How about this
BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Skating pensioner fined by court
for an example of the ridiculous attitude of the courts to road traffic offences (or in this case contravention of local byelaws)? If the pensioner had driven down a street exceeding the speed limit in a motor vehicle what would the penalty have been? £60, £100 maximum, perhaps? The magistrates in this case, like fellow members of the judiciary, and indeed the general public, are oblivious to the dangers to which we are all exposed by motor vehicles and when a relatively innocuous "vehicle" - roller blades - comes before them they impose an inordinate penalty. A cyclist caught "riding furiously" would probably be treated in the same way. Are our judges incapable of understanding the concept of momentum? No matter how fast a roller blader or cyclist may travel his or her momentum will never be anywhere near that of a motor vehicle weighing anything between 1 and 40 tonnes.
Here's hoping the roller blader will have better luck with his appeal to a higher, and one hopes more sensible, court. It will cost him a lot in legal fees and expenses however.
BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Skating pensioner fined by court
for an example of the ridiculous attitude of the courts to road traffic offences (or in this case contravention of local byelaws)? If the pensioner had driven down a street exceeding the speed limit in a motor vehicle what would the penalty have been? £60, £100 maximum, perhaps? The magistrates in this case, like fellow members of the judiciary, and indeed the general public, are oblivious to the dangers to which we are all exposed by motor vehicles and when a relatively innocuous "vehicle" - roller blades - comes before them they impose an inordinate penalty. A cyclist caught "riding furiously" would probably be treated in the same way. Are our judges incapable of understanding the concept of momentum? No matter how fast a roller blader or cyclist may travel his or her momentum will never be anywhere near that of a motor vehicle weighing anything between 1 and 40 tonnes.
Here's hoping the roller blader will have better luck with his appeal to a higher, and one hopes more sensible, court. It will cost him a lot in legal fees and expenses however.
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