Excessive Sentence : 166mph biker

Completely OTT. A pedo gets 2.5 years here, so someone being caught 2 or 3 times doing this speed is WORSE than a pedo ? The judge is out of his mind to give a guy a sentence like this for speeding...
 
Last year more than 20 motorists were caught travelling at more than 100mph on the Dolphinton stretch of the A702.

It has sparked calls for permanent speed cameras in the area.
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This is the most concerning thing for me, speed cameras because people go over the speed limit there? I thought they were only allowed to be established in places where there was a history of accidents?
 
Amps said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8329590.stm

Excessive Sentence?

A 9 month jail sentence for speeding seems rather excessive when you compare it to the stunts some people pull on these programs you seen on TV with people stealing cars and crashing them.
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Not at all. Maybe a bit harsh with the ban but the road is a bit dangerous, particularly at night.

My family live in Peebles and the A702 while fun to drive, is a ******* nightmare for idiots going over the lines. Lots of hills, blind crests.. almost every corner. With houses ajoining right on the road, at bends often.

Depends on which part, but there are only two real stetches on that road that you could do that without being a 100% reckless. Even those two streches are on long sweeping bends, with small b road junctions.

100mph is well fast enough for that road, sod doing it at nearly 170.
 
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Load of crap, as said have seen yobs on the police programmes get less for doing silly speeds with no license or insurance and damaging police vehicles, this poor guy obviously had a judge who loathes motorbikes
 
Reminds me of this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4739670.stm

12 weeks for killing a 3 year old in a hit and run whilst driving a stolen car with no license insurance etc etc. He was already on parole and admitted handing stolen goods too. 12 weeks just for killing a 3 year old child.... which I don't he served the whole of and he was caught speeding again when he was released. This biker was made an example of.
 
Dup said:
This biker was made an example of.
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I think its gone past that now though, was only a while ago the dad with the kid on the back got Jailed for 130 or something like that, I think they will keep on untill nobody wants to ride anything above a 125! Even police bikers I have spoken to recently dont think police bikes will be in service for long after the olympics.
 
Dup said:
Reminds me of this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4739670.stm
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Please stop posting those news stories - it's just making me more and more angry.

The amount of times you see car thieves who have failed to stop etc get community rehab orders/3 year ban (like they had a licence anyway!)/£150 fine and this guy gets 9 months in prison for speeding. Fair enough it was very excessive speed, but he's hardly someone that needs to be segregated from the rest of the public.
 
TBF, the entire police force and judiciary system in this country needs to be made an example of. That's the real crime, that they're allowed to continue to hold authority with such blatant inconsistency and nonsensical decisions.
 
I witnessed 2 police incidents today that would be classed as 'dangerous' if we mere civilians did it, one on a mobile phone at a roundabout totally disregarding the car to its right and going over, not on an emergency or chase and one panda car doing about 70 in a 50 (i was doing 53 on the needle and it left me for dead) obviously not on an emergency or chase as it slowed right down for the speed camera and then sped right back up. I find that sentence way too harsh, ban and a large fine would have sufficed to me.
 
Motorbike sentence -- ridiculous.

Justintime --

I'm surprised it slowed down for the speed camera as my wife's ex-boyfriend processes the photos and the first thing they do is throw away all the ones with emergency service vehicles on them.

Whats the alternative? Match them all up to the official records showing when they were and weren't on an emergency at the exact time? Naah. Remember the shutter speed is so fast (moving target) that they could well miss the flashing lights ...

Besides -- if they bothered prosecuting -- police man just says 'er .. thought I saw a bad guy so sped up to see. And funny enough, it wasn't him'. Wouldn't even reach court.
 
I don't really get that. He was caught driving very recklessly so ban him so that he can't do it again. It's essentially a victimless crime, so I can't see the justification for jail time.
 
Drink driving whilst banned with no insurance but, by complete fluke, killing and injuring no-one -- is also a victimless crime.

The trouble is you try and take fluke and luck out of the justice system where practical. Thats why the awfully titled crime 'Dangerous driving with incidental death' exists.

'incidental'? Terrible eh? But the theory is that if you are dangerous driving you should not have a lighter sentence just because you were pure lucky enough not to kill anyone -- so whether you had a lucky drive or an unlucky one -- the sentence should be the same -- the death has to be considered 'incidental'.

Wierd I know ..
 
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