That was my point but you put it very well.

That thread is closely monitored, and TBH it's been pretty harmless. If it had veered into blatant hate-mongering it would have gone.

I've been behind a car which was hit by an oncoming vehicle because the driver was changing a cassette. Nearly a head on. I bet there's not many of us can claim never to have operated the stereo while driving.

There was the case a couple of years ago when a woman was charged for a driving offence whilst she was eating an apple.

Yup. In theory you can get charged for any activity that the attending officer deems to be preventing you from being in full control of the vehicle. The additional specific offences regarding mobile phones were brought in because of the prevalence of those particular activities, and because research shows them to be more distracting than pretty much anything else.

That doesn't mean that anyone texting while driving is anything less than a thoughtless pillock, mind.

Fair do's. Still think that multiple offences when you make a living out of offenders makes you look a bit of a t!t though.

Good point Captain... and yet I pulled up alongside a police car this morning and the windows was so steamed up the bobby would have had to have dropped his windows to pull out at the T Junction safely!

I think thats rather liberal if you don't mind me saying. The O.P. is known for his anti Hudgell rants and lets face it the posts that follow are hardly anything other than hate mongering.

If the Hull mods were serious in stopping this vile they would have banned the likes of TLJ for instance whose signature for instance says it all.

It could be worse he could have had a punch up down Princess Ave

Maybe they'd got the concept of 'undercover' a little mixed up.

Say what you like - nobody listens.

You just have