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Re: Returning with car

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Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 8643251)

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring...Mot/DG_4022108

Why you need an MOT certificate

It is generally an offence to use on a public road, a vehicle of testable age that doesnâ€™t have a current test certificate, except when:

* taking it to a test station for an MOT test booked in advance
* bringing it away from a test station after it has failed the MOT test, to a place of repair
* taking it to a place, by previous arrangement, where problems that caused the vehicle to fail its MOT test, can be repaired
* bringing it away from a place where the problems with the vehicle have been repaired

Even in the above circumstances you may still be prosecuted for driving an unroadworthy vehicle if it doesnâ€™t comply with various regulations affecting its construction and use. Your car insurance may also be invalid.

I couldn't agree more now you've used the word MAY, and not IS. We are at long last in agreement. :thumbup:

Re: Returning with car

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Originally Posted by Bomber Harris (Post 8643326)

There has been many reports in the papers over the years of UK truck drivers that have been incarcerated in France and Spain over the years & subsequently been found innocent in Court

Are you suggesting that no innocent people have ever been locked up in the UK?

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Originally Posted by Bomber Harris (Post 8643326)

In my dealings with the police over the years, both in the UK and Europe, I have only found one common fact, be polite and they will treat you fairly

You only have to watch the news & spend a few minutes on youtube to discover that this statement is totally unfounded. Tell me Mr Harris, after all your years on the force do you still believe that the public's hate & mistrust of OB is unfounded & unjustified? Would you like me to post video clips from youtube showing police punching people who just happen to be stood in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or in the case of one poor man in London last year who was murdered in cold blood just for watching a capitalist demonstration?

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Originally Posted by Bomber Harris (Post 8643326)

I see from your other posts that you are vehemently anti-police, so much so that you feel it necessary to get involved in a thread running in another area of this forum for police officers in Canada to advertise your hatred of them, why?

Please copy & paste any "vehemently anti-police" comments that I have made. Again I will ask you to keep your statements factual, you're not in the court room now remember. Re the other thread, I merely posted an observation & questioned what I'd seen, do you feel my observation or opinion formed to be unjust?

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Originally Posted by Bomber Harris (Post 8643326)

get over it

Get over what exactly?

For the record Mr Harris, I have a clean driving licence & no criminal convictions, so why would you assume I am "vehemently anti-police"? A point already disproved by my statement that you have nothing to fear Spanish police if you're doing nothing wrong.

I'd also like to ask why you keep throwing questions at me, but fail to answer the ones I presented for you. Try answering those in future rather than making blanket generalisations about me.

Re: Returning with car

Once again I have to ask to to stick to the topic rather than discussing the pros and cons of the UK police force.

Whatever you think of "Mr Plod" or OB as you describe them, it is not relevant here.

Re: Returning with car

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Originally Posted by Fred James (Post 8643419)

Point taken, however I have been accused of being Old Bill in this thread. I am not, I just find it difficult to stomach someone who accuses them all of being corrupt just because the odd one has been found to be so. We should be as proud of them as we should be of our armed forces.

Re: Returning with car

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Originally Posted by Bomber Harris (Post 8643429)

I agree lets save this debate for another day ;) I'll also agree with you Mr Harris that yes we should be proud of the police force, the fact that we aren't though is the issue that needs addressing.

Now, back to the football :thumbsup: