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In Topic: Police beat up Range Rover with 70yr old driver
Yesterday, 15:01
mdon, on 06 February 2012 - 14:02, said:Nope sorry, still illegal however you have mittigating circumstances if the car is unmarked.
It's not illegal - in fact the legislation specifically caters for this situation:
http://www.police999...one-legislation
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5. A person does not contravene a provision of this regulation if, at the time of the alleged contravention -
1. he is using the telephone or other device to call the police, fire, ambulance or other emergency service on 112 or 999;
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In Topic: Stopped today for no road tax.
Yesterday, 13:09
Babs, on 06 February 2012 - 12:53, said:Under what legislation?
It's in the Road Traffic Act: http://www.legislati...#pt7-pb1-l1g164
Sections 164 and 165 if you're interested :)
It used to be that you'd be given a producer which gave you 7 days grace to present the documents at a police station, although these days this is rarer and more reliance is placed on the police national computer database.
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In Topic: Smoking whilst Driving
Yesterday, 12:02
Llanigraham, on 06 February 2012 - 11:32, said:The Welsh Assembly have ASKED people not to smoke in their cars whilst there are children with them. At the moment it is a voluntary request, but they have said that if it is significantly ignored then they could try and make it Law.
Do we know who will be monitoring this to see how significantly it's being ignored (and my guess is it will be)? Perhaps it's merely a "popularity"-tester before going ahead and pushing it through as law.
I must be getting cynical, but it seems a bit draconian to me to try and control how people live their lives (even if it is simply by asking them). Freedom of choice and all that :)
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In Topic: Police beat up Range Rover with 70yr old driver
04 February 2012 - 11:02
fabdavrav, on 04 February 2012 - 10:33, said:Yep,.. aware that he didn't help himself.....BUT they had stopped his car with a "stinger" so he couldn't go anywhere.....during the "chase" he did no more than around 39mph...(ooohhhhh he's trying to run away.... :giggle:).......
He decided to pull over when confronted with a stinger - not quite the same as being immobilised. The speed of the pursuit is immaterial - if you drive off from a stop, there's an assumption that you're hiding something and without knowing what that is, the officers will step things up to minimise the risk to themselves and to the members of the public (hence the deployment of the stinger and the no-nonsense approach to removing him from the vehicle). The officers would only have smashed the windows if the door was locked and they couldn't get to the keys - they are not stupid and aware that all their actions are being filmed by their patrol car which is backed up by the fact they were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Hopefully he'll put his seat belt on in future. (Wonder if they fined him for his number plate too :D)
fabdavrav, on 04 February 2012 - 10:33, said:We do get asked on this site questions about tinted windows/licence plates etc.......It does give a practical example of what happens when you have items on your car that will draw the polices attention.....and yes he wasn't wearing a seatbelt when they saw him (he stated he was reversing at that particular moment). And as I stated.....DO NOT give the Police an inch (any excuss to stop you)....as they will (might) run with it and take 100miles!!!!..........
The law is the law - if you break it you can expect a stop. He could have accepted the fixed penalty fine for the seat belt offence and been on his way in 5 minutes without any problems. He chose to take the law into his own hands and got burned.
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In Topic: Learning C#
02 February 2012 - 18:16
snow_muncher, on 02 February 2012 - 11:48, said:Looking for a decent book (hopefully downloadable as PDF) or website where I can start learning C# in Visual Studio 2005
I quite like the Dummies series of books and the C# one seems fairly good and comprehensive. Google seems to also turn up plenty of good tutorials. Microsoft document the API really well on the web and this can also be hooked into VS for code-completion. One thing to be aware of is that VS2005 is a couple of releases backlevel so you'll be limited to .NET 2.0 framework (with maybe some 3.0 extensions) so some of the material covered in courses may not be available to you - it should flag that up though.
One thing it's also possible to do is compile your VB application and then decompile it into C#. Quite neat, although I've not used it extensively.
Good luck :D
Chris
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