| If you ask me, I think the real problem is with the judicial system that actually decided to hear the case. With all the presure on police officers nowadays with quotas and targets etc, it's hardly surprising that offences that in the past would have been looked over or dealt with by a 'discussion' at the roadside, now get taken to the enth degree. I'm not saying that there's never an officer who resembles Constable Savage from the Not The 9-oclock News Sketch and take things way too far, but there's pillocks in all walks of life isn't there.
In this case I think my gripe would be with a) the self righteous, trumped up magistrate etc who thought their time and taxpayers money was well spent entertaining such a charge or b) the system that makes them entertain it in the first place.
Either way, it was a bloody expensive apple.
[Edited on 25-1-2005 by Guido] |