to think that yes this was in fact careless and inconsiderate driving

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Last night FB post from someone I know from work saying she had been stopped by police on motorway for crossing double white lines, from what i can gather she suddenly decided to switch off on to an exit at last min so crossed on the no crossing bit, she was given 3 points and a fine.

I get that this is annoying, I would be gutted. But I would be annoyed at myself - I would be thinking "what the fuck did you do that for?"

Anyway last night she posted on FB that this had happened - cue loads of messages from her pals saying "OMG hun thats awful, the police are bastards hun!" or "fucks sake they just want money for their xmas party!"

And tonight she has just read through the ticket/fine whatever paper work she has and has seen the words careless and inconsiderate driving and is furious as she "doesn't fucking think so!". IMO it is careless and inconsiderate - if everyone just drove as they pleased then it would be chaos!

Now her fb cronies are having a field day with the police bashing eg "fuck the polis" or "they polis are jobsworths, put a complaint in hun" - wtf would she be complaining about?!

If they're saying "hun" isn't the general consensus that they're fuckwits anyway? And anyone who says "polis" who isn't actually a Glaswegian gangster or a character from Taggart back when Mark McManus was alive is definitely a fuckwit.

So quietly defriend her. She sounds like hard work. And a bit thick.

unfriend her on facebook now. this is careless and inconsiderate driving. she could have caused an accident and injured someone. why did she do it. not concentrating, on the phone etc. people write this sort of supportive crap because they don't have the balls to say " good, glad you got fined perhaps you will concentrate when next in charge of a dangerous weapon" you are clearly more intelligent than her or her friends so stop hanging around with them and de-friend her.

Can you just post something like 'Expect lots of accidents happen round slip roads, at least no one got hurt'

Or I could go for "OMG hun that's awful are they saying you did something and you didn't do it? How dare they! No way would you have done that, you are not an arse of a driver hun.xxx"

Is it only a Glaswegian ned thing to call them "Polis"?

LOL, I wonder what sort of driving she thinks it was, if not careless and inconsiderate?

YANBU

No
Irish people use polis a lot.

And Ancient Greeks of course, but in a different context

Speaking of Taggart I saw woolly and tig Dad today, he had the spider with him, it fell out his coat pocket!

she and her stupid pals should all have their right feet amputated. She could have caused a huge accident. Luckily all those round her were awake, she probably never noticed them all standing on their brakes as she cut across them.

if you suddenly realise you are going to miss your exit, tough - you go on to the next one. She is a DANGEROUS driver and I hope someone tells her so before she kills someone.

and yes, I would say this to her in person.

People that do that at junctions are a danger to everyone. Glad one of them has been caught. Its much safer just to go onto the next junction than. She sounds like a bit of a chav, as do the "hunning" friends.

the trouble is that people don't take responsibility for breaking the law (whether they agree with that law or not) and therefore have to blame someone other than themselves.

It's always the fault of the police - "they should be out catching real criminals" etc. Well if drivers would be more considerate, stop speeding and (pet hate of mine) get off their mobile phones the police wouldn't have to waste so much time stopping "innocent" drivers and would be able to spend more time "catching real criminals"

and rant over

YANBU by the way.