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Something they don't teach at driving school (Girl caught applying makeup)
Reuters ^
| Thu Mar 9, 2006 10:16 AM ET
Posted on 03/12/2006 2:49:54 PM PST by sully777
LONDON (Reuters) - North Wales police couldn't believe their eyes when a camera at a notorious accident spot caught a driver using both hands to put on her make-up.
Donna Maddock, 22, was filmed as she drove along the A499, one of Britain's most dangerous roads. She held a mirror in her left hand and an eye pencil in her right, leaving the steering wheel to itself.
Wednesday, she was fined 200 pounds ($350) with 55 pounds costs and had six penalty points added to her driving license after admitting careless driving at Pwllheli magistrates court.
"A car is a dangerous lump of metal in the wrong hands. You need to be in control at all times, and Miss Maddock's actions beggars belief," said Inspector Essi Ahari in a statement.
A police spokeswoman said the camera had been set up because of the large numbers of collisions and deaths on that stretch of road.
"It is to catch speeding drivers. But when officers saw the film of her applying her makeup it was also obvious that she was committing a careless act," she said.
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KEYWORDS: autopilot; baddrivers; cosmetics; dangerous; makeup; nohandsdriving; stupid; uk; wales; womendrivers
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To: sully777
Rush was actually censored early in his career for doing a lengthy segment on the dangers of women 'farding' while driving. Some of his affiliates actually took him off the air. Some people just don't get good humor...
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posted on
03/12/2006 3:42:22 PM PST
by
BlueNgold
(Feed the Tree .....)
To: sully777
To be fair, I'm posting actual stats from Australia: Driver fatalities per billion kilometres driven (1999-2000). Note that the number of deaths increase for women after ages 60-64.
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posted on
03/12/2006 3:46:32 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: sully777
But when officers saw the film of her applying her makeup it was also obvious that she was committing a careless act," she said.
Yes, I've seem many women who look like their makeup was
applied while driving...
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posted on
03/12/2006 3:49:48 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/12/2006 4:22:03 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Dallas59
I got my gas and coffee and blew out of there. The Princess Petrol station that I went to was in the bad part of town and some Hello Kitty gang bangers were looking for trouble.
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posted on
03/12/2006 4:32:34 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Dallas59
The street signs started reading spanish. I should have known better...they were Hello Kitty cholas. They were yelling, "Pinche pandillero vete al la chingada!!!" And that wasn't nice, especially from Hello Kitty!
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posted on
03/12/2006 4:41:24 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: sully777
If women ruled the world...
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posted on
03/12/2006 4:55:51 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(ALLAH DOES NOT EXIST - MOHAMMED LIED)
To: sully777
I did rear end someone once while I was looking at a girl. I have to admit that.
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posted on
03/12/2006 4:58:35 PM PST
by
Flavius Josephus
(War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
To: sully777
Looks ok to me.... Hands at 10 and 2... knees at 4 and 8.
Isn't that what they teach in Drivers Ed?
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:01:31 PM PST
by
Flavius Josephus
(War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
To: Dallas59
I'll see your Versage/Tampax/Barbie/Lane Bryant Mustang and raise you a Hello Kitty Ferrari!
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:03:15 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Flavius Josephus
I did rear end someone once while I was looking at a girl...
I remember that limerick :)
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:05:03 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Flavius Josephus
It's one helluva combination behind the wheel of an SUV
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:08:04 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Flavius Josephus; Dallas59; tet68; thoughtomator; Osage Orange; NCC-1701; nmh; All
More British women driving without any hands. It's a conspiracy or something!
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:29:36 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: sully777; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; tiamat; ...
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:49:57 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
To: sully777
they have tans and nice teeth... are you certain they are British?
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:02:55 PM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:09:23 PM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: sully777
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:10:40 PM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; RikaStrom; xsmommy; Slip18; Texan5; Gabz; SeaDragon; Miss Behave; Xenalyte; ...
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:15:19 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: sully777
What a waste of a perfectly good Ferrari!
This has Unnngh written all over it...
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:16:43 PM PST
by
rzeznikj at stout
(This is a darkroom. Keep the door closed or you'll let all the dark out...)
To: King Prout
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:25:49 PM PST
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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