Age 9 I had a walk back from school that was either 1.5 miles along the road or 1 mile shortcut through the woods. Never did me any harm.

No, they subcontract that to their barely-human "adopters" who see your child as a paycheck that needs to be told to "Shut the fsck up" every now and then.

Yes, yes they do. And old people, and middle-aged people and...
Well it's not so much hate as disrespect and a lot of cops seem to feel that a gun and a badge gives them a god-given right to push people around.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

Plus, the banks involved won't even lose out cos' the governments will declare them "Too big to fail" and bail them out from the endless pot of money that governments just pull out of their asses without any source. So it's totally a victimless crime, right? So we should all do this then everyone will have infinite money and live happy ever after...

Really regretting burning through all my MOD points this morning.

Dunno man, "xXxPonyWarrior2002xXx" sounds more like a SJW's username than someone who'd enjoy banter.

Similarly in the UK there are laws saying that fixed camers require warning signs. But the mobile camera vans don't need one so can catch you anywhere. Funny thing is I've never seen them anywhere near any accident blackspots - they're always on stretches of dual carriageways where the speed limit drops for a couple of miles for no apparent reason...

But then again there are junctions in the UK where you can get trapped into either stopping in a box junction or running a red light - either of which gets you a fine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
In the case of the Chicago cameras though I'm sure they'll publicly spin it up as a success in that clearly the cameras have had their deterrent effect while privately cursing the fact that their money tree isn't patching the budget holes like they wanted.

Of course it does - that's just boilerplate "Of course this law doesn't apply to us" that they have been writing into laws since people started holding them accountable to their own laws.

" the DEA would be singing a hell of a different tune."

Is that the "Lessons have been learned" BS rmix by Dr No Statement..?

The EU is actually really useful for the UK - or at least it was until Tony B.Liar gave away a whole load of our hard-bargained for advantages to make cheap polititical capital for himself.

Says the AC...

It's clearly aimed at luring voters away from UKIP who are getting increasingly frustrated at EU interference in every level of UK life but are uneasy about voting for the "swivel-eyed loons".
As you said, another populist soundbite that will be quickly forgotten. The only advantage to teaching kids Metric was that learning to do all the conversions helped practice mental arithmatic but in an age where everyone has a calculator on their smartphone that's really not so important anymore.

I didn't realise the EU court had moved from Strasbourg to Ireland...