Speeding Excuses

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:57 am

Speeding tales fail to convince

LONDON (Reuters) - A mercy dash for a dying hamster, a UFO-inspired trance broken only by a speed camera's flash and severe diarrhoea were among the year's best excuses from speeding motorists in the north-east.

Northumbrian authorities were having none of them.

"Some drivers seem to think that if they tell a good enough story, then they will get off," Ray King, manager of the Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, was quoted as saying in Friday's Guardian.

His organisation has issued a top 10 list of tales that included blaming a low-flying aircraft for triggering the speed trap and another saying the cause was bad vibrations from a surf board carried on the vehicle's roof.

Speeding drivers earn penalty points for their licences, possible bans and fines of 60 pounds or more.

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:54 pm

I was caught on camera last year doing 50 mph in a 40 mph zone...in a Royal Mail Van

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happysmilies007 · Post by **happysmilies007** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:17 pm

LMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAO

carolynn

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:30 pm

Go speed racer, go speed racer, go speed racer go..............

Kares4Rush · Post by **Kares4Rush** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:04 pm

Ohhh yeah? how about Kimba! Kimba! Kimba the white lion is for me!!!!

All those great Japanese cartoons when we were kiddies and they're even SCARIER now!

All I can say is that "My dog age my homework" as an excuse seems lame to the extra-terrestrial one given, Ogg!