Some interesting and slightly baffling opinions!.

GB, i quite understand your point of view, after all you do spend all day on the road, so probably see much more examples of dangerous/illegal/irresponsible driving than most.

drd63, you must have read something in my post that was not actually there as i have no intention whatsoever in starting to drive around looking for people, or snooping on them like some sort of big brother on the road. You seem to have a rather curious attitude towards dangerous driving and how any witnesses should deal with it, i.e, nothing to do with me, not my problem. Supposing the oncoming car in the case i described was being driven by you, or a family member, would you still be of the opinion that it isn't your place to do anything?, or would you be glad of someone having video footage of the incident to pass on to the Police. After all, the next time the reckless driver tries the same thing, it might end up a fatal accident. If however, i passed the footage on to the Police and the driver in question were to recieve a fine, or points, or whatever, it may make them think twice about trying a manoeuvre such as that again. Which in turn may save a life or lives.

The Police are hopelessly underfunded and understaffed, so we can't realistically expect them to be everywhere we need them to be whenever we need them. In my mind, the only potential problem would be deciding what incident or incidents are actually dangerous and should be brought to the attention of the Police, as opposed to just stupid. The example i witnessed on the way home, IMO, definately falls into the former category. By contrast, on the way to work yesterday morning, i was overtaken by someone using a centre slip road for a turn off to a local quarry. I would consif=der that to be the latter.

Why would you think this is anti police? I just feel that snooping on behalf of the police isn’t conducive to a civilised, modern and liberal society, which in the main is what we enjoy in the UK. When the public are encouraged to seek out and report wrongdoing something isn’t right.

Reporting someone who is driving dangerously and might kill or injure someone is hardly snooping. I believe all forces take video evidence but it may have to be in a particular file format. Once they view it, they can decide on the action if any to take.

I agree. Sadly, unless its a really serious offence or one they can just send a fine out, they mostly don't want to know these days. Ironically if its posted on social media and the person doing so says something 'mean' about the other party, they could find the police round their home giving them a 'warning'.

Upsetting a snowflake takes precedence over endangering lives. Hey, we’re talking about feelings here, it’s serious stuff. :)

There are some serious snowflakes as well. Like seriously dumb and stoopid. On one of the Beekeeping forums, someone commented that "margarine is one step away from plastic". When I asked which step.. heating, spreading or just looking at it :-)?... I was accused of being aggressive. I replied that anyone who posted rubbish deserved to be challenged .

The good news is that snowflakes tend not to be able to use Google to search for anything so they are useless at refuting logical arguments.

Edited by madf on 09/09/2018 at 18:42

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