Saturday, August 11, 2007
New Driving Laws
As I may have mentioned before, driving here can be a rather hairy experience. So, in an attempt to improve things, some new laws have been brought in.
They're brilliant.
Rather than just a fine, bad drivers will now get points on their licence. If you get 14 then you lose your licence for 3 months. Then a further 12 points will get your licence confiscated for 6 months, and so on, the penalties becoming more severe.
There are lots of other things that you can get points for, including speeding (which will earn you 4 points), driving under the influence of alcohol (6 points) and the jackpot is 7 points for jumping a red light.
One offence is 'violating norms of public morality', which will earn your 3 points. 'Violating norms of public morality'? What is that? Is this when you drive naked? Or stick your fingers up at people? Or maybe when you sing along to ABBA?
Anyway, my personal favourite is 'driving in the opposite direction'. Considering that just about all roads here are wide 3 lane carriageways, it's pretty serious to drive the wrong way down them. I love the fact that it's mentioned as an offence - it shows how common it is here - and I love the way you only get 6 points.
This means you can drive the wrong way down a road, hammered, and only get 12 points. You won’t even lose your licence…as long as you weren’t speeding as well, or singing 'Dancing Queen'.
They're brilliant.
Rather than just a fine, bad drivers will now get points on their licence. If you get 14 then you lose your licence for 3 months. Then a further 12 points will get your licence confiscated for 6 months, and so on, the penalties becoming more severe.
There are lots of other things that you can get points for, including speeding (which will earn you 4 points), driving under the influence of alcohol (6 points) and the jackpot is 7 points for jumping a red light.
One offence is 'violating norms of public morality', which will earn your 3 points. 'Violating norms of public morality'? What is that? Is this when you drive naked? Or stick your fingers up at people? Or maybe when you sing along to ABBA?
Anyway, my personal favourite is 'driving in the opposite direction'. Considering that just about all roads here are wide 3 lane carriageways, it's pretty serious to drive the wrong way down them. I love the fact that it's mentioned as an offence - it shows how common it is here - and I love the way you only get 6 points.
This means you can drive the wrong way down a road, hammered, and only get 12 points. You won’t even lose your licence…as long as you weren’t speeding as well, or singing 'Dancing Queen'.
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Hi Steff!
can you post a bigger version of the piccy of you on your home page that we can print out for our common room in our halls at the university of luton?
thanks a lot and we love your website!
can you post a bigger version of the piccy of you on your home page that we can print out for our common room in our halls at the university of luton?
thanks a lot and we love your website!
# posted by 
: 4:09 PM
: 4:09 PM
I never had you down as an ABBA fan Michael. But that just goes to show, you never can tell who goes home and puts on a long blonde wig and sparkley hot pants every evening.
I have to say Mr University-of-Luton, I am immediately suspicious. What guarantee do I have that you won’t be pinning said picture to a dartboard?
Hi Steff!
I am secretly congratualting myself that I have no licence at all - my office is barely a fifteen-minute walk away. Piccywise we don't have a common room in our place (and therefore no dartboard much to my disappointment); however I think your "Publicity Shots Part II" is simply fantastic for a desktop - though it looks a bit eerily ethereal. Are you actually seeing Kuching as we see/think you see?
Steffan
I am secretly congratualting myself that I have no licence at all - my office is barely a fifteen-minute walk away. Piccywise we don't have a common room in our place (and therefore no dartboard much to my disappointment); however I think your "Publicity Shots Part II" is simply fantastic for a desktop - though it looks a bit eerily ethereal. Are you actually seeing Kuching as we see/think you see?
Steffan
# posted by : 1:36 AM
: 1:36 AM
Good on you Steffan, very environmentally sound! You can tell you're not here...at 40 degrees there's not much chance of anyone walking anywhere. I tried to go wakeboarding last weekend, only to end up with heatstroke!
Behind me it would usually be a bright green wall of blinding light, but I think for this photo they let me see the real thing…for the photographers benefit, not mine you understand...
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Behind me it would usually be a bright green wall of blinding light, but I think for this photo they let me see the real thing…for the photographers benefit, not mine you understand...
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