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THE number of drivers caught committing motoring offences in the Capital has nearly doubled since Police Scotland was formed, the Evening News reveals today.
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http://m.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/bad-driving-crackdown-speeding-fines-quadruple-1-3059514
Lovely from Mr Fuel Haed (who must spend all day simply finding things to be miserable about:
"How about tackling REAL crime that affects people's lives instead of trying to raise as much money as possible from the easiest target?"
Yes, because the results of bad driving don't affect people's lives at all. Every. Nope.
"this carckdown [sic] on speeding is a blatent [sic] attempt to raise money. They should concentrate on catching real criminals. This new police force is an anti-car, anti-motorist disgrace"
Intrigued that the new police force is anti-car, and wondering if there's any evidence of this save Fuel Head's addled delusions. But also, what is a 'real' criminal? In my mind a 'real' criminal is someone who breaks a law... Ipso facto, QED, etc etc.
The ironically entitled 'Intelligent' Chauvinist come sin with:
"I've never been fined for speeding, or anything ales come to think of it, and I ignore all speed limits. Drive to the prevailing conditions and ignore these arbitrary, theoretical, politically correct numbers used as speed limits"
And of course, contrary to any figures on the death and destruction on the roads, the real menace of our streets are?
"They were so busy "raiding" places to save people who didn't want saving, they could've used the time to arrest pavement cyclists and all the other law breakers instead!"
"Any increase in the number of penalties issued to cyclists? Just one would be a 100% increase. Oh sorry, Just remembered cyclists are above the law"
And finally this l ittle beauty:
"More totalitarian nonsense, if the potholes were fixed people wouldn't have to swerve all over the roads, and if the road surfaces were fixed there would be less [fewer] accidents"
Ah. I'm back in that place where these things don't annoy me, but rather amuse. The insanity of it all; the lack of intelligence or comprehension; the murder of the English language as froth spills from mouths and green ink flows from keyboards; I'm quite glad these people are hiding behind computer screens and not out in the real world.
I wonder that some of the main offenders are a little 'tounge-in-cheek"?
I would recommend:
spEak You're bRanes
How do you know if there's Scotsman readers on a plane?
When the engines stop, the whining keeps going.
How many Scotsman commenters does it take to change a lightbulb?
At least 7. One to change the lightbulb, and the rest to complain about the council and police being anti-lightbulb, pointing out how much better the lightbulbs worked before the trams, and that the real cause of darkness is cyclists....
Why did the Scotsman commenter cross the road?
Walking? Really? Roads are for cars, get out of my way, I need to swerve round that pothole.
A Scotsman/EEN-related Knock Knock joke:
Outside a Scotsman commentator's door:
Knock, knock!
"I don't care 'who's there', I hate you because I hate cyclists, I hate the trams, I hate the council and I love my car and in some way you must be connected for my not getting my own way about one or more of the above, so go away!"
(Some of those saddos must spend half their day on the Scotsman/EEN websites, considering how often the same few names keep cropping up. It's a wonder they have the time to see what Edinburgh actually looks like! I'd like to say some of their usernames are tongue-in-cheek but they clearly identify some deluded or antagonistic people).
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