher, forester, architecter, informaticer, soccer player... etc. And why is the word "fuck" so ugly? Is fucking so bad and ugly? Hmm, strange.

[brought2ubyletterC]

Here in UK, if you get too many speeding tickets or other offences, you have some points put onto your licence, which last for a certain tme, depending on how severe it is.

We have something similar here too, but I believe it's decided by the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) and not the policemen or law. In other words, the DMV looks at your records/fines/whatever and decides if your recent driving behavior is enough to give you a point. I rarely ever hear about people getting them, but it does happen. I think you have to do everything short of running someone over to actually get one. And even when you do get a ticket, even if the DMV doesn't consider it a "point", they do put it on your record and for a certain amount of time it does show, and noticed if you surpass that time limit without given any more tickets/fines (no, they don't send you a basket of fruit or anything but the way drivers are in California the pat on your back that you give yourself for going that long is more than enough reward!). I believe the way it works (someone who actually has a driver's license in the U.S., please correct me if I'm wrong) is that if you violate laws and get tickets in a short amount of time, then you get a point. I think it is also three points altogether to get your license suspended.

Either way, when you get points, your insurance goes up, and it is the law in California that EVERYONE must be an insured driver (everyone with a driver's license that is), so no one likes it when their insurance goes up. Either way, you get hit in the wallet somewhere down the line no matter what happens. But points on your record do show, and I think people would much rather pay for a ticket and move on than to have points on their records and therefore higher insurance bills that are also shown on those records, where neither of them really go away. Once it's on record, it's pretty much known to anyone who deals with you that you're a "bad driver".