if you are in any way annoyed at being robbed of your money and even your livelihood and are fed up of seeing idiot footballers get away with drink driving because they "need the car for work" and have £5000 a day briefs then look at www.speed-trap.co.uk/Accused_Home/Accused_Home.htm

my wife has 2 possible sp30's on the way and we are doing our best on a DIY defence.

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The Italians are the least likely to keep traffic laws. One of my Italian workmates told me that if a policeman caught a motorist in Rome doing something wrong he was likely to give him a clip. If it happened in Naples the motorist would be more likely to clip the policeman for looking at him wrongly.

With two wheels it is different. The people, especially the young, look on motor bikes and scooters as a part of the social round. If traffic laws are thought about at all it is to think up overt ways to flout them. If you look around in any city you will see multitudes of motorbikes, scooters and mopeds with never a helmet or road tax, or insurance for that matter. Girls on mopeds doing 40 with hair flying straight behind. I remember seeing scooters with two girls atop being overtaken by bigger scooters with two boys atop. The boys cut in on the girls to stop them to ?chat them up?. The girls seem to look forward to it : it is part of the courting game.

I?ve seen scads of Harleys gleaming in the sun, never a speck of dust. Riders with a helmet strapped to the back, never worn.
It seems that the government ordered the police to seize bikes and scooters for misdemeanours. That includes have a passenger on mopeds, smoking, no helmet or not fastened, one handed riding, one wheel on the ground while being towed by a car ??

Thousands were seized and auctioned off. There has been a tremendous public outcry, including fights between police and motorcyclists, imagine! It?s not fair they say, and the government has had to back down and allow the bikes to be returned.
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