This story came through on the newsfeeds. It concerns incidents recorded by Hampshire police.
The story describes how police spotted a motorist using a laptop – he was writing answers to a quiz on the radio – and drinking coffee at the same time.
Then there is this CCTV footage of teenage idiots car surfing:
Notice the little prat on the BMX bike in the foreground – that sums up the mental (and probably, the physical) ages of the ones in the car (and the little chavette accompanying another onlooker appears suitably impressed). Too stupid to see the CCTV cameras, they didn’t realise they were being filmed. One of the drivers was Kieron Burgess (physical age 21; mental age 2). The other was 17, and “too young to be named” – but he had only passed his test two months previously. Both were banned for 12 months.
In another incident, a bus driver was seen steering using his elbows – because he was using his hands to turn the pages of a paperback he was reading (video recorded by a passenger in the link).
In another case, a Romanian trucker videoed himself dancing in his cab as he drove along a motorway, even steering with his feet at one point (video in the link). He gave the recording to a TV station – probably thinking how great he was, and yet missing that big chunk of “stupid” that was also tucked in there somewhere.
It is somewhat ironic that when I loaded the link, one of the Google Ads immediately below the story trumpets:
Caught Speeding? Avoid fine and points Call T** V****** (I won’t publicise this moron’s shady business by naming him)
And they want to raise the motorway speed limit? It’s hard to work out who are the bigger idiots. The one’s who break the law, or the ones who make it.