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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
If someone's whole life depends on driving, they ought to do it better then. Sod them, if they can't see the consequences.
Swindon's Claim to Shame
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If someone's whole life depends on driving, they ought to do it better then. Sod them, if they can't see the consequences.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
It will have caused considerable financial hardship.
My kid brother was forking out £8500 per year car insurance for a lot fewer points on his license and I think it might have been for the most basic cover.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
No bloody sympathy, TBH. Drive like a tw@t, pay the consequences.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
If they were drink driving we would say they should loose their licence whether they needed it for work or not ... how is it different? (Apart from the fact it is more acceptable to society in general).
Although if there are dependents involved, that will complicate matters somewhat.
Arguably not fair that the wife and kids suffer for something which is not their fault.
Maybe not for you, but for a lot of people it is.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Shouldn't really make any difference.
If the husband (and we are assuming the traditional family model here) were into theft with GBH and was put in prison it would be the same hardship for the rest of the family.
You don't see the courts letting people off their punishment for those reasons. Though maybe they do.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
But as NT points out, that doesn't give people a blanket excuse for wrongdoing.
If the wife had any sense, she'd have done something about it before it got to the stage of 39 points. If someone cared so little about their family's future as to keep offending, I wouldn't want anything to do with them.
Of course, once the person gets off once at 12 points, I guess they assume they will get off every time. Hence the need for consistent punishment from the start.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Driving as fast as you can to get away from Swindon sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
And miss out on all the wonders of Swindon, such as erm, wait a minute, erm, I'm bound to think of something eventually or maybe not
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threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
And miss out on all the wonders of Swindon, such as erm, wait a minute, erm, I'm bound to think of something eventually or maybe not
I found this - The Seven Wonders of Swindon
http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/7wonders.html
How could they miss the mystical magic roundabout, equal to the boring Stonehenge any day.
I must be concentrating too much when cycling as I pass that lighthouse everyday and still haven't seen it yet
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Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
But the point about the points system is that you get loads of second chances. To clock up 12 points, you either have to have done something spectacularly stupid (and got caught doing it) or to have done something slightly less stupid more than once (and got caught each time). No actual punishment (besides perhaps an utterly derisory fine) is imposed until you reach the magic 12 points.
So if you manage to get caught more than once, you can hardly complain you didn't know what the consequences would be.
Look, motor vehicles are dangerous things. We wouldn't tolerate people going around in public with other bits of dangerous equipment (chainsaws, knives, firearms) and being irresponsible with them with no punishment. So why is a car any different?
If I was irresponsible with my shotgun and got caught, the police would make sure I never owned one again - and quite rightly. But I'm allowed umpteen second chances with my two-tonne pickup.
