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Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Shit.
A British or Yankie bomb I suppose.
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:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Shit.
A British or Yankie bomb I suppose.
Got snapped by some traffic camera or other going through Clapham a couple of weekends back. :sour:
Received a Transport for London penalty charge notice through the post this morning.
Seems I paused momentarily in a yellow box junction, even though I was clear of it by the fucking time the fucking lights changed.
Doesn't matter, if cunting Big Brother says you're guilty, you're guilty.
Cunt fuckers even posted the evidence online for me to see ... (mines at the top of the box junction, right in front of the bus)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...g?t=1275476620
... and a close up of my car so the licence plate is in full, clear view.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...g?t=1275476830
I can't recall if the fucking huge big bus behind me cleared the lights, but if not it's a far, far greater obstruction to the cross traffic than I ever would be if I hadn't cleared the lights.
Fine is £120, reduced by 50% to £60 if paid in 14 days.
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Cunts.
Fuck this stupid country and its camera obsession.
You could have at least give us a wave, fuck sake. :mad:
Yeah, not exactly uncommon. In 2008 they defused, controlledly detonated (or tried to defuse) 88 bombs from WW2. The buggers are still all over the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
This one they found because they were specifically looking for them - they wanted to construct a new building on the site and knew that this area had been carpet bombed very thoroughly. The ground looked like an army of moles had passed through - molehills every 50 centimeters. And they had defused another bomb at our train station two days before.
Can't you contest it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Not worth the hassle i reckon, especially when you'd probably end up in court and end up paying court costs because you've lost.
I can have my day in court to contest it, but at a cost, as Lor said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
Since technically I am at fault - law states that you are not allowed to enter box junction unless it is clear - I don't have much I can contest with.
It's just irritating that I am charged under the technicalities of the law and not the spirit - I was clear of the box junction by the time the lights changed, so I did not in any way obstruct cross traffic.
Opinion in this country of motoring-offence cameras is that they are money-makers for local councils.
So take a bus you bourgeoisie pig
Spoiler:
What is that yellow criss-cross mess anyway?
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum.../dg_070535.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Highway Code, Rule 174
Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road (see 'Road markings'). You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right. At signalled roundabouts you MUST NOT enter the box unless you can cross over it completely without stopping.
[Law TSRGD regs 10(1) & 29(2)]
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It means "dont stop here"
Well that just looks stupid, and asking for jam ups and accidents. What's wrong with coordinated traffic lights---why have both lights and lines?
:confused:
They do work, and are fairly necessary.
They are placed on busy junctions (most of London in other words :roll:) where traffic is stop-start.
You can see from my photo that there is a line of traffic through the traffic light, pretty much at standstill.
If the junction is not clear by the time the lights in my direction have changed to red, then the cross traffic going right and left is obstructed. So the junction has to remain clear - hence the marking (and the totalitarian enforcement)
Also, you guys are driving on the wrong side of the road. :D
.... and mix with foreigners, people who smell, and those too poor to afford a proper form of transport (a car)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Not a chance. :down:
:up:
Plus they run late, cost a fortune, constantly breakdown and furthermore, take AGES to get anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Speaking of looking stupid...Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Kinda pissed right now >_< Stuck up assholes all around
That means you need to get properly pissed. Have a few rums. That will cheer you up no end.
8-Bit Theater, a comic that I had followed online for years, has ended :(. The ending was such a let down, and so far removed from the original grove of the comic that I feel empty now :cry:
You don't think those lines are overkill stupid, kind of like duh--don't stop in the middle and jam up cross traffic?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
Not at all. Every arsehole in the world thinks that he can just about squeeze through the lights, or that if they are green it means he can go, even if theres clearly nowhere to go. This still happens without the junction markings, but stops presumably a few.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
What i was referring to is this:
1) They are specifically to stop jam ups by forcing cars not to park in the route of cross-trafficQuote:
Well that just looks stupid, and asking for jam ups and accidents. What's wrong with coordinated traffic lights---why have both lights and lines?
2) they stop accidents by the same method
3) the traffic lights are co-ordinated, but heavy traffic would mean that a car might hit a green light on the x axis but because there was a big jam up along the y axis
4) the lights and lines do different things, thats why we have both.
Oh. Around here we have jug handles or timed lights with turn arrows. Yeah, everyone tries to squeak thru the yellow and sometimes gets stuck in the middle. Then we honk our horns :D
Cops can give citations for 'not yielding on yellow', 'obstructing traffic' or 'running a red light' in that case. We don't have the cameras all around that you do.....looks to me like the lines are more for the cameras and sending e-tickets.
Trying to quit hurting for one damned day! :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Also, I missed seeing an old friend today, because I hurt so fucking bad I couldn't even go outside. On top of that, I had to postpone the one month inspection of my apartment because I caught a killer cold yesterday. Of course, I can't take cold meds with my pain meds, so Munchie suffers! THEN, to top it off, The Friend called me from NYC, sitting in total gridlock! He has put in for home-time, but he is in Kentucky tonight, so it won't be happening for at least another three or four days, if then!
I don't want to sound preachy....but...butQuote:
Originally Posted by oldmunchkin
Well, the booze won't make the hurt go away. It just makes you fall and break bones. Then you hurt more, and have more problems.
:(
I know, but sometimes it makes me "think" I feel better for a while. Of course, the sobering up part really sucks! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Are you in a cast now munchie?
Booze is a fickle lover, innit.....
No cast, just a brace thingy. Mainly to hold it straight, I guess. I can at least take it off for doing dishes and showering.
Hell yeah she is!
BTW, The Friend spent a night where you are on his way to Maine.
That's what pisses me off most about this situation. Were there no camera here, just a cop, I would not have been pulled over or fined, especially as I had traffic directly behind me. At most I would have had a talking to.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Grrr. :sour: