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Old Dec 21st 2004, 4:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Crying Freeman
Congestion won't work over here, the driver will know the brother of some guy etc, etc and won't ever get a ticket or will get it waved, you have to stomp out the corruption before you can enforce the law!
u'd be surprised at the way the Dubai Police can enforce a law if meant to. Trust me on that.
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Old Dec 21st 2004, 4:42 pm
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Default Re: There is no escape now for all those that like to drive around aimlessly....

Originally Posted by Face81
u'd be surprised at the way the Dubai Police can enforce a law if meant to. Trust me on that.
Yeah but from what i've seen it's the lack of consistency of enforcement, I don't know maybe I'm comparing it with home too much!! Could be a good subject for debate
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Old Dec 22nd 2004, 5:34 am
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Default Re: There is no escape now for all those that like to drive around aimlessly....

Originally Posted by Crying Freeman
Yeah but from what i've seen it's the lack of consistency of enforcement, I don't know maybe I'm comparing it with home too much!! Could be a good subject for debate
perhaps rabbit, perhaps.......... hmmmmmm........ lack of consistency, check... ability 2 enforce the law...... big time check!

I guess u r right to some extent, but Dubai prides itself on its Police force.
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Old Dec 22nd 2004, 7:05 am
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Default Re: There is no escape now for all those that like to drive around aimlessly....

Originally Posted by Face81
perhaps rabbit, perhaps.......... hmmmmmm........ lack of consistency, check... ability 2 enforce the law...... big time check!

I guess u r right to some extent, but Dubai prides itself on its Police force.
Well yeah I can understand that as it's also the military for the region so it's highly trained and specialised.

To be fair to they treat us expats pretty well too...
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Old Dec 22nd 2004, 7:08 am
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Originally Posted by Face81
perhaps rabbit, perhaps.......... hmmmmmm........ lack of consistency, check... ability 2 enforce the law...... big time check!

I guess u r right to some extent, but Dubai prides itself on its Police force.
Right Face, you're calling JD Tigger and CF Rabbit. You wanna explain what's going on or do I just start calling you Christopher Robin?
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Old Dec 22nd 2004, 7:26 am
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Right Face, you're calling JD Tigger and CF Rabbit. You wanna explain what's going on or do I just start calling you Christopher Robin?

I thought that was weird but didn't want to bring attention to it
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