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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
Oct 4, 2003
10,895
Who eats a PIE whilst driving?

You are a brilliant, brilliant troll and I salute you.

I can imagine eating a Ginsters Slice or the like wouldn’t be too difficult, but given BG thinks Pukka Pies and their sloppy innards are the pinnacle of gastronomy I’d wager he regularly covers himself in lukewarm pie juice while driving.
 


GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,473
Gloucester
Our Hyundai has all those functions on or around the steering wheel.

Your Hyundai might, but every car I've ever owned doesn't. Not to mention sun visors, heater and AC controls, rear screen heater, windows.....................




................and does anybody but a raving idiot seriously think the motorways would be a safer place if the hard shoulder was clogged up with cars whose drivers had stopped and switched off their engines in order to legally (without breaking the hands on wheel law) wind down a window, change a CD, turn on the air con or blow their nose, etc?
 
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BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
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Jul 14, 2013
21,450
Newhaven
Ignore the phone call the legal way of rejecting an incoming call, it's not difficult.

I have hands free in my van, never used it as I like to actually concentrate when I'm driving. I miss some calls but I'm not bothered as my voicemail tells the caller I'm driving or busy, if they want me enough they can leave a message.
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
Who eats a PIE whilst driving?

You are a brilliant, brilliant troll and I salute you.

In my younger days I have eaten a Pork Pie while driving many times. Just as an update my sons MD went mad and said that all company vehicles must have either controls on the steering wheel or Blue tooth and any that havent got them are to be fitted without delay. A case of after the horse has bolted, but give him his due he is backing my son to the hilt including providing the company solicitor/barrister to fight his corner.
 




Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
19,632
Eastbourne
In my younger days I have eaten a Pork Pie while driving many times. Just as an update my sons MD went mad and said that all company vehicles must have either controls on the steering wheel or Blue tooth and any that havent got them are to be fitted without delay. A case of after the horse has bolted, but give him his due he is backing my son to the hilt including providing the company solicitor/barrister to fight his corner.

Good luck with that one, perhaps the government could draft special legislation to exempt you, your son and grandson, exemption from following the laws of the land as it's all someone else's fault.
 


Hugo Rune

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Feb 23, 2012
21,496
Brighton
give him his due he is backing my son to the hilt including providing the company solicitor/barrister to fight his corner.

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Good luck with that!
 


SIMMO SAYS

Well-known member
Jul 31, 2012
11,702
Incommunicado
In my younger days I have eaten a Pork Pie while driving many times. Just as an update my sons MD went mad and said that all company vehicles must have either controls on the steering wheel or Blue tooth and any that havent got them are to be fitted without delay. A case of after the horse has bolted, but give him his due he is backing my son to the hilt including providing the company solicitor/barrister to fight his corner.

BG slips into 65,000 posts with ease :moo:
 






jcdenton08

Enemy of the People
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Oct 17, 2008
10,473
I assume you know that these fines go to the treasury and not the individual police forces ?

Of course. But the amount of money generated by each force will work its way back to forces which pay for themselves.
 


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I operate my radio by a click wheel thing where an old school handbrake would have been previously. My car system has a function to read texts and emails would you believe it!

I assume this is illegal and car company's should now remove this from future new cars then? As I have to take 1 hand off the wheel to operate and it's an Internet function? Obviously I don't do this in traffic or if a car is very close in front but it is a good function to use on an open motorway, foot down to the floor, 70mph but never more!

It's also a much better function to use than touch screen only radios some car manufacturers seem to be installing. Might as well stick an iPad on.. But assume if you did that and touched it you'd get pulled over?:facepalm:
 






Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
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Oct 27, 2003
20,938
The arse end of Hangleton
In my younger days I have eaten a Pork Pie while driving many times. Just as an update my sons MD went mad and said that all company vehicles must have either controls on the steering wheel or Blue tooth and any that havent got them are to be fitted without delay. A case of after the horse has bolted, but give him his due he is backing my son to the hilt including providing the company solicitor/barrister to fight his corner.

Then his boss is stupid too. Does he really think spending money on a solicitor will get it over turned ? Your son was bang to rights so what is he going to use to suggest he isn't guilty ?
 










warmleyseagull

Well-known member
Apr 17, 2011
4,201
Beaminster, Dorset
Can I have a link to this “new” law because it sounds like a load of bollocks to me and I don’t believe it.

I don't think anyone has addressed your point; I can find nothing that supports a new law from Jan so BG is talking bollocks; indeed as this article says there is nothing illegal about driving one-handed: http://drivinginstructorblog.com/q-is-it-illegal-to-drive-with-one-hand-on-the-wheel/. The issue is 'proper control of the vehicle', which is what caught the woman eating an apple in one of the cases highlighted in an earlier post, and, I suspect, what is catching BG's son.
 


Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
14,747
No plead guilty and offer mitigation that is the advice of the barrister , who happens to be the bosses sister so it wont cost a lot of money.
The mitigation being...?

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