08-01-2011, 02:23 PM
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Posted by LososYes, I suppose this is all getting a bit tedious. As I mentioned I have in the past told people in my office about seeing a radar trap and warned them to go a different way or be careful. Technically I suppose I was commiting an 'obstructionn' offence every time I did so.
I agree, it is getting a bit tedious
- but what you do/have done between friends and colleagues seems different to me - it is done in relative privacy - what the flasher was doing was in public, indiscrimately (oooeer flasher alert). The police can't get you for what you say/do in private between colleagues - if they can everybody is in trouble
Truce?
08-01-2011, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by mazzie
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On the subject of common sense, I thought I'd share this little gem with you...........Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend,
Mr. Common Sense.
Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons such as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm and that life isn't always fair. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge).
His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Mr. Sense declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student; but, could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, she spilled a bit in her lap, and was awarded a huge financial settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.
He is survived by two stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
08-01-2011, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by claireandaisy
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If you saw the police staking out the house of a neighbour they supected of drug dealing, would you go and warn the neighbour? The speed limit is pretty clear. Why break it? Give us pedestrians a chance please.
09-01-2011, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Aerolor
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The police can't get you for what you say/do in private between colleagues - if they can everybody is in trouble Truce?
Happy to call a truce, not that I felt we were ever at war 'tho 
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