A few days ago I was unfortunate enough to have been issued with a fixed
penalty for stopping in a pedestrian crossing and I received 3 points and a
£60 fine. Ok fair cop but what I found very strange was that after the
policeman had finished his paperwork he told me that under ...

Targeted individuals, registration numbers and photographs of drivers,
cars and motorcyclists and certain other people have been stuck on the
inside wall of a speed camera van.  Following an investigation by
members of the public into the speeding and dangerous driving of

Finished briefing a pupil on left/right reverse from a major to minor road.
Also stressed we need to stop if a moving hazzard is seen.
blow me if during the straight reverse to the corner, a police car reverses
out of the minor to the major road. My student stops and asks me if ...

Went into Guildford yesterday afternoon, planning to stay until evening. On
finally finding a parking space, went to pay at the Pay & Display. Parking
restrictions are lifted at 18:00, so I piled in £2.80 (70p/hour). Then
realised that only gave me parking till 17:58. I didn't ...

I've been looking for an answer to this for ages, and I suspect some other
Renault drivers too who have a digital dash.  I do a lot of driving in
France and I've been trying to work out for ages how to get my digital dash
to go to KPH from MPH.  I finally found and got the ...

Having seen a CCTV Van, a Tax Disc Van, numerous speed camera vans,
today I saw the latest spy van to appear in my area.  It is a silver
estate car with painted over windows, a huge camera on display in the
opened tail gate, and small writing on the side with something about

FYI
Found this on another NG. Couldn't resit forwarding it.
Lights blue touch paper....... And retires....
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Ok - in a moment of madness, I have just bought my first ever automatic
(Scorpio) and apart from 1/4 mile in a Jag twenty years ago, I've never
driven one before. It is to be a secondary car, rather than my primary
one and to be honest I was dreading trying to get used to it.

A while ago:
a link was posted which greatly offended "penny" (wo filed an abuse report to get
the posters internet switched off [failed]) and was declared 'the new goatse' by
someone. I can't remember the link but it wasn't lemon party or goatse.

Side lights on in the fog?
If this is you then they are not side lights they are parking lights,
the clue is in the name!!!  Put your headlights on please, it makes
life a lot safer!

Just had a lift off a friend today. He's an IAM member and observer.
Driving right up people's arses, lane changing with absolutely no benefit,
abysmal observation, no forethought, overtaking coming up to a dip...
Thanks, but I don't think I want to lower my standard far enough to ...

I would suggest that not all "heavy duty" criminals drive 4x4s .
On a completely different tack - don't pi55 off the white haired Old Guy in
a "gold" Lexus ken 668z or was it Kev?

To the driver who cut me up on Monday while his kid flicked me the V's from
the passenger seat... if you are looking for your wing mirrors you'll find
them in the canal behind your house.
Hope this helps.

The best way to treat an old piece of crap Range Rover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5dbhKzaBQ

Some unfortunate managed, yet again, to get his curtainsider demolished
by the rail bridge across the A30 at Goss moor near Bodmin.
It's got markers all over it and signage for a good few miles leading
up to it yet every few weeks someone whacks it again. This lunchtimes