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I know someone who has just been through this recently but DD, we all expected the premiums to be staggering as a rather juicy car is involved, and yes the premium doubled from the £300 mark to roughly £600.
Just make sure you stay clear of the muck you used, because if anything like DD you will have to undergo a medical examination incl blood tests before they grant your licence back.
Best of luck for the future, i'll cast no stones at you cos i've done daft things in the past too (unlike the haloed above who possibly walk several feet above water), and yes a nasty divorce of the type your describe to recall so you have my sympathy there, T shirt earned here too.
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i'll cast no stones at you cos i've done daft things in the past too (unlike the haloed above who possibly walk several feet above water), and yes a nasty divorce
Most of us on here will have done daft things in the past but being convicted of driving with no license, no insurance and the refusing to take a blood test (which resulted in the ban for drugged driving) all in what would appear to be a short period of time is totally beyond daft.
I have had to cope with a divorce in the past and I am pretty sure no one has a pleasant one of those.but its no excuse for the above.
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i'll cast no stones at you cos i've done daft things in the past too (unlike the haloed above who possibly walk several feet above water), and yes a nasty divorce
Most of us on here will have done daft things in the past but being convicted of driving with no license, no insurance and the refusing to take a blood test (which resulted in the ban for drugged driving) all in what would appear to be a short period of time is totally beyond daft.
I have had to cope with a divorce in the past and I am pretty sure no one has a pleasant one of those.but its no excuse for the above.
We all find ourselves at a low point now and again, often through no fault of our own. In such times its easy to do daft things because thought processes are not working properly and willpower is lacking, things that we might easily find ourselves regretting for the rest of our lives. So an important port of call in this discussion would indeed be "cast not the first stone".
However, I would take issue with those who castigate the allegedly judgemental comments made by myself and others.It would be a failure of any community such as this one to fail to give good advice to its members. That good advice in this case is very simple and entirely reasonable: learn from your mistake, and then move on.
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"However, I would take issue with those who castigate the allegedly judgemental comments made by myself and others. It would be a failure of any community such as this one to fail to give good advice to its members."
Giving "good advice" is not the same as being harshly critical.
I'm afraid it's become predictable not only that the boot would go in, but whose boot as well.
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"However, I would take issue with those who castigate the allegedly judgemental comments made by myself and others. It would be a failure of any community such as this one to fail to give good advice to its members."
Giving "good advice" is not the same as being harshly critical.
I'm afraid it's become predictable not only that the boot would go in, but whose boot as well.
Admittedly I wrote the above before I read all the comments made by those "others," but I was primarily defending my own post, which I didn't think was excessively "judgemental", or unreasonable.
It remains my opinion that we'd be letting the OP down by failing to emphasise (despite his entreaty not to judge him) that although we all make mistakes, he should try not to make that same set of mistakes again. Otherwise the consequences are likely to be significantly worse than they will be this time round.
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Once again, Skidpan, you don't know when to shut up.
Such comments (e.g. "totally beyond daft") are of no use to anyone in this thread.
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Note to the OP - disregard the vast majority of skidpan's unpleasantness - he can't help himself.... he just likes the sound of his own voice. Well, I suppose we all do to some extent, but he takes it to a new, and irksome, level.
My neighbour, a lady of 86, has had an unbelievable number of "incidents" on the road. The vast majority (if not all) were of her own making - she's reversed into cars on more than one occasion, driven into her own garage door, scraped and dented every body panel ... the list goes on. The year just gone, when her insurance came up for renewal, her insurer declined to invite renewal. She asked her broker (a local firm with whom she has had insurance for many years) who offered an alternative company's quote of over £900. I thought that might be her only option but her son went online and, lo and behold, came up with a respectable enough company who offered her comprehensive insurance at a little over £300, which she grabbed with both hands.
So, despite the odds, all may well not be lost when the time comes .... just shop around.
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Once again, Skidpan, you don't know when to shut up.
Such comments (e.g. "totally beyond daft") are of no use to anyone in this thread.
Note to the OP - disregard the vast majority of skidpan's unpleasantness - he can't help himself...
Get serious you two. The OP has committed 4 serious driving offences
Driving under the influence of drugs
Refusing to give a blood sample
Driving with no licence
Driving with no insurance
and you two whilst not actually defending him are not happy that myself and others are prepared to tell it like it is.
As far as I am concerned drink/drug driving should have a simple and non negotiable sentence for the first and any subsequent offence
1st offence 2 year ban
2nd offence 10 year ban
3rd offence life time ban
In addition prison should be mandatory if persons are injured or killed as a result of the offences.
If a banned person is caught driving they should automatically be put onto the next level of ban e.g. get caught whilst on a 2 year, move onto a 10 year.
There are probably other sites where people are more than happy to say how terrible it is and try to help with getting offenders off but that is not this site thankfully.
To the OP. remember that the increased premiums will not just be for the first year, you will keep paying them for a very long time.
I sincerely hope you have learned form your mistake.
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I'll tell you what lesson I learn when seeing the sanctimonious tripe and bilge you post, day after day, in this place .... it's how grateful I am I can turn my computer off and you magically disappear from my radar.
It would all be so much worse if I had you as a neighbour, co-worker - or, worse still, a relative .....
.....if that were the case, and I had to suffer you on a regular basis, I think even I, who has never taken cannibis, or anything else along those lines, would be tempted to take it up as some form of relief from your constant stream of d***** and dross.
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I'll tell you what lesson I learn when seeing the sanctimonious tripe and bilge you post, day after day, in this place .... it's how grateful I am I can turn my computer off and you magically disappear from my radar.
It would all be so much worse if I had you as a neighbour, co-worker - or, worse still, a relative .....
.....if that were the case, and I had to suffer you on a regular basis, I think even I, who has never taken cannibis, or anything else along those lines, would be tempted to take it up as some form of relief from your constant stream of d***** and dross.
The OP said he was “Feeling the anger of constantly being punished for a silly mistake.” That sounds like he is blaming the police and legal profession for being harsh on him, rather than himself for some pretty significant transgressions. With that sort of attitude he will simply carry on repeating the same “silly mistakes” as he classes them. I have never committed one of his sins, never mind all of them. And yes I’ve done some naughty things when young, and had I been caught, I hope I would have blamed myself and no-one else. I still cringe when I think back. Someone should have firmly but politely told me that what I did was ‘naughty’.
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This forum is not the place for kicking a man when he's down. I think we can be confident that having to ride a bike to do the school run, uphill in winter, will ensure that Cheeky Bob won't get himself in that position again.
Fortunately there is some good advice above in between the outbursts of Schadenfreude, which I hope he'll find useful.
Thread closed.
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