Crankarm said:Here we go all the ar5es on here who regularly complain bitterly about drivers who drive whilst talking on mobiles/texting putting them at risk now decide it's not such a problem and really it's rather alright. Please .........
BentMikey said:I take it you're quite happy with drink drivers next to you on the road...
Norm said:I've taken someone's mobile (and chucked it under their rear wheels) but I'm not sure I'd take someone's keys. She does sound like she was a belligerent moo from the outset, though.
Lizban said:Oh come on. Taking action that is proportinate and reasonable is fine - in this case the other posters were neither.
Lizban said:A polite conversation and / or reporting it. If you are unsatisfied with the response - follow that up with the Poice. Not taking the enforecement of the law into your own hands.
How about we stop every RLJ and let down their tyres?
Twenty Inch said:I'd have dropped the keys down the nearest drain.
Crankarm said:My conversation with her was polite, which bit of please is not polite?
Her response was to divert her wrong doing into challenging me as to whether I was a police officer which frankly is absurd as I don't look or dress like a police officer or hold myself out to be a police officer, which I hasten to add is a criminal offence. You don't have to be a police officer to challenge wrong doing where it is taking place. Her response was rude which then became abusive.
If I have managed to remind her that using a mobile whilst driving is an offence, is dangerous and she will now no longer use her phone whilst driving, then great.
If I haven't succeeded in doing this then at the very least I have inconvenienced her, temporarily stopped her call and her driving without due care and attention and risking crashing into something or some one in the residential street. It is half term at the moment and kids are everywhere. She could drive into one .........
Lizban said:You lost the polite argument when you took her keys. Bit like saying Please F off -the please doesn't make it polite.
Her behaviour was wrong, let's be clear not convinced that yours was right.