If the quoted figure is right 32,329 fixed penalty notices, that’s looking like a good income. I don’t know if all the FPNs are £200, but that would make £6,465,800... enough for a few spam fritters at the next Police New Years breakfast party! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55607168
If you live in Bournemouth, don't go out and sit down. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...id-rule-breakers-just-ONE-verbal-warning.html
Those 2 women were easy options. What about the Assange crowd gathered outside The Old Bailey? A tougher cookie, perhaps?
That might depend on what your immediate surroundings are. I understand the need to clobber idiots driving from London to Snowdonia, for example, but going out to your local woods to give the dog a run out seems pretty reasonable to me, bearing in mind that so doing may very well make your social distancing easier and more effective. And l agree with @curly in that we all know, as bikers, that plenty of plod like an easy target. I just worry that the police are losing sight of the fact that they're our servants and protectors, and should seek reasonable outcomes, but instead tend to look like tools of the state. Tools, mainly l just don't see how something like this ought to earn someone a FPN, yet it could in 2021 UK. Taken in complete isolation and safety, six miles from home, from where we'd walked.
Sorry that’s highly irresponsible. Leaving that chocolate in the sun and so close to a hot drink. Tut tut Alan
Yep, got wipes and a bottle of IPA (not brewed in Burton!) come in handy for gate latches and the like
If you need to walk 12 miles a day to exercise, that's fine, but driving 5 miles to 'exercise' seems a little contradictory, why didn't they walk the 5 miles instead.... I think the biggest issue is that it all needs to be defined properly, rather than left to guesswork and individual 'interpretation' which obviously isn't working.
Maybe you've never lived in a city, for example. Why walk among cars lorries and buses when a few minutes' drive puts you in an altogether safer environment, for yourself and others. But it's not about that-it's this cakeist approach by the government. I drove 200+ miles to a job on Thursday, to an area with around a 30% higher infection rate than my home area. I stayed in a hotel that night, called at a Tesco for my lunch one day (where plenty were not observing current requirements) and went to Maccy D's twice as all restaurants etc are closed. All of that is fine, but they're instructing plods to jump on people who in my eyes are staying local and appear to be observing social distancing etc pretty well. It just looks a bit skewed to me.
I wouldn't exactly call Reading the countryside The women were from Ashby De La Zouch not London and drove through 4-5 miles of countryside to get there rather than going to more local areas. Not exactly minimising unnecessary travel... There's no ideal answer to the sort of 'skewing' you refer to as everyone will have a different view but, again, more specific guidelines would help.
If they'd walked the 5mls on country roads they'd probably end up being in a road accident and a burden to the NHS (there's no pavements in the countryside), so I don't see the harm in short drives to enable non-crowded Covid safe excercise/relaxation that keeps any potential contamination in the same local health area. It makes me so sad that there are so many idiots in this country that can't be trusted to make their own sensible/logical risk assessments that the government is forced to legislate for the lowest commom denominator to the detriment of all others.
It is a shame but you only have to see what's happening in the press or go for a drive in the country to see why they have to legislate for stupid....
If only. feckin Isapropyl Alcohol doesn't sound quite so appealing does it? But needs must when the devil drives, eh?
Not so unlike things in the U.S., Col. But on the other hand, our Arizona governor has been loathe to implement much of anything, instead he says that he knows that Arizonans will "do the right thing". Well, some are. But many are not. Guidelines and proclamations and and resolutions exist in Arizona, some at the state level, some county, some city. But, as an example, at none of the motorcycle dealerships I've been to in the past six months are any of the employees wearing masks. Well, one guy wears his on his chin but I don't think that counts. The rub is that there's no enforcement. At this point, even if our governor mandated masks, that horse is already out of the barn and those who currently aren't wearing them would be unlikely to start now.
What has happened to the country all shitting themselves about a virus where average age of death is 82 FFS,yes this may change a bit but come off it the vast majority of cases recover well,as for the police actions WTF are they playing at use your discretion and first give a warning,there must be a very very low crime rate if they can spare officers to stop interrogate and fine people,burglary has dropped severely and robberies assaults thefts etc AYE RIGHT thought not.
