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[securespark]

What petty rule did you break?

 

[Ian H]

What petty rule did you break?

I was pulled for being over weight, 7.4% over is £100 fine but no points. I can’t complain, I was in the wrong and the copper was fair.

 

[Dangee]

Generally, I’ve found that if you are nice to them, they treat you the same way.

 

[fillyboy]

I was pulled for being over weight, 7.4% over is £100 fine but no points. I can’t complain, I was in the wrong and the copper was fair.

About 15 years ago, maybe a little longer, in Slough. The Police, possibly with the Council spent several weeks watching over a builders merchant from a vantage point, watching specifically for people loading sand/paving slabs into smaller vans, then pulled them over and escorted them to the local weighbridge. I believe they caught dozens of tradesmen, most just marginally overweight.

Fair enough, they were in the wrong. 100 yards from their vantage point a group of Polish 'builders' were doing a flat roof and were melting tar in metal buckets over an open bonfire, 2 feet from a pavement busy with pedestrians. The Council weren't interested in that.

 

[JimCrow]

Sparkys gone ahead of me to a job I'm starting next week, he's doing first fix to a full rewire, it's a full refurb. Anyway, he said one of the partition walls, he chased out, sunk a box in, drilled and put a couple of screws through the box. he said it didn't feel right when he was drilling, but when he'd finished he went round the other side and the two screws were sticking through the wall, reckons the blocks are only 2.5 to 3 inches thick. I'm curious to see it because I've never seen blocks that thin.

I've told him to leave it as it is for the moment so we've got somewhere to hang our jackets.

https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/3-inch-breeze-block-walls.299494/

 

[teaboyjim]

I had what I believed to be cinder block in my previous house, built in 1968. The dust was black, but they weren't incredibly dense. Not too difficult to bash out.
The reason I thought it was cinder block was because I knew the builder and when we discussed the house, that's what he called them.

Same. Common practice

Was this common practice in pre 1950's homes and is it still practiced today? Would this be structurally sound and allowable?

 

[johnny2007]

They wouldn't ever build a partition wall with blocks straight on a wooden floor supported by wooden joists would they?

Of course they do.
Most of the 50s and 60s former council houses have upstairs walls made of blocks and resting on double joists.
Never seen any sagging.

 

[Mottie]

Mr Fox dined well last night.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Mottie, dog question:

Do you take off your dogs collar off at night?

Andy

 

[johnny2007]

Generally, I’ve found that if you are nice to them, they treat you the same way.

I found the opposite to be true nowadays.
In the old days you respected the old bill and most time they'd let you go even if you had done something wrong.
Now they look for easy and weak preys, so if you show aggression and complete disregard for their dignity, topped up with threats to report them for wrongdoing, they leave you alone and move on to the weak law abiding citizens.
Last time I got pulled for allegedly breaking the speed limit a couple of years ago, I open the window by a small crack and find out that I was "speeding" but they only visually assessed my speed.
I asked if they could tell exactly how fast I was going, they couldn't.
They were adamant that I was over 70mph but had no proof.
I insisted on asking if I was being detained and after 5 or 6 vague answers I was told no, I wasn't being detained.
I left by spinning the wheels and disappeared in the distance.
They probably went on to harass some poor souls doing 60.
I don't blame them, I blame their bosses getting upset for fighting crime.
The poor officers on the ground have no other option than follow orders from above and prey on easy targets, while the hardcore criminals roam the streets unchallenged.

 

[fillyboy]

Mottie, dog question:

Do you take off your dogs collar off at night?

Andy

Only if Mrs Mottie wants to borrow it.

 

[Bodd]

Only if Mrs Mottie wants to borrow it.

What are you saying?

 

[Trazor]

Only if Mrs Mottie wants to borrow it.

Careful, you will be giving HERTS P&D a semi on again.

 

[ellal]

Only if Mrs Mottie wants to borrow it.

Isn't it the other way around?

 

[Bodd]

I was pulled for being over weight, 7.4% over is £100 fine but no points. I can’t complain, I was in the wrong and the copper was fair.

You could have claimed they were only pulling you up because you are fat. It works for others.