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BBC facing a double inquiry into Top Gear presenter’s jet-car crash – Law – Times Online

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Modern Britain is a strange country. Richard Hammond was a grown man and an experienced driver. He chose to attempt the British land speed record in a drag car. This is an intrinsically dangerous activity (but one that any man I know would jump at the chance to try). Sadly, it went wrong and every petrolhead in the country is hoping he will make a full recovery. How can that be of any legitimate interest to the police? Richard is a free man who made a free choice. Of course, given the Nanny State “Health & Safety at Work” legislation, it is inevitable that an inspector will call on the BBC to investigate if they provided Richard with “a safe system of work.” But the police? Have they nothing better to do?

2 responses to “BBC facing a double inquiry into Top Gear presenter’s jet-car crash – Law – Times Online”

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    Umbongo

    Tom
    “But the police? Have they nothing better to do?”
    Obviously not http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/13/1347.asp
    The scary things about this conviction for revving your car engine in a racist manner are that (1) the driver was slammed up for 2 days without due process, (2) he told the off-duty busybody police inspector to fuck off (quite rightly) who then used his official position to repair his damaged dignity, and (3) the magistrate convicted him instead of throwing out the case

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    Television dude

    Oh dear that is a bit of a crazy story! I got pulled over at the weekend for (and I quote) “traveling too briskly round a round about” ok I was doing 30 around it which is legal and I know is probably a bit stupid on my part but the road was empty (apart from the police car sitting in a car park).
    The policeman had nothing better to do than to try doing me for reckless driving!!!! I then complained about this and he started going on about doing me for dangerous driving too!!! I just shut up and thankfully one of his fellow officers called him back to the car to attend something that actually sounded like police work and let me off lol

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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