http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "100mph driver escapes ban despite six points" en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:44:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13349#post-163537 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:30:33 +0000 kaputnik 163537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did he use the "Ferguson Defence"?*</p> <p>* legal parlance for "ah wiz aboot tae keech ma breeks" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13349#post-163536 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:12:38 +0000 paolobr 163536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It also helps to be famous...</p> <p>"Former England cricket captain Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff has escaped a speeding ban after arguing "exceptional hardship" to magistrates in Carlisle."</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-28972176" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-28972176</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13349#post-163527 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:27:31 +0000 kaputnik 163527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>you drive in a way that will ensure it isn't taken away?<br /> </em></p> <p>Quite! And how about when you get your first 6 points, you take a long, hard look at your life and then consider if your need for speed is really worth throwing your career away over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13349#post-163521 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:33:21 +0000 Snowy 163521@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah. How about...</p> <p>"I'm a gamekeeper. I have a habit of recklessly and knowingly discharging my gun when there are people around. In fact, I've shot three people recently, but I didn't really mean to. Please don't take my gun away, I need it for my job!" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13349#post-163474 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:35:42 +0000 gibbo 163474@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>He added: “His driving licence is a pre-requisite of him retaining his current employment.</em></p> <p>I've said this before, and I'll say it again: how about, if you need a driving license for your job, you drive in a way that will ensure it isn't taken away?</p> <p>All this, "I'll lose my job" stuff... if you don't care about you losing your job, why should the courts care? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13349#post-163382 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:30:03 +0000 chdot 163382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Martin Black, defending, revealed that his Kane’s licence was already endorsed with six penalty points for two fixed penalty offences.</p> <p>Apart from those, he claimed, his client had an otherwise unblemished driving record.</p> <p>He said: “He finds himself on the first occasion in danger of losing his entitlement to drive.</p> <p>“He’s employed by Northgate Vehicle Hire as asset co-ordinator. It may come as no surprise that the nature of his work takes him throughout the UK.”</p> <p>He added: “His driving licence is a pre-requisite of him retaining his current employment.</p> <p>“He was returning from one depot to another and clearly his speed reached an unacceptable level.”</p> <p>Kane was fined £300 and had his licence endorsed with four penalty points.</p> <p>Passing sentence, Sheriff Douglas Kinloch told him that 100mph on the motorway was “a very fast speed indeed”.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/100mph-driver-escapes-ban-despite-six-points-1-3520939" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/100mph-driver-escapes-ban-despite-six-points-1-3520939</a> </p>