Party Vibe

@MC G-Tek 494301 wrote:

Same mate, I get so much shit from my mates for driving like a pensioner, but I can’t be arsed risking getting points on my licence & bumping my insurance up.

yep that’s why I’m glad I left learning again until I’d grown up a bit and moved area and also got (some) of the desire to party hard out of my system as I’m gonna still be on 2 years probation whenever I pass irrespective of age –

its the point I was making on that other thread about parties – what some constabularies do is put ANPR flag on every car seen at a rave…

Those drivers blatantly flouting traffic laws are often dealt with there and then but another trick is to wait until “comedown days” like Tuesday / Wednesday and then use the black rats (RPU) to check the drivers what were at the rave for their driving standards, and if they are making mistakes from sleep deprivation or worse DUI they are hauled up.

A lot of my younger friends lost their licenses months after getting them this way and they were often middle class uni kids whose “needed a car for uni” and their parents had paid a lot towards their driving – so they got in proper shit and this is the sort of family dispute what gets all ravers judged…

Yep the ANPR stuff isn’t gonna go away. The kit made in the UK (often in Wales) is that good the Chinese traffic cops buy it from us!

I’ve been told by folk you wouldn’t expect to be supportive like travellers that it actually has made the cops less prejudiced as they are being fed with actual checked targets rather than simply “stopping people for driving whilst a hippy / coloured / playing music” and they have so many targets that if your driving isn’t really bad you will be left alone..

CCTV was deployed in the late 1960s in London and the cops and Home Office first trialled ANPR in 1972, the year of my birth. the tech paper in which it was explained was only releaed on FOI a few years ago.

The only reason it didn’t get deployed back then was computer technology hadn’t advanced enough, so the fast patrol car could only do 40 mph because of being weighed down by the computer kit

also the digital transmission got into the AM radio and blew a rasperry into the ears of the coppers via the telephone handsets :laugh_at:

I worked in insurance in Reading and it was a scummy business, the customers were treated like scum, the staff behaved like scum and it was only drugs what kept people sane. Yes they have all sorts of ways of reducing claims and those what complain to the press are monitored and have their claims halved and all sorts, if you are para about the govt what private companies or individuals can or will do when determined enough is 10 times more scarey (though its coming to light due to them media enquiries)

at work they just buy crappy old vehicles for fleet cars (even the desperate wouldn’t bother with stealing them) and the cheapest (but legal) insurance for a group of drivers – I’m actually insured to use the fleet cars even as a learner provided I don’t break the terms of a provisional license which is why I asked the question 😉