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Kris
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PostPosted: 12:14 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Watch out for Scouts... Reply with quote

Be prepared... for Scouts as traffic police: Packs to issue speeding drivers with warnings to get badges in return.

Story here

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PostPosted: 12:52 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's the Daily Wail, so pinch of salt taken, but I really do worry about what this younger generation are going to grow up like. Seems they'll all grow up to be a bunch of molly-coddled risk-averse dullards if we have scouts and school kids telling off speeding drivers.
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PostPosted: 13:05 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Re: Watch out for Scouts... Reply with quote

Kris wrote:
Be prepared... for Scouts as traffic police: Packs to issue speeding drivers with warnings to get badges in return.

Story here

Thinking


I'd rather take the points and the fine than endure that belittling bullcrap at the hands of pedo bait.

Seriously the highest speed was 36mph and 24 people were pulled over, I can think of a few better uses of police resources.
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PostPosted: 13:17 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

36mph?? Will these speeding lunatics never learn?!? Rolling Eyes

Personally, I'd take the telling off from some condescending pintsize wannabe speed cop and then at the end tell him that I'm going to go even faster from now on, and if I do end up killing anyone, it will be ALL HIS FAULT.
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PostPosted: 13:34 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

Suspect they might not appreciate being told a few of the real figures to do with speeding. Might get the Scouts to start questioning what they have been told in the past.

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PostPosted: 13:39 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly enough this story is true, I know this because I am a scout leader.


I don't agree with it though.
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PostPosted: 13:47 - 20 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 02:24 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just thought I'd throw in my 2p:

I'm a scout leader now, as is a friend of mine on here and a couple of our older scouts have bikes as well. We'd never consider doing such a terrible thing! Laughing

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PostPosted: 02:48 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am also a scout leader and think speeding is a bad thing.

The youth of today needs to learn now before speeding escalates to a point where is it too dangerous.

I mean if the law says 30, then stay at 30. If you break the law, then your kids may be smoking weed one day at age 11.

Scout leader Minh making the world a better place.

Over and out.
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PostPosted: 03:20 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Twenty-four motorists were stopped for exceeding the 30mph limit in the two zones, with the worst offender clocked at 36mph.


FFS! Rolling Eyes so out of those 24 motorists who were in the 10% 33mph bracket, and as they were PCSO's there, I would have educated the scouts that
Speed has never ever killed anyone
The statistics are bullshit the difference between 30mph and 40mph isn't life and death
Told the PCSO to do one and to stop wasting my hard earned on useless individuals like yourselves and stop trying to brainwash children with shit wrong statistics.
https://fwd.five.tv/fifth-gear/car-news/fatality-statistics-exaggerated-for-speeding-campaign
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2009/07/australia-deaths-go-up-after-speed-limits-imposed/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1448704/Speed-cameras-dont-save-lives.html
https://www.speedcameras.org/speed-camera-news-article.php?id=98


It is disgusting that these people are allowed near kids and teaching them this.

Wish I could find that video of an Aussie or NZ guy pointing out the real facts of speed, and that a speeding driver is more likely to be concentrating harder and that speed cameras don;'t save lives, and the copper on the pro camera side just fumbles and cant form a proper reply
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

hellbound wrote:
Sadly enough this story is true, I know this because I am a scout leader.



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PostPosted: 13:15 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

MinhDinh wrote:
If you break the law, then your kids may be smoking weed one day at age 11.


Nowt wrong with that.

If my kids were shooting up heroin whilst smoking crack then I may be a bit concerned.
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PostPosted: 13:39 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow...two other scout leaders on the forums...thats a first!

Now I feel i won't be ridiculed everytime I mention children or camping or.....


oh...



wait...
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PostPosted: 13:51 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

the article wrote:
‘One of the drivers was so disappointed with himself for speeding he insisted on the Scouts giving him as severe a rollicking as possible.’


somehow i think he might have been taking the piss somewhat!
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

what? so if I speed or if I don't tell my children not to they will smoke weed at 11?

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PostPosted: 14:01 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

MinhDinh wrote:
I am also a scout leader and think speeding is a bad thing.

The youth of today needs to learn now before speeding escalates to a point where is it too dangerous.

I mean if the law says 30, then stay at 30. If you break the law, then your kids may be smoking weed one day at age 11.

Scout leader Minh making the world a better place.

Over and out.


This is an attempt at humor right?
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PostPosted: 14:03 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope so lol

Very well crafted if it is Smile Made me chuckle.
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PostPosted: 14:29 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Daily Fail wrote:
Twenty-four motorists were stopped for exceeding the 30mph limit in the two zones, with the worst offender clocked at 36mph.


Jesus 36mph?! What were the hooligans thinking! Hundreds of kittens and baby pandas died because of this.

Seriously though, using scouts to catch speeders? What a ridiculous thing to do. Surely there are much more important things that the police could be doing than showing some 11-year-olds to point a speed gun at cars to catch all those murderers doing at most 6 mph over the limit.
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

George Orwell wrote:
What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it.

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PostPosted: 15:30 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am unfortunately a fake Scout leader but wanted to be part of the group. Sad
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PostPosted: 16:03 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

As if anyone would stop for scouts. Here you go, sonny, your badge for being flattened by 500 pounds of thundering Jap dinosaur Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:46 - 21 Jan 2011    Post subject: Re: Watch out for Scouts... Reply with quote

DonnyBrago wrote:
Kris wrote:
Be prepared... for Scouts as traffic police: Packs to issue speeding drivers with warnings to get badges in return.

Story here

Thinking


I'd rather take the points and the fine than endure that belittling bullcrap at the hands of pedo bait.


It's that type of stereotypical thinking that helps people get away with touching children. Normally it's the people who are very close to the family such as an uncle etc and everyone should be suspected equally rather than pointing the finger at stereotypes.

I would kick up a fuss if this was suggested to be done with my troop. But then again we have always done things a little differently rather than conforming to a stereotype.

Cub Scout leader here. Thumbs Up

EDIT: just read it's the dailyfail. I would rather give that troop the benefit of the doubt rather than trust the drivel they write.

I'm guessing one of the parents of one of the scouts is a cop and that made them get some sort of visit and to accompany a couple of police officers to see what sort of work they do in the community. It's just that part of that was being a bunch of robbers is part of their job.

The community badge will probably be more because of being able to find out what sort of work the police did and acommpany them etc. The only person that's actually giving the fines will be the cops. I would take it to court and win if a scout was operating the speed device.
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