The Seatbelt and Mobile Phone Brigade

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There are various cretins, around today, who prefer to ride or drive in a car without wearing a seatbelt. Sometimes they put the belt across their arm in a vain attempt to make it look like ( to a policeman ) that the device is actually engaged. When challenged, they baffle you with a cock n' bull story about someone they know ( via their sister's, father's, brother ) who is alive because they didn't wear a seatbelt. Despite an accident like this, being from the far reaches of possibility, and including an open top car, a trampoline, a car crusher and a hoop of fire!

Now as far as I'm concerned, wearing a seat belt is like doing up your shoelaces, something to learn when your a small child, and which you continue to do, automatically, without thinking for the rest of your life.     Not wearing a seatbelt is likely to get the driver a fine and license endorsement, and having unsecured children in the car is likely to get the driver an even bigger one.

So what are the police doing about it ?  - nothing! they just continue to catch people for doing 2-3 mph over the speed limit, and install even more gatso cameras, because it brings in thousands more in automatic fines.

  Using a mobile phone is a dangerous enough occupation in itself, now proven to lead to, anything from a brain tumor, to an exploding dental filling, but doing it while driving is in my view an act of gross criminal neglegence, leading to a very high likelyhood of collision, and total lack of respect for any person driving or otherwise, within 100 yards of the offender.
    This act is so blatantly reckless, that the police should clap any offender in irons immediately smash the mobile phone to a pulp, on the ground, in a bag, with a police issue lump hammer, and ban them for driving until they have re-taken their driving test, and possibly even confiscating their car for the fine. It is immediately obvious when a driver is talking on a mobile phone because they start swerving about, and nearly colliding with other vehicles, and if parked in a queue, they remain so glassy eyed, that they fail to notice that the rest of the traffic moved off 90 seconds ago.
    Using a mobile phone has been scientifically proved to slow down reaction times, so what it does to driving ability is anyones guess. One only has to see the program " Crash bang wallop, police camera action " on ITV to realise that 90% of road traffic accidents are caused by people using mobile phones.

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New 27th Jan 2001
Finally the traffic Rozzers are getting a dose of their own medicine

    Anyone who has driven on the A1, knows full well that there are many garrisons and RAF stations along the road, and a fair bit of military hardware and aircraft. It seems that the Bobby's radar had picked up a NATO Tornado Aircraft, which was flying past in the distance in the sky.
    It emerged later, from a military spokeman that an "incident" had occured between a fighter aircraft and a traffic copper on the A1. Where :-

The tornado's in flight Tactical Warefare Computer, had not only Detected and Jammed the peeler's radar gun, it had immediately armed an Air to Ground laser guided missile.

Lothian & Borders Police Dept. later declined to comment...